Cincinnati 6, Chi. Cubs 4
When: 4:10 PM ET, Saturday, May 24, 2025
Where: Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati, Ohio
Temperature:
70°
Umpires:
Home -
Daniel Bellino, 1B -
Clint Vondrak, 2B -
Phil Cuzzi, 3B -
John Bacon
Attendance:
40409
By Field Level Media
Elly De La Cruz went 2-for-3 with a home run, a stolen base and four RBIs to lead the Cincinnati Reds to a 6-4 victory over the visiting Chicago Cubs on Saturday afternoon.
TJ Friedl also had two hits and Santiago Espinal scored twice for Cincinnati, which snapped a three-game losing streak.
Andrew Abbott (4-0) picked up the win as he allowed one run on six hits over 5 2/3 innings. He walked two and struck out two. Despite allowing a homer to Carson Kelly to begin the ninth, Emilio Pagan bounced back to notch his 13th save.
Justin Turner added a solo homer and Matt Shaw had three hits -- including a pair of doubles -- for Chicago, which had its three-game winning streak come to an end.
Cubs starter Colin Rea (3-1) surrendered six runs on seven hits over five innings. He struck out eight and walked three, both season-highs, while throwing a season-high 108 pitches.
Cincinnati jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning on De La Cruz's ninth home run of the season, a 387-foot line drive into the right field bleachers.
Chicago cut the lead to 2-1 in the third inning when Turner led off with his first home run as a Cub, a 406-foot drive to left-center.
The Reds extended the lead to 3-1 in the fourth inning when Gavin Lux led off with an opposite-field double down the left-field line, advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored on Will Benson's sacrifice fly to the wall in center.
Cincinnati added three more runs in the sixth inning. De La Cruz stroked a two-run single, stole second and scored on a single by Spencer Steer.
The Cubs cut the lead to 6-2 in the seventh when Kelly led off with a single, advanced to third on a Shaw double and scored on Ian Happ's groundout. They got another run closer in the eighth when Seiya Suzuki led off with a double to left-center, moved to third on a groundout and scored on a sacrifice fly by Pete Crow-Armstrong.
Kelly made it 6-4 in the ninth when he cracked his ninth homer of the season off the foul pole in left. One out later, Shaw lined a double to left to bring the tying run to the plate. Pagan bounced back to strike out Happ and get Kyle Tucker to fly to right to end the game.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Chi. Cubs |
|
Cincinnati |
Colin Rea
|
Player |
Andrew Abbott
|
Loss |
W/L |
Win |
5.0 |
IP |
5.2 |
8 |
Strikeouts |
2 |
7 |
Hits |
6 |
10.80 |
ERA |
1.59 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
Chi. Cubs
|
11 |
2 |
20 |
.314 |
18 |
5 |
4 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
Cincinnati
|
9 |
1 |
14 |
.290 |
13 |
10 |
6 |
5 |
1 |
0 |