Dateline: Cincinnati
One of Reds’ manager Terry Francona’s favorite players, Nick Martinez showed why in the Tampa Bay Rays 6-1 win.
Tampa Bay avoided a series sweep as the Reds’ five game winning streak halted.
Martinez was solid for eight innings to spoil his favorite manager’s 67th birthday. He allowed a run on five hits and a walk with six strikeouts.
The Rays took advantage of two walks by Brandon Williamson, mixing in a pair of singles to score three runs in the second inning.
Jonny DeLuca and Ryan Vilade walked to open the inning. Ben Williamson single in a run. Nick Fortes was hit by a pitch. Chandler Simpson hit a sacrifice fly for another run. Yandy Diaz capped the inning with a run scoring single.
Junior Caminero touched Williamson for his sixth home run.
The Reds got a run in the fifth. Nathaniel Lowe singled. Spencer Steer laced a double. Will Benson walked to load the bases with no outs. P.J. Higgins hit a sacrifice fly to right. Lowe scored. Steer moved to third. TJ Friedl hit a slow roller to Jonathan Aranda at first. Aranda caught Steer at the plate to blunt the rally.
The Rays replenished the four-run lead in the fifth. Diaz opened with a single and Aranda walked. Vilade singled home the run. Connor Phillips replaced Williamson threw one pitch and got a 6-4-3 double play.
It was one of three the Reds turned in, they turned one that was turned over on appeal by Tampa. The Reds repeated it on the next batter anyway.
Williamson pitched 4 1/3 innings, allowing five runs on seven hits and three walks and three strikeouts.
Phillips pitched a quick sixth but the Rays put the game out of slam range in the seventh.
Taylor Walls hit a single, his first after 19 at bats. Diaz hit his third single. Aranda was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Caminero hit a high chop to De La Cruz. The only play he had was to first base and Walls scored.
Tony Santillan pitched out of the inning. He stranded the two runners he inherited. He has not allowed a run in any of his 11 appearances.
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