Cincinnati Reds beat Yankees to complete 7-2 homestand

Gary Sanchez hit the ball hard but right at Cincinnati Reds third baseman Eugenio Suarez, who threw to second base to double off Aaron Hicks for the final out. Just like that, the Reds had a 5-3 victory Tuesday over the New York Yankees and a 7-2 home stand at Great American Ball Park.

Reds reliever Raisel Iglesias raised both arms into the air in celebration. Seconds earlier, he was flirting with danger. Now he celebrated his sixth save of the season and his sixth two-inning save in the last two seasons. He made sure to thank Suarez after the game.

“He always says thank you,” Suarez said.

The Reds (18-15) kept pace with the top teams in the National League Central Division. The Saint Louis Cardinals (18-14) lead the division by a half game.

On the home stand, the Reds took three of four games from the Pittsburgh Pirates, swept three games from the San Francisco Giants and split a two-game series with the Yankees.

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All Cincinnati needed Tuesday was one big inning. The Reds scored five runs in the second inning. They sent 10 batters to the plate. Six of them singled.

Billy Hamilton drove in two runs with a bases-loaded single. Joey Votto also had a two-run single. Votto increased his RBI total to 31. Adam Duvall drove in the fifth run with a single.

All the runs came against Yankees starter CC Sabathia, who was 4-2 with a 2.46 ERA in 12 career starts against the Reds. He lasted six innings. He gave up five earned runs on seven hits with two walks and two strikeouts. The Reds had never scored more than three runs against him.

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“Sabathia got really tough after that inning,” Reds manager Bryan Price said.

Reds starter Tim Adleman allowed three runs on five hits in five innings. He struck out six and walked two. He made two big mistakes, giving up solo home runs to Gary Sanchez in the first and Didi Gregorius in the second.

“I think early on I was just trying to be too fine,” Adleman said. “I gave these guys too much credit — arguably credit they deserve. They’re hot right now. They’re probably the best team in baseball. They’ve been playing well. They’re swinging it well. They smacked the Cubs around at Wrigley for three games. But I definitely needed to attack more early. That was probably what caused the early runs and some of the deep counts and bad counts. Sometime in the third I found it a little bit and was able to get through those last two a lot easier than I did those first two.

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