Cincinnati Reds vs Pittsburgh Pirates Box Score on May 11, 2021

Adam Frazier homered and JT Brubaker pitched six strong innings Tuesday as the host Pittsburgh Pirates finally solved the Cincinnati Reds for a 7-2 win.

Troy Stokes Jr. added an RBI double and an RBI single, Kevin Newman a run-scoring triple and Phillip Evans an RBI double for Pittsburgh. The Pirates lost their first four games against the Reds this year by a combined 44-9 and, dating to last year, had lost eight straight against Cincinnati.

Brubaker (3-2) allowed one run and five hits with one walk and four strikeouts.

Jesse Winker had a homer, two doubles and two RBIs for Cincinnati. Reds starter Jeff Hoffman (2-3) gave up three runs and four hits in four innings with two walks and four strikeouts.

In the first inning, Frazier led off with a single to left, tying his career best with a 12-game hitting streak. Bryan Reynolds moved Frazier to third with a double to left. Two outs later, with Erik Gonzalez at the plate, Frazier scored on a Hoffman wild pitch for a 1-0 Pittsburgh lead.

The Reds tied it in the third. Winker swatted his seventh homer, an estimated 438-foot shot to right-center that bounced into the Allegheny River -- the first homer at PNC Park to land in the river this year.

The Pirates regained the lead in the fourth. Ka'ai Tom was hit by a pitch and scored on Newman's triple to the wall in left-center. Stokes, playing his third major league game, picked up his first career hit, a single to left that drove in Newman for a 3-1 lead.

Pittsburgh tacked on another in the fifth. Reynolds drew a walk and scored on Evans' double to center to make it 4-1.

Cincinnati's Nick Senzel led off the eighth with a single to right and scored on Winker's double to the corner in left to close it to 4-2, with Winker thrown out at third.

Stokes doubled to left in the bottom of the eighth to drive in Newman, who had reached on a fielder's choice, for a 5-2 lead. An out later, Frazier homered to right to make it 7-2. It was his first homer of the season.

--Field Level Media