The Cleveland Baseball Club defeated the Cincinnati Reds by a score of 9-3 as they retained the Ohio Cup for the seventh consecutive year.
If the Cleveland Baseball Club was going to retain the Ohio Cup for another year they were going to need their offense to step up. Luckily that is just what happened. Cleveland would collect 11 hits and five walks as they defeated the Cincinnati Reds 9-3.
Things did not appear that they would go Cleveland’s way early after some shaky pitching from Sam Hentges. Cincinnati would take an early 1-0 lead on a Joey Votto RBI single. The Reds lead would not last as Cleveland fought back with a vengeance beginning in the bottom of the 1st.
Myles Straw would score on a RBI groundout to tie the game in the bottom half of the first frame. While Cleveland only scored one run in the 1st, they were just getting started.
Wilson Ramos would break the tie with a two-run homer in the bottom of the 2nd.
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The 3rd inning would see Cleveland’s lead extend to three as Jose Ramirez would drive in a run on a RBI triple. Ramirez would score later in the inning on a RBI groundout.
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The very next inning saw Amed Rosario come through with a RBI triple of his own with Myles Straw scoring on the play. Rosario would finish the game 4-5, his major league leading fourth four-hit game of the season.
After just barely missing a home run the previous inning, Jose Ramirez would deposit a ball into the right field stands to extend Cleveland’s lead to seven.
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— Bally Sports Cleveland (@BallySportsCLE) August 9, 2021
History from Bradley Zimmer
After Cincinnati got a run back in the 5th, it was Bradley Zimmer who came up in the 7th and crushed an absolute bomb to dead center field.
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This home run from Zimmer would travel 471 feet, the longest by a Cleveland player in the stat cast era (2015).
The Reds would add one more run in the 9th, but it was of a no consequence. Cleveland would go on to finish the game and come away with a six-run victory.
Cleveland is set to begin a three-game series with the Oakland Athletics Tuesday. The team still has very faint postseason hopes that could be completely dead or still alive following the series with the Wild Card leader.
Ohio Cup outcome
Entering Monday’s make-up game with the Cincinnati Reds, the Cleveland Baseball Club was on the brink of doing something that they have not done since 2014, losing the Ohio Cup. The last time the Ohio Cup went to Cincinnati was in 2014. Since then it has been Cleveland winning the season series five out of seven times with two ties (the tie goes to the previous winner).
