Using the trendy torpedo bat for the first time, Elly De La Cruz had a single, double and two home runs for a career-high seven RBIs, as the Cincinnati Reds routed the Texas Rangers 14-3 on Monday night.

With his Cincinnati Reds up 14-0 over the visiting Texas Rangers, shortstop Elly De La Cruz stepped to the plate a triple shy of the cycle. To be sure "a triple shy of the cycle,"

Along the way Monday against the Texas Rangers, De La Cruz delivered, in order, a single, first stolen base of the season ,a three-run homer, a two-run double and then the seventh-inning shot. The first two home runs of the season for De La Cruz gave him his fourth career multi-homer game (first since August).