Wilmer Flores hit 2 more HRs as Giants outlast Reds 11-10

Wilmer Flores homered twice and drove in 5 runs to steer the visiting San Francisco Giants to their seventh straight win, an 11-10 slugfest victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night time

It got here after Flores had two doubles and a house run and Joc Pederson drove within the go-ahead run within the tenth inning as the Giants gained the completion of Monday’s suspended recreation 4-2

Flores completed the 2 video games with 16 complete bases, marking the primary time a Giants participant had at the least eight complete bases in back-to-back video games since Barry Bonds in 2002

In the second recreation, Scott Alexander (6-0) struck out three round a one-out single within the sixth inning to earn the win, whereas Camilo Doval, who saved the suspended recreation, transformed his major-league-leading thirtieth save in 32 probabilities with a scoreless ninth within the second contest. The Reds had runners on first and second with one out, however Doval obtained Spencer Steer to hit right into a game-ending double play

Joey Votto belted his 350th profession house run, certainly one of 4 the Reds hit. They misplaced their season-worst sixth straight recreation

After finishing the weather-induced suspended recreation, Tuesday’s contest was then delayed 71 minutes by one other spherical of heavy rain showers, which flooded the outfield and infield warning tracks.

Flores continued his torrid hitting within the second recreation with house runs in his first two at-bats off Cincinnati starter Luke Weaver.

The Reds claimed a 4-1 lead on two-run homers from Jake Fraley and Will Benson, their first three-run lead since their final win, 8-5, on July 8 at Milwaukee

Weaver was knocked out of the sport with a big welt above his left elbow when Michael Conforto’s line drive ricocheted off Weaver as he was turning his again to house plate.

The Giants took a 7-5 lead once they scored 3 times off reliever Derek Law, highlighted by Mike Yastrzemski two-run, tiebreaking double

The Reds reclaimed the lead at 8-7 when Christian Encarnacion-Strand yanked a Mauricio Llovera slider 426 toes to the higher deck in left, additionally scoring Elly De La Cruz and Matt McLain for his first main league hit. The pinch-hit homer snapped Cincinnati’s 0-for-28 drought with runners in scoring place

Flores tied the sport within the sixth with a sacrifice fly earlier than the Giants obtained to relievers Buck Farmer (2-4) and Tony Santillan for 3 runs within the seventh, together with a two-run single by Luis Matos to place the Giants up 11-8

–Field Level Media