Dateline: Cincinnati
Nick Lodolo brought his new grip to the South Side of Chicago. The Reds whacked the White Sox bullpen to snap a three game losing streak with a 5-4 10-inning win over the Chicago White Sox.
Lodolo’s bread and butter breaking ball looked good with the new, less corrosive grip. It was mistakes with the fastball caused him problems.
Light hitting, Brenton Doyle, a recent refuge from the Colorado Rockies, improved on his .224 average by belting Lodolo’s first pitch 415 feet for his second home run of the season. Catcher Edgar Quero is a .197 hitter but clubbed his third home run of the season in the second inning.
Miguel Vargas at .235 hit his 25th home run of the season to stake the Sox to a 3-0 lead.
The lead got bigger as Randall Grichuk doubled and Sam Antonacci blooped a double just ahead of Dane Myers diving attempt at a catch.
“My fastball wasn’t sharp but my breaking ball gives me something to build on,” Lodolo said.
He finished his first start in a month with four innings, giving up four runs on five hits, three solo home run and two doubles. He didn’t issue any walks and struck out five.
“I thought he was crisp,” Terry Francona said. “He made some mistakes with his fastball and paid for it but I thought he threw the ball pretty well.”
The Reds were totured by White Sox starter Sean Burke for seven innings. The only base runner to reach in the first four innings was rookie Hector Rodriguez, who struck out on a wild pitch. Rodriguez struck out four times.
Eugenio Suarez hit his 17th home run leading off the fifth. He doubled off Burke and Sal Stewart singled for the only hits the White Sox starter surrendered. Burke didn’t walk a batter and fanned eight Reds in his seven innings.
Left hander Bryan Hudson took over in the eighth. Matt McLain beat out a slow roller to third for a hit. Pinch hitter Michael Toglia placed a single into short center in his first at bat as a Red. Elly De La Cruz grounded a single to right to score McLain. Stewart hit a drive to right caught by Braden Montgomery. Toglia went to third and De La Cruz took second in an aggressive move to put tying runs in scoring position.
Grant Taylor walked JJ Bleday and Tyler Stephenson tied the game with a two-run single.
Luis Mey retired six batters on 21 pitches with two strikeouts. Pierce Johnson set down three batters on eight pitches with a strikeout to keep the game tight until the rally.
Tejay Antone gave up a double to Munetaka Murajami, who has reached base in 25 straight games, but stranded him in a scoreless inning.
Brock Burke the Reds left handed iron man made his 60th appearance a scoreless one to make himself the pitcher of record in line for his fifth win of the season.
McLain was the ghost runner in the 10th. He went to third on Toglia’s fly to right and scored on De La Cruz fly to right center against Sean Newcombe.
Quero was the runner on second in the White Sox 10th. He got a great view of a 14 pitch battle between Reds’ closer Emilio Pagan and Antonacci. The second baseman fouled off eight two-strike pitches before Stephenson was able to hold onto a foul tip for a strikeout. Luisangel Acuna and Tristan Peters popped out in the infield to give Pagan his 14th save.
In his last nine appearances has seven saves and two wins.
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