De La Cruz Spoils Devers Debut with 1-0 and 12-9 Reds Wins

In our 20th Statis-Pro baseball game of the season, Elly De La Cruz spoiled the Giants debut of Rafael Devers by leading wins in our lowest and highest scoring game of our season - 1-0 and 12-9 Reds wins. We only have two 2-game series left, Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis and San Diego vs Arizona, before all 10 NL Statis-Pro teams have been through their 4-man rotation once. Click here for the results in each 1st start for those teams including the following for Cincinnati vs. San Francisco.

Rotations	CIN	0	WAR	PB	Opp	Credit	Res	Score	Allow
Nick Martinez	CIN	1	134	2'-8	at LAD	1	Loss	2	4
Andrew Abbott	CIN	2	46	2'-8	LAD	0	Loss	1	9
Hunter Greene	CIN	3	56	2'-7	SFG	1	Win	12	9
Nick Lodolo	CIN	4	63	2'-7	at SFG	1	Win	1	0
Logan Webb	SFG	1	78	2'-9	at Cin	1	Loss	0	1
Robbie Ray	SFG	2	40	2'-8	at SD	1	Loss	0	5
Justin Verlander	SFG	3		2'-7	SDP	3	Won	13	2
Hayden Birdsong	SFG	4		2'-7	CIN	1	Loss	9	12

 Elly De Le Cruz singles with two outs in a 0-0 9th inning, sole second, and scored when the Giants Willy Adames could not come up with a tough clutch play on grounder by Christian Encarnacio-Strand that went through for a walk off single.

It was the Giants debut for Rafael Devers, and ace Logan Web threw his max seven innings with only one hit allowed before the pen lost it 1-0 in the game in Cincy of the 2-game set.

In the second game, Cruz stole two more bases, but he hit a 2-run homer in the 5th and 3-run homer in the 11 inning in our wildest game of the year. 

Devers had a 2-run homer in the first inning, but then the Reds held an 8-3 led going into the bottom of the 8th - meaning if they held onto a 5-run lead after eight innings they would get credit for a "sweep" win.

However, a 3-run double by Willie Adames and then RBI double by Matt Chapman tied the score 8-8 an dit took 11 innings to settle 12-9 for the Reds.