Harrison homers as Pirates rout Reds 12-3
CINCINNATI -- Josh Harrison hit a three-run home run, and Tyler Glasnow pitched six innings to earn his first career victory while adding a two-run single, lifting the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 12-3 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night at Great American Ball Park.
Harrison continued to haunt his hometown team with his third home run in two games. Alen Hanson went 2-for-3 with a triple and two runs for Pittsburgh, which has won four of six.
Following a rough start, Glasnow (1-1) bounced back to strike out three straight batters in the second inning then cruised from there. He reached base three times with a single and two walks.
Wade LeBlanc earned his first save of the season and third of his career, allowing one hit and striking out four over three scoreless innings.
Joey Votto put the Reds (12-14) ahead 3-0 in the first, but Cincinnati starter Scott Feldman (1-3) couldn't maintain the lead.
Glasnow worked himself into trouble with a pair of walks to begin the first inning. On an 0-1 pitch, Votto launched a mammoth home run that hit near the top of the batter's eye pavilion in center, an estimated 449 feet from home plate, to put Cincinnati ahead 3-0. It was Votto's ninth homer this season.
Feldman retired the first six batters he faced before Hanson led off the third with a triple and scored on Jordy Mercer's double to make the score 3-1.
Things unraveled for Feldman in the fourth.
Pittsburgh (12-14) went ahead 4-3 on Glasnow's bases-loaded single that knocked in two runs. Josh Harrison then made it a four-run lead with his third home run in two days, a three-run shot, to put the Pirates ahead 7-3. Feldman was finished after four innings, having allowed seven runs and six hits over 73 pitches.
With the bases loaded against right-hander Robert Stephenson in the seventh, Gift Ngoepe singled off the glove of shortstop Zack Cozart driving in two more runs to make the score 9-3. The Pirates ultimately scored five runs in the seventh, three on a base-loaded walk, a passed ball and a wild pitch to blow the game wide open.
NOTES: Pirates C Elias Diaz singled in the seventh inning for his first career hit. ... Reds RHP Anthony DeSclafani (right elbow) was in Cincinnati on Tuesday for a checkup but said there is no timetable for his return. ... Pirates 2B Adam Frazier (left hamstring strain) hit, took ground balls and ran in the outfield on Tuesday. He is expected to begin a minor league rehab assignment at the end of the week. ... Pirates C Francisco Cervelli missed his third straight start due to a foot injury.