CINCINNATI (Interstat) — The Cincinnati Reds rallied from a six-run deficit to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-6 in 11 innings Saturday in the second game of a day-night doubleheader at Great American Ball Park. Elly De La Cruz hit a three-run homer in the fifth inning and Nathaniel Lowe added a two-run shot later in the frame to cut the lead to 6-5. Dane Myers tied the game with an RBI double in the sixth, and the Reds pushed across the winning run in the 11th. Jordan Walker homered and drove in four runs for St. Louis, which had taken a 6-0 lead on Walker’s sacrifice fly in the second and his three-run homer in the sixth. Pierce Johnson (2-1) earned the win with two scoreless innings. Riley O’Brien (3-2) took the loss. Attendance was 31,144, and the game lasted 3:25. The Reds improved to 27-25; the Cardinals fell to 29-22.

CINCINNATI (Interstat) — Elly De La Cruz hit a three-run homer and Nathaniel Lowe added a two-run shot in a five-run fifth inning, and the Cincinnati Reds outlasted the St. Louis Cardinals 7-6 in 11 innings Saturday in the second game of a day-night doubleheader at Great American Ball Park. The Reds squandered a late lead but pushed across the winning run in the bottom of the 11th to earn a split of the twinbill after losing the opener 8-1. Pierce Johnson got the win, improving to 2-1, while Riley O’Brien took the loss, falling to 3-2. Attendance was 31,144, and the game lasted 3 hours, 25 minutes. St. Louis struck first in the second inning. Jordan Walker drew a leadoff walk, moved to third on a single by Nolan Gorman and scored on Masyn Winn’s sacrifice fly. The Cardinals added a single from Bryan Torres but left two runners stranded. Cincinnati’s offense erupted in the fifth against Cardinals starter Kyle Leahy. P.J. Higgins singled, and TJ Friedl sacrificed him to second. Blake Dunn singled to put runners at the corners. De La Cruz then launched his 12th homer of the season to left-center, scoring Higgins, Dunn and himself to give the Reds a 3-1 lead. After a strikeout, Lowe crushed his eighth homer to center, scoring Sal Stewart, who had walked, and extending the lead to 5-1. The Cardinals answered in the sixth. Iván Herrera was hit by a pitch, and Alec Burleson doubled. Walker then drove a 15th homer to center, a three-run shot that cut the deficit to 5-4. The inning ended with the bases empty. Cincinnati tied the game in the bottom of the sixth. Spencer Steer doubled, moved to third on a sacrifice by Higgins and scored on a double by Dane Myers, making it 6-4. But the Reds could not add more, and the score remained 6-4 into the late innings. St. Louis rallied again in the ninth. Pinch-hitter José Fermín led off with his second homer of the season to left-center, trimming the lead to 6-5. Victor Scott II walked, advanced on a groundout and a walk to Burleson, then scored on Walker’s single to left, tying the game at 6. Walker was stranded, and the game moved to extra innings. Both teams had chances in the 10th. St. Louis put a runner on third with one out but Torres grounded into a fielder’s choice that cut down the runner at home. The Cardinals challenged the tag play, but the call was upheld. In the bottom half, the Reds intentionally walked Stewart with one out, but reliever O’Brien escaped the jam by inducing a groundout and a strikeout. In the 11th, Scott II struck out to start the inning, and the Cardinals could not advance a runner. Cincinnati then pushed across the winning run in the bottom half, though the play-by-play did not specify the exact sequence. The victory improved the Reds to 27-25, while the Cardinals dropped to 29-22. Jordan Walker led St. Louis with three hits, including the homer and four RBIs. Fermín delivered the crucial pinch-hit homer. For Cincinnati, De La Cruz and Lowe combined for five RBIs, and the Reds’ bullpen kept the Cardinals scoreless after the ninth. The Cardinals had won the opener earlier in the day, but the Reds’ five-run fifth and eventual walk-off in the nightcap gave them a measure of revenge in front of a crowd of more than 31,000. Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of St. Louis 6, Cincinnati 5. Interstat’s ELO system projected Cincinnati with a 51.30 percent probability to win. Cincinnati had been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of minus-1.5. The combined total of 12 runs went under the over-under line of 9.5.

CINCINNATI (Interstat) — The St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds meet Saturday in the second game of a doubleheader at Great American Ball Park, with first pitch scheduled for later in the evening under a forecast of 65 degrees and rain. St. Louis (28-21) enters as a 1.5-run favorite, with a projected final score of 6-5 in favor of the visitors, according to Interstat’s game simulator. The over/under is set at 9.5 runs. The teams played to a 0-0 score in the opener Friday, a game that was suspended. Right-hander Dustin May (2-3) starts for the Cardinals. In his most recent outing Thursday against Pittsburgh, May took a 6-2 loss, allowing four earned runs on six hits with seven strikeouts over 5 1/3 innings. Over his last five starts, May has a 3.86 ERA and has pitched at least five innings in each outing, including a win against Kansas City on May 15 and a quality start at San Diego on May 9 despite taking the loss. Left-hander Andrew Abbott (4-0) gets the ball for the Reds, coming off a dominant stretch. In his last start Wednesday at Philadelphia, Abbott earned the win, allowing one earned run on three hits with three strikeouts across 5 1/3 innings. He has not allowed more than one earned run in any of his past four outings, including a six-inning shutout performance against Houston on May 10. Abbott has a 1.04 ERA over that span. Cincinnati (26-24) is looking to build on a 9-4 win at Philadelphia on Wednesday, in which Abbott was the winning pitcher and first baseman Nathaniel Lowe drove in three runs. The Reds have won four of their last five games. St. Louis, meanwhile, is trying to snap a two-game losing streak after dropping consecutive games to Pittsburgh, including a 6-2 loss Thursday in which May took the defeat. The Cardinals have lost six of their last nine games overall. Saturday’s doubleheader concludes a four-game series between the NL Central rivals. The Cardinals travel to Milwaukee for a three-game set beginning Monday, while the Reds visit the New York Mets for a three-game series starting the same day.