There’s a lot going on in this one. The game was a back-and-forth, homer driven affair. The Indians jumped Eric Milton for two in the first, but the inning ended with Victor Martinez out trying to score from first on a double. Scott Elarton promptly yielded back-to-back homers to Ken Griffey (the 515th of his career) and Joe Randa to leadoff the second, but Jose Hernandez put Cleveland back on top with a leadoff homer in the bottom of the frame. The Reds came right back with a tally in the third, but Hernandez’ second leadoff homer in the fourth put the Tribe back in front.
From there, each team managed only a couple of baserunners until Griffey hit his second homer to tie it in the eighth of Scott Sauerbeck. Interestingly, fellow lefty Arthur Rhodes relieved Sauberbeck after the homer. In the ninth, Felipe Lopez drove home the winning run for Cincinnati with a double off Bob Howry. Edwin Encarnacion was 0-4 making his major league debut.
No comments:
Post a Comment