Down three runs in the 10th inning, the Cincinnati Reds got one-out performance homers from Jake Fraley and Will Benson off Raisel Iglesias.
Might they at some point stretch out a series of wins to 13 games without precedent for 100 years?
Not exactly
Iglesias struck out Matt McLain and Jonathan India, and the Atlanta Conquers won 7-6 in an eight-homer slugfest on Saturday to stop the Reds' series of wins at 12 games.
"I wish we won 100 in succession," Spencer Steer said. "We played some great baseball the most recent fourteen days. We've constructed a very decent culture, great bond in that clubhouse and I think we accept that we can play with these heavyweights."
Cincinnati's series of wins was its longest since April 30 to May 12, 1957. The Reds have not won 13 straight since their last six games in 1918 and their initial seven out of 1919.
"It was truly a streak," Reds director David Chime said. "It happened for some time so we didn't become accustomed to it and that is great. It was an extraordinary streak. We as a whole value what we had the option to achieve against great groups and we gained some significant experience about ourselves and we improved as a group. We became more grounded.
"However, as keen to the streak as we are, everything what our identity is and what we have in our clubhouse doesn't disappear."
Helped by the streak, the Reds drew 43,498 for their most memorable back to back full-limit sellouts since June 24-26, 2016, when Pete Rose's No. 14 was resigned.
"Everyone in this clubhouse appreciates playing in that kind of climate," d'Arnaud said. "It resembled the end of the season games. Their energy was infectious. Electric, without a doubt."
Michael Tonkin (2-0) pitched 2 1/3 hitless innings for the Overcomes, who won eight straight prior to losing Friday's series opener.
Ashcraft made his initial beginning since he was hit by a comebacker June 8. He permitted six runs and 10 hits in four innings.
Each group homered multiple times, taking the groups' joined HR complete to 17 through the initial two rounds of the series after nine were hit in the Reds' 11-10 win on Friday night.
Matt Olson hit the 200th of his major association profession and Travis d'Arnaud and Ozzie Albies additionally dove deep off Graham Ashcraft (3-6), who permitted three long balls without precedent for 33 major association begins. Marcell Ozuna homered against Alex Youthful as the Conquers won for the 10th time in 10 games.
McLain and Steer hit two-run homeruns for the Reds, and Fraley homered for the third consecutive game.
Iglesias, who pitched for the Reds from 2015-20, began the 10th by striking out TJ Friedl. After the homers, Iglesias got his eleventh save in 13 possibilities.
"I never have a real sense of security here with a lead and I never feel like we're out of it," Overcomes director Brian Snitker said. "You never feel better until it's finished."
"I felt like that was one of the better excursions that I've had in some time. It simply didn't turn out well for us today," he said.
Atlanta took a 2-0 lead on performance homers by d'Arnaud in the second and Albies in the third, the last a drive off the extension interfacing the Sun and Moon Deck in right with the principal concourse. Ozuna added a RBI single in the third and McLain's homer slice the hole to 3-2.
Austin Riley hit a RBI twofold in the fourth and scored on Olson's NL-driving 24th homer, his third of the series.
Ozuna's seventh-inning homer was his fifteenth of the time and thirteenth starting from the beginning of May, and it put the Overcomes ahead 7-4.
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