Myers' 9th-Inning Blast Saves Reds in Wild 10-Inning Thriller

Dane Myers homered to left center in the ninth inning to tie the game at 5, swinging Cincinnati's win probability from 4% to 53% in a single swing. The Reds then walked it off in the tenth, beating St. Louis 6-5.

Cincinnati needed every bit of extra time to survive Monday night. The Reds fell behind 4-1 after a brutal sixth inning for Rhett Lowder — who allowed 8 hits and 4 earned runs across 6.2 innings — and looked cooked when St. Louis pushed the lead to 5-4 on a Torres single to left in the eighth that scored Jordan Walker, who finished 3-for-5 with 2 runs scored. At that point, the Reds were staring at a loss with one out left to spend.

Then Myers happened. Down to his last strike in the ninth, Myers launched a 396-foot shot to left center that knotted the game at 5 and flipped the entire script — Cincinnati's win probability swung from 4% to 53% on one swing of the bat. It was the kind of moment that makes a box score look boring by comparison. The story of the night was how thoroughly St. Louis had controlled this game for six-plus innings, building a 4-1 lead on the back of a Walker-fueled sixth that produced three runs, only to watch it unravel in spectacular fashion.

The sixth inning was the hinge point in both directions. St. Louis scored three times — Walker scored on a Church single, then Church scored on a Jordan single to push it to 4-1 — but Cincinnati answered immediately and ferociously. Hector Rodríguez singled to center to score both Suárez and Toglia, erasing the three-run deficit in one at-bat and tying the game at 4. Rodríguez was thrown out trying to stretch it to a double, and the Reds challenged the call — it was upheld — but the damage was done in the best possible way for Cincinnati. Eugenio Suárez was the quiet engine of the Reds' offense all night, going 3-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored. After Myers tied it in the ninth, De La Cruz singled to left in the tenth to score Stephenson and end it. Cincinnati wins, 6-5, in ten innings — and it looks like the Reds simply refused to let this one go.