Former Red Adam Rosales added a solo homer and scored three runs while San Diego was piling up the most runs allowed by the Reds in their last 22 games, dating back to a 17-4 loss at Colorado on May 31.
Billy Hamilton, who was 4-for-25 since coming off the seven-day concussion disabled list on June 17, was 2-for-3 with a triple, a walk and a stolen base, but Cincinnati managed only four hits and one earned run against five Padres pitchers.
Cincinnati left-hander Cody Reed, the highly rated prospect who allowed just six hits in seven innings of his major league debut against Houston on June 18, allowed that many in three while falling behind, 3-0, and ended up yielding nine hits and five runs in five innings.
“I threw a lot of pitches,” said Reed, who finished with 104, 65 for strikes. “I wasn’t getting ahead in the count. I feel fine. I can only get better. Usually, my slider works off my fastball, but I didn’t have that good command. It was just an off night.”
Myers, San Diego’s second batter of the game, smacked a 2-1 pitch over the wall in center field for a solo homer. Reed balked in Derek Norris from third in the second, and Matt Kemp scored on Norris’s bases-loaded grounder to shortstop Zack Cozart that could have been an inning-ending double-play ball if not for an unusually slow turn by second baseman Brandon Phillips.
“He was a little random with his command,” manager Bryan Price said. “He wasn’t snapping off his good slider. He had some good fastballs and some not-so-good. They gave him some long at bats and he got into some high pitch counts.
“He was coming across the ball and his slider was flattening out. It’s matter of getting his arm slot back to where it needs to be. I’m not worried about his command. I believe in the guy, He just needs to settle in.”
Reed also committed a balk in his last game.
“Those might be my first two since high school,” he said. “Maybe it was nerves. I started to go with my windup with a guy on first. I’ve got to be better than that.”
The Reds took a 4-3 lead in a 10-batter third inning that started with Hamilton’s triple and included three walks, two errors, Jay Bruce’s two-run single and Price’s second ejection of the season, this one for arguing balls-and-strikes, which had both dugouts chirping at plate umpire Toby Masner.
Myers tied it in the fourth with a two-out single that drove in Rosales, who was eighth in the batting order and led off the inning with a walk Yangervis Solarte led off the fifth with a single and scored on Alexei Ramirez’s two-out single, and Rosales led off the sixth with a homer off Raisel Iglesias for a 6-4 lead.
Right-hander Michael Lorenzen, sidelined all season by elbow problems that cropped up in spring training and then a bout with mononucleosis, made his 2016 debut in the seventh and gave up Upton’s two-run, opposite-field homer to right.
J.J. Hoover pitched the eighth, allowing San Diego to load the bases with nobody out. Myers cleared them with a double to left that got under a diving Tyler Holt, who lost his glove trying to make the catch. Upton followed two outs later with his second two-run homer of the game.
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