The Dodgers and Reds seem to be going in opposite directions after another Los Angeles victory on Sunday. With the 8-7 win, the Dodgers swept Cincinnati for the second time in a week. This marks the ninth loss in a row for the Reds, tying the longest losing streak by a Major League team this season, while Los Angeles has won nine of its last 10.
Facing an 8-2 deficit in the bottom of the seventh inning, the Reds showed their first signs of life all series. After Tucker Barnhart and Patrick Kivlehan reached base to open the inning, Scooter Gennett came through two batters later with a three-run home run to right field to make it 8-5.
Eugenio Suarez led off the bottom of the next inning with a homer, and a pair of doubles from Arismendy Alcantara and Billy Hamilton made it 8-7. That would be as close as the Reds would get to avoiding the sweep, however, as Enrique Hernandez made a leaping catch at the wall on a Joey Votto flyball to end the inning and thwart the comeback attempt.
“Hernandez makes the play of the year going up against the wall with [two on] and two outs, which definitely would have given us the lead with the chance to close it out with [Raisel Iglesias],” Reds manager Bryan Price said. “So hats off to the Dodgers. They really won the game. It wasn’t like we really gave it to them. They went out and won it.”
Los Angeles jumped out to an early lead for the third day in a row, stringing together four two-out hits on Reds starter Bronson Arroyo in the second inning for three runs. In the next inning, Logan Forsythe drove in two more with a mammoth 442-foot home run — his longest since Statcast™ was introduced in 2015.
Forsythe, who came in hitting .127 against right-handed pitchers with more than three times as many strikeouts (33) as hits (10), was 2-for-5 against Reds righties on Sunday. He’s been working on his swing ever since returning from a month on the disabled list with a broken toe and a strained hamstring.
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