Bryson Stott’s Homer Lifts Phillies Past Reds 5‑4
PHILADELPHIA (Interstat) — Bryson Stott hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning to propel the Philadelphia Phillies to a 5-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Monday night at Citizens Bank Park.
Stott’s fifth home run of the season scored Edmundo Sosa and erased a 4-3 Reds lead. Philadelphia had taken an early 2-0 lead in the first on sacrifice flies by Sosa and Adolis García.
Cincinnati answered with two runs in the second on an RBI single by Tyler Stephenson and a sacrifice fly by TJ Friedl. The Reds tied the game 3-3 in the eighth on Spencer Steer’s RBI double before Stott’s decisive blast.
Andrew Painter started for Philadelphia and allowed two earned runs on three hits over six innings with three strikeouts. Orion Kerkering (2-0) got the win with one-third of an inning. Jhoan Duran pitched a scoreless ninth for his eighth save.
Graham Ashcraft (1-1) took the loss for Cincinnati. The Reds fell to 24-24, while the Phillies improved to 25-23. Attendance was 40,065, and the game lasted 2 hours, 31 minutes.