Jose Peraza’s best game at the plate turned out to be Mike Matheny’s last in the Cardinals‘ dugout.
Peraza had a career-best five hits
Tim Schaller Jersey , Scooter Gennett drove in two runs and the Reds waited out a pair of rain delays before beating St. Louis 8-2 on Saturday
night.
The Cardinals fired Matheny, who was in his seventh year as manager, after the game.
Peraza is hitting 14 for 33 (.424) on the Reds’ eight-game road trip.
”I felt good,” Peraza said. ”I just swung the bat and something happened.”
Following the two delays that totaled 2 hours, 43 minutes, Cincinnati trailed 2-0 after five innings before rallying for eight runs in its final four
at-bats.
”This one just got away,” Matheny said. ”You’ve got a team that’s swinging the bats very well over there and not letting you get away with many
mistakes.”
Gennett hit a 100 mph fastball off Jordan Hicks (3-2) to right field for a single to drive in Billy Hamilton with the bases loaded in the seventh inning to
put the Reds ahead 3-2.
Peraza’s 5-for-6 performance came after he had registered four hits on four previous occasions, most recently on April 27 at Minnesota. He tied the game at
2 in the seventh when he singled on a chopper up the middle that bounced off
Hicks’ pitching hand to drive in Dilson Herrera.
Cincinnati has won three straight against St. Louis after having dropped 13 in a row to the Cardinals. The Reds are 21-9 since June 10.
”It kind of goes back to when we won two out of there against Atlanta on the road,” Cincinnati manager Jim Riggleman said. ”We’ve played some good series
against first-place clubs, playoff teams.”
Hicks allowed four runs on four hits, a walk
http://www.seahawksauthorizedshops.com/authentic-alex-mcgough-jersey , and one hit batter while recording just one out in the seventh inning.
”That game’s definitely on me,” Hicks said. ”I’m supposed to come in and be lock down and that wasn’t the case today.”
Austin Brice (2-2) retired both batters he faced in the sixth after replacing Kyle Crockett, who opened the inning.
Gennett hit a double to left field off Mike Mayers in the sixth inning to score Joey Votto. He has 44 RBIs in 83 career games against St. Louis.
Jack Flaherty allowed two hits in five scoreless innings. He returned following a 52-minute rain delay after the first inning, but was removed from
the game after play was halted for 1 hour, 51 minutes after the fifth.
Luis Castillo allowed two runs on five hits in five innings.
Matt Carpenter hit his 18th home run of the season in the first inning. It was his 19th career leadoff home run and fourth in 2018. He has 36 extra-base
hits since May 15.
IRON MAN:
Yadier Molina started his 1,801st game at catcher to move past Tony Pena into eighth place in combined regular season and postseason starts behind the
plate.
TRAINER’S ROOM:
Reds: RF Scott Schebler departed in the sixth inning after running into the right-field wall after catching Molina’s fly. ”I think he’s going to be all
right,” Riggleman said. ”It was pretty sore but we’ll probably stay away from
playing him tomorrow.”
Cardinals: OF Tyler O’Neill began a 20-day injury rehabilitation assignment with Triple-A Memphis, where he went hitless in three at-bats Saturday with a
strikeout at Omaha. O’Neill has been sidelined since July 5 with a left
hamstring strain.
UP NEXT:
RHP Anthony DeSclafani (4-1, 4.43) will face RHP Miles Mikolas (10-3, 2.65). DeSclafani has won his last four decisions and is 5-1 with a 2.30 ERA in eight
career outings against the Cardinals. Mikolas will represent the Cardinals at
the All-Star Game at Nationals Park on Tuesday but will not pitch.
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As the simmer becomes a slow boil on the Khalil Mack trade chatter, one unlikely suitor has been sucked into the stew.
In tweets sent out nearly simultaneously Customized New England Patriots Jerseys , Ian Rapoport of NFL Media and Albert Breer of SI.com flag the Bears are potential destinations for the 2016 defensive
player of the year.
The text of the tweets is eerily similar. Tweeted Breer at 8:15 a.m. ET: “One team that other teams are keeping a close eye on in the Khalil Mack trade talks:
The Chicago Bears. They??e been quiet, but they have attractive capital.” Said
Rapoport, at the exact same minute: “One team to watch in the Khalil Mack
sweepstakes: The Bears. They have been undercover, but others in the mix are
watching them and waiting. Would be a big move.”
The untrained eye would claim that the person who posted the second tweet stole the idea from the person who tweeted it first. But that’s not how it
works. Sources who are hoping to spread a message or start a narrative or, in
this case, engineer a major trade will send out text messages to multiple
reporters at the same time. Some reporters will flat-out cut and paste the text
message; others will at least paraphrase.
Regardless, it happens. And the Breer-Rapoport bang-bang tweets are smoking-gun proof of it.
So here’s the real question: Who’s putting out the word that the Bears are quietly pursuing Mack? Surely it’s not the Bears. Maybe it’s the Raiders. More
likely, it’s Mack’s camp.
With Donald hitting the jackpot, Mack undoubtedly wants the same. And if the Raiders can’t or won’t give it to him, there’s a new urgency to get someone else
to give Mack that kind of money. It happens only if a trade can be
engineered.
What better way to do that than to inject as many teams into the public conversation as possible? Especially those that have tried to stay out of
it.
