Reds 4, Rockies 3: Joey Votto hit a walk-off homer in the ninth inning as host Cincinnati prevailed after allowing Colorado to tie the game in the top of the frame.

Votto crushed a 3-0 fastball from Boone Logan (1-1) well over the wall in center as the Reds snapped a two-game slide while handing the Rockies their second straight defeat. Votto was 6-for-37 and hadn't driven a run in his last 10 games, and was 0-for-3 in this one before clubbing his sixth home run of the season.

Nolan Arenado went 0-for-3 and walked with one out in the ninth to end his club-record hitting streak at 28 games while Troy Tulowitzki homered for Colorado. Arenado, though, scored when Justin Morneau followed with a double into the left-center gap against Jonathan Broxton (1-0), who was credited with the victory.

Johnny Cueto became the first Cincinnati pitcher since Bucky Walters in 1941 to begin a season by working at least seven innings in eight straight games, allowing two runs and five hits. Todd Frazier hit a mammoth home run while Brandon Phillips and Brayan Pena delivered sacrifice flies for the Reds.

Pinch-hitter Billy Hamilton led off the eighth with a double against Logan and, after Skip Schumaker sacrificed him to third, Pena's fly ball scored Hamilton to give Cincinnati a 3-2 lead. Frazier blasted the first pitch Jhoulys Chacin threw in the second onto the riverboat well above the wall in center 485 feet away to make it 2-0.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Chacin yielded two runs and four hits over six innings in his 100th career start - and second of the season since coming off the disabled list after recovering from a shoulder strain. ... Cueto, who became the first pitcher since the Los Angeles Dodgers' Fernando Valenzuela in 1981 to begin a season by allowing two or fewer runs while working at least seven innings in each of his first eight starts, has allowed 10 runs this season - eight of them on seven homers. ... Tulowitzki went 1-for-4 to lower his major league-leading average to .402 but raise his road average to .242, while teammate Carlos Gonzalez went 0-for-4 to end his 10-game hitting streak.
... Leadoff hitters are 3-for-52 against Cueto this season after Charlie Blackmon went 1-for-4 against him, including an RBI single to tie it 2-2 in the fifth.