Baseball Cities Tour

Game 20 of 30

July 7, 2007 — Great American Ballpark, Cincinnati, OH

Team	R	H	E
Diamondbacks	4	7	1
Reds	5	8	0

Highlights

I have to say this was kind of a snoozer for most of the game with the fans seemingly more excited about the Brandon Phillips jersey give-away than the possibility of earning their 35th win against 52 defeats which has them mired in last place in the NL Central Division. The Reds worked themselves to a relatively early 4-1 lead with the highlight being a 2 run homer in the bottom of the 5th by Edwin Encarnacion who was a 3rd inning replacement for lead off hitter Josh Hamilton who somehow mysteriously injured his wrist in the on-deck circle. Reds starter Homer Bailey (2-2 w/ 6.10 ERA) held the D-Backs to a single run thru the first five and veteran reliever Mike Stanton pitched to the minimum batters in the 6th & 7th. Todd Coffey failed to record an out in the eighth as he gave up successive singles to pinch hitters Augie Ojeda & Miguel Monterro batting for the number 8 & 9 hitters and then surrendered a base clearing homer to Eric Byrnes to tie the game at 4 runs apiece. Coffey was lifted in favor of Jon Coutlangus who allowed a single to Stephen Drew but then got Orlando Hudson to ground into a twin killing and finished out the inning by getting cleanup hitter Mark Reynolds to ground out to short. The D-Backs brought in left-handed reliever Doug Slaton to spell starter Brandon Webb to start the eighth and he got Ken Griffey Jr. to pop to second for the first out. Arizona then brought righty Tony Pena in to face Brandon Phillips who reached on a bunt single. Adam Dunn followed with a fly ball out to center that moved Phillips to 2nd. Left handed hitter Scott Hatteberg was intentionally walked and Norris Hopper followed with a single to score Phillips with what would prove to be the winning run. The winning margin might have been greater but Hatteberg was thrown out at the plate attempting to score on a single by Alex Gonzalez to end the inning. Reds closer David Weathers pitched the ninth to record his 17th save of the season.