Cincinnati Reds at Texas Rangers

· Major League Baseball

Cincinnati Reds

5-3, 2-0 Away

Final
2 - 0

Texas Rangers

4-4, 0-2 Home

Reds blank Rangers 2-0 as Lowder pitches scoreless innings in first win since 2024

TJ Friedl hits the deck to make tough catch for Reds

Graham Ashcraft, Tony Santillan and Emilio Pagán each worked a scoreless inning to wrap up the Reds’ second shutout this season. Pagán matched the early MLB lead with his third save, his second in as many days, benefitting from a double play while walking two and giving up a two-out single.

Cincinnati got their runs on back-to-back RBI singles by Elly De La Cruz and Sal Stewart in the first off Kumar Rocker (0-1) before Lowder (1-0) had even thrown the first of his 82 pitches in his second start this season.

Lowder struck out four and gave up two leadoff walks. After allowing back-to-back singles with two outs in the first, the Rangers didn't get another runner to second base against him. He retired 12 of his last 13 batters he faced while lowering his career ERA to 1.30, the lowest for any Reds pitcher in his first eight career starts.

Texas, which has lost its first two home games and three games in a row overall, was held scoreless for the first time.

The seventh overall pick out of Wake Forest in the 2023 draft, Lowder made his big league debut in the final month of the 2024 season when he was 2-2 with a 1.17 ERA in six starts. He missed all of last season with because of a right forearm strain and then a left oblique strain.

Rocker struck out three in his five innings.

Matt McLain had a one-out single in the Reds first before a wild pitch. De La Cruz drove him home with a broken-bat single, then scored from first when Stewart lined a single into right-center on a hit-ad-run play.

Up next Chase Burns (1-0, 0.00 ERA), who got his first big league win Monday, pitches for the Reds in the series finale Sunday. Jack Leiter (1-0, 3.00) goes for Texas.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Carter struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Duran ran for Jung
	9th Inning	Jung reached on infield single to shortstop, Smith to third.
	9th Inning	Smith walked.
	9th Inning	Pederson grounded into double play, shortstop to first, Burger out at second.
	9th Inning	Burger walked.

Statistics

CIN		$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
14	Ground Balls	9
7	Strikeouts	7
2	Runs Batted In	0
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
8	Hits	4
0	Stolen Bases	0
1	Walks	5
0	Catcher Interference	0
2	Runs	0
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
36	At Bats	30
0	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
17	Runners Left On Base	13
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	0
15	Fly Balls	14
0	Caught Stealing	0
136	Pitches	134
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
9	Total Bases	4
37	Plate Appearances	35
0.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
1	Extra Base Hits	0
2.0	Runs Created	0.7
.222	Batting Average	.133
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.250	Slugging Percentage	.133
.056	Secondary Average	.167
.243	On Base Percentage	.257
.493	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.390
0.9	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.6
1.9	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	0.7
18.0	Batter Rating	4.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.68	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.83
.028	Isolated Power	.000
0.14	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.71
.027	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.143
-.167	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.033
4.0	Runs Produced	0.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
71.5	MLB Rating	60.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0