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It was curious how Pagán and Tony Santillan were flipped in the bullpen Sunday, but things were back to normal tonight, with Santillan throwing a perfect eighth and Pagán working around a pair of walks in a scoreless ninth. Pagán still hasn’t blown a save since May 6.
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Friedl’s knock finished the scoring for the night. Thanks in large part to their eight walks, the Reds won despite being outhomered 2-0 and outhit 8-5. Friedl’s double was his lone hit in five at-bats. At .288/.381/.439 with eight homers to date, he’s starting to receive some All-Star chatter. However, the NL outfield is extremely stacked (Corbin Carroll, Kyle Tucker, Juan Soto, Fernando Tatis Jr., Pete Crow-Armstrong, James Wood, Ronald Acuña Jr. and we could keep going) and it’ll probably take a couple of people dropping out to get Friedl in the mix.
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All of the earned runs came in the sixth after Christian Encarnacion-Strand made a throwing error with two outs and none on. The next two batters singled, and Harrison Bader hit a home run to end Abbott’s night. Abbott gave up two homers and eight hits in all, so while it would have been a nice pitching line if not for the error, it definitely wasn’t one of his better performances. Abbott will make his next start on the road in St. Louis.
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Mey returns to the big leagues with setup man Graham Ashcraft hitting the injured list with a groin strain. The hard-throwing 23-year-old rookie has allowed six runs over 13 innings (14 appearances) this season at the highest level.
