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BALTIMORE – A night that started with Cincinnati Reds outfielder Austin Hays getting a standing ovation in his return to Camden Yards finished with Andrew Abbott and the Reds bullpen sending almost every Baltimore Orioles batter back to his seat Friday night.
Hays, the Reds left fielder, reached base three times in his first game in Baltimore since the Orioles traded their former All-Star to the Phillies last summer.
But it was Reds starter Andrew Abbott who owned the night in an 8-3 victory for the Reds – who have won four of six games since he returned from the injured list (shoulder) for his season debut six days earlier.
Abbott (2-0, 1.64) struck out 11, walked one and allowed just three of the 21 batters he faced to reach base, including Cedric Mullins with a leadoff homer in the second.
After the homer, Abbott retired 15 of the final 16 he faced – the lone runner reaching with two out in the fifth on a weakly hit grounder to Elly De La Cruz, who slipped on the grass and fell without making a throw. It went for an infield single.
As comfortable as Hays says he feels at Camden Yards after spending seven seasons there, Abbott has looked every bit at home in his two starts there, winning both with similar six-inning starts and a run allowed in each.
Against a franchise made famous for old-school manager Earl Weaver's pennant-winning reliance on "pitching and three-run homers," the Reds added a pair of three-run shots by Elly De La Cruz and Matt McLain to back Abbott's effort.
De La Cruz's third-inning shot, his fourth of the season, was confirmed only after a replay challenge overturned the original call of a double on the ball that appeared to bounce off the back lip of the top of the wall and back into the field.
The review determined that it hit far enough behind the padding to qualify as a home run by "ground rule."
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Andrew Abbott, Elly De La Cruz, Matt McLain power Cincinnati Reds
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Hays, the Reds left fielder, reached base three times in his first game in Baltimore since the Orioles traded their former All-Star to the Phillies last summer.
But it was Reds starter Andrew Abbott who owned the night in an 8-3 victory for the Reds – who have won four of six games since he returned from the injured list (shoulder) for his season debut six days earlier.
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Abbott (2-0, 1.64) struck out 11, walked one and allowed just three of the 21 batters he faced to reach base, including Cedric Mullins with a leadoff homer in the second.
After the homer, Abbott retired 15 of the final 16 he faced – the lone runner reaching with two out in the fifth on a weakly hit grounder to Elly De La Cruz, who slipped on the grass and fell without making a throw. It went for an infield single.
As comfortable as Hays says he feels at Camden Yards after spending seven seasons there, Abbott has looked every bit at home in his two starts there, winning both with similar six-inning starts and a run allowed in each.
Against a franchise made famous for old-school manager Earl Weaver's pennant-winning reliance on "pitching and three-run homers," the Reds added a pair of three-run shots by Elly De La Cruz and Matt McLain to back Abbott's effort.
De La Cruz's third-inning shot, his fourth of the season, was confirmed only after a replay challenge overturned the original call of a double on the ball that appeared to bounce off the back lip of the top of the wall and back into the field.
The review determined that it hit far enough behind the padding to qualify as a home run by "ground rule."
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Andrew Abbott, Elly De La Cruz, Matt McLain power Cincinnati Reds
Continue reading...
