Reds sweep Guardians!

Reds 3 Guardians 1

Sweeeeeep!

The Reds made it four straight wins, finishing off a sweep and climbing back to the .500 mark (24-24). 

The Will Benson Show continued, as he homered TWICE….making it four straight games with a jack! 

Andrew Abbott tossed a crafty and gutty five shutout innings. A heavily leaned on bullpen handled the final 12 outs. 

It’s the Reds first sweep of the Guardians since June of 2012. The starting pitchers in that series were Johnny Cueto-Mat Latos-Mike Leake. 

Offense: 9 H, 2 BB, 9 K.

Benson: 3 H, 2 HR. 1st Red to homer in four straight games since…TJ Friedl, September ‘23. 1st Red to hit 5 HR in a four-game stretch since Joey Votto in ‘21.

Friedl: 2BB. OBP up to .359. On pace for career high 72 BB. Previous best 47 (‘23).

Joe: 2 H, hustle 2B on fly ball that dropped between three Guardians in RF. 

Abbott: 5 IN, 4 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 5 K, HBP, 96 pitches. Escaped bases load/28 pitch 1st, HBP 1st pitch of game, 2 BB. ERA 1.85. Runs allowed by start: 1-1-4-1-0-1-0. 

Bullpen: 4 IN, 1 R 
Barlow 1.0, Mey 0.2, R, Rogers 0.1, K tying run at plate in 7th. 
Santillan: 1.0. 3rd straight day. Pagan: 29 pitch 9th, 3rd straight day. With one out, K Carlos Santana on 10th pitch of AB with tying run on. 12th save. 

Series work: Starters: 10 innings/3 runs. Relievers: 17 innings/3 runs. 

How they scored:
4th Benson 2-R HR, 2-0 Reds ……..6th Benson HR, 3-0 Reds

Defense: Benson running catch in RF. Abbott/McLain pickoff at 2nd.