Votto caps Reds comeback win vs. Cards
ST. LOUIS -- Joey Votto singled with the bases loaded in the eighth inning to complete a comeback from a 4-0 deficit and give the Cincinnati Reds a 5-4 win Sunday over the St. Louis Cardinals.
The Reds loaded the bases against Trevor Rosenthal with a walk, single and another walk before Votto's one-out single let the Reds snap a four-game losing streak.
Trailing 4-0, the Reds got one run back in the sixth off starter Mike Leake when Adam DuVall led off the inning with a double, his third hit of the game, and scored on a one-out single by Scott Schebler.
The Duvall-Schebler combination struck again in the seventh against relievers Matt Bowman and Brett Cecil. With two outs, DuVall doubled again -- his fourth hit and third double -- to drive in Billy Hamilton, and he scored on a single by Eugenio Suarez to cut the Cardinals' lead to 4-3.
Cecil relieved Bowman and was greeted by a double by Schebler, his third hit of the game and second double, to score Suarez with the tying run.
The Cardinals had built the lead with one run in the first, which scored on a wild pitch, and Matt Carpenter's three-run double in the fifth.
Leake got the fifth inning started with his third hit of the season and a single by Dexter Fowler and a walk to Aledmys Diaz -- only his second this season -- brought Carpenter to the plate with the bases loaded and his double cleared the bases and knocked starter Bronson Arroyo out of the game.
Success with the bases loaded is nothing new for Carpenter. He hit his first grand slam on Thursday and is now 19-for-32 in his career with the bases loaded, plus three walks and 14 sacrifice flies.
Leake was in line for his first career victory against his former team when he left the game. He is 0-3 in six starts against the Reds as he had a no-decision after allowing the one run on eight hits over six innings, raising his ERA for the year to 1.35.
The rally also bailed out Arroyo, who has lost his last six decisions against the Cardinals dating back to 2012 and has won only one of his last 17 starts against the Cardinals since 2010.
Raisel Iglesias pitched the final two innings to earn his fourth save, stranding a runner at third in the ninth.
NOTES: A makeup date has not been announced for the game rained out on Saturday. The Reds have one more scheduled trip to St. Louis, in September. ... The Cardinals were rained out three times at home in April, after having three games total postponed in the first month of the season in the first 11 years at Busch Stadium. ... C Devin Mesoraco, who played his first game in the majors in more than a year for the Reds on Friday, will catch five of the next 10 games so he can work with each of the team's starters. ... Lucas Wacha, the brother of the Cardinals' Michael Wacha, signed a free agent contract with the Dallas Cowboys following the NFL draft. Wacha was a linebacker at Wyoming.