This time, Trevor Bauer needed his teammates to pick him up. Bauer was three outs from a complete-game, one-hit, seven-inning shutout Monday when Colin Moran hit a sky shot out to right to tie the game.
But Tyler Stephenson's two-run, walk-off home run gave the Reds a 3-1 victory Monday over the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of a doubleheader.
Jose Garcia singled with two outs in the seventh. Two pitches later, Stephenson, pinch-hitting for Shogo Akiyama, hit one out to left to win it. Stephenson's thoughts as he ran the bases:
"Did that just happen?