San Diego Padres vs Cincinnati Reds Box Score on Aug 08, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Aug 8, 2017

CINCINNATI -- Austin Hedges and Yangervis Solarte homered and Luis Perdomo allowed two runs in six innings, lifting the San Diego Padres to a 7-3 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night at Great American Ball Park.

Jose Pirela went 4-for-4 with two doubles, helping the Padres improve to 4-1 this season against Cincinnati. Pirela is 6-for-8 in the series with two doubles, two homers, and three RBIs.

Perdomo (6-6) induced four double-play grounders, including three inning-ending double plays. The four twin killings tied a major league season high.

Tucker Barnhart hit a three-run homer for Cincinnati off Jose Torres in the seventh inning. Two of the runs were charged to Perdomo.

Reds rookie Sal Romano (2-4) allowed five earned runs and nine hits in six innings. His day might have been worse had it not been for two sensational catches by center fielder Billy Hamilton and another by left fielder Adam Duvall.

Hedges hit his 15th home run of the season off Romano leading off the sixth to make the score 5-0. Solarte added his 12th homer off Drew Storen in the seventh.

The Padres scratched across a couple runs in the first inning. With runners on second and third, one run scored on a groundout and another on a wild pitch to make the score 2-0.

San Diego kept the pressure on Romano in the second.

Cory Spangenberg walked and later scored on Dusty Coleman's sacrifice fly to center to make it 3-0.

Pirela doubled twice, singled, and scored twice in his first three at-bats to help San Diego build a 4-0 lead. He homered twice on Monday.

Perdomo's propensity for inducing ground balls served him well in hitter-friendly Great American Ball Park.

Cincinnati greeted him with three straight singles to load the bases with no outs in the second. But a strikeout and 4-6-3 double play on a grounder by Hamilton ended the threat.

The Reds had runners on first and second with one out in the fourth when Perdomo again got an inning-ending double play. It was his 21st double-play grounder this season.

NOTES: Reds 1B Joey Votto singled in the sixth inning to extend his hitting streak to 13 games, tying a club season high. ... Coming into the game, Padres RHP Luis Perdomo was leading the National League and ranked second in the majors with a 63.3 ground-ball percentage. ... Reds RHP Blake Wood, who posted his first win of the season Monday night, turned 32. ... Cincinnati hasn't won a season series against the Padres since 2012. The Reds were swept in a three-game series at Petco Park in June.