White Sox vs. Reds Game Highlights (5/6/23) | MLB Highlights

The White Sox took game one last night, five to four over the Reds. Lance Lynn earned his first win of the year, allowed four runs on eight hits, gave up a home run. Hopefully see the Reds come back. I mean right now you're looking at a White Sox team that's 11 and 22. They're eight games back of the Twins in the AL Central and of course the Reds 13 and 19 at this point. Six and a half back, but an opportunity the way the Brewers and also the Pirates have been playing, dropping five in a row each. There's still some opportunity to make up some ground and do some damage. Nick Lodolo, a nice looking young lefty for the Reds. Off to a little bit of a rough start. He looked really good early, but he's blown up a couple times in his last outings. He did go five innings, struck out seven, gave up three runs in a 5-4 loss to the Oakland Athletics. Lodolo is 2-1 on the season with a 6-16 ERA. He's given up eight home runs in 30 and two-thirds innings. One away in the inning, it'll bring up Andrew Vaughn. Vaughn last night 0-4 got robbed of a home run. He strikes him out, breaking ball in. There's that breaking pitch from Nick Lodolo. It's the first strikeout of the night for the Reds starter. Two away, it brings up Luis Robert Jr. Robert has really come on lately. Six for his last 15 with two homers. He's hustling, going to be a tough play and it'll be an infield single. That was a do-or-die for Senzel and even if he picks that up cleanly, Steve, I'm not sure he's going to get him. And he's a very good third baseman. He's an outfielder by trade. So a two-out walk for Grondahl puts runners at first and second for the White Sox. Andrew Benintendi steps in. He does not have a home run this year. He's hitting at a .265 clip. He is driven in six. Left-handed batter, left-handed pitcher. Lodolo's home with a 1-2. And it's a ground ball slap to the left side. Diving stop Senzel from a knee. Flips across to first post and out is Benintendi. What a play, Nick Senzel. Best third baseman the Reds have right there and he shows it again and again and again. The White Sox are scoreless in the first thanks to some nifty glove work. At the hot corner we go to the bottom of the first, no score. Let's talk about Clevenger making his seventh start of the season, fourth on the road. He's allowed 11 earned runs over his last three starts, that's over the course of 13 innings. So he really needs to lock in a little bit more. So a leadoff single for the Reds. India turned that one around. Here's TJ Faridul, center fielder. And he struck him out on a foul tip. One away. Here's Spencer Steer. Steer batting .241. He's got three home runs. India at first, he's got a decent lead. He goes, great jump. Pitch lost on the transfer by Zabala. That's the team leading sixth steal for India. Three and two count on Spencer Steer. Runner at second, India's got a huge lead. That is stroke to left. Benintendi coming on. He can't get there. Windmill is out at third. India roars home. They eat the relay. India streaks across standing and Steer an RBI single. It's one-nothing Cincinnati. Really nice job, Jonathan India. First of all, getting on base, getting himself in to scoring position. Benintendi gets the in-between hop. Can't get behind the ball. Cannot make a strong throw to the plate. India scores. Now Tyler Stevenson's the batter. 264. Still homerless. 11 RBIs. Good breaking ball. Got him looking. Followed up that inside fastball with a slower one in the same spot. And it's the second strikeout. So Clevenger able to escape further damage. Just an RBI single by Spencer Steer. The Reds lead one-nothing. Sox will bat in the second. Alberto hitting 167. A home run and four RBIs. Alberto in the air out of the deep left field and it is gone. Number two this year for Hanzer. High fly ball and Alberto gets enough of it. Not all of it, but you don't have to get all of it to take it out here. And there's a reason. He's been playing every day. He is known because he kills left-handers. He got that slider and he yanked his hands in and he kept it fair. Home run to Hanzer Alberto. Sox have tied it up at one. 1-1 is the score here in the top of the third. Virtually the same situation that Benintendi saw his first time up. Robert had reached on a single. This time a hit by pitch. Yaz walked. This time a single. First and second two away. 1-1. Here it comes. Hard hit in the left center field. This is gonna get down. Picked up by Friedel, but Robert will score. It's a double for Benintendi. 2-1. Sox take a lead. Benintendi's got a double and against his hometown team he gives the Sox the lead. In front of the home folks it's always a nice at-bat. Was robbed of a hit the first time, but made sure that time that the ball would find some grass to land on safely. So the Sox get one, but no more. Andrew Benintendi drives in his seventh of the year. 2-1 White Sox. Fourth inning coming up. Sox hold that one-run lead. 2-1. Nick Lodolo at 65 pitches. He's given up two. Hanser Alberto with a home run and Andrew Benintendi drove in another. That was in the third. Zavala who's 0-1. He struck out in second. Launched to left and the over is over. 3-1. Just his second home run of the year. His third driven in and the Sox have a two-run lead and Sebi has a home run here in Cincinnati. Sox have scored in three straight innings now. No need to stop this trend. Sox get one in the inning. A home run by Sebi Zavala. They threatened for more. 3-1. 3-1 White Sox. They'll bat in the fifth. Elvis Andrews will hit, but the base is empty and two out. And the pitch is hit in the air. Short center field. Friedel long run. Slides and he caught it. Great catch TJ Friedel. Inning over. The White Sox are down in order against Derek Law in the fifth. Halftime at Great American Ballpark. 3-1 White Sox lead the Reds. So after the one out single, a walk. Now the Reds may have a little something going, but they're gonna need some production from the middle of their order right now. TJ Friedel coming to the plate. The Reds have runners at first and second with only one out. TJ Friedel has struck out. Popped out. Friedel a top-ten average in the National League that jumps with men on the base. He entered this game hitting .375 with men on. Rocked in the air to right point. Skyward his third homer of the year. A three-run shot to put the Reds ahead. Great play to get the Reds out of the fifth inning and comes up large here in the bottom of the fifth. For Friedel it is his third home run of the year and RBI's 13, 14, and 15. Typical grind it out at bat. Fantastic result. Three-run bomb. Do it young man. 4-3 Reds lead. Bottom seven coming up. Weak contact with the fourth reach for the Reds leadoff man. They lead 4-3 and now with two away here in the seventh at base runner. And here comes so far tonight the hero of the ballgame and that would be TJ Friedel. That is over. Second base hit. India sprinting through second. It goes all the way to the wall and it's 5-3. Oh TJ Friedel have a night song. A triple for TJ Friedel following his three-run home run and Friedel has every RBI that the Reds have tonight save for the run in the first inning. Quite a ballgame for TJ Friedel.