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Big Red Boosters to meet
STEUBENVILLE -- The Big Red Boosters Club will meet at 6 p.m. Monday at the Harding Stadium field house. All are welcome. Memberships available.
Reds avoid sweep with 3-0 win
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Derek Dietrich continued his power surge with another home run, his fifth in six games, and the Cincinnati Reds blanked the Oakland Athletics 3-0 on Thursday to snap a 10-game interleague losing streak.
Tanner Roark and three relievers combined on a six-hitter to help the Reds avoid being swept by the A's for the first time since 2004. It's Cincinnati's fourth shutout this season.
Eugenio Su'rez also went deep and doubled twice for the Reds.
Cincinnati entered the day 148-209 in interleague games with a league-worst .415 winning percentage. The Reds hadn't beaten an American League team since a 7-4 victory over the Cleveland Indians on July 10, 2018. They were no-hit by Mike Fiers in the first game against Oakland on Tuesday then lost 5-4 in 13 innings Wednesday.
Roark (3-1) allowed three hits over six innings and got the A's to hit into a pair of double plays while winning his third consecutive start. Roark walked two and struck out three.
Amir Garrett retired two batters, David Hernandez set down four and Raisel Iglesias pitched through a shaky ninth for his seventh save in nine tries.
Iglesias walked Kendrys Morales and gave up a two-out double to Chad Pinder but got Ramon Laureano to foul out.
Su'rez doubled and scored when Dietrich lined an 0-2 pitch from A's starter Chris Bassitt into the right-field stands in the first inning. Dietrich, who homered four times in the Reds' four-game series against the Giants over the weekend, raised his right fist and celebrated even before the ball cleared the fence.
Su'rez homered in the third to make it 3-0 then doubled again in the eighth but was thrown out trying to steal third.
Bassitt (1-1) allowed three runs, walked one and had nine strikeouts in 7 2/3 innings.
Bruins beat Hurricanes in Game 1
BOSTON -- Marcus Johansson and Patrice Bergeron scored power-play goals 28 seconds apart, and Boston scored four times in the third period to rally from a one-goal deficit and beat the Carolina Hurricanes 5-2 on Thursday night in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals.
Tuukka Rask stopped 29 shots for Boston, which trailed 2-1 before capitalizing on back-to-back power plays. With about three minutes left, Brandon Carlo deflected a slow-rolling puck into the empty net to make it 4-2, and then 11 seconds later Chris Wagner skated in on Petr Mrazek to clinch it.
Steven Kampfer, starting for suspended defenseman Charlie McAvoy, also scored for Boston -- his first career postseason goal -- with about three minutes gone in the game.
Back in the net for the first time since Game 2 of the second-round series against the Islanders, Mrazek made 23 saves for the Hurricanes. Curtis McElhinney finished off New York, but coach Rod Brind'Amour went back to Mrazek when he was clear by doctors after the five-day break between series.
From staff and wire reports