MLB.com is keeping track of a Stat of the Day for the Reds this season, highlighting a unique, interesting or fun nugget from each game.

• Reds Stat of the Day, April 2021

May 31: Reds 11, Phillies 1 -- Castellanos cruises
Nick Castellanos not only finished May on a 17-game hitting streak, but he also slashed a blistering .409/.476/.667 for the month. He's just the sixth player in franchise history to hit at least .400 with a slugging percentage of .650 or better for a calendar month (minimum 100 plate appearances). The only other Reds to accomplish the feat are Joey Votto (July 2015), Pete Rose (June 1970), Frank Robinson (August 1964 and July 1961), Edd Roush (June 1923) and Mike Donlin (September 1903).

May 30: Reds 5, Cubs 1 -- Suárez still slugging
Eugenio Suárez hit his 12th home run of the season in 50 games when he led off with the fourth inning with a long ball to left field against Jake Arrieta. Suárez passed Mike Trout with the most homers in the Major Leagues since the start of the 2018 season with 110 to the Angels superstar's 109. Suárez also leads the Majors with the most homers since the '19 season started with 76, putting him one ahead of the Mets' Pete Alonso.

May 29: Cubs 10, Reds 2 -- Castellanos extends hitting streak
With a one-out double to left-center field in the top of the eighth inning, Nick Castellanos extended his hitting streak to a season-high 15 games. It is the longest active streak in the Major Leagues, and the longest by a Reds hitter this season. It includes 10 multihit games.

May 28: Cubs 1, Reds 0 -- Tough-luck loss
The last time the Reds took a 1-0 loss on a solo home run was on May 2, 2019, vs. the Mets at Citi Field. Tyler Mahle was the losing pitcher against Noah Syndergaard, who went the distance with the four-hit shutout and 10 strikeouts ... and also hit the solo homer.

May 27: Nationals 5, Reds 3 (completion of suspended game)
May 27: Reds 3, Nationals 0 -- Leadoff homer prowess
Eugenio Suárez hit the first leadoff home run of his career in the top of the first inning against Stephen Strasburg. Cincinnati leads Major League Baseball with six leadoff homers in 2021. Jesse Winker has three while Tyler Naquin has two.

May 25: Reds 2, Nationals 1 -- Get 'em on, get 'em in, get a win
The Reds outhit the Nationals by a 6-4 margin, which was important. Cincinnati is 0-17 this season in games when it has fewer hits than its opponent. The Reds are 18-17 when hitting at least one home run, 13-9 when hitting at least two homers and 3-8 when they don't homer at all.

May 23: Brewers 9, Reds 4 -- Winker part of Reds HR history
Have a weekend, Jesse Winker. The Reds' left fielder hit a home run in the third inning that struck the Power Stacks at Great Amercian Ball Park, his fifth of the three-game weekend series. Winker is only the third Cincinnati player since 1900 to homer five times in a three-game series -- joining Eric Davis (May 1-3, 1987, vs. the Phillies) and Willie Greene (Sept. 24-26, 1996, vs. the Cubs).

May 22: Brewers 4, Reds 3 -- Another day, another Winker HR
With his two-out solo home run in the bottom of the third inning, Jesse Winker became the first Reds player to go deep the following game after a three-homer game since Greg Vaughn also did so for Cincinnati on Sept. 8, 1999.

May 21: Reds 9, Brewers 4 -- Winker wallops way to history
Jesse Winker became the 31st member of the Reds to notch a three-home run game during his 4-for-4 performance. The feat has been accomplished 39 times during the club's history. The last occasion? When Eugenio Suárez did so on Sept. 5, 2020.

May 20: Giants 19, Reds 4 -- An awkward position on mound
Prior to Alex Blandino and Max Schrock combining for two innings, the last time the Reds needed more than one full-time position player to pitch was Oct. 4, 1902. Jake Beckley, Mike Donlin and Cy Seymour combined for eight innings, in which they allowed 11 runs, against Pittsburgh.

According to Elias Sports Bureau, a newspaper at the time wrote, “Manager [Joe] Kelly of the Cincinnati club went to bat in the first inning today smoking a cigarette. He made a farce of the game in other ways, shifting the team around completely, using Beckley on the rubber and [pitcher Rube] Vickers behind the bat.

"The visitors were indignant because the Pittsburgh club forced them to play on a wet field. [Pirates] president [Barney] Dreyfuss refunded the game money to the spectators and will ask the league to punish Kelly.”

May 19: Giants 4, Reds 0 -- Reds nearing unwelcome record
Wednesday marked the sixth time that the Reds were shut out this season. They were shut out seven times in 2020's 60-game schedule. With plenty of time left in the month, they are tied for their third-most shutout losses through May since 1900 behind 2019 (7) and 1989 (8).

May 18: Giants 4, Reds 2 -- Personal best, season high
Luis Castillo's eight strikeouts through three innings set a career high through those three frames. The last Reds pitcher with eight or more K's through three innings was Anthony DeSclafani, who notched nine on June 23, 2019 -- and who happened to oppose Castillo for San Francisco on Tuesday night. The 11 K's overall for Castillo was a season high and two shy of his career best.

May 17: Giants 6, Reds 3 -- Unearned runs continue to sting
With Sonny Gray being dinged for an unearned run on a fielding error from Eugenio Suárez against the Giants, the Reds have allowed 21 unearned runs this season, making them one of just nine teams in MLB to allow 20 or more unearned runs.

May 16: Reds 7, Rockies 6 -- Shogo sets career bests in hits, RBIs
In the comeback victory over the Rockies, Shogo Akiyama had a career-high three hits and a career-high two RBIs -- also his first two RBIs of the season.

May 15: Reds 6, Rockies 5 (12 innings) -- Reds love free baseball
The Reds have played nine extra-inning games this season, the most in the Majors, and have compiled a 7-2 record.

May 14: Rockies 9, Reds 6 -- Barnhart joins elite backstops
Tucker Barnhart's first of two singles in the game gave him 500 hits for his career. Barnhart became the 10th Reds catcher all-time to notch both 500 hits and 100 doubles in his career and the first since Jason LaRue. The list also includes two Hall of Famers -- Ernie Lombardi and Johnny Bench.

May 13: Rockies 13, Reds 8 -- Reds drop eight spot in 8th
Trailing 10-0 in the top of the eighth, the Reds scored eight runs in a rally that sent 11 batters to the plate. It marked the first time that Cincinnati scored eight or more runs in one inning since July 29, 2019, vs. the Pirates. The first runs of the inning scored on Tyler Stephenson's two-run homer. It was the second pinch-hit homer of Stephenson's brief career. The first came Sept. 14, 2020, vs. Pittsburgh.

May 12: Reds 5, Pirates 1 (10 innings) -- Gray escapes on wild day
Sonny Gray became the first Reds pitcher since at least 1900 to throw four wild pitches in one game. He limited the damage, though, allowing one run in 4 2/3 innings.

May 11: Pirates 7, Reds 2 -- Winker's splash homer
Jesse Winker has swung a hot bat to start the 2021 season. On Tuesday night, he connected for a deep solo home run that bounced into the Allegheny River beyond right-center field at PNC Park in Pittsburgh. That made Winker just the 41st player to splash down with a homer that finds its way into the Allegheny. It was also the 61st time a player has done so.

May 10: Reds 14, Pirates 1 -- Talk about a total team effort
Every player in the Reds’ starting lineup managed at least one hit Monday. That includes starting pitcher Tyler Mahle, who had a hit and a walk and also recorded his first career RBI on a fielder's choice.

May 8: Indians 9, Reds 2 -- Solid start to Hendrix's career
In his sixth big league appearance, rookie reliever Ryan Hendrix gave up his first hits and runs. In the sixth inning, Hendrix allowed three earned runs and three hits. He is the only Reds pitcher since 1893, when the mound was established at its current distance, to begin his Major League career with five hitless appearances.

May 7: Reds 3, Indians 0 -- Miley's historic no-no
Wade Miley's no-hitter was the 17th in Reds history and the first since Homer Bailey threw the second of his career for the team in a 3-0 win over the Giants on July 2, 2013. It was also the fourth no-hitter in the Major Leagues this season and the second this week after John Means pitched one for the Orioles on Wednesday. That was the shortest span between no-hitters since Dave Stewart (A's) and Fernando Valenzuela (Dodgers) each threw one in their games on the same night on June 29, 1990.

May 5: Reds 1, White Sox 0 (10 innings) -- Scoreless duel through nine
Prior to Wednesday, when the Reds finally pushed across the game-winning run in the bottom of the 10th, there had been only three scoreless games through nine innings at Great American Ball Park. The last time it happened was May 30, 2010, vs. the Astros. The other two were on June 10, 2007, vs. Cleveland and June 14, 2006, against the Brewers.

May 4: White Sox 9, Reds 0 -- Rare shutout loss
The loss marked just the second time since at least 1901 the Reds were shut out on two or fewer hits and 14 or more strikeouts. The other occasion was on Aug. 27, 1955, in Brooklyn, when they were blanked with two hits and 14 strikeouts by Dodgers ace Sandy Koufax.

May 2: Reds 13, Cubs 12 (10 innings) -- One for the ages
This was just the fifth time in MLB history that both teams scored at least 12 runs and hit at least five home runs in the same game. Incredibly, a Cubs-Reds matchup has accounted for two of the five instances, which are: Cubs-Reds (May 2, 2021); White Sox-Tigers (May 28, 1995); Phillies-Cubs (May 17, 1979); Reds-Cubs (July 28, 1977); Yankees-Athletics (May 22, 1930).

May 1: Cubs 3, Reds 2 -- Stephenson's hot bat
Tyler Stephenson had two hits, and he has hit safely in eight of his last 10 games while going 11-for-27 (.407). It has raised the rookie catcher's overall average to .372 in 16 games, including 10 starts behind the plate, this season.