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Great throw by Valentine...Oh wait your not supposed to throw it in the outfield when you are trying to throw someone stealing out.:(
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Jesus HMS Christ!!!!!!!!! Five damned errors in less than 3 innings??? You've got to be kidding me.![]()
he didn't take any balls and drop them over the fence.
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CUBS 4 | REDS 1
Maddux beats Reds for his 320 th victory
Cincinnati has all kinds of trouble in field, commits five errors
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Rick Gano
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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CHICAGO — Greg Maddux’s final performance as a 30-something pitcher was like so many others during his long career. Efficient, quick and well-conceived.
Now it’s time to move on. To his next start in five days and to another decade of life. He turns 40 in two days. And what’s he expecting from that milestone?
"Hopefully the same as the 30s," he said yesterday after beating the Cincinnati Reds 4-1 for his 320 th career win. "I don’t know. We’ll see. I’ve never been 40 before."
Maddux (2-0) allowed three hits and a run in six innings against a Cincinnati team that hit six homers the day before when, like yesterday, the wind was blowing out in Wrigley Field.
"It’s a factor, don’t kid yourself. You feel fortunate to only give up one run on a day like this. Any fly ball is going to go out," Maddux said. "Luckily today they didn’t hit too many too high in the air. . . . Sometimes you get lucky and they don’t pop it up as high off you."
Not only could the Reds not repeat their homer surge of Tuesday, they had trouble making plays in the field yesterday. They had five errors, all by the third inning, and third baseman Edwin Encarnacion committed three.
"We played about as bad as we could in the first three innings," said Reds manager Jerry Narron, whose team had just four hits.
"You make more errors than you get hits and you still feel like you got a chance to win the game. . . . But the first three innings made me sick."
Cincinnati has another concern. Center fielder Ken Griffey Jr. left the game in the fourth inning after two plate appearances because of stiffness in the back of his right knee, an injury he said is not serious. The injury happened during batting practice when he was chasing fly balls.
"It didn’t really bother me. It just tightened up a little bit. That was it," Griffey said, adding he didn’t know whether he could play today.
Maddux didn’t surrender a hit until Encarnacion hit an RBI double after a two-out walk to Adam Dunn in the fourth. The Reds threatened in the sixth after two singles, but Maddux fanned Dunn and got Encarnacion on a fly ball to end the inning. Maddux finished with two walks and seven strikeouts.
Reds starter Brandon Claussen (0-1) gave up five hits and four runs, three earned, in five innings but didn’t get much help in the field.
"Mistakes happen and there is nothing you can do about it," Claussen said.
Cincinnati’s fielding woes started immediately. Juan Pierre bunted for a hit leading off and after Derrek Lee walked with one out, they pulled off a double steal that prompted a wild throw into left field from Reds catcher Javier Valentin for the first error. That allowed Pierre to score and Lee to reach third. He later scored on Michael Barrett’s sacrifice fly.
First baseman Scott Hatteberg dropped a throw to allow Pierre to reach leading off the third. One out later, Encarnacion made his second error of the game with a poor throw to first on Lee’s grounder. After Pierre and Lee worked their second double steal, Barrett hit a hard grounder to third that Encarnacion fumbled for his third error and the Reds’ third of the inning. Pierre scored for a 3-0 lead.
Griffey injury not serious
Slips chasing fly ball in BP and later leaves game, but could play today
BY JOHN FAY | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER
<!--ARTICLE BODY TEXT-->CHICAGO - The field at the friendly confines of Wrigley Field is notoriously unfriendly to knees and ankles.
Reds outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. found that out Wednesday while shagging fly balls during batting practice. Griffey hurt his right knee and left in the fourth inning after starting in the 4-1 loss to the Chicago Cubs.
"I don't think it's any secret that this surface here is not the greatest in the world," Reds manager Jerry Narron said.
Griffey was chasing a fly ball when he slipped.
"I hyper-extended it a little bit," he said. "It just stiffened up on me."
The injury isn't believed to be serious. There's a chance Griffey could play in the serious finale today at 2:20 p.m.
"We'll see how he is (today) when he comes in," Narron said.
Griffey was walking without a limp and did not wrap the knee after the game.
Griffey, 36, has a long injury history. In 2002, he played just 70 games; in 2003, 53 games; and in 2004, 83 games. He missed a month in 2002 with a torn patella tendon in the right knee.
Narron talked before the game about his plan to give Griffey a day off occasionally. Griffey has started all seven games so far.
"We've had some days off. It's allowed us to play him every day," Narron said. "We'll see how he does this weekend. I know he's not going to want a day off or like a day off this early."
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Reds notebook
Hammond hopes he is rounding into form
BY JOHN FAY | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER
<!--ARTICLE BODY TEXT-->CHICAGO - Here's a stat for you: In 2002, Chris Hammond gave up eight earned runs in 76 innings over 63 games. This year, Hammond has given up eight earned runs in one inning over four games.
Hammond's ERA for Atlanta in 2002 was 0.95, which is as ridiculous as his current mark of 72.00 - down from 189.00 after Tuesday's outing.
Hammond, a 40-year-old left-hander, saw Tuesday's outing as an encouraging sign, despite the fact he allowed a run on two hits in two-thirds of an inning.
I felt like I was right there," he said. "It gave me some confidence."
Reds manager Jerry Narron agreed.
"I thought he threw better," Narron said.
"He threw more strikes. He was having trouble locating pitches, throwing strikes."
The confidence factor is the reason Narron pulled Hammond rather than let him face Aramis Ramirez and try to finish the inning.
"Just the way the wind was blowing, I didn't want to see him give up four or five runs there," Narron said.
"I thought our best matchup was with Rick White."
Hammond said he thinks his problem is he's flying open too early in his delivery.
"(Pitching coach) Tom Hume said something to me about it," Hammond said.
Hammond threw bullpen sessions Sunday and Tuesday to try to work out the kinks.
"In the first one, I threw 45 pitches trying to get it right," he said. "(Tuesday), I got it in 15 pitches."
Hammond signed as a free agent Dec. 20. He's due $800,000, so the Reds will give him every opportunity to find his form.
But left-hander Brian Shackelford is pitching well at Louisville. Shackelford had not allowed a run in 31/3 innings going into Wednesday. He had struck out five and walked one.
LaRUE PLAN: Catcher Jason LaRue, rehabbing from knee surgery, was scheduled to play for the Single-A Sarasota Reds on Wednesday night.
FARM REPORT: Left-hander Travis Wood, the team's No. 2 pick last year, pitched five shutout innings in Single-A Dayton's 2-1 win over Lansing. He struck out 10 and allowed only four hits.
Top prospect Homer Bailey fell to 0-2 with Sarasota. He went 52/3 innings, allowing three runs on seven hits in a 4-2 loss to Clearwater on Tuesday. He struck out five and walked none.
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Historic homers<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=6 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=storytext bgColor=#eeeeee>Reds pitcher Bronson Arroyo joined some select company with his two homers in two starts.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau:
He is the first pitcher in history to homer and to earn a victory in his first two starts of the season.
He is the second pitcher in the designated-hitter era to hit a home run off the same pitcher in two different games in the same season.
He is the first pitcher in modern history to homer in his first two official at-bats of the season.
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