CINCINNATI -- On a night when the Cardinals muscled up for four home runs and pitched out of an eighth-inning mess, Reds outfielder Scott Schebler, with his second career homer, blasted the Reds to an improbable 7-5 victory at Great American Ball Park on Tuesday night.
The Cardinals padded their National League-leading home run total (147) with their ninth four-homer game of the season, but it was not enough to overcome a wobbly bullpen.
The Reds, who had earlier gone ahead with homers by Tucker Barnhart in the fifth and Adam Duvall in the seventh, followed a blown scoring opportunity in the eighth by getting to Cardinals closer Seung Hwan Oh in the ninth. Leadoff singles by Joey Votto and Duvall set up Schebler's towering shot into the right-field seats.
An inning earlier, the Reds had loaded the bases with no outs before watching that opportunity fizzle as Oh notched a strikeout of Billy Hamilton and induced an inning-ending double play. Oh came out to try and cover the ninth, too, in what would have been the first two-inning appearance of his Major League career.
Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright, who labored for five innings on the mound, connected for the first of the Cardinals' four home runs. Jedd Gyorko delivered a go-ahead homer in the seventh, Brandon Moss a game-tying homer in the eighth, and then Tommy Pham, with the team's 11th pinch-hit homer this season, pushed the Cardinals back in front again.
Jenifer Langosch has covered the Cardinals for MLB.com since 2012, and previously covered the Pirates from 2007-11. Read her blog, follow her on Twitter, like her Facebook page and listen to her podcast.
Cody Pace is a reporter for MLB.com based in Cincinnati.
This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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