Reds Lose 10-9 to Cardinals After Dane Myers Drops Final-Strike Fly Ball
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Updated · The New York Times · Aug 20
Reds Lose 10-9 to Cardinals After Dane Myers Drops Final-Strike Fly Ball
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Aug 20
Summary
A 5-4 Reds lead with two outs in the ninth vanished when Dane Myers called off TJ Friedl in left-center and dropped JJ Wetherholt’s routine fly ball, letting the tying and go-ahead runs score.
The inning then spiraled into 10 combined runs as St. Louis added four more against Brock Burke and Zach Maxwell, with eight walks, a hit batter, a failed replay review and a failed ABS challenge.
Cincinnati nearly answered in the bottom half after Matt McLain’s earlier grand slam and Eugenio Suárez’s 1,000th RBI, but Jordan Walker made the game-ending catch on McLain’s deep drive to seal the 10-9 win.
The loss was Cincinnati’s 67th in 128 games and another setback for a club that missed a chance to take the five-game series from a division rival.