Dateline: Cincinnati
Andrew Abbott suffered through rain when he was on the mound.
He made it through the first two innings, scoreless. The third inning, he was like a drowning man. He walked the nine hole hitter, Henry Davis, the first batter of the inning. Jake Mangum grounded his second hit of the game, extending his hitting streak to nine games. Brandon Lowe, Bryan Reynolds and Esmerlyn Valdez walked in succession to plate two runs. Nick Gonzales hit a soft ground ball to Matt McLain at second base. He tagged Valdez as Lowe scored.
Abbott got to three balls on Marcel Ozuna but got him to foul out to catcher Jose Trevino. Jared Triolo flied out to end the inning.
"He lost the plate and a majority of it down. They came out and fixed the mound which we appreciate. It just snowballed," Terry Francona said. "I give him a lot of credit because we had somebody up in the third. That would have been disastrous for us. And when he left we still had a chance to win."
Abbott threw 43 pitches in the inning, 21 for strikes.
Pirates' starter, Braxton Ashcraft, walked one batter in the first three innings.
Jose Trevino hit his fourth home run of the season, leading off the fifth inning to put the Reds on the scoreboard.
Abbott finished with five innings, allowing three runs on three hits, but five walks. He struck out one batter. Lasting that long saved a bullpen arm for the Reds, giving them a better chance on Sunday.
"Everybody knows it was wet. We tried to fix it but when it rains again it is going to do the same thing," Abbott said. "It's not an excuse. Fighting through it, I was able to get out of it with three runs. Every thing was wet, the glove was wet, the ball coming from the umpire was wet. I'm looking down and you see water fall from my cap. I made a complete uniform change and it didn't matter it would just pick up at certain points. Turning the page I was at least able to go through five and get some kind of length."
Zack McCambley started the sixth inning for the Reds.
Ozuna doubled to greet McCambley. He made it to third with two outs. Davis dumped a single in front of TJ Friedl in center.
Rain delayed the game before the bottom of the sixth. The delay lasted one hour, 46 minutes.
Carmen Mlodzinski entered after the delay.
The Reds wasted a leadoff double in the seventh inning. Mlodzinski retired the last six batters he faced to complete three scoreless innings.
Sam Moll pitched a scoreless seventh and Julian Garcia completed a scoreless eighth.
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