Cincinnati Reds vs Pittsburgh Pirates Match Player Stats On Aug 01, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Aug 1, 2017

PITTSBURGH -- Billy Hamilton hit a three-run homer and scored twice Tuesday night as the Cincinnati Reds continued their mastery of the Pittsburgh Pirates in a 9-1 victory at PNC Park.

The Reds (43-63) are 7-1 against Pittsburgh (51-55) this season.

Jesse Winker, fresh from Triple-A Louisville, hit his first major league homer for Cincinnati, which pounded out 14 hits and won its second game in a row.

Adam Frazier had three of Pittsburgh's seven hits.

After the Reds built an 8-1 lead through four innings, Eugenio Suarez hit his 17th homer to lead off the ninth to make it 9-1.

Homer Bailey (3-5) had another strong start at PNC Park, where he is 6-2 in his career. He halted a three-game losing streak overall, giving up one run and four hits over six innings, with three strikeouts and two walks.

Pittsburgh starter Jameson Taillon (6-5) had his second straight rough outing. He piled up 90 pitches in 3 2/3 innings, giving up eight runs and 11 hits, including the first two homers, while walking three and striking out two.

That came on the heels of a 10-run, nine-hit, three-inning performance Tuesday in an 11-3 loss at San Francisco.

Cincinnati scored in the first inning when Hamilton led off with a triple and, after Winker walked, scored on Joey Votto's fielder's choice.

The Pirates tied it 1-1 in their half of the first. Starling Marte was hit on the left arm by a Bailey pitch, stole second, moved to third on Andrew McCutchen's infield single and scored on Josh Bell's single to right.

The Reds responded with four runs in the second on Tucker Barnhart's RBI single and Hamilton's one-out homer to right.

Winker hit a two-out, 0-1 breaking ball from Taillon into the seats in right-center field for a 7-1 lead in the fourth. The Reds added another run that inning and chased Taillon on Scooter Gennett's RBI single -- Cincinnati's fourth straight hit -- to make it 8-1.

Marte saved a couple of runs when he ended the Reds' fifth by leaping and reaching over the left field wall to rob Winker of what would have been his second homer.

NOTES: Pittsburgh 2B Josh Harrison, who jammed his left leg on a play at first Sunday, was not in the starting lineup. ... Cincinnati OF Phillip Ervin was recalled from Triple-A Louisville. ... Reds RF Scott Schebler (left shoulder strain) was placed on the 10-day DL only about an hour before the game. ... The game opened an eight-game homestand for the Pirates.