Cincinnati Reds at Toronto Blue Jays

· Major League Baseball

Cincinnati Reds

74-86, 36-43 Away

Final
5 - 6

Toronto Blue Jays

78-82, 41-38 Home

Lukes has go-ahead hit in four-run seventh, Okamoto drives in three as Blue Jays beat Reds 6-5

Cincinnati Reds vs. Toronto Blue Jays: Game Highlights

Cincinnati’s Elly De La Cruz stole third base in the third inning to become the fourth player in Reds history with at least 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases in the same season.

De La Cruz, who started at DH on Friday, hit his 30th home run in Thursday’s 7-6 win at Atlanta.

Mason Fluharty (7-1) got two outs for the win and Louis Varland worked a 1-2-3 ninth against the top of the lineup for his 35th save in 37 chances.

Alejandro Kirk and Okamoto hit RBI doubles off Nick Lodolo in the first. Cincinnati’s Eugenio Suárez hit a home run in the second to make it 2-1.

The Reds chased José Soriano with a four-run third. De La Cruz hit a two-run double, stole third and scored on Sal Stewart’s single. Héctor Rodríguez drove in the fourth run with a fielder’s choice.

Soriano allowed five runs and eight hits.

Toronto's seventh began with back-to-back walks issued by Luis Mey (0-2).

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. followed with an RBI single, a hit that was redirected when the bouncing ball was struck by a flying piece of Guerrero’s broken bat.

After George Springer reached on Oswaldo Cabrera’s fielding error, Pierce Johnson replaced Mey. Okamoto greeted Johnson with a tying double to center and Lukes followed with his RBI single.

Before the game, Guerrero apologized for recent comments about his 14-year, $500 million contract. He finished 1 for 5.

Up next Blue Jays RHP Trey Yesavage (5-5, 3.67 ERA) is scheduled to start Saturday against Reds RHP Rhett Lowder (6-12, 6.01).

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Stewart struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	De La Cruz grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Jorge struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Varland relieved Rogers
	9th Inning	Valenzuela catching.
	8th Inning	Springer flied out to center.

Statistics

CIN		TOR
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	2
15	Ground Balls	13
11	Strikeouts	6
5	Runs Batted In	6
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
12	Hits	10
1	Stolen Bases	0
1	Walks	5
0	Catcher Interference	0
5	Runs	6
1	Ground Into Double Play	2
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
38	At Bats	33
1	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
16	Runners Left On Base	25
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	5
12	Fly Balls	14
0	Caught Stealing	0
141	Pitches	154
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	2
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
16	Total Bases	15
39	Plate Appearances	40
162.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
2	Extra Base Hits	5
5.1	Runs Created	6.1
.316	Batting Average	.303
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.421	Slugging Percentage	.455
.158	Secondary Average	.303
.333	On Base Percentage	.425
.754	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.880
1.3	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.9
5.1	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	6.6
38.0	Batter Rating	44.0
38.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.62	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.85
.105	Isolated Power	.152
0.09	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.83
.026	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.125
-.158	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.000
10.0	Runs Produced	12.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.4
88.3	MLB Rating	90.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0