ST. LOUIS (AP) —ade life easy for catcher Tucker Barnhart on Saturday night.Castillo tossed 6 2/3 shutout innings and combined with two relievers on a two-hitter to lead the Reds to a 4-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals.Barnhart said working with Castillo was easy.“(He has) video game stuff http://www.bluejaysfanproshop.com/authentic-curtis-granderson-jersey ,” Barnhart said. “Tonight was an example of that. He was able to throw all three pitches for strikes. He was able to keep them off balance all night long.”The Reds snapped a three-game losing streak.St. Louis, which won a major league-best 22 games in August, lost for the second time in six games.The Cardinals are 4 1/2 games behind Chicago in the NL Central after the Cubs beat Philadelphia 7-1.Castillo (8-11) gave up two hits and struck out a career-high 11. He gave up a leadoff single to Matt Carpenter in the first before retiring 15 of the next 16 hitters.Castillo has had an up-and-down season and has struggled with consistency.“We feel like he can do this,” Cincinnati interim manager Jim Riggleman. “He’s not 21, he’s 25. It’s time. We just hope he builds on that, has a good September, and takes us into 2019 as a guy that can anchor our staff.”Castillo had given up five earned runs in two of his last three starts.“A good part was I was on the same page with Tucker,” Castillo said. “He was calling the right pitches. I was throwing the right pitches. That was a big part of my success.Castillo was making his 27th start of the season and said this might have been his best performance to date.“I’ve had a couple good ones Aaron Sanchez Jersey , but I felt really, really good in this one,” Castillo said. “I faced a really good team that’s trying to get into the playoffs. To be able to perform and do what I did tonight was really good for me.”David Hernandez and Raisel Iglesias completed the two-hitter, which was the Reds fifth shutout of the season.Suarez keyed a three-run outburst against Daniel Poncedeleon (0-1) in the fourth. Joey Votto broke the scoreless tie with a run-scoring double. Scooter Gennett followed with a hit to set the stage for Suarez’s drive off the wall in left. Suarez, who has hit safely in 11 successive games against St. Louis, pushed his RBI total to 98,.Barnhart added a run-scoring single in the seventh.Poncedeleon, in his third major league start http://www.bluejaysfanproshop.com/authentic-curtis-granderson-jersey , retired the first 10 batters he faced on 43 pitches. But the next six hitters reached safely ending his night after 3 1-3 innings. Poncedeleon gave up three runs on five hits. He struck out four and walked one.“I think I lost the arm slot on my fastball,” Poncedeleon said. “I was searching out there.”St. Louis has won 20 of its last 26 and has a 29-14 record since manager Mike Shildt took over for Mike Matheny on July 15.TRAINER’S ROOMCardinals: OF Marcell Ozuna was activated from the 10-day disabled list prior to the contest. Ozuna has been bothered by right shoulder inflammation. He is expected to start on Sunday.RHP Adam Wainwright tossed five shutout innings in a rehab outing with Triple-A Memphis in Nashville on Saturday. He gave up five hits, struck out seven and walked two in a 90-pitch outing. Wainwright has missed 98 games with elbow inflammation.UP NEXTRHP Anthony DeSclafani (7-4, 4.34) will face Luke Weaver (7-11, 4.59) in the final game of the three-game series on Sunday. DeSclafani has gone at least six innings in each of his last five starts with a 3-1 record and a 2.62 ERA over that span. Weaver is 3-0 lifetime against the Reds. Pitcher Danny Farquhar has started wearing custom-made head protection after suffering a brain hemorrhage last season.William Weinbaum of ESPN.com cited Outside the Lines, noting Farquhar, who signed a minor league deal with the New York Yankees after pitching for the Chicago White Sox in 2018, is wearing a six-ounce product from Unequal Technologies that is fitted for a New Era cap.Farquhar collapsed in the dugout as he left the mound during an April 20 game against the Houston Astros and underwent surgery for the brain hemorrhage."The Yankees contacted us to design something to meet with the approval of his neurologist Russell Martin Jersey ," Unequal CEO Rob Vito said. "What we made protects his temple and the skull area where he had surgery."The White Soxannouncedin May he was discharged from the hospital and expected to pitch again even though he was ruled out for the rest of the 2018 season.He threw out the first pitch for the team before a June game against the Milwaukee Brewers and was joined at the mound by his family, teammates and the medical team that helped him recover.Farquhar has a 3.93 ERA and 1.26 WHIP in 253 career appearances for the White Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners and Tampa Bay Rays.