Reds Manager Terry Francona and Others React to 4-1 Win Over Cleveland Guardians

The Cincinnati Reds beat the Cleveland Guardians 4-1 on Friday night for their third straight victory and to secure the series win.

The Reds' bullpen pitched all nine innings, allowing just one run on eight hits. Emilio Pagan gave credit to Brent Suter who started and gave Cincinnati three scoreless innings.

"It starts with Suter," Emilio Pagan said postgame. "He's been there for us kind of in that spot all year long. He's really done it his whole career, but for him to give us that kind of start, that kind of length, that way we can fall into our normal rules, that was awesome."

Suter was very proud of the bullpen's effort as well.

"From pitch one, we attacked the zone," Suter said. "We did a great job of getting ahead and staying ahead, forcing weak contact. That's a good lineup over there."

The Reds scored the go-ahead run on a single when Santiago Espinal showed bunt, but pulled it back and blooped a single to right field. Reds manager Terry Francona said Espinal is one of the only guys on the team who could pull that off.

"Espi is probably the one guy, I think maybe Trevino the same way, Francona said. "It'd be the old-fashioned butcher-boy. Just try not to do too much. That's Espi. When Espi is hitting the ball that way, that is when he is good anyway. He is the one guy who has the ability to do that."

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