The D-backs scored five unanswered runs to notch a 5-4 come-from-behind victory over the Reds on Thursday night at Great American Ball Park to extend Cincinnati’s losing streak to six games.
Arizona was down, 4-3, in the eighth inning when it scored two runs against reliever Burke Badenhop on A.J. Pollock’s bases-loaded, two-out single to center field. Badenhop’s scoreless streak of 20 games and 18 1/3 innings since July 3 ended in an inning that normally belongs to setup man J.J. Hoover, who was being held for the ninth inning with closer Aroldis Chapman unavailable because of shoulder stiffness.
D-backs starter Patrick Corbin was chased after two innings after allowing eight hits and trailing 4-0, while Reds rookie John Lamb was initially cruising. Three runs crossed on Corbin in the second inning, including Tucker Barnhart’s RBI single, Jason Bourgeois’ RBI triple with two outs and Eugenio Suarez RBI single. Chris Owings hit a homer to start the fifth inning off of Lamb, who started to labor and gave up a pair of two-out hits that included Pollock’s RBI single. Three one-out hits for Arizona came in the sixth for another run.
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