Duvall helps Reds top Cardinals, 4-2

The Reds were scheduled to play the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday night. He was batting.400 with a double and three RBIs in nine games…. “It shows how humbling this game is”.

“It’s a good thing it’s the beginning of the month”, he said. “It’s a great feeling but you have to stay on an even keel”.

The Cardinals’ Lance Lynn (11-9) is coming off one of his worst starts.

MARLINS 2, NATIONALS 0: At Miami, Jose Fernandez returned from the disabled list and became only the third pitcher since 1914 to win his first 16 career decisions at home when Miami beat fading Washington. He had been 5-0 in seven starts since losing to the Reds on July 28.

Price said he was trying to figure out one aspect of the dispute. “There are no excuses”. It appeared Lynn might escape the jam, but with two outs, Skip Schumaker hit his first home run since last August, to put Cincinnati up 3-1.

DeSclafani (9-10) bounced back from giving up hits to the first three Cardinals, including Heyward’s RBI single, to strike out the next three and go on to retire 15 straight batters. It was a insane game. But Cincinnati couldn’t complete the rally in a 5-4 loss to Pittsburgh.

The Reds(60-81) have done their part in playing a spoiler to the NL Central race, winning three straight against the first place Cardinals (88-54).

Travis d’Arnaud led off the ninth with a ground-rule double against Arodys Vizcaino, and pinch-runner Eric Young Jr. scored from second on Johnson’s single for a 5-4 lead.

“That was definitely a relief, especially since I didn’t do my job at the plate getting the bunt down”, DeSclafani said.

Phillips hit 12th homer, a leadoff shot in a three-run seventh.

Schumaker bounds around the bases and into his team’s dugout, ready to celebrate, and so too are his teammates.

Their was a break in the action in between games in which the Reds and the City of Cincinnati honored hometown legend, Pete Rose.

The good news from the game; the return of Matt Adams.

“It doesn’t happen too often, so I get real happy when I see one go over”. “We were excited to get him in there”. Once again he stole second, his 56th theft, and once again he continued to third on Molina’s second throwing error. He then got in Welke’s face, screaming profanities at close range before being held back by umpire Laz Diaz, third base coach Jim Riggleman and manager Bryan Price, who was also ejected. Duvall quickly rendered that a distant memory when play resumed early Saturday, however, and he donked a 2-run dinger off former Red Jonathan Broxton in the Bottom of the 8th to net the Reds the win, 4-2!

Votto didn’t talk to reporters after the game.