The Cincinnati Reds beat the Chicago Cubs 6-3 on Saturday night. It was their fourth win in a row. With the Reds leading 4-3 and two outs in the inning, Tony Santillan induced a soft groundball to shortstop.

The Cincinnati Reds got to the final two weeks of the season still in the playoff hunt despite their biggest star, Elly De La Cruz, struggling for nearly all of the second half.

Reds outfielder Austin Hays left Saturday night’s game against the Cubs in the fifth inning with back spasms. Sal Stewart replaced him in left field. Hays exited after going 0-for-3 with two strikeouts,

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Tyler Stephenson hit a bases-clearing double in the ninth inning and the Cincinnati Reds beat the St. Louis Cardinals 11-6 on Monday night to close within two games of the New York Mets for the last NL wild card.

The Reds trail two teams for the final playoff berth in the National League, the New York Mets by four games and the San Francisco Giants by one. All three have 18 games left on their schedules. No head-to-head matchups remain among any of those three teams, which means the Giants and especially the Reds need help.

Tyler Stephenson broke open the game with a two-run homer in the eighth after Spencer Steer and TJ Friedl each hit solo homers earlier in the night, helping the Reds win their fourth straight to gain

Hunter Greene pitched a one-hitter and Will Benson drove in the only run with a fourth-inning double as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Chicago Cubs 1-0

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