Corbin Carroll Drives In Five Runs As Diamondbacks Bite Reds

  

Corbin Carroll homered and drove in five runs as the Arizona Diamondbacks poisoned the Reds in the opening game of the series with a 6-2 win.

TJ Friedl returned to the top of the Reds' lineup but the hitting woes continued to produce zeroes for the snakebitten Reds as they dropped their sixth straight game, scoring three runs on the four-game home stand. 

Zac Gallen barely broke a sweat as only Jake Fraley had a hit in six innings for the Reds.

Frankie Montas returned after missing two starts after getting hit on the right forearm on April 21.  He was effective. The Diamondbacks scored a run in the third and one in the fifth.

"They are trying to do what they need to do to get out of slumps. Everyone here has the right mentality," Montas said. "They know its a long season. We've only played like 30 something games. We still have 120 to play. The way they are approaching this right now. They are not putting their heads down and feeling defeated or how bad we're losing."

Montas retired the first six Arizona hitters before walking Jake McCarthy to open the third. Former Red Tucker Barnhart bounced a single over the head of Christian Encarnacion-Strand for a base hit that sent McCarthy to third. Montase got Kevin Newman to popped out. Corbin Carroll hit a high chop back to Montas who could only force Barnhart at second as McCarthy scored.

Barnhart reached on an error by Elly De La Cruz in the fifth. Newman singled. Carroll singled to drive in his second run of the game.

Montas finished six innings, allowing two runs (one earned) on four hits and one walk. He struck out seven.

"Frankie was really good, David Bell said. "His velocity was back for sure. He had a good split and good cutter. The first time back after a layoff he got us deep into it. A lot of that had to do with how good his stuff was."

Justin Wilson entered the game in the seventh.  

Pinch hitter Randall Grichuk singled to open the inning. Barnhart forced him at second trying to sacrifice him to second. Former Red Newman singled. Carroll followed with his second home run of the season. It gave Carroll five RBI for the game. Ketel Marte lifted his seventh home run. It was the Diamondbacks' second set of back-to-back homers of the season.

Buck Farmer relieved Wilson. 

Gallen allowed one hit and three walks in six scoreless innings. In the four game home stand the Reds have not scored on a starting pitcher.

Jonathan India hi his second home run of the season with the bases empty in the seventh inning. It broke a four game streak with no home runs as a team. 

Tyler Stephenson connected for his fourth home run of the season. He victimized Paul Seward in his first game of the season. The Diamondbacks' closer missed the beginning of the season with a strained oblique. 

"It was about tonight," Bell said. "We weren't able to get anything done tonight. Zac Gallen had a lot to do with that. It is one pitch at a time. We'll come back tomorrow and do it all over again. That's how we'll get through this."

The Diamondbacks broke a four-game losing streak. 

 Frankie Montas

David Bell