Chicago Cubs Score and Summary (05/23/25): Cubs 13, Reds 6

The Cubs traveled to the Great American Ball Park to take over the Reds on Friday evening. Chicago fell into an early hole before a four Homerun eruption led her to a big win at the start of the series.

Matthew Boyd bumped into the bottom of the 1st inn, whereby the first six rackets reached the base. On RBI-Singles from Santiago Espinal and Austin Hays, a double from Spencer were controlled to set Cincinnati 3-0.

Boyd used a double game to escape further damage in this context, but a wild pitch made it possible to score from third place and increase the leadership of the red in the 3. to 4: 0. The Cubs finally came in the fourth Hunter Greene when Pete Crow-Armstrong had a Homer with two runs right to cut the deficit in half.

Cincinnati got these two tallies against Julian Merryweather at the end of the 5th on Singles by Tyler Stephenson and TJ Friedl to reach 6-2. Chicago invited the bases with an out in 7th place and Kyle Tucker tore off a two-time single from Tony Santillan, which made it 6-4.

After a Seiya-Suzuki single, the base loaded back onto the right field line, which over the foul rod for a Grand Slam with the Grand Slam, which gave the northern coil into the lead with 8: 6. Suzuki beat a Homer with three runs from Brent Suter in the 8th to extend the lead of the street team to 11: 6.

Dansby Swanson added another two-run thing in the 9th when the Cubs won comfortably with a score of 13: 6. ((Box score)))

Key moment

Nico Hoerner was able to avoid a day with an attempted power from Reds Second Baseman Matt McLain to suspend two runners with one in the 7th. The next four Cubs grabs got knocks and they achieved six runs to make it final.

Why the Cubs won

The line -up has absolutely exploded for 11 runs in the last three innings to overcome a shaky pitching performance.

Statistics that are important

• Boyd was not great, but he avoided a complete catastrophe in the 1st Inning and his teammates picked him up: 4 IP, 4 R, 8 H, 3 K, 2 BB.
• Just another two-home game with two base, Six-RBi game for PCA.
• Hoerner had three goals, including two doubles, in addition to the heads on the Baserunning.
• Suzuki also had three knocks and has 46 RBI this season.

Conclusion

This felt like a Cubs loss until the explosive 7th inning, and at that time it is clear that they never get out of a game with the offensive talent they have. Crow Armstrong has become a superstar in no time and is a legitimate MVP candidate. It was nice to see how Chicago runs out some of the demons with which they have been faced with GABP in recent years.

On deck

The second game of the series is Saturday afternoon at 3:10 p.m. CT. Colin Rea takes the hill against Andrew Abbott in a competition on the Marquee with radio reporting on 670 of the score.