Reds Beat White Sox

 By:  Cooper Ledford


The regular season is only three days away, but for now, there is still Spring Training Baseball.  With that, the Reds were visiting the Chicago White Sox in Glendale, Arizona.  It looked as if it would be a pitchers duel as it was Mike Leake pitching for Cincinnati, and Danks for the South-siders.  It ended up being a nice batting practice for the Reds, and a struggle for the White Sox, as the Reds won 9-1.  Wanna know how?  Good, here you go.


To start the scoring, in the 2nd inning, Jonny Gomes hit a solo home run, 1-0 the score.  Then in the top of the 5th, with two men on, Drew Stubbs hit a 3-run jack to right field, it was 4-0 Redlegs.


The Sox would answer back in their half of the 5th when Brent Lillibridge hit an RBI single to plate Quentin, it was 4-1.


But, not for too long.  In the 8th inning, some guy I have never head of, his name is Brian Barton, hit a 3-run home run, deep to left field, and the Reds had a 7-1 lead.  And then to make things better, another guy I have never head of, Mike Costanzo, went yard with a man on, a 2-run homer, and that would make the score 9-1, and that's how she finished.  But, not without some sweat and somewhat of a threat.  In the bottom of the 9th, Matt Maloney was pitching, there were 2 outs, and the bases loaded, the batter was Adam Dunn.  But, Matt was able to strikeout Dunn to finish the game.


Mike Leake is the winner, as he had a nice game, going 5.2 innings, did give up 6 hits, 1 ER, walked 2, and sat down 3 via strikeout. 


Tomorrow the Reds will play their final Spring Training Game as they play visitor to the Cleveland Indians.  Game time is at 3:05 PM ET, and will not be televised.  Then the Reds will hop on a plane to go back to Cincinnati and get ready for Opening Day, Thursday.