CINCINNATI (AP) — Jake Fraley came off the bench to hit a three-run homer, Kevin Newman had a two-run shot against his former team and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-2 on Saturday.

Jonathan India added a solo homer and Nick Lodolo overcame a challenging first inning as Cincinnati snapped an eight-losing streak to Pittsburgh that dated to last season, when both teams lost 100 games.

Fraley’s second career pinch-hit homer in the sixth off right-hander Chase De Jong reached the visitors’ bullpen down the right-field line.

The only timer violation in the game led to Pittsburgh first baseman Carlos Santana leading off the fifth with an automatic strike against him.

Lodolo (1-0) needed 109 pitches to navigate five innings. The Pirates reached the second-year lefty for seven hits and two runs. He finished with nine strikeouts and two walks.

Lodolo retired seven of the last eight batters he faced. Ian Gibaut, Buck Farmer and Reiver Sanmartin combined to retire the final 12 Pirates batters.

Rich Hill (0-1), who turned 43 in March, began his 19th season with his 12th major league team. He allowed three runs and three hits with seven strikeouts and two walks in five innings. Hill joined Pittsburgh as a free agent in January.

After the Pirates took a 1-0 lead during Lodolo’s 35-pitch first inning, India hit Hill’s fourth pitch for his eighth career leadoff home run. The 2021 NL Rookie of Year is one shy of Reds Hall of Famer Barry Larkin and two short of matching the club record set by Kal Daniels.

Newman, acquired in a November trade, followed later in the first with a two-run drive that caromed off the façade of the second deck in left field for a 3-1 lead.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Pirates: Former Reds RHP Robert Stephenson (right elbow inflammation) threw 15 pitches in one inning on a rehab assignment with Triple-A Indianapolis in its season opener Thursday.

Reds: 1B Joey Votto (left shoulder, biceps surgery last August) was scheduled to play first base in Game 1 and be the designated hitter in Game 2 of Triple-A Louisville’s season-opening doubleheader at Nashville caused by a rainout of Thursday’s scheduled opener. Votto is on a rehab assignment.

UP NEXT

RHP Vince Velasquez is scheduled to make his Pirates debut in the series finale Sunday against Graham Ashcraft.

Pittsburgh						Cincinnati
	ab	r	h	bi			ab	r	h	bi
Hayes 3b	4	0	1	0		India 2b	3	1	1	1
Reynolds lf	4	0	1	0		Steer 3b	4	0	0	0
McCutchen dh	3	1	0	0		Myers rf	3	1	0	0
Santana 1b	4	1	2	0		Stephenson 1b	4	2	2	0
Joe rf	3	0	1	1		Vosler 1b	0	0	0	0
O.Cruz ss	4	0	2	1		Newman dh	4	1	2	2
Castro 2b	3	0	0	0		Fairchild lf	1	0	0	0
Smith-Njigba ph	1	0	0	0		Fraley ph-lf	2	1	1	3
Bae cf	4	0	0	0		Casali c	3	0	0	0
Hedges c	3	0	0	0		Barrero ss	3	0	0	0
Choi ph	1	0	0	0		Friedl cf	3	0	0	0
Totals	34	2	7	2		Totals	30	6	6	6

Pittsburgh	101	000	000	—	2
Cincinnati	300	003	00x	—	6

E–Myers (1). LOB–Pittsburgh 7, Cincinnati 3. 2B–Hayes (1), Stephenson (1). HR–India (1), Newman (1), Fraley (1). SB–India (1).

	IP		H	R	ER	BB	SO

Pittsburgh
Hill L,0-1	5		3	3	3	2	7
De Jong	2		2	3	3	1	1
Hernandez	1		1	0	0	0	0

Cincinnati
Lodolo W,1-0	5		7	2	2	2	9
Gibaut H,1	1		0	0	0	0	0
Farmer	1	2-3	0	0	0	0	1
Sanmartin		1-3	0	0	0	0	0
Díaz	1		0	0	0	0	2

WP–Hernandez, Lodolo.

Umpires–Home, Bruce Dreckman; First, Stu Scheuwater; Second, Malachi Moore; Third, Mark Wegner.

T–2:16. A–22,224 (43,891).