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Cincinnati Reds 7 – 2 Colorado Rockies

MLB · July 18, 2026 · Final
🎧 Post-Game Report (audio)

Post-Game Recap

The Cincinnati Reds handled the Colorado Rockies tonight, seven to two, and it wasn't nearly as close as that final score might suggest.

Reds drew first blood in the opening frame — Elly De La Cruz coming around to score on a Stewart double, and Cincinnati never really looked back. Colorado answered in the fifth on a Johnston sacrifice fly, but that brief moment of equilibrium didn't last long. The sixth inning is where this game broke open. Spencer Steer went deep to left, four hundred four feet, a two-run shot that pushed it to three to one. Then Eugenio Suárez stepped in and went four hundred fifteen feet the other direction — same wall, same result — and just like that it was four to one and Colorado's night was effectively done.

Stewart added a sacrifice fly in the seventh, Steer went back to work in the eighth with his second homer of the night — four hundred twenty one feet to center — and De La Cruz put the exclamation point on it in the ninth, four hundred thirty four feet, his first career home run or just the latest in what's becoming a very loud season.

De La Cruz was the story tonight — four hits in five at-bats, two runs scored, and that towering blast to close it out. Steer drove in three and went deep twice. Colorado simply had no answer.

The Reds were locked in from the jump and never let Colorado breathe. That's your post-game report. Sports Desk, signing off.

AI-generated post-game report composed from the official play-by-play and box score.

Who Scored — Scoring Timeline

  1. Stewart doubled to left, De La Cruz scored. P1 · 1–0
  2. Johnston hit sacrifice fly to center, Karros scored. P5 · 1–1
  3. Steer homered to left (404 feet), Bleday scored. P6 · 3–1
  4. Suárez homered to left (415 feet). P6 · 4–1
  5. Stewart hit sacrifice fly to center, Hayes scored. P7 · 5–1
  6. Castro homered to left (382 feet). P7 · 5–2
  7. Steer homered to center (421 feet). P8 · 6–2
  8. De La Cruz homered to center (434 feet). P9 · 7–2

Complete Play-by-Play

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Top of the 1st inning P1
Gabriel Hughes pitches to Elly De La Cruz P1
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P1
De La Cruz singled to right. P1
P1
Gabriel Hughes pitches to Sal Stewart P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P1
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P1
Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P1
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P1
Stewart doubled to left, De La Cruz scored. P1
P1
Gabriel Hughes pitches to JJ Bleday P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P1
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P1
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P1
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P1
Bleday flied out to center, Stewart to third. P1
P1
Gabriel Hughes pitches to Spencer Steer P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P1
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P1
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P1
Steer struck out swinging. P1
P1
Gabriel Hughes pitches to Eugenio Suarez P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Looking P1
Suárez struck out looking. P1
P1
Middle of the 1st inning P1
Bottom of the 1st inning P1
Brady Singer pitches to Jake McCarthy P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P1
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P1
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P1
McCarthy flied out to center. P1
P1
Brady Singer pitches to Mickey Moniak P1
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P1
Moniak grounded out to first. P1
P1
Brady Singer pitches to Hunter Goodman P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P1
Goodman struck out swinging. P1
P1
End of the 1st inning P1
Top of the 2nd inning P2
Gabriel Hughes pitches to Tyler Stephenson P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Looking P2
Stephenson struck out looking. P2
P2
Gabriel Hughes pitches to TJ Friedl P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P2
Friedl grounded out to shortstop. P2
P2
Gabriel Hughes pitches to Edwin Arroyo P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P2
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P2
Arroyo struck out swinging. P2
P2
Middle of the 2nd inning P2
Bottom of the 2nd inning P2
Brady Singer pitches to TJ Rumfield P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P2
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P2
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P2
Rumfield struck out swinging. P2
P2
Brady Singer pitches to Kyle Karros P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P2
Karros grounded out to third. P2
P2
Brady Singer pitches to Willi Castro P2
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P2
Castro lined out to right. P2
P2
End of the 2nd inning P2
Top of the 3rd inning P3
Gabriel Hughes pitches to Ke'Bryan Hayes P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P3
Hayes fouled out to right. P3
P3
Gabriel Hughes pitches to Elly De La Cruz P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P3
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P3
De La Cruz grounded out to second. P3
P3
Gabriel Hughes pitches to Sal Stewart P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P3
Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P3
Stewart walked. P3
P3
Gabriel Hughes pitches to JJ Bleday P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P3
Bleday singled to right, Stewart thrown out at third. P3
P3
Middle of the 3rd inning P3
Bottom of the 3rd inning P3
Brady Singer pitches to Troy Johnston P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P3
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Looking P3
Johnston struck out looking. Cincinnati Reds challenged: call on the field was overturned. P3
P3
Brady Singer pitches to Tyler Freeman P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P3
Freeman lined out to center. P3
P3
Brady Singer pitches to Ezequiel Tovar P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P3
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P3
Tovar grounded out to first. P3
P3
End of the 3rd inning P3
Top of the 4th inning P4
Gabriel Hughes pitches to Spencer Steer P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P4
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P4
Steer flied out to center. P4
P4
Gabriel Hughes pitches to Eugenio Suarez P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P4
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4
Suárez doubled to right. P4
P4
Gabriel Hughes pitches to Tyler Stephenson P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P4
Stephenson struck out swinging. P4
P4
Gabriel Hughes pitches to TJ Friedl P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P4
Friedl popped out to third. P4
P4
Middle of the 4th inning P4
Bottom of the 4th inning P4
Brady Singer pitches to Jake McCarthy P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P4
McCarthy lined out to center. P4
P4
Brady Singer pitches to Mickey Moniak P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P4
Moniak grounded out to second. P4
P4
Brady Singer pitches to Hunter Goodman P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P4
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P4
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P4
Goodman struck out swinging. P4
P4
End of the 4th inning P4
Top of the 5th inning P5
Gabriel Hughes pitches to Edwin Arroyo P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P5
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P5
Arroyo lined out to left. P5
P5
Gabriel Hughes pitches to Ke'Bryan Hayes P5
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5
Hayes grounded out to shortstop. P5
P5
Gabriel Hughes pitches to Elly De La Cruz P5
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5
De La Cruz singled to right. P5
P5
Gabriel Hughes pitches to Sal Stewart P5
De La Cruz picked off first. P5
De La Cruz picked off first. P5
Middle of the 5th inning P5
Bottom of the 5th inning P5
Brady Singer pitches to TJ Rumfield P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P5
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P5
Rumfield singled to left. P5
P5
Brady Singer pitches to Kyle Karros P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P5
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P5
Karros grounded into fielder's choice to second, Rumfield out at second. P5
P5
Brady Singer pitches to Willi Castro P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P5
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P5
Castro singled to right, Karros to third. P5
P5
Brady Singer pitches to Troy Johnston P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Foul P5
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P5
Johnston hit sacrifice fly to center, Karros scored. P5
P5
Brady Singer pitches to Tyler Freeman P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P5
Freeman grounded into fielder's choice to shortstop, Castro safe at second on fielding error by shortstop De La Cruz. P5
P5
Brady Singer pitches to Ezequiel Tovar P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P5
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P5
Tovar grounded into fielder's choice to third, Freeman out at second. P5
P5
End of the 5th inning P5
Top of the 6th inning P6
Gabriel Hughes pitches to Sal Stewart P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P6
Stewart struck out swinging. P6
P6
Gabriel Hughes pitches to JJ Bleday P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P6
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P6
Pitch 7 : Ball 4 P6
Bleday walked. P6
P6
Herget relieved Hughes P6
Jimmy Herget pitches to Spencer Steer P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6
Steer homered to left (404 feet), Bleday scored. P6
P6
Jimmy Herget pitches to Eugenio Suarez P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P6
Suárez homered to left (415 feet). P6
P6
Jimmy Herget pitches to Tyler Stephenson P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P6
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P6
Stephenson struck out swinging. P6
P6
Jimmy Herget pitches to TJ Friedl P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6
Friedl fouled out to third. P6
P6
Middle of the 6th inning P6
Bottom of the 6th inning P6
Brady Singer pitches to Jake McCarthy P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P6
McCarthy reached on infield single to second. P6
P6
Brady Singer pitches to Mickey Moniak P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P6
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P6
Moniak flied out to center. P6
P6
Brady Singer pitches to Hunter Goodman P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P6
McCarthy stole second. P6
McCarthy stole second. P6
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P6
Goodman struck out swinging. P6
P6
Brady Singer pitches to TJ Rumfield P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6
Rumfield flied out to right. P6
P6
End of the 6th inning P6
Top of the 7th inning P7
Vodnik relieved Herget P7
Victor Vodnik pitches to Edwin Arroyo P7
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P7
Arroyo lined out to center. P7
P7
Victor Vodnik pitches to Ke'Bryan Hayes P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Foul P7
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P7
Hayes safe at first on throwing error by shortstop Tovar, Hayes safe at second on error. P7
P7
Victor Vodnik pitches to Elly De La Cruz P7
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P7
De La Cruz reached on infield single to pitcher, Hayes to third. P7
P7
Victor Vodnik pitches to Sal Stewart P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P7
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7
Stewart hit sacrifice fly to center, Hayes scored. P7
P7
Victor Vodnik pitches to JJ Bleday P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P7
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P7
Bleday struck out swinging. P7
P7
Middle of the 7th inning P7
Bottom of the 7th inning P7
Myers in center field. P7
Friedl in left field. P7
Brady Singer pitches to Kyle Karros P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P7
Karros struck out swinging. P7
P7
Brady Singer pitches to Willi Castro P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P7
Castro homered to left (382 feet). P7
P7
Brady Singer pitches to Troy Johnston P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P7
Johnston grounded out to first. P7
P7
Brady Singer pitches to Tyler Freeman P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P7
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P7
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P7
Freeman grounded out to first. P7
P7
End of the 7th inning P7
Top of the 8th inning P8
Criswell relieved Vodnik P8
Jeff Criswell pitches to Spencer Steer P8
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P8
Steer homered to center (421 feet). P8
P8
Jeff Criswell pitches to Eugenio Suarez P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8
Suárez popped out to second. P8
P8
Jeff Criswell pitches to Tyler Stephenson P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Swinging P8
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P8
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P8
Stephenson singled to left. P8
P8
Jeff Criswell pitches to TJ Friedl P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P8
Pitch 4 : Ball 4 P8
Friedl walked, Stephenson to second. P8
P8
Jeff Criswell pitches to Edwin Arroyo P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P8
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8
Arroyo lined into double play, first to shortstop, Stephenson doubled off second. P8
P8
Middle of the 8th inning P8
Bottom of the 8th inning P8
Burke relieved Singer P8
Brock Burke pitches to Ezequiel Tovar P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P8
Tovar struck out swinging. P8
P8
Brock Burke pitches to Jake McCarthy P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P8
Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Swinging P8
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P8
McCarthy hit by pitch. P8
P8
Carrigg hit for Moniak P8
Brock Burke pitches to Cole Carrigg P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8
Carrigg singled to center, McCarthy to second. P8
P8
Brock Burke pitches to Hunter Goodman P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P8
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P8
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P8
Goodman grounded out to second, Carrigg to second, McCarthy to third. P8
P8
Brock Burke pitches to TJ Rumfield P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8
Rumfield flied out to right. P8
P8
End of the 8th inning P8
Top of the 9th inning P9
McCarthy in left field. P9
Carrigg in center field. P9
Jeff Criswell pitches to Ke'Bryan Hayes P9
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P9
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9
Hayes grounded out to third. P9
P9
Jeff Criswell pitches to Elly De La Cruz P9
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P9
De La Cruz homered to center (434 feet). P9
P9
Jeff Criswell pitches to Sal Stewart P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P9
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P9
Stewart grounded out to third. P9
P9
Jeff Criswell pitches to Dane Myers P9
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P9
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Foul P9
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P9
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Swinging P9
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P9
Myers struck out swinging. P9
P9
Middle of the 9th inning P9
Bottom of the 9th inning P9
Marte in right field. P9
Steer at first base. P9
Antone relieved Burke P9
Tejay Antone pitches to Kyle Karros P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9
Karros fouled out to first. P9
P9
Tejay Antone pitches to Willi Castro P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P9
Castro struck out swinging. P9
P9
Tejay Antone pitches to Troy Johnston P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P9
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P9
Johnston doubled to right. P9
P9
Tejay Antone pitches to Tyler Freeman P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P9
Freeman grounded out to catcher. P9
P9
End of the 9th inning P9