Duvall's homer wraps Friday's suspended game, Reds drop Cardinals in afternoon contest

The Joe Nuxhall Memorial Honorary Star of the Game(s)

Anthony DeSclafani spun a gem for the Cincinnati Reds in the one full game they had on the slate on Saturday afternoon, downing the St. Louis Cardinals after the completion of Friday's suspended game also went in the Reds' favor.  Disco K'd 10 in his 6 IP, allowed just 4 hits and a single walk, and in the process lowered his season ERA to a nice and tidy 3.67.

Have a trophy, Anthony, and props for leading the Reds to a series win over the Cardinals, something we see around these parts less often than we see Bigfoot.

Honorable Mentions are due to:  Skip Schumaker, who hit a 3-run blast in Game 2, his first since the Nixon Administration (and stole a base!); Ramon Cabrera, who smacked the first dinger of his MLB career in Friday's suspended game; Adam Duvall, whose 2-run blast in the Bottom of the 8th of Game 1 proved to be the difference; Brandon Finnegan, who K'd 2 and allowed nary a hit in his first 2 IP as a member of the Reds; and Joey Votto, who went hitless over two games, but managed to walk 4 times, steal a base, and drive in a run over the two games combined.

Key Plays, Game 1

• The Reds and Cards traded single runs early in this one, with a Brandon Phillips single scoring one for the Reds in the Bottom of the 1st, a productive John Lackey grounder plating one for St. Louis in the Top of the 2nd, and Cabrera's dinger putting the Reds back ahead in the Bottom of the 2nd, 2-1.
• Whoever Greg Garcia is homered to tie things up in the Top of the 4th, and the score remained knotted as such overnight as the game was suspended after the Top of the 8th.  Duvall quickly rendered that a distant memory when play resumed early Saturday, however, and he donked a 2-run dinger off former Red Jonathan Broxton in the Bottom of the 8th to net the Reds the win, 4-2!