Ashcraft goes 8, Reds beat Giants 4-2 to halt 7-game skid
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Rookie right-hander Graham Ashcraft bounced again from two poor begins, pitching a career-high eight innings to assist the Cincinnati Reds cease their seven-game dropping streak Friday night time with a 4-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants.
Nick Senzel drove in two runs and Mike Moustakas scored twice to tempo the Cincinnati offense.
Ashcraft (4-1) faltered solely within the fourth inning, when Evan Longoria belted a two-out homer, and within the eighth — when Mike Yastrzemski lashed an RBI single. That adopted a double-play comebacker Ashcraft induced from Tommy La Stella to dampen a possible Giants rally.
Hunter Strickland labored the ninth towards his former staff for his third save.
Ashcraft permitted six hits and walked none whereas putting out eight. He gave up 10 runs and 17 hits over 9 2/3 innings in his earlier two begins.
Cincinnati opened the scoring with two runs within the second off starter Alex Cobb (3-3). Kyle Farmer reached on an infield single and scored on Moustakas’ double. Senzel additionally doubled to knock in Moustakas.
Senzel and Jonathan India executed a double steal to arrange a run-scoring groundout by Donovan Solano within the fifth. That was the ultimate run charged to Cobb, who went 4 1/3 innings. He allowed three runs, two earned, and 5 hits whereas strolling one and putting out 4.
Moustakas doubled once more within the sixth off left-hander Jake McGee and got here house on Senzel’s single.
FRESH ARM
San Francisco recalled RHP Yunior Marte from Triple-A Sacramento and optioned RHP Zack Littell to the identical membership.
Littell yielded three runs in 4 innings spanning his final two appearances, together with a 40-pitch stint in the second.
“Zack has pitched lots for us, and this final outing was comparatively taxing,” Giants supervisor Gabe Kapler stated. “I don’t suppose it’s any secret we need to be ready to guard our bullpen, and as we speak we felt we would have liked to get an arm on the roster that would give us two, two-plus innings if mandatory.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Reds: Positioned RHP Jeff Hoffman on the injured listing and recalled RHP Jared Solomon to fill his spot. … LHP Nick Lodolo (low again pressure) is scheduled to make his fourth rehab look Wednesday for Triple-A Louisville at Toledo. “He’s going to make yet one more begin after which be again the primary week of July as a starter with us,” supervisor David Bell stated. “Across the 4th or fifth if the whole lot goes nicely subsequent outing.“
Giants: SS Brandon Crawford returned to the lineup. He exited Tuesday’s recreation at Atlanta with a bruised left knee following a collision with catcher Travis d’Arnaud. … OF LaMonte Wade Jr. went 2 for five with a double, a house run and two RBIs because the DH with Triple-A Sacramento in a rehab recreation Thursday. He was anticipated to play the outfield for seven innings Friday. “We’ve seen with LaMonte that we would like him to really feel assured in his efficiency and his well being,” Kapler stated. “And once we carry him again to the foremost league degree, we would like him to really feel like he can do the whole lot he must do on the baseball discipline with none restrictions. And so we’re going to be affected person with that.”
UP NEXT
Reds LHP Mike Minor (1-3, 6.97 ERA) faces Giants RHP Logan Webb (6-2, 3.26) on Saturday.
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