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Reed’s first win isn’t in Cards as Reds fall in 9th
- Updated: August 9, 2016
ST. LOUIS — What was, for eight innings, one of the lesser inspired performances by the Cardinals this season finished as perhaps their most defining victory to date. Down to their final out, they stunned the Reds with a five-run ninth on Monday night for a 5-4 win at Busch Stadium and pulled even with the Marlins for a National League Wild Card spot.
“I’ve seriously never seen anything like that before,” said Cardinals starter Michael Wacha, who watched the drama unfold from the trainer’s room. “It just shows what kind of guys we have in this clubhouse, never giving up.”
The Cardinals entered the ninth inning with five hits, no runs and hitless in 11 chances with a runner in scoring position. That changed when Matt Carpenter, up with the bases full, lined a two-run single to extend the game. An RBI single by Stephen Piscotty made it a one-run game, and a bases-loaded walk by Brandon Moss evened the score at 4.
When Ross Ohlendorf, who inherited a mess created by Reds closer Tony Cingrani, hit Yadier Molina two pitches later, the Cardinals celebrated their sixth walk-off victory of the season. And it was the first in almost 11 years in which they needed five ninth-inning runs to do it.
“That win right there is a small version of our season, what we have to do,” manager Mike Matheny said. “You just have to keep playing the game. You trust each other. It was one of those next-man-up [scenarios]. Play the game and good things can happen.”
It was just the fourth time this season that a team entered the ninth inning leading by four runs or more and lost. The five ninth-inning runs yielded by the Reds’ bullpen were as many as it had given up over its first 22 innings this month.
“It’s miserable,” Reds manager Bryan Price said. “I’ll tell you it’s a miserable feeling, but we’ve just got to get this one out of our system.”
The ninth-inning unraveling erased what was looking to be the first Major League win for Reds starter Cody Reed, who outdueled Wacha by turning in six shutout frames. Reed, 0-6 with a 7.30 ERA coming into the game, was tagged for five runs over five innings five days earlier against St. Louis.
The Reds gave him an early four-run lead and forced Wacha to throw 65 pitches over the first three innings.Zack Cozart’s two-out double opened the scoring in the second inning, and Joey Votto extended the …
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