David Hernandez
Special to Marinscope
The Marlins were looking for a big inning to open the game against the Reds.
With Zade Hubbs on second. Jake Whitlock lined a single to center, but center fielder T. J. Beck fired a strike home, and brother Tyler made the tag to retire Hubbs at the plate, and the Reds escaped with only a one run deficit.
Inspired, the Reds struck in their half of the first for three runs on singles from Tyler, T.J. Beck, and Gino Ravina, and a scoring double by Will Chaput. Joel Zelda’s two run single in the top of the third made it 4-3 Reds, but the Reds quickly answered back with 3 runs keyed by a long double by Will Chaput. T. J. Beck made a sprawling catch to snuff out a potential Marlins rally in the fourth. The Reds added insurance runs in the sixth on a single from Gino Ravina and doubles from Chaput and Sean McGrath to take a 9-3 lead to the seventh. Zelda had another RBI hit in the seventh, but it was not enough as the Reds had a 9-4 win.
Runs rained down (what is rain??) at Sinaloa as the Reds staged a huge comeback in the seventh to take an 18-11 victory over the A’s. Led by RBI singles from Angelo Moresco, Nico Procopio, and Dari Liuzzi, the A’s took an early 5-2 lead. A RBI single from Chase Krause expanded the A’s lead to 6-2 after three. Singles by Griffin Jones and TJ Beck set up Gino Ravina for a two run double, and the Reds had cut the lead to 6-4, but a Liuzzi single upped the lead to 7-4. The Reds closed to 7-5 when Tyler Beck doubled in Ravina in the top of the sixth. The A’s appeared to tack on insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth with RBIs from Liuzzi, Krause, and Seth Meyers as they took an 11-5 lead into the decisive seventh. A based loaded single by TJ Beck got the rally going, and it continued and continued with run scoring hits from Will Chaput, Joey Rinaldi, Wali Moshref, and Nick Osberg. Griffin Jones finished the REDS scoring assault with a two run double, and the Reds had their 18-11 lead. Wali Moshref made his Reds pitching debut by recording the last six outs while yielding just one hit to get the hard fought win. Joey Rinaldi battled his way through four much needed innings on the mound for the Reds. Nico Procopio had three hits and Angelo Moresco and Dari Liuzzi had three RBIs for the A’s.
It was another tight Reds/Marlins game as the Marlins broke out early with a two run first. The Reds closed to 2-1 on a Sean McGrath single, but the Marlins jumped ahead 5-1 in the third without the benefit of a hit. Wali Moshref opened the Reds fourth with a single, and singles from TJ Beck, Hayden Devol, and Sean McGrath made it 5-4. Buddy Nebb’s two run single put the Reds on top for the first time, 6-5. The Marlins’s came right back, and tied it up in their half, using a single and error and a Joel Zelda ground out, and the score was 6-6. Zade Hubbs kept the Reds scoreless in the fifth and sixth, and the Marlins won it on a walk-off ground out by Zelda 7-6.
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