The Reds continued to swing free and easy against Ortiz as they took a 4-3 lead in the fifth. TJ Friedl and Gavin Lux started the inning with consecutive singles to put runners on the corners. Ortiz struck out Ely De La Cruz, but Encarnacion-Stand scored Friedl on a sacrifice fly to left field.

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"Beating a good team twice in one day is always good," Lux said postgame. "CES coming back and having some really good at-bats to kind of help get our momentum going. We said it, we are about to get hot.

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Matt McLain broke a seventh-inning tie with a two-run homer off Zac Gallen, and the Cincinnati Reds completed a three-game sweep with a 4-2 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Alek Thomas puts his range on display and races to the left-center gap to make a diving catch and take potential extra bases away from Gavin Lux in the bottom of the 1st inning