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Reds Pitcher Wins Tenth Game

September 15th, 2005 | Blade

Believe it or not. The Reds have a 10 game winner. It took Aaron Harang almost the entire season and he’s got a couple of guys on the team nipping at his tail, but a Red finally reached the double digit mark.

Sigh.

Actually, the Reds did pretty well this week. Still without Ken Griffey, Jr. the Reds won their series at Wrigley Field against the Cubs. The previously mentioned Aaron Harang got them started on Monday by throwing 8 1/3 innings while giving up a miniscule two runs on eight hits. The Wily one went deep twice to bring his homerun total up to 18 and Javier Valetin also went yard. To boot, we beat Greg Maddux.

Tuesday was the loss. The Reds and Cubs were tied 3-3 after three innings, and neither team scored a run until the Cubs won it in the tenth. Eric Milton wasn’t horrible despite the rough start, and David Weathers was the guy who got roughed up in the tenth inning. Felipe Lopez hit his 20th homer of the season and Edwin Encarnancion hit his sixth. The Reds managed only seven hits through ten innings, and made as many errors (3) as they scored runs.

Yesterday was a pleaseant surprise. The Reds came back from being down 4-1 to tie it and Sean Casey had a bases clearing double to rack up three runs in extra frames. Todd Coffey threw two no hit innings to close out the game as he improved to 3-0.

Four against the Pirates this weekend. I doubt we’ll be on Fox this Saturday. we’re also moving up the food chain. With the Mets dropping fast, we could pass them. And heck, the Cubs and Brewers aren’t too far ahead of them. We still have a very small chance of finishing above .500, but time is running out.

I should say (and I can, since this is my site, even though Brian’s been doing most of the work recently with the 1975 Reds diary) that I’m impressed with the Reds play in the second half. The pen isn’t horrible (additon by subtraction, no more Danny Graves) and the offense has the potential of being in the top quarter of the league. If (big if) we can add some quality starting pitching so guys like Aaron Harang and Brandon Claussen are third and fourth starters instead of our top guys, I like our chances next year.

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