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The Cincinnati Reds had more of them in a game with large innings. With his third home run of the spring, Christian Encarnacion-Strand contributed to one of those innings as his club upset the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday afternoon in Goodyear.
The salient features
On Saturday, Cincinnati sent Lyon Richardson to the mound to begin the game. He had a strikeout in a shutout period and worked around two hits in the first inning. In the following inning, Bryan Shaw took over and navigated his way around a walk. After a walk followed a two-out single in the following inning, Taylor Rogers found himself in danger, but he was able to escape with a strikeout.
After being quiet for the first two innings, the Reds’ attack finally reached Arizona starter Zac Gallen in the third. After Matt McLain led off with a one-out walk, the Reds capitalized on consecutive two-out singles from Austin Hays that
Ildemaro Vargas singled off the wall in center to home A.J. Vukovich from first base to tie the score, and the Diamondbacks got that run back against Ian Gibaut in the following half-inning. Jordan Montgomery hit Jake Fraley with a pitch to start the fourth inning, which prompted Cincinnati to get back to work. The following pitch was taken by Christian Encarnacion-Strand, who hit his third spring home run, smashing it over the bullpen, the wall, and onto the berm in left-center.
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