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Wednesday, May 24 10:05pm ET
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dante Bichette was back in the cleanup spot for the Cincinnati Reds and looked as if he belonged there. Bichette went 5-for-6 Wednesday night, the second five-hit game of his career, and drove in four runs as the Reds beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 10-3. "Skip said, 'OK, you're back in the four hole; go with it,' " Bichette said after he doubled in two runs and had a pair of RBI singles to help the Reds rally from an early 3-0 deficit. "I hope I can stay with it a little while and feel comfortable there. That's more of what I envisioned the season being like _ them walking Griffey and I come through a couple of times. We need that a little more often." Cincinnati manager Jack McKeon was impressed with the performance by Bichette, who had been batting fifth or sixth. "Hopefully, we're seeing the Dante we knew we were getting," McKeon said. "I could see he was starting to hit the ball better." Before the game, 16 Dodgers players and three coaches were suspended for three to eight games apiece and fined for their roles in a May 16 brawl with fans at Wrigley Field in Chicago. But the Dodgers all appealed, meaning the suspensions can't start until after hearings. Dodgers manager Davey Johnson wasn't sure the proposed suspension had any effect once the game began. Los Angeles jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning. "We started just fine," Johnson said. "Then we went cold." Pokey Reese, whose fielding error in the first led to three unearned runs for the Dodgers, started a four-run seventh with a leadoff homer off Chan Ho Park (4-4) as the Reds turned a 3-2 deficit into 6-3 lead. Reese's drive tied it at 3, with the ball barely clearing the outstretched glove of center fielder Todd Hollandsworth. Cincinnati third baseman Aaron Boone wasn't surprised Reese atoned for his error. "We don't let things fester. We know you have a chance to redeem yourself all the time. I think that's one of the qualities of this team -- we don't get down on ourselves," Boone said. "That was the case tonight with Pokey." Park, one of the players who drew suspensions, hit Michael Tucker in the foot with a pitch following Reese's second homer of the season. Matt Herges relieved and walked Ken Griffey Jr. after Tucker stole second. Bichette singled home the go-ahead run, and ex-Dodger Juan Castro capped the rally with a two-run single after Hal Morris was intentionally walked with two outs. Cincinnati extended the lead in the eighth on a Griffey's run-scoring groundout and Bichette's RBI single. Scott Sullivan (1-2) allowed two hits in three scoreless innings. Cincinnati closed to 3-2 in the fifth on Bichette's two-run double, a hard grounder that caromed off third baseman Adrian Beltre's glove and into foul territory. Los Angeles took the early lead after Reese booted Hollandsworth's two-out grounder to second, allowing Mark Grudzielanek to score from second. Beltre followed with a two-run double. Four of the penalized Dodgers played, including catcher Chad Kreuter, whose confrontation with a fan began the melee in Chicago. Green and Eric Karros were the others. The commissioner's office thinks the suspensions are the most ever for one fight.< Game notesBichette's other five-hit game was at Houston on April 6, 1998, when he was with Colorado. He came into the game against the Dodgers with only three RBIs in 36 at-bats since May 11. ... Park plunked Griffey on the outside of the right knee in the fourth inning before hitting Tucker in the seventh. Dodger pitchers have hit 32 batters _ most in the majors. ... LHP Trever Miller, making his Dodgers debut after being claimed on waivers from Philadelphia last Friday, was charged with two runs and retired only one of five batters he faced. | ALSO SEE Baseball Scoreboard Cincinnati Clubhouse Los Angeles Clubhouse 19 Dodgers suspended for fight with fans at Wrigley
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