Reds rally to comb Astros for eighth straight win
HOUSTON -- No matter how Sunday's sequence finale turned out vs. the Astros, the Reds' nine-game, three-city highway journey by St. Louis, Kansas City and Houston was already an unqualified success. Anything extra could be gravy.
And who would not like gravy? The Reds clearly do, as they took a 9-7 victory in 10 innings to earn a three-game sequence sweep from Houston, the defending World Series champions, at Minute Maid Park. In the highest of the tenth inning in opposition to Seth Martinez, TJ Friedl dropped a sacrifice bunt to 3rd base and reached on a throwing error by Alex Bregman that allowed Nick Senzel to attain the go-ahead run from second base.
With one out, Elly De La Cruz labored a nine-pitch at-bat vs. Martinez earlier than lining an RBI single to proper area. Jake Fraley's RB...










