Reds fall under .500

By: Cooper Ledford
The Cincinnati Reds had Homer Bailey on the mound vs. Rodrigo Lopez. In the top of the 4th inning bases were loaded with no outs and batting was Laynce Nix, Nix hit a single to score Hairston to make it 1-0 Reds were on top. Then in the same inning Ramon Hernandez hit a sac fly to score Votto from 3rd to make it 2-0 Cincinnati. The Phillies would get right back in the game in the bottom of the 4th when Ryan Howard hit an RBI to score Victorino to make it 2-1 Reds were still winning. Then in the bottom of the 6th Homer Bailey gave up a solo home run to make it a tie game at 2. Not much happening until the 9th inning when Dusty Baker made a pretty bad decision on my opinion when he kept David Weathers in insted of bringing in Francisco Cordero. There was a runner on 1st and second, 2 outs, and the batter was Victorino. Victorino hit it to shallow left-field to score the runner from 3rd and give the Phillies a walk off win. The final 3-2 Phillies beat the Cincinnati Reds. Homer Bailey did have a great night, threw over 90 pitches, allowed 2 ER, no walks, gave up 7 hits, and struck out a career high 6 batters. How ever the Reds still lost as they failed on offense late in the game. The winner is Madson and the loser is David Weathers. Tomorrow the Reds will try to tie the series at 2 as Micah Owings will try to get the win. The game is at 7:05 televised on FSN Ohio, and on the radio on the big one, 700 WLW.