Elly De La Cruz gave the Cincinnati Reds the lead for good in the first game of their Wednesday doubleheader against the Los Angeles Angels, poking a 3-run homer off lefty Tyler Anderson to give the good guys a 4-3 lead. They’d eventually turn that into a 9-4 victory thanks, in large part, to a bases-clearing double by Elly later in the game, and in the process they claimed yet another road series win.
They entered play having gone an absurd 27-12 in their last 39 road games, and pushed that to 28-12 with the day game victory.