Suarez Grand Slam Lifts Reds Past Giants

Eugenio Suarez hit a grand slam in a seven-run ninth inning as the Cincinnati Reds erased a six-run deficit and beat the San Francisco Giants 10-9 on Wednesday at Oracle Park. ESPN and the Associated Press both posted the same finishing sequence. Cincinnati trailed 9-3 entering the ninth. The Reds left 10-9 winners. San Francisco blew the largest ninth-inning lead in franchise history since at least 1901, per Sportradar.

Rookie Hector Rodriguez opened the inning with his second homer of the game. Elly De La Cruz singled. Two walks loaded the bases. Bench coach Jayce Tingler, running the club after an ejection, called on Dylan Smith to face Suarez. Suarez drove a 1-0 fastball to left-center for his 19th home run. The slam made it 9-8. Smith said afterward he did not get ahead and wished he had the pitch back.

What was the Reds vs Giants final score?

Cincinnati 10, San Francisco 9. After the slam, Dane Myers and Matt McLain reached on bunt singles. Jose Trevino's sacrifice fly tied it. Pinch-hitter Tyler Stephenson singled home McLain for the lead. Tony Santillan (2-4) got the win. Emilio Pagan struck out Drew Cavanaugh and Christian Koss in the bottom of the ninth for his 17th save after Turner Hill's one-out single.

The Reds entered the ninth with a 3-1,917 record when trailing by six or more runs in the last inning, Elias Sports Bureau numbers that ESPN and AP both cited. Besides Wednesday, Cincinnati had done it in May 1958 against the Cubs and May 1918 against St. Louis. The Giants had blown five-run ninth-inning leads twice before (Athletics, Aug. 14, 2020, and Brooklyn Dodgers, June 25, 1929). Never six.

How did Eugenio Suarez beat the Giants?

One swing, four runs, 19th homer. Search traffic writes itself: Suarez grand slam, Reds vs Giants score, seven-run ninth. The Giants had three two-run homers earlier (Jonah Cox, Rafael Devers, Shay Whitcomb). Devers went deep in all three games of the series. None of that survived the ninth. Cincinnati also blocked San Francisco's first three-game sweep of 2026. The Giants remain the only MLB team without one.

Sal Stewart added a seventh-inning sacrifice fly and reached 100 RBIs, tying Jim Greengrass (1953) for the Reds' rookie RBI record. Cincinnati is 63-71. This was not a playoff clincher. It was the kind of box score fans send around anyway. Elsewhere in the National League, Milwaukee is still sorting a Dustin May scapula contusion after a liner off his back. The Reds' night was the opposite kind of chaos. They created it.

Smith fell to 0-5. The Giants are 54-79. Arizona visits Thursday. For one inning in late August, Oracle Park watched a six-run lead evaporate on a slam, two bunts, a fly, and a pinch-hit single.

Suarez grand slam Reds Giants FAQ

What was the Reds vs Giants final score? Cincinnati won 10-9 after a seven-run ninth.

Did Eugenio Suarez hit a grand slam? Yes. His 19th homer, off Dylan Smith, cut the deficit to 9-8.

How rare was the comeback? The Reds are 3-1,917 when trailing by six or more in the ninth. It was the Giants' largest blown ninth-inning lead since at least 1901.