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Scooter Gennett put on the greatest home run show in franchise history and ended the night grinning at the sheer improbability of it. The Cincinnati native hit four homers - only the 17th to do it in major league history - and matched the Reds record by driving in 10 runs during a 13-1 victory over the shell-shocked St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night. ''I was kind of laughing, to be honest with you,'' Gennett said. Continue to Article

June 07, 2017 9:57:am EST

CINCINNATI — A lucky kid caught a piece of Reds history Tuesday night — and then his luck got better. A 12-year-old named Zach Thompson caught Scooter Gennett's record-tying fourth home run during Tuesday night's game against the St. Louis Cardinals. Thompson was at the game with his baseball team - the Fairfield Reds - when Gennett hit the homer, his mother Angel Thompson said. He and all his teammates were trying to catch balls, especially when Gennett took the plate. "It went straight into his glove," Angel Thompson said. "He was super excited about it." Security guards told the boy that Gennett had asked for the ball, and, though the adults around him told him to keep it, the boy said he Continue to Article

June 07, 2017 9:39:am EST

Kluszewski. Robinson. Bench. Perez. Junior. All of them can just scooter on down the list of great Cincinnati slugfests. A diminutive infielder has done all of them one better. Scooter Gennett put on the greatest home run show in franchise history and ended the night grinning at the sheer improbability of it. The Cincinnati native hit four homers — only the 17th to do it in major league history — and matched the Reds record by driving in 10 runs during a 13-1 victory over the shell-shocked St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night. "I was kind of laughing, to be honest with you," Gennett said. "For a guy like me to do that is crazy — a little short of a miracle." With homers in his last four at-bats Continue to Article

June 07, 2017 2:16:am EST