Reds enjoy big night at plate, pummel Pittsburgh Pirates

Tyler Naquin hit a three-run homer and had four RBIs Monday as the visiting Cincinnati Reds spanked the Pittsburgh Pirates 14-1. Cincinnati, which racked up 15 hits, is 4-0 against the Pirates this year and has won three of its last four games.
Eugenio Suarez hit a solo homer, Tucker Barnhart and Nick Castellanos each hit a two-run double, Nick Senzel had a two-run single and an RBI double, and Mike Moustakas added an RBI single for the Reds. Cincinnati starter Tyler Mahle (2-1) allowed one run and four hits in 5 1/3 innings, with four walks and seven strikeouts. Mahle also got on base twice, scored once and picked up his first career RBI. Jacob Stallings homered for the Pirates, one of their five hits.
Pittsburgh starter Mitch Keller (2-4) lasted 3 1/3 innings, giving up seven runs and seven hits, with two walks and two strikeouts. Suarez smacked a two-out solo homer, his sixth, to right field in the second for a 1-0 Reds lead.
In the bottom of the second, Stallings replied with a leadoff homer, his second, to left field for a 1-1 tie. Cincinnati sent 11 batters to the plate in a six-run fourth, starting with Jesse Winker’s bloop single. Nick Castellanos walked ahead of Moustakas’ RBI single.
Naquin’s double made it 3-1. An out later, Barnhart’s double drove in two for a 5-1 lead. Kyle Farmer singled and Mahle walked to load the bases.  Duane Underwood Jr. replaced Keller and gave up Senzel’s two-run double for a 7-1 edge.
The Reds added another in the sixth. Barnhart doubled and went to third on Farmer’s single. Mahle beat a possible double play grounder for an RBI fielder’s choice, making it 8-1. In the seventh, Winker doubled and went to third on Moustakas’ single in front of Naquin’s eighth homer, a shot to right field, for an 11-1 lead. Senzel’s RBI double in the eighth after Farmer and Alex Blandino walked pushed it to 12-1, and Castellanos drove in two more with a double. The Pirates have lost four of their last five and nine of 11.
“Just a good team offensive night where everyone contributed,” said Reds manager David Bell.

Giants break late tie, knock off Rangers
Mauricio Dubon concluded a tense eight-pitch at-bat with a two-out, tiebreaking single in a two-run seventh inning Monday night, sending the San Francisco Giants to a 3-1 victory over the visiting Texas Rangers. Left-hander Alex Wood (4-0) combined with two relievers on a six-hitter, helping deliver the Giants their third win in four outings on the current five-game homestand.
Right-hander Kyle Gibson matched Wood pitch for pitch through six innings in the interleague matchup before turning over a 1-1 tie to the Texas bullpen.
Reliever John King (4-2) struck out the first two Giants he faced in the seventh before walking pinch hitter Austin Slater. A single by another pinch hitter, Darin Ruf, put two on for Dubon, who was sent up as the Giants’ third straight pinch hitter, replacing Mike Tauchman.
After taking a ball, Dubon fouled off five straight pitches and then took a second ball before sending his go-ahead single to left field, scoring Slater.
The Giants added to their lead when Rangers third baseman Charlie Culberson committed a throwing error on Mike Yastrzemski’s grounder, scoring Ruf.
San Francisco relievers Tyler Rogers and Jake McGee took it from there, combining to retire six of the eight batters they faced. McGee worked the ninth inning, earning his ninth save in 10 chances by getting Culberson to pop out with the potential tying runs on the bases.
Wood went seven innings, allowing one run and four hits. He walked three and struck out seven. The Rangers’ only run off Wood came in the fifth inning, after the Giants had taken a 1-0 lead in the fourth on Brandon Belt’s eighth homer of the season. Khris Davis tripled to lead off the fifth and scored the game-tying run on a single by Culberson.
Gibson’s numbers for six innings were nearly identical to Wood’s for seven. He also was charged with one run on four hits. He walked two and struck out six.
Davis finished as the game’s only multi-hit player with two.
The game featured a total of just 12 hits, equally split, four of which went for extra bases. Yastrzemski had a double for the Giants, while Nate Lowe had one for the Rangers, who had won five of their previous six games.

Results
Reds    14-1    Pirates
Orioles    4-1    Red Sox
Giants    3-1    Rangers
D’Backs    5-2    Marlins
Angels    5-4    Astros