{"id":12894,"date":"2025-06-27T23:10:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T03:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/near-the-no-no-nick-martinez-shines-steer-connects-3-hrs-in-reds-victory\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T23:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T03:10:28","slug":"near-the-no-no-nick-martinez-shines-steer-connects-3-hrs-in-reds-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/near-the-no-no-nick-martinez-shines-steer-connects-3-hrs-in-reds-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Near the No-No: Nick Mart\u00ednez shines, Steer connects 3 HRs in Reds victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Nick Mart\u00ednez falls short of a no-hitter, while Spencer Steer shines with three home runs<\/h2>\n\nIn an emotional night at Great American Ball Park, the Cincinnati Reds defeated the San Diego Padres with a score of 8-1. Right-handed pitcher Nick Mart\u00ednez was close to achieving the feat of a no-hitter, while Spencer Steer became the offensive figure of the match by hitting three home runs.\n\nMart\u00ednez, with a dominant performance, kept San Diego&#8217;s batters at bay for much of the game. He didn&#8217;t allow any hits until the ninth inning, when El\u00edas D\u00edaz hit a double. This was Mart\u00ednez&#8217;s 112th pitch, tying his personal record for pitches in a game.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I felt good all night. It&#8217;s frustrating to get so close, but happy with the result.<\/p><cite>Nick Mart\u00ednez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe 34-year-old pitcher struck out six batters and retired 22 consecutive batters after issuing a walk in the first inning. Although D\u00edaz&#8217;s hit prevented the no-hitter, Mart\u00ednez&#8217;s performance was outstanding.\n\nAfter the double, Taylor Rogers entered the mound, conceding a couple of walks that drove in a run, before striking out Gavin Sheets to close the game with only one hit allowed.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Steer leads the offense with three home runs<\/h2>\n\n\nWhile Martinez shone on the mound, Spencer Steer took charge of driving the Reds&#8217; offense. Steer connected for three home runs, two solo shots against Dylan Cease in the second and fourth innings, and another two-run homer in the fifth inning, contributing to a four-run rally.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other highlights of the match<\/h2>\n\n\nElly De La Cruz also had an outstanding performance, with two hits in four at-bats, including a run scored and another driven in. Santiago Espinal also participated as a pinch hitter.\n\nFrom the Padres&#8217; side, Luis Arr\u00e1ez went 0-4, while Manny Machado and Fernando Tatis Jr. failed to get hits. El\u00edas D\u00edaz was the only Padres player to get a hit.\n\nThis victory represents the fourth in the last five games for the Reds, who continue to advance in the season.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Mart\u00ednez falls short of a no-hitter, while Spencer Steer shines with three home runs In an emotional night at Great American Ball Park, the Cincinnati Reds defeated the San Diego Padres with a score of 8-1. Right-handed pitcher Nick Mart\u00ednez was close to achieving the feat of a no-hitter, while Spencer Steer became the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[1117,4905,749,4906],"class_list":{"0":"post-12894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-home-runs","9":"tag-nick-martinez","10":"tag-reds","11":"tag-spencer-steer"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}