{"id":238653,"date":"2025-09-19T10:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/238653\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:08:09","slug":"reds-blank-cubs-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/238653\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds blank Cubs 1-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI \u2014\u00a0\u00a0Hunter Greene pitched a one-hitter and Will Benson drove in the only run with a fourth-inning double as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Chicago Cubs 1-0 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The victory helped Cincinnati stay within two games of the New York Mets for the third NL wild card<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Greene retired the first twelve batters he faced before Mois\u00e9s Ballesteros reached on an error to begin the fifth inning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Cincinnati scored in the fourth when Austin Hays doubled and came around on Benson&#8217;s double<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Greene (7-4) struck out nine and walked one in his first career complete game. After retiring Michael Busch on a deep drive to the warning track for the first out of the ninth inning, he struck out Nico Hoerner and Ian Happ to end it.<\/p>\n<p>The victory helped Cincinnati stay within two games of the New York Mets for the third NL wild card. The Mets beat the Padres 6-1 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs, who clinched a postseason berth with an 8-4 win in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, still can secure home-field advantage in the wild-card round.<\/p>\n<p>Greene retired the first twelve batters he faced before Mois\u00e9s Ballesteros reached on an error to begin the fifth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati scored in the fourth when Austin Hays doubled and came around on Benson&#8217;s double.<\/p>\n<p>Cubs starter Colin Rea (10-7) had a career-high 11 strikeouts and did not walk a batter in seven innings. His previous high for strikeouts was nine on April 3, 2023 against the Angels.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment\n<\/p>\n<p>Greene took a no-hitter into the seventh and had struck out the first two batters of the inning before Seiya Suzuki doubled down the third-base line.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat\n<\/p>\n<p>Greene&#8217;s career-high for innings pitched came on April 7 when he tossed 8 2\/3 in a 2-0 win over the Giants.<\/p>\n<p>Up next\n<\/p>\n<p>Cubs LHP Shota Imanaga (9-7, 3.29 ERA) and Reds LHP Nick Lodolo (8-8, 3.30) will start on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2014\u00a0\u00a0Hunter Greene pitched a one-hitter and Will Benson drove in the only run with a fourth-inning double&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":238654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[30319,7448,1578,10595,1266,50,1573,63996,13570,62,52,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-238653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-cincinnati","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-ohio","15":"tag-ohio-cincinnati-reds","16":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115230415508107876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}