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May 29, 1976 at Riverfront Stadium 

Reds 6, Dodgers 5  (26-16)

The Reds topped the Dodgers with a huge late inning rally.  The Reds actually got on the board in the first inning to take an early lead.  Pete Rose flew out to lead off the inning then Ken Griffey walked and stole second.  Joe Morgan then doubled him Griffey home and later scored on George Foster’s triple.

Jack Billingham ran into some problems in the second inning and gave up three runs and the lead.  He gave up another run in both the third and fourth innings and the Dodgers looked like they were going to cruise to an easy lead.  In the meantime, Dodger starter Rick Rhoden was handling the Reds pretty easily after running into those problems in the first inning.

In the bottom of the eighth, the Reds finally showed some life.  Tony Perez hit a solo homerun to make it a 5-3 game. 

In the bottom of the ninth and with Rhoden still on the mound, Dave Concepcion led off with single and Tommy Lasorda gave the ball to Mike Marshall out of the pen.  Cesar Geronimo then singled and moved Concepcion to second base, and then Eddie Armbrister bunted both men over to put the tying run at second base.  Pete Rose grounded out to Marshall to make it two outs and things were looking grim, but then Ken Griffey came up with a huge clutch triple that drove home both baserunners and tied the game.  Joe Morgan followed that up with a single and Griffey scored to put the game away.

Rawly Eastwick pitched a perfect eighth and ninth inning and improved to 3-2 on the season.  Pedro Borbon also held the Dodgers in check and gave up only one hit in the sixth and seventh innings. 

It was the first time the Reds were 10 games over .500 this season.

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