Cubs vs. Reds Game Highlights | 6/2/24

Ben Brown and about starting pitch for the Cubs. Yeah there you go. He's essentially a two pitch pitcher a fastball that will top out at ninety nine sit comfortably at ninety six miles per hour in a devastating curve ball that generates a lot of swings and misses does have a change up and a little different look to a breaking ball but pretty much fastball curve ball from the twenty four year old right hander and it's been very effective the two point seven two era for forty six in the third innings of work. There's David Bote checking his defensive card last time he played the majors August 5th twenty twenty two. He was at Cincinnati. He went two for four and knocked in five and hit a homer this one to center and Bellinger pulls it down. Ali De La Cruz will stand in swing and a miss at the breaking ball. De La Cruz is gone and a good start for Ben Brown two down nobody on in the batter Jamer Candelario that one hit on the ground softly and that's going to be trouble. Bote will slide and track it down and keep Candelario to just a single. Now that was well placed and a good job by Bote to keep it at one to third and Bote goes to Nikko. That's that no runs one hit and a strikeout. The Reds leave a man here come the Cubs up to hit on Luke Gehrig day as we go to the bottom of the first the Reds look to left hander Nick Lodolo at his first start in over two weeks and was very strong against St. Louis as Horner lives to right. Lifted in the air to Will Benson. He's under it waiting on it he'll make the catch and Nikko Horner is very quickly the first out here in the first inning. Now say a Suzuki stands in strike three calls got him looking. That's why you swing at the first pitch because you don't want to get that one down on strike say a Suzuki to very quickly gone here in the first inning and Cody Bellinger will come to the plate. And that one started to right field and there's a two strike hit against the lefty J.D. It's always nice when they follow the script and it's just it's just kind of quiet with a lower body. Great eye hand coordination as he reaches out and gets that breaking ball. A lot of times he's shooting it the other way in situations like this here gets the head out in front of that breaking pitch and a good solid line drive single couple of two out base runners out of the Cubs wisdom in the lineup today playing first base high fly playable left center Riedel takes command and makes the play. So Lodolo works a scoreless first the Cubs get a couple of men aboard with stranding both Jake Frehley leads off the Reds second inning opposite way base hit Frehley turns he challenges for two. Here's Habs throw it's late hustle double from Jake Frehley. We have seen several times here in this series where the Reds have challenged the arm of Ian Hab in left field any ball that's down the line or that goes back towards the left center field gap. They are pushing for second base. He's in scoring position for Tyler Stevenson driven opposite way that is down base hit a medium right scooped by Suzuki stop sign for Frehley men at the corners and every hit the Reds have had so far three of them Seville. They've all been the other way. And that's what you have to do against the guy that has high velocity and that ball squirts free. It got him. Hurtubise was hit and that's going to load the bases so it hits Hurtubise and that will load the bases with nobody out as it brings up Jonathan India the Heat sent to center Bellinger makes the glove runners tag at third only Sakai RBI Frehley scores Reds take the lead one nothing two down a run in Cubs trail by a run and now TJ Friedle Friedle well hit to right and gone his first bomb of the year a two out and three run shot and a four run edge for the Reds. Boy talk about going to the well maybe one too many times. This is the third breaking ball in this at bat that he throws the TJ Friedle and he hangs this one right there and Friedle's got enough on it to get it out of here beyond the basket. Why did I do that. And back to back hits to begin the third for the Reds just like they began the second inning Reds threatening quickly here in the third. Jake Frehley Frehley high fly deep right center Suzuki makes the play runner tags in third Zach fly RBI tack on run for the Reds. It's a five nothing lead. Patrick Wisdom leads off the Cubs fourth. Lowe struck out two through the first three innings retired the Cubs in order once jammed in Benson coming on hard half flies off he makes the play so half gets drilled by the curve ball. There's no getting out of the way of that. That was a heat seeker down the first base second batter that Lodolo is hit today. De La Cruz second one not in time get the lead banded half to away. David Bodie playing in his first big league game since all the way back in twenty twenty two swing and a miss. So down on strikes David Bodie and the inning is over. Another scoreless frame in the books for Nick Lodolo Reds have a five nothing lead through Ford. And let's see now this is that third time through the lineup. See if the Cubs can do a little more against Lodolo. He has kind of kept them at bay here with that inside fastball line drive and a base hit out of the left field. Hit number three for the Cubs second one for Niko solid single the center last time up says Suzuki stands in powerful right handed batter base hit right field and Horner around second second on his way to third sale with the knock he's hitting ten in a row. Cubs are in business first and third and one away. So here's Billy now. It's got only at sixty seven for Lodolo Bellinger one for two. And that'll score one Suzuki around second on his way to third trading places and around scores comes around the board it's five one and Bellinger Rock that one for an RBI single. Yeah on the left one to right and now one base hit to center field three knocks in a row for the Cubs cleanup man Christopher Morell will stand in Skull did drop by Candelaria fired a second one on the first double play a five four three inning ending double play on a drop line drive and that gets the Reds out of the fifth Patrick Wisdom to lead off the Cubs sixth inning Reds are up five to one Lodolo back to work and that's through the left side hole in the base here. So a promising start to the Cubs six. Wisdom will stop at second and back to back hits two on and nobody out bounce towards short De La Cruz to second for one over to first not in time they get the middle man on a six four fielder's choice. So first and third one away five one Cincinnati and David Bote ready to step in. Bounce De La Cruz shovel to India run scores for the first not in time for Wisdom comes home but some damage control two outs. Nice play by L.A. Taylor Cruz that ball was in center field by the time he flagged it down and then did a backhand flip to Jonathan India covering on the base. Here is Miguel Amaya batting and this ball is in the air right field should be playable for Benson. He's back he's fighting the sun and he'll make the catch. So the inning is over. The Cubs get one more back here in the sixth inning. The Reds lead is down to three it's five to two. Now the Cubs are down to their last chance. Look at strike three. Alexis Diaz does it. He bolts down a dozen saves on the year as the Reds take this rubber match. They beat the Cubs five to and claim the series. Cincinnati is one six of its last nine.