{"id":139647,"date":"2026-07-18T02:01:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/de-la-cruz-leads-reds-against-the-rockies-after-4-hit-game\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T02:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:01:49","slug":"de-la-cruz-leads-reds-against-the-rockies-after-4-hit-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/de-la-cruz-leads-reds-against-the-rockies-after-4-hit-game\/","title":{"rendered":"De La Cruz leads Reds against the Rockies after 4-hit game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati Reds (44-52, fifth in the NL Central) vs. Colorado Rockies (39-60, fifth in the NL West)<\/p>\n<p>Denver; Saturday, 3:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p>PITCHING PROBABLES: Reds: Rhett Lowder (3-6, 4.91 ERA, 1.54 WHIP, 59 strikeouts); Rockies: Tomoyuki Sugano (0-0)<\/p>\n<p>LINE: Rockies -116, Reds -106; over\/under is 12 runs<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The Cincinnati Reds take on the Colorado Rockies after Elly De La Cruz had four hits against the Rockies on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado has a 22-26 record in home games and a 39-60 record overall. The Rockies have the sixth-best team slugging percentage in the majors at .418.<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati has a 44-52 record overall and a 22-24 record on the road. Reds hitters have a collective .310 on-base percentage, the 10th-ranked percentage in the NL.<\/p>\n<p>The teams match up Saturday for the fifth time this season. The Reds lead the season series 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Hunter Goodman leads the Rockies with 42 extra base hits (15 doubles and 27 home runs). Kyle Karros is 9 for 39 with two doubles, three home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Sal Stewart has 23 doubles and 19 home runs for the Reds. De La Cruz is 14 for 40 with a double, a triple, three home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Rockies: 3-7, .216 batting average, 4.86 ERA, outscored by 16 runs<\/p>\n<p>Reds: 4-6, .249 batting average, 3.70 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Rockies: Jaden Hill: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Jose Quintana: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tomoyuki Sugano: 15-Day IL (back), McCade Brown: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brenton Doyle: 10-Day IL (oblique), Seth Halvorsen: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Blas Castano: 15-Day IL (pectoral), Chase Dollander: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kris Bryant: 60-Day IL (back), Welinton Herrera: 60-Day IL (elbow), Pierson Ohl: 60-Day IL (elbow), RJ Petit: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n<p>Reds: Blake Dunn: 10-Day IL (elbow), Nick Lodolo: 15-Day IL (finger), Matt McLain: 10-Day IL (calf), Brandon Williamson: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Tony Santillan: 15-Day IL (oblique), Graham Ashcraft: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati Reds (44-52, fifth in the NL Central) vs. Colorado Rockies (39-60, fifth in the NL West) Denver; Saturday, 3:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Reds: Rhett Lowder (3-6, 4.91 ERA, 1.54 WHIP, 59 strikeouts); Rockies: Tomoyuki Sugano (0-0) LINE: Rockies -116, Reds -106; over\/under is 12 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Cincinnati Reds take on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5734],"tags":[],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-139647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-associated-press"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Website Administrator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139647"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=139647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}