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De La Cruz's 4 extra-base hits help Reds overcome Sánchez’s 480-foot homer to beat Marlins 10-3

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De La Cruz's 4 extra-base hits help Reds overcome  Sánchez’s 480-foot homer to beat Marlins 10-3
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De La Cruz's 4 extra-base hits help Reds overcome Sánchez’s 480-foot homer to beat Marlins 10-3

2024-08-06 12:46 Last Updated At:12:50

MIAMI (AP) — Elly De La Cruz became the youngest Cincinnati player with four extra-base hits in a game since at least 1901 and the Reds overcame Jesús Sánchez’s 480-foot home run, the longest in the major league this season, in a 10-3 win over the Miami Marlins on Monday night.

Nick Martinez (6-5) pitched five scoreless innings to win on his 34th birthday in his first start since May 22.

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Miami Marlins right fielder Jesús Sánchez is unable to catch a ball hit by Cincinnati Reds' Noelvi Marte for a home run scoring Jake Fraley during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Miami Marlins right fielder Jesús Sánchez is unable to catch a ball hit by Cincinnati Reds' Noelvi Marte for a home run scoring Jake Fraley during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Cincinnati Reds' Noelvi Marte (16) is congratulated by Jake Fraley at home plate after Marte hit a home run scoring Fraley, during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Cincinnati Reds' Noelvi Marte (16) is congratulated by Jake Fraley at home plate after Marte hit a home run scoring Fraley, during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Cincinnati Reds third baseman Noelvi Marte (16) is congratulated by center fielder TJ Friedl (29) after Marte fielded a ground ball hit by Miami Marlins' Emmanuel Rivera and threw him out at first base during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Cincinnati Reds third baseman Noelvi Marte (16) is congratulated by center fielder TJ Friedl (29) after Marte fielded a ground ball hit by Miami Marlins' Emmanuel Rivera and threw him out at first base during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Cincinnati Reds' Nick Martinez delivers a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Cincinnati Reds' Nick Martinez delivers a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Cincinnati Reds' Elly De La Cruz celebrates after hitting a double during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Cincinnati Reds' Elly De La Cruz celebrates after hitting a double during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

De La Cruz entered in an 0-for-13 slide and put Cincinnati ahead with a two-run homer off Roddery Muñoz (2-6) in the first inning. He doubled in the fourth and sixth innings and hit a solo homer in the eighth against Shaun Anderson, his 20th home run this season. De La Cruz has three multihomer games, including two this season.

“Very appreciative of everything because the hard work is paying off,” De La Cruz said in Spanish. “Also appreciate my teammates and the support they give me."

It was the 20th four-extra-base hit game by a Reds player since 1901 and at 22 years, 207 days De La Cruz became the youngest Cincinnati player to accomplish the feat since then. He is the sixth-youngest overall, according to MLB, trailing only Miguel Cabrera (20 years, 74 days in 2003), Mel Ott (20-109 in 1929), Joe DiMaggio (21-212 in 1936), Gregg Jefferies (22-37 in 1989) and Freddie Lindstrom (22-187 in 1928)

“There’s a lot more to come. It’s fun to watch him every day,” Reds manager David Bell said. “But it does starts with his approach and how he is working and trying to get better.”

De La Cruz has a major league-leading 57 steals and joined Hall of Famer Joe Morgan and Eric Davis as the only Reds with 20 homers and 50 stolen bases in a season. De La Cruz has four homers against Miami this year.

Sánchez drove a changeup from Jakob Junis into the right-center field upper deck in the sixth. The drive outdistanced a 478-foot homer by San Francisco’s Jorge Soler at San Francisco on July 21.

“Sanchez has some of the best raw power in the game,” Marlins manager Skip Schumaker said. “He has the ability to hit the ball out of the ballpark, line to line.”

Ty France had three hits, including his first homer since he was acquired from Seattle on July 30, and Noelvi Marté also went deep for the Reds.

Martinez, who had been pitching out of the bullpen, allowed four hits, struck out five and walked none in a 70-pitch in outing.

“With my role being so versatile, there are unique ways to find opportunities,” Martinez said. “There are unique situations where I can help the team win late in the ball game and maintain my workload to be able to slide in like this and start.”

Martinez said he had previously pitched on his birthday during his four seasons in Japan.

“I also went five scoreless,” Martinez said.

Xavier Edwards singled twice for the Marlins, extending his on base games streak to 22.

Muñoz gave up six runs — four earned — seven hits and three walks in 3 2/3 innings.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Reds: INF Matt McClain (rib cage stress reaction) has not been scheduled for rehab games, Bell said.

Marlins: C Nick Fortes left with quadriceps tightness after singling in the seventh inning.

UP NEXT

LHP Nick Lodolo (8-4, 3.99) will start the second game of the series for the Reds on Tuesday while the Marlins will go with RHP Max Meyer (2-1, 3.81).

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Miami Marlins right fielder Jesús Sánchez is unable to catch a ball hit by Cincinnati Reds' Noelvi Marte for a home run scoring Jake Fraley during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Miami Marlins right fielder Jesús Sánchez is unable to catch a ball hit by Cincinnati Reds' Noelvi Marte for a home run scoring Jake Fraley during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Cincinnati Reds' Noelvi Marte (16) is congratulated by Jake Fraley at home plate after Marte hit a home run scoring Fraley, during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Cincinnati Reds' Noelvi Marte (16) is congratulated by Jake Fraley at home plate after Marte hit a home run scoring Fraley, during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Cincinnati Reds third baseman Noelvi Marte (16) is congratulated by center fielder TJ Friedl (29) after Marte fielded a ground ball hit by Miami Marlins' Emmanuel Rivera and threw him out at first base during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Cincinnati Reds third baseman Noelvi Marte (16) is congratulated by center fielder TJ Friedl (29) after Marte fielded a ground ball hit by Miami Marlins' Emmanuel Rivera and threw him out at first base during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Cincinnati Reds' Nick Martinez delivers a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Cincinnati Reds' Nick Martinez delivers a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Cincinnati Reds' Elly De La Cruz celebrates after hitting a double during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Cincinnati Reds' Elly De La Cruz celebrates after hitting a double during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will begin deploying as many as 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the southern border in the coming days, U.S. officials said Wednesday, putting in motion plans President Donald Trump laid out in executive orders shortly after he took office to crack down on immigration.

Acting Defense Secretary Robert Salesses was expected to sign the deployment orders on Wednesday, but it wasn't yet clear which troops or units will go, and the total could fluctuate. It remains to be seen if they will end up doing law enforcement, which would put American troops in a dramatically different role for the first time in decades.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement has not yet been made.

The active duty forces would join the roughly 2,500 U.S. National Guard and Reserve forces already there. There are currently no active duty troops working along the border.

The troops are expected to be used to support border patrol agents, with logistics, transportation and construction of barriers. They have done similar duties in the past, when both Trump and former President Joe Biden sent active duty troops to the border.

Troops are prohibited by law from doing law enforcement duties under the Posse Comitatus Act, but that may change. Trump has directed through executive order that the incoming secretary of defense and incoming homeland security chief report back within 90 days if they think an 1807 law called the Insurrection Act should be invoked. That would allow those troops to be used in civilian law enforcement on U.S. soil.

The last time the act was invoked was in 1992 during rioting in Los Angeles in protest of the acquittal of four police officers charged with beating Rodney King.

The widely expected deployment, coming in Trump’s first week in office, was an early step in his long-touted plan to expand the use of the military along the border. In one of his first orders on Monday, Trump directed the defense secretary to come up with a plan to “seal the borders” and repel “unlawful mass migration.”

On Tuesday, just as Trump fired the Coast Guard commandant, Adm. Linda Fagan, the service announced it was surging more cutter ships, aircraft and personnel to the “Gulf of America” — a nod to the president’s directive to rename the Gulf of Mexico.

Trump said during his inaugural address on Monday that “I will declare a national emergency at our southern border. All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places in which they came.”

Military personnel have been sent to the border almost continuously since the 1990s to help address migration. drug trafficking and transnational crime.

In executive orders signed Monday, Trump suggested the military would help the Department of Homeland Security with “detention space, transportation (including aircraft), and other logistics services.”

In his first term, Trump ordered active duty troops to the border in response to a caravan of migrants slowly making its way through Mexico toward the United States in 2018. More than 7,000 active duty troops were sent to Texas, Arizona and California, including military police, an assault helicopter battalion, various communications, medical and headquarters units, combat engineers, planners and public affairs units.

At the time, the Pentagon was adamant that active duty troops would not do law enforcement. So they spent much of their time transporting border patrol agents to and along the border, helping them erect additional vehicle barriers and fencing along the border, assisting them with communications and providing some security for border agent camps.

The military also provided border patrol agents with medical care, pre-packaged meals and temporary housing.

It's also not yet clear if the Trump administration will order the military to use bases to house detained migrants.

Bases previously have been used for that purpose, and after the 2021 fall of Kabul to the Taliban, they were used to host thousands of Afghan evacuees. The facilities struggled to support the influx.

In 2018, then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis ordered Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas, to prepare to house as many as 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children, but the additional space ultimately wasn’t needed and Goodfellow was determined not to have the infrastructure necessary to support the surge.

In March 2021, the Biden administration greenlighted using property at Fort Bliss, Texas, for a detention facility to provide beds for up to 10,000 unaccompanied migrant children as border crossings increased from Mexico.

The facility, operated by DHS, was quickly overrun, with far too few case managers for the thousands of children that arrived, exposure to extreme weather and dust and unsanitary conditions, a 2022 inspector general report found.

Construction crews replace sections of one of two border walls separating Mexico from the United States, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Construction crews replace sections of one of two border walls separating Mexico from the United States, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Members of the Mexican National Guard patrol as construction crews replace sections of one of two border walls separating Mexico from the United States, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Members of the Mexican National Guard patrol as construction crews replace sections of one of two border walls separating Mexico from the United States, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Volunteers talk in a tent along a border wall separating Mexico from the United States Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Volunteers talk in a tent along a border wall separating Mexico from the United States Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Dogs are near a border wall separating Mexico from the United States Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Dogs are near a border wall separating Mexico from the United States Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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