Reds 6, Pirates 5 (11 innings)
PITTSBURGH -- Scott Schebler drove in Eugenio Suarez with a single to right in the 11th inning Sunday as the Cincinnati Reds ended a six-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Schebler also drove in what was a go-ahead run in the ninth.
The loss not only prevented the Pirates from completing a weekend streak, but it also ended Pittsburgh's six-game winning streak.
Cincinnati got six-plus solid innings from right-handed starter Tim Adleman, who was making his major-league debut.
Adleman, 28, allowed two runs on three hits -- Gregory Polanco's homer and single, and an infield single by Starling Marte in the seventh, the final batter Adleman faced. He walked two and struck out six. He also got on base in his first major-league at-bat, reaching on an error with one out in the third. But he was the lead runner in a double play.
Polanco was 2-for-3 with two walks. Sean Rodriguez and pinch-hitter Matt Joyce each drove in a Pirates run in the seventh, Marte drove in a tying run in the eighth, and John Jaso forged another tie, 5-5, with a home run in the ninth.
Joey Votto drove in one run and Jay Bruce two more in a three-run Reds sixth inning. Zack Cozart scored Cincinnati's fourth run in the eighth and Schebler's double in the ninth gave the Reds a short-lived 5-4 lead.
Polanco, the leadoff batter in the Pittsburgh fifth, crushed a 1-1 pitch an estimated 419 feet over the right-field stands, off of a small embankment and into the Allegheny River for his third home run of the season and a 1-0 Pirates lead.
It was the 39th homer hit into the river at PNC Park history (by 26 players) and the first such feat for Polanco.
Up to that point, the only hit off of Adleman had been Polanco's one-out single in the second, but Polanco tried to stretch it to a double and was thrown out.
In the top of the sixth, Votto drove in Cozart, and Bruce gave Cincinnati a 3-1 lead with a two-out, bases-loaded double. Brandon Phillips was thrown out at the plate to end the inning.
Adleman was replaced by Tony Cingrani after giving up an infield single to Marte to lead off the Pirates seventh. An out later, Sean Rodriguez tripled off the left-field wall, driving in Marte to make it 3-1. Reds left fielder Adam Duvall got shaken up trying to make a diving catch but remained in the game.
Pittsburgh tied it 3-3 later in the seventh on Joyce's bloop single to shallow center field.
Cozart gave Cincinnati a 4-3 lead in the eighth. He broke for home after Votto was caught in a rundown trying to steal second. Cozart would have been out but Pirates catcher Chris Stewart bobbled the ball. Officially, Cozart was caught stealing and Stewart was charged with an error.
Marte's one-out single to left brought home Andrew McCutchen in the eighth for a 4-4 tie.
Schebler hit an RBI double to left field in the ninth inning to restore the Reds' lead, 5-4, but Pirates Jaso tied it again, 5-5, with a home run to right field in the bottom of the ninth.
NOTES: Reds manager Bryan Price said RHP Homer Bailey (Tommy John surgery) had a small setback and his rehab assignment is on hold. ... RHP Raisel Iglesias (right shoulder impingement), who was originally scheduled to start for the Reds Sunday, was placed on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Tuesday. ... Cincinnati moved C Kyle Skipworth (ankle) to the 60-day DL. ... It was thought that C Devin Mesoraco (sore left shoulder) might return Sunday, but instead he was out of the Reds starting lineup for the whole series. ... Pittsburgh gave 3B David Freese a day off, with Sean Rodriguez starting at third. ... C Francisco Cervelli also started the game on the bench, with Chris Stewart getting the start to catch LHP Jeff Locke.