Eugenio Suarez and Jesse Winker homered, helping the Cincinnati Reds to their third consecutive victory 6-5 over the NL Central leading Chicago Cubs, who dropped their third straight game. The teams play a doubleheader this afternoon with pregame at 2:40 on News Radio 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP.
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Scott Kingery hit a three-run homer off Mark Melancon with two outs in the 11th inning and Philadelphia won its fourth straight defeating the Atlanta Braves 7-4. The teams play again this afternoon at Citizens Bank Park.
The Cleveland Indians scored their 14 runs in five of the first seven innings in routing the St. Louis Cardinals 14-2 at Busch Stadium last night. The teams meet again this afternoon in St. Louis.