Four HRs, 7-run 6th power Reds past Cubs

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CINCINNATI — Using four home runs, including three in a seven-run sixth inning, the Reds took a 13-5 victory over the Cubs on Saturday at Great American Ball Park.

Eugenio Suarez led Cincinnati with three hits and four RBIs, which tied his career-high, including a three-run homer.

Chicago, which came in having outscored Cincinnati, 46-4, since it ended Brandon Finnegan’s no-hit bid in the seventh inning on April 11 at Wrigley Field, scored twice in the fifth to take a 3-2 lead for John Lackey. But it all came apart in the sixth after a rally started with back-to-back hits. Suarez tattooed a first pitch from Lackey for a three-run homer to center and the lead. There were two outs and two on when Adam Duvall added a three-run homer to right on a 2-0 pitch from reliever Trevor Cahill. Scott Schebler made it back-to-back long balls with a drive to right on a 2-2 pitch by Cahill for …

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