ST. LOUIS — Jonathan India doubled twice in his eighth consecutive multi-hit game, and the Cincinnati Reds defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 9-4 on Saturday.
India scored one run and scored two more. He has at least one double-double in each of his last seven games. He is batting .512 (21-for-41) with one home run and six RBIs during an 11-game hitting streak.
Austin Wynn hit three doubles for Cincinnati in his first major league game since Oct. 1 for Colorado against Minnesota. Elly De La Cruz doubled and tripled, and Will Benson and Stuart Fairchild each had two RBIs.
Paul Goldschmidt hit his 11th home run for St. Louis, which beat Cincinnati 1-0 on Friday. Sonny Gray (9-5) was charged with six runs, three earned and seven hits in 4 1/3 innings.
Cincinnati (39-44) opened the scoring by sending 10 batters to the plate in a six-run fifth. With one out and the bases loaded, De La Cruz raced home when third baseman Nolan Arenado mishandled a potential double-play grounder.
Fairchild and Benson hit two consecutive runs against two-out John King, and Wynns doubled to Benson for an 8-1 lead.
Reds starter Carson Spiers (2-1) allowed two runs, one earned run and three hits in six innings.
Goldschmidt went deep in the sixth, snapping Spiers’ streak of 43 consecutive innings without allowing a home run.
Gray batted and scored in his shortest start to the season. It was his second career start against the Reds, who traded him to Minnesota in March 2022.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Reds: OF Jake Fraley (right calf bruise) returned to the lineup and started at designated hitter for the first time since being scratched before Wednesday’s game against Philadelphia.
Cardinals: OF Lars Nootbaar (oblique strain) started in right field and went 0 for 3 while throwing five innings for Double-A Springfield in the first game of a rehab assignment Friday night. Nootbaar is scheduled to throw seven innings for Springfield on Saturday night.
NEXT
Reds RHP Hunter Greene (5-3, 3.79 ERA) will face Cardinals RHP Lance Lynn (3-3, 3.86 ERA) on Sunday in the final of the four-game set.
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