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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A team was hurt by ineffective pitching and bad
luck in the late innings at County Stadium. Only this time, it
wasn't the Milwaukee Brewers.
Richie Sexson's seventh-inning single scored Geoff Jenkins with
the go-ahead run as the Brewers rallied for a 4-3 victory over the
Cincinnati Reds on Monday night.
|  | | Milwaukee Brewers left fielder Geoff Jenkins robs Cincinnati Reds' Chris Stynes of a home run in the seventh inning Monday, in Milwaukee. The Brewers won 4-3. |
Cincinnati had its four-game winning streak snapped and failed
to gain ground in the NL Central race on the St. Louis Cardinals,
who won two of three from the Brewers over the weekend. The Reds
lost on the road for just the fourth time in 13 games.
"It's tough, because we had opportunities to break the game
open and didn't cash in," Reds manager Jack McKeon said. "We had
men on base in all of the first few innings, but we didn't get
enough of them home."
Elmer Dessens (5-3), who pitched well but lost his third
straight start, held the Brewers to five hits over the first six
innings before getting into trouble in the seventh.
Jenkins, who had three hits, had a two-out double in the seventh
that scored Ron Belliard from first base and tied the game at 3.
Sexson, who also had three hits and drove in a run for the fifth
straight game, followed Jenkins with a single to center off
reliever Scott Sullivan.
"It was actually a good pitch," Sexson said. "I tried to
drive it, but I got enough of it off the end of the bat to get it
into the outfield."
The rally started when Belliard's one-out grounder up the middle
bounced high over shortstop Barry Larkin's head. Larkin said the
ball hit the hard dirt just behind second base and popped into the
air -- the kind of lucky bounce the Brewers, who have the majors'
second-worst record, haven't got much this year.
"Breaks like that will go your way sometimes," Milwaukee
manager Davey Lopes said. "If that's a routine grounder, there's
two out and we're probably not going to score. That was a little
play that made a difference."
Milwaukee snapped a two-game losing streak and overcame two
errors by rookie shortstop Santiago Perez, who was pressed into
service after injuries to Mark Loretta and Jose Hernandez.
Paul Rigdon (1-2), acquired in last month's trade with Cleveland
that also brought Sexson to Milwaukee, struggled early but calmed
down to win with the Brewers for the first time. He faced 16
batters and allowed three runs in the first three innings, but
allowed just one hit in the next four.
Curtis Leskanic got three outs for his sixth save in as many
chances.
Dante Bichette's sacrifice fly in the first opened the scoring.
Cincinnati added two more in the second when Chris Stynes beat out
an infield hit and Perez threw into the Brewers' dugout, allowing
Dmitri Young and Pokey Reese to score.
Dessens held Milwaukee hitless in the first three innings, but
Cincinnati's streak of 25 scoreless innings ended in the fourth
inning when Milwaukee got two runs on Jeromy Burnitz's RBI single
and Henry Blanco's sacrifice fly.
Ken Griffey Jr. had two hits and made two outstanding catches in center field.
Griffey made a nifty
running over-the-shoulder catch of Charlie Hayes' long fly ball in
the second inning. He made an even better play in the fifth,
sprinting toward the wall to nab a long liner by Burnitz. The catch
stranded two runners and ended Milwaukee's rally.
"We've seen that stuff all year," McKeon said. "Whenever
anybody hits one out there, you just feel like he's going to get
it."
Game notes
After the game, the Brewers placed Hernandez on the 15-day
disabled list, retroactive to Aug. 11. Hernandez is bothered by
back spasms that had him on crutches over the weekend. ... Dessens
allowed four runs and seven hits in 6 2/3 innings. ... Jenkins made
his own outstanding catch in the seventh inning, leaping at the
wall in left to rob Stynes of an extra-base hit. ... The game was
Cincinnati's first at County Stadium since the 1999 season finale,
when the Reds and Brewers sat through a 5-hour, 47-minute rain
delay before the Reds won 7-1.
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