Jose Trevino gave the Reds something to hang onto, but everything around him unraveled fast in Colorado.
Trevino launched two home runs and finished with three hits, yet Cincinnati was buried by a rough afternoon from Rhett Lowder and a Rockies offense that kept piling on. Colorado rolled to its 40th win of the year on Saturday, and the series is now tied at one game apiece.
The game got away early. Cincinnati was retired in order in the top of the first, and Colorado answered with a double to open its half of the inning.
After just four batters, the tone was already set. The Rockies scored twice in the first, then blew the game open with four more runs in the second.
Lowder never found a rhythm. He was tagged for six runs before Trevino finally got the Reds on the board with a solo homer in the top of the third, trimming the deficit to 6-1.
Colorado kept the pressure on in the bottom of the inning, adding two more runs after Lowder gave up a double and a single and was pulled with one out. Julian Garcia entered and allowed one run to score on a groundout, then another on a single, pushing the lead to 8-1.
Trevino wasn’t done. With two outs in the fifth, he crushed his second homer of the day, a 424-foot shot to left-center.
That gave Cincinnati its second run, but the Rockies answered right back in the next inning. A walk set up TJ Rumfield’s two-run home run, stretching the margin to 10-2.
Cincinnati scratched out one more run in the seventh. Noelvi Marte doubled and later scored on a pinch-hit single from Nathaniel Lowe, cutting the deficit to seven.
That was as close as the Reds would get. Neither team scored the rest of the way.
The turning point was Colorado’s four-run second inning, which made it 6-0 and turned the rest of the afternoon into damage control.
Trevino’s day stood out for more than just the final line. He entered with one home run on the season, and in just his 25th game he tripled that total in one afternoon. It was his first multi-homer game since May 12, 2024, when he was with the Yankees, and the third multi-homer game of his career.
Lowder’s recent stretch has been just as rough. Over his last two starts, he’s given up 14 runs on 22 hits across 7.1 innings. In between those outings, he allowed one run in 7.0 innings out of the bullpen.
The teams meet again Sunday at 3:10 p.m. ET.
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