Major League Baseball
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

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
Hitting
Chi. Cubs   Cincinnati
Matt Shaw Player Elly De La Cruz
3 Hits 2
0 RBI 4
0 HR 1
5 TB 5
.750 Avg .667
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