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Soria gives up three-run HR in 8th as Royals lose to Tampa Bay 3-2

Posted on August 4, 2016

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Brad Miller took a punch to the gut on Monday when told he was losing his starting shortstop role and being moved primarily to first base.

On Thursday, he delivered the knockout blow in a victory.

Miller hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Kansas City Royals 3-2.

“I just go out there and play,” Miller said. “It’s all I can really do. Try and get after it. I think I’ve shown them all year how valuable I am, but at the end of the day, I have to go out and play. That’s all that matters.”

Tampa Bay acquired Matt Duffy on Monday in a four-player deal that sent left-hander Matt Moore to San Francisco. Duffy will take over at short when he returns next week from a strained left Achilles tendon.

Miller connected on his 19th homer off Joakim Soria (4-5), who gave up three of the Rays’ overall four hits during his one inning.

“We’re lucky to have him, and it doesn’t matter where plays,” Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash said. “We know his bat plays.”

Kansas City dropped to 40-2 when ahead after seven innings.

“In my view, it was a good pitch . it was down in the zone,” Soria said. “He hit it out, so it wasn’t a good pitch.”

Brad Boxberger (1-0) worked out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the eighth before Alex Colome got his 26th save despite giving up two hits during the ninth. Drew Smyly allowed two runs, five hits, one walk and struck out 10 in seven innings.

Ian Kennedy gave up one hit, walked four and had nine strikeouts in six-plus innings for the Royals. Alex Gordon hit his eighth home.

Tampa Bay won the final two games to split the four-game series. The Rays are 8-25 against Kansas City since the start of the 2012 season.

Gordon had not homered or driven in a run in his previous 72 at-bats against left-handers this season before hitting a two-run drive off Smyly that put Kansas City ahead 2-0 in the fourth.

Smyly has given up 23 homers, including six to left-handed hitters. He didn’t allow a homer to a lefty last season.

Kennedy entered tied with teammate Chris Young and Toronto knuckleballer R.A. Dickey with a major league-high 26 homers allowed but hasn’t given up a long ball in three consecutive starts.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Rays: RHP Chase Whitley (Tommy John surgery) will make his fourth rehab start Friday night with Double-A Montgomery.

MLB SANCTIONS

Royals DH Kendrys Morales received a one-game suspension and a fine for his actions following a ninth inning ejection, which included returning to the field, in Tuesday night’s game. Morales appealed the ruling and started.

FUTURE IN BLUE?

Major League Baseball will hold a one-day free umpiring clinic for all ages at Tropicana Field on Aug. 20. Baseball officials, including MLB umpire supervisor Charlie Reliford, will also be looking for scholarship candidates to attend a one-day pro mini-camp in December. Umpire Carlos Torres, who worked the Royals-Rays series, is a one-time camp participant that received an umpiring school scholarship.

MOVING DAY

Tampa Bay claimed C Bobby Wilson off waivers from Texas and optioned C Curt Casali to Triple-A Durham.

UP NEXT

Royals: RHP Dillon Gee (3-5) will face recently acquired Toronto LHP Francisco Liriano, who went 6-11 with Pittsburgh.

Rays: Rookie LHP Blake Snell (3-4) will go against Minnesota RHP Ervin Santana (4-9) in the opener of a three-game series Friday between the AL’s two worst teams.

— Associated Press —

St. Louis drops series finale at Cincinnati 7-0

Posted on August 4, 2016

CINCINNATI (AP) — Since the All-Star break, the last-place Reds have traded away another star and turned into a formidable team.

Brandon Phillips had three hits and left-hander Brandon Finnegan allowed two singles in six innings on Thursday, leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 7-0 victory and a rare series win over the St. Louis Cardinals.

The Reds took two of three, giving them only their fifth series win in the last 23 between the NL Central rivals. And it goes beyond the one series.

For the first time since 1999, the Reds have won six straight series after the All-Star break. They traded RBI leader Jay Bruce to the Mets during the current surge.

“This is the time when some teams might phone it in,” manager Bryan Price said. “This group hasn’t.”

Phillips had a single and a pair of doubles, scored three times and drove in a run against former teammate Mike Leake (8-9). Ramon Cabrera drove in three runs, and Eugenio Suarez knocked in a pair.

Finnegan (7-8) allowed only a pair of singles, and then left after throwing 79 pitches on a humid, 88-degree afternoon. The bullpen gave up three more singles while closing out Cincinnati’s fourth shutout, which is tied with Milwaukee and Pittsburgh for the fewest in the NL.

“I didn’t have my best command,” Finnegan said. “They hit some balls hard, but we had some guys catch it. I had a lot of movement on the ball. (It) was a confidence boost, definitely.”

Reds first baseman Joey Votto went 0 for 4, ending a 17-game hitting streak that was the longest of his career.

It was the second time that the Reds faced Leake since they traded him in the middle of last season as part of their rebuilding. On July 7 at Great American Ball Park, Leake allowed only one earned run in 7 1/3 innings of a 7-6 Reds victory that ended with Votto’s homer in the bottom of the ninth.

This time, he left the game after failing to retire a batter in the sixth, giving up eight hits and seven runs. After spending his first 5 1/2 seasons in Cincinnati, Leake suspects the Reds have an advantage because they know how he pitches.

“I’m sure it plays a part,” Leake said.

Leake extended his streak without walking a batter to 35 innings, the longest in the majors this season. It ended when Adam Duvall walked on a full-count pitch to open the sixth. The club record is held by Bob Tewksbury, who went 44 innings without walking a batter in 1993. Duvall later scored on Phillips’ double, his third hit of the game.

The Reds got a pair of runs in the second inning, all on hits to right field. Phillips singled, Scott Schebler doubled and Cabrera pulled a ball down the line for a two-run single. Phillips doubled again to right field in the fourth and scored on Suarez’s sacrifice fly.

STATS

The Reds won nine straight series after the All-Star break in 1999, when they lost a one-game playoff to the Mets for the NL wild card. … The Cardinals got Brandon Moss and Jhonny Peralta back from the DL at the start of the series. Moss went 6 for 13 with two doubles and a homer in the series. Peralta was 2 for 10.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Cardinals: Leadoff hitter Matt Carpenter is expected to come off the DL over the weekend. He’s missed 29 games with a strained right oblique. He went 4 for 12 during a rehab assignment with a homer and a double.

Reds: SS Zack Cozart was out of the lineup for the third consecutive game with a bruised finger on his throwing hand. … Schebler was hit on the right side of the knee in the sixth but stayed in the game. He left after the inning as part of a double switch.

UP NEXT

Cardinals: St. Louis returns home and starts a three-game series against Atlanta. LHP Jaime Garcia (7-8) is 2-1 in seven career starts against the Braves with a 4.32 ERA.

Reds: Anthony DeSclafani (6-0) opens a series in Pittsburgh. He’s 0-1 with a 3.27 ERA in two career starts at PNC Park.

— Associated Press —

Kansas City gets blanked by Odorizzi, Rays 12-0

Posted on August 3, 2016

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Jake Odorizzi had his third consecutive scoreless start, Steven Souza Jr. homered for the first time in two months and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Kansas City Royals 12-0 on Wednesday night.

Brad Miller and Kevin Kiermaier also homered for the Rays, who are 7-25 against the Royals since the start of the 2012 season.

Odorizzi (6-5) allowed two singles, walked two and had six strikeouts in six innings. The right-hander has not given up a run in 20 2/3 innings over the three-start stretch.

Enny Romero and Ryan Garton completed a two-hitter.

After Evan Longoria had a sacrifice fly, Souza put the Rays up 4-0 on his three-run shot off Edinson Volquez (8-10) in the first. Souza had gone 109 at-bats without a homer after going deep June 4 against Minnesota’s Ervin Santana.

Miller made it 5-0 during the third on his 18th homer.

Volquez gave up eight runs and 11 hits in five-plus innings.

Kiermaier, who entered hitting .163 with two RBI in 16 games since coming back from a fractured left hand, hit a three-run drive off Chien-Ming Wang in a five-run sixth to put the Rays ahead 11-0.

MOVING DAY

Royals: OF Billy Burns, acquired from Oakland Friday, was recalled from Triple-A Omaha and RHP Brooks Pounders was optioned to the Pacific Coast League club.

Rays: INF-OF Richie Shaffer was recalled from Triple-A Durham and UTL Taylor Motter was optioned the International League club.

DUFFY’S DAY

SS Matt Duffy, acquired Monday in a four-player deal that sent LHP Matt Moore to San Francisco, could be a week away from returning from a strained left Achilles’ tendon. “Just getting back up to speed and making sure that I’m 100 percent confident in this thing going forward,” Duffy said.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Royals: Burns will probably start Thursday because manager Ned Yost does not want Lorenzo Cain to play a fourth straight game on the artificial turf at Tropicana Field. Cain returned from a left hamstring strain Friday.

Rays: RHP Alex Cobb (Tommy John surgery) is scheduled to go three innings in a rehab start Thursday night with Class A Charlotte.

UP NEXT

Royals RHP Ian Kennedy (6-9) will face Rays LHP Drew Smyly (3-11) Thursday. Kennedy (26) and Smyly (22) are among the major-league leaders in home runs allowed.

— Associated Press —

Former Griffon LaQuinta Jefferson signs pro basketball contract in Spain

Posted on August 3, 2016

ST. JOSEPH – Missouri Western women’s basketball great LaQuinta Jefferson will continue her basketball career after signing a professional contract with a team in Spain.

Jefferson signed with Gernika Bizkaia on Tuesday. A press release from the team compared Jefferson’s style of play to NBA great Kobe Bryant, going as far as to use Bryant’s nickname, “Black Mamba,” when referring to Jefferson. The team’s coach, Mario Lopez, said Jefferson was a player of, “great talent.”

The 2015-16 MIAA Player of the Year was twice named first-team All-MIAA at Missouri Western. Last season she was also named first-team WBCA All-American; honorable mention D2CCA All-American and first-team D2CCA All-Region. She led the MIAA with 20.3 points per game last season and became the 19th Griffon to score 1,000 points in her career. Over her two seasons with the Griffons, Jefferson averaged 20.8 points per game. She was the first Missouri Western Women’s Basketball student-athlete to be named to two All-American teams since Becky Reichard in 1999.

The signing makes Jefferson the first Griffon Women’s Basketball alum to play professionally since Jessica Koch, who played parts of three seasons after finishing her Missouri Western career in 2012.

— MWSU Athletics —

Missouri names Sarah Reesman new interim AD

Posted on August 3, 2016

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri has its third athletic director in as many weeks.

Interim Chancellor Hank Foley announced Wednesday that Sarah Reesman has been named the Columbia school’s interim athletic director. Reesman will assume that new role on Friday, a day after returning from two weeks abroad.

Foley says Reesman lately has overseen the department’s operational functions that include human resources, academic support, student-athlete development, diversity and inclusion activities, student conduct and employee contracts.

Mack Rhoades resigned on July 13 as athletic director to oversee Baylor’s sports department. Wren Baker was chosen to replace him at Missouri on an acting basis but resigned last week to become the athletic director at North Texas.

Foley says the search continues for a permanent successor to Rhoades.

— Associated Press —

Cardinals ride big first inning to 5-4 win over Reds

Posted on August 3, 2016

CINCINNATI (AP) — Brandon Moss singled home a pair of runs during St. Louis’ four-run first inning, extending his season-long streak against the Reds, and the Cardinals held on for a 5-4 victory over Cincinnati on Wednesday night to even their series.

St. Louis sent nine batters to the plate against Cody Reed (0-6) in the first inning, with Moss and Greg Garcia each driving in a pair of runs with singles. Stephen Piscotty added a solo homer, the Cardinals’ fifth in two games.

Moss and Jhonny Peralta returned from the disabled list at the start of the series and have contributed as the teams split the first two games. Moss is 5 for 9 with three doubles and a homer.

For the season, he’s 12 of 28 (.429) against the Reds with three doubles and five homers.

Michael Wacha (7-7) gave up a pair of runs in five innings as he won his fifth straight decision. Seung Hwan Ho gave up a hit in the ninth while earning his eighth save in 10 tries.

The NL Central rivals conclude the series on Thursday. The Cardinals have won 18 of their past 22 series, including eight of 11 at Great American Ball Park.

St. Louis had chances to pull out to an even bigger lead, but had a pair of runners thrown out at the plate as they tried to score from third base on grounders. Another was caught in a rundown between third and home.

Joey Votto extended his career-high hitting streak to 17 games with an RBI single in the first inning. It’s the longest streak by a Reds player since Brandon Phillips hit in 22 in a row in 2007. Votto is 29 for 58 (.500) during the streak.

The Cardinals’ Yadier Molina went 0 for 2, walked and was hit by a pitch, ending his 16-game hitting streak.

Piscotty’s 15th homer made it 5-2 in the fifth. He was involved in helping the Reds cut the deficit in the sixth.

Adam Duvall hit a fly ball down the right field line, and the ball deflected off Piscotty’s glove as he tried to make a sliding catch, resulting in a triple. Phillips singled for a run, and then was called out at second base as the Cardinals tried to turn a double play. Phillips was ruled safe at second after a review, and he scored on Ivan De Jesus Jr.’s single.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Cardinals: Reliever Tyler Lyons went on the 15-day DL with a sore right knee. Den Kiekhefer was recalled from Triple-A.

Reds: Shortstop Zack Cozart was out of the lineup for a second straight day with a sore finger on his throwing hand.

UP NEXT

Cardinals: Mike Leake (8-8) hasn’t walked a batter in his past 30 innings spanning five starts, a career best. It’s the longest active streak in the majors and the second-longest this season behind Matt Schoemaker’s 30 1/3 innings without a walk for the Angels.

Reds: Brandon Finnegan (6-8) is 1-1 against the Cardinals in five starts with a 3.66 ERA. In two starts this season, he’s gone 1-0 and allowed two earned runs in 12 innings.

— Associated Press —

Griffons picked to finish seventh in preseason MIAA football polls

Posted on August 2, 2016

ST. JOSEPH – The Missouri Western football team has been picked seventh in both the MIAA Preseason Coaches and Media Polls.

The poll was released Wednesday morning to kickoff MIAA Football Media Day at Children’s Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas. Defending MIAA and national champion Northwest Missouri State was picked first in both polls. Both polls had Central Missouri at No. 2 with the Mules receiving one first place vote in the coaches poll. Pittsburg State also received a first place vote in the coaches poll, but tied in overall votes for No. 3 with Emporia State. The Gorillas are alone at No. 3 in the media poll with Emporia State at No. 4. The only real difference in the top-eight of both polls is the order for the fifth and sixth spots. Central Oklahoma was No. 5 in the coaches poll, but No. 6 in the media poll. Fort Hays State was at No. 6 in the coaches poll and No. 5 in the media poll.

Washburn was eighth in both polls. Nine through 12 in the polls showed some stark differences. Lindenwood came in at No. 9 in the media poll, but was last at No. 12 in the coaches poll. The coaches put Northeastern State at No. 9. At No. 10 in the coaches’ poll was Missouri Southern, which was No. 11 in the media poll. Nebraska-Kearney was slotted at No. 11 by the coaches and No. 12 by the media.

Missouri Western returns nine starters from a team that went 6-5 in 2015, the program’s 11th consecutive winning season. Head coach Jerry Partridge will look to keep that streak alive this season. In his 20th year as head coach, Partridge has delivered 16 winning seasons, never winning fewer than five games in any of his previous 19 seasons. The two-time MIAA Coach of the Year is 145-76 all-time at Missouri Western, most among active MIAA head coaches and third most all-time. Partridge has also led the Griffons into the postseason 10 times, including four trips to the NCAA Division II Playoffs, the only four appearances in program history.

The Griffons open the newly renovated Craig Field at Spratt Memorial Stadium on Sept. 1 against Nebraska-Kearney. The game is scheduled for a 7 p.m. kickoff.

— MWSU Athletics —

Perez homer lifts Royals to 3-2 win over Rays

Posted on August 2, 2016August 2, 2016

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Salvador Perez hit a two-run home run in the seventh inning that carried the Kansas City Royals to a 3-2 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night.

Perez’s 16th homer came off Xavier Cedeno (3-3) after a single by Eric Hosmer. It lifted the Royals to their 12th win in their last 13 games against Tampa Bay.

Chris Young (3-8) got the win in relief, and Kelvin Herrera pitched the ninth for his third save.

The Rays scored twice in the fifth off starter Yordano Ventura without hitting the ball to the outfield. Logan Forsythe walked and later scored on Kevin Kiermaier’s bunt single. After Brad Miller’s infield single, Desmond Jennings scored Kiermaier with a groundout to shortstop.

Forsythe had three hits for the Rays, who left 11 on base and went 1 for 14 with runners in scoring position.

Ventura pitched five innings, giving up two runs, six hits and four walks.

Rays starter Matt Andriese pitched four innings in his first start since June 25, giving up one run on three hits while striking out three. Andriese returned to the rotation following Monday’s trade of Matt Moore to the San Francisco Giants.

Perez has 20 RBI in his last 20 games and a 14-game hitting streak against Tampa Bay.

DISAPPOINTED LONGO

Tampa Bay slugger Evan Longoria said it was disappointing to see Moore, INF Steve Pearce and OF Brandon Guyer traded in separate deals Monday that netted SS Matt Duffy from San Francisco and five prospects.

“You see three guys like those three guys leave sometimes it’s a little tough to stomach,” Longoria said. “We’ll move forward and hopefully the guys we got in return will be the players that we expect.”

TRAINER’S ROOM

Royals: RHP Luke Hochevar had season-ending surgery to relieve thoracic outlet syndrome. The Royals expect him to be recovered by spring training. … LHP Mike Minor, coming back from left shoulder surgery, struck out five and allowed two hits over 3 1/3 scoreless innings in his second rehab start for Triple-A Omaha.

Rays: OF Mikie Mahtook (fractured left hand) went 1 for 3 with a walk in his first rehab game with the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League Rays. … Touted shortstop prospect Daniel Robertson has been placed on the disabled list with Triple-A Durham.

UP NEXT

Edinson Volquez (8-9) will make his team-leading 23rd start for the Royals on Wednesday night against Jake Odorizzi (5-5), who is working on a steak of 14 2/3 scoreless innings for the Rays.

— Associated Press —

NCAA accepts Missouri’s sanctions, adds year of probation

Posted on August 2, 2016August 2, 2016

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The NCAA has accepted Missouri’s self-imposed sanctions over infractions involving its men’s basketball program, but it tacked on a year of probation through August of next year.

The NCAA infractions committee panel’s findings over what it said were roughly $11,400 in improper inducements and benefits given to players and a recruit by two boosters were released Tuesday, nearly seven months after Missouri admitted NCAA violations dating to 2011.

Hoping to blunt NCAA punishment, the school announced in January that it was vacating its 23 wins from 2013-14, banning itself from the postseason last season and stripping itself of one scholarship last season and a second scholarship no later than 2017-18.

The school, while agreeing to pay a $5,000 fine, also permanently banned one unidentified donor who the NCAA said provided impermissible benefits to three players and one recruit in 2013-14. The benefits included compensation for work not done at a business through a summer intern program, along with housing, $520 cash, local transportation, iPads, meals and use of a local gym.

The NCAA concluded that a second booster also provided impermissible benefits to 11 men’s basketball players and three members of a player’s family. Missouri has said those benefits included reduced rates at a hotel along with meals and a boat ride, and a student manager also provided transportation for multiple players to the hotel from the campus.

The Missouri system’s interim chancellor, Hank Foley, and basketball coach Kim Anderson welcomed Tuesday’s announcement as a turning point for the program after roughly two years of turmoil.

“As responsible members of the (Southeastern Conference) and the NCAA, we chose to self-report potential violations of bylaws and self-impose certain sanctions,” Foley said in a statement. Tuesday’s announcement “is a clear indication this was a wise decision by the university and allows us to put these issues behind us as we continue to rebuild a top-notch basketball program.”

“Through cooperation between NCAA personnel, the University of Missouri and our Mizzou athletics staff, we are now able to draw this process to a close,” added Anderson, who is 19-44 in his first two seasons in Columbia. “It has been my desire to move our program forward since learning of what had taken place.”

Missouri went 23-12 in 2013-14 — Frank Haith’s final season as coach before he left for Tulsa, not long after the school received a verbal notice of inquiry from the NCAA in April 2014, when Missouri hired Anderson. At that time, Anderson said he wasn’t aware of the investigation.

Haith, the former coach at Miami, was suspended for five games by the NCAA at the start of the 2013-14 season for inadequately monitoring former assistants interactions with a disgraced Miami booster and then trying to cover up a five-figure hush money payment to keep potential violations hidden.

The investigation found that Haith and Miami assistant coach Jake Morton paid Nevin Shapiro $10,000 after he threatened to expose previous improper contact with high school recruits and amateur coaches.

Haith’s Kansas City attorney, Scott Tompsett, said Haith “cooperated fully with the NCAA’s investigation and was not named in or held responsible for any of the violations.”

“As the NCAA Infractions Report makes clear, violations happened while Coach Haith was at Mizzou and they continued after Coach Anderson became the head coach,” Tompsett wrote in an email to The Associated Press. “The fact of the matter is that this is not a Frank Haith issue or a Kim Anderson issue; it’s an issue of Mizzou as an institution not adequately monitoring the summer employment arrangement. That’s what the NCAA found and Mizzou agreed.”

Haith, Tompsett added, “wishes the best to the University of Missouri and its men’s basketball program.”

A message left Tuesday with Haith at his Tulsa office was not immediately returned.

— Associated Press —

Cards lose at Cincinnati on Schebler’s three-run walk-off HR

Posted on August 2, 2016August 2, 2016

CINCINNATI (AP) — Scott Schebler’s three-run homer in the ninth inning rallied the Cincinnati Reds to a 7-5 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night.

Brandon Moss and Tommy Pham hit solo homers in the eighth for a 5-4 lead, but the Cardinals couldn’t hold on.

Seung Hwan Oh (2-2) escaped a bases-loaded threat in the eighth, but gave up a pair of singles to start the ninth. Schebler connected for his second homer of the season and first game-ending shot.

Jumbo Diaz (1-1) fanned Oh with the bases loaded in the top of the ninth to keep it 5-4.

The second-place Cardinals are hoping to make a run in the NL Central now that their lineup is closer to full strength. Moss and Jhonny Peralta returned from injuries on Tuesday, and the Cardinals expect to get leadoff hitter Matt Carpenter back later in the week.

Moss and Peralta had doubles that accounted for a run in the sixth. Moss tied it with a leadoff homer against Blake Wood in the eighth, part of his three-hit game. Pham followed with his first career pinch-hit homer, the fourth by St. Louis.

Adam Wainwright and Jedd Gyorko also had solo shots for St. Louis.

Cincinnati played its first game without right fielder Jay Bruce. Bruce and Adam Duvall were tied for the team lead with 25 homers when the right fielder was dealt to the Mets on Monday. Duvall moved from left field to Bruce’s old spot and hit a two-run homer in the seventh off Kevin Siegrist for a 4-3 lead.

Cincinnati’s Joey Votto had an RBI double among his four hits and extended his hitting streak to a career-best 16 games. Yadier Molina doubled and extended his hitting streak to 16 games as well, the longest by a Cardinal since David Freese hit in 20 in a row in 2013.

Wainwright hit his second homer of the season off Dan Straily, but couldn’t beat the Reds. Wainwright went 3-0 with a 1.77 ERA in July, but lasted only five innings on Tuesday. He’s only 8-10 career against the Reds in 21 starts.

UNHAPPY VOTTO

Votto wasn’t happy with a fan in a Reds jersey who reached for a foul ball in the seventh, preventing him from making the play. Votto glared and tugged on the Reds’ logo on the fan’s jersey before heading back to his position. He later signed a baseball for the fan and stopped to pose for photos with him.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Cardinals: Even as they get some stalwarts back, the Cardinals lost another. SS Aledmys Diaz went on the 15-day disabled list with a broken right thumb, hit by a pitch on Sunday.

Reds: SS Zack Cozart was a late scratch from the starting lineup with a bruised right ring finger, injured by a ground ball during batting/infield practice. Ivan De Jesus Jr. started in his place. … RH Caleb Cotham had surgery to repair torn cartilage in his right knee on Tuesday.

UP NEXT

Cardinals: RH Michael Wacha (6-7) has won his last four decisions covering seven starts. He’s 3-1 in six career starts at Great American Ball Park.

Reds: LH Cody Reed (0-5) gave up six runs in five innings of a 9-7 loss in San Francisco on Tuesday. He’s never faced the Cardinals.

— Associated Press —