{"id":97638,"date":"2025-07-27T20:55:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T20:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/97638\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T20:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T20:55:18","slug":"de-la-cruzs-single-lifts-reds-to-6-2-win-over-the-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/97638\/","title":{"rendered":"De La Cruz&#8217;s single lifts Reds to 6-2 win over the Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI \u2014 Elly De La Cruz hit a two-run single in the seventh inning to break open a tie game and the Cincinnati Reds went on to beat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-2 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>The Reds won their third in a row while the Rays have lost 12 of their last 15 on the road<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<br \/>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Yandy D\u00edaz led off the sixth with his 18th home run to put the Rays ahead 1-0<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<br \/>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>It was one of two hits off Reds starter Andrew Abbott, who walked three and struck out seven in six innings<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Reds won their third in a row while the Rays have lost 12 of their last 15 on the road, including six straight.<\/p>\n<p>With the score tied 2-2, De La Cruz&#8217;s bloop single off Garrett Cleavinger with the bases loaded put the Reds ahead 4-2.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Ashcraft (6-4) pitched the seventh for the win and Emilio Pag\u00e1n pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his 22nd save.<\/p>\n<p>Yandy D\u00edaz led off the sixth with his 18th home run to put the Rays ahead 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of two hits off Reds starter Andrew Abbott, who walked three and struck out seven in six innings.<\/p>\n<p>Rays starter Ryan Pepiot, an Indianapolis native who grew up a Reds fan and was facing them for the first time, allowed two runs in six innings, but neither was earned.<\/p>\n<p>The only hit off Pepiot through 5 1\/3 innings came when left fielder Christopher Morel misjudged De La Cruz\u2019s fly ball in the first, allowing it to sail over his head and bounce into the stands for a ground-rule double.<\/p>\n<p>With two outs in the sixth, Austin Hays\u2019 ground ball went under Taylor Walls\u2019 glove for an error, allowing two runs to score and putting the Reds ahead 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Baker (3-4) took the loss.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Reds manager Terry Francona was ejected in the seventh inning by home plate umpire Willie Traynor for arguing balls and strikes. It was Francona&#8217;s 53rd career ejection, third this season.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>Abbott has allowed one earned run or fewer in 14 of his 17 starts this season.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Rays RHP Shane Baz (8-6, 4.66 ERA) faces Reds RHP Brady Singer (7-8, 4.84) in Sunday&#8217;s series finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2014 Elly De La Cruz hit a two-run single in the seventh inning to break open a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[30319,7448,1578,1582,276,10595,2961,224,5337,50,1573,63996,13570,62,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-97638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-cincinnati","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-ohio","19":"tag-ohio-cincinnati-reds","20":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114927194887141357","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97638","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=97638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}