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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Barry Larkin didn't realize he'd hit the
first of five RBI singles in Cincinnati's six-run third inning.
|  | | Demtri Young of the Cincinnati Reds smiles after falling in left field and still making the catch against the Giants. |
"Interesting," he said. "This game is tough in the fact that
you go out there one day and the ball hits the hole hard every
time, and other days you go out and you can't get a break."
Larkin was 4-for-5 with an RBI Wednesday in the Reds' 7-5
victory over the San Francisco Giants.
It was Cincinnati's sixth straight road win, the team's longest
streak away from home since winning eight straight from June 9-27,
1999.
The Giants lost consecutive games at Pacific Bell Park for the
first time since dropping a pair against the Diamondbacks last
Sept. 22-23.
The Giants failed to fill Pacific Bell Park for the second
straight game after a string of 90 straight sellouts. The team drew
40,763, 296 short of capacity.
The Reds went up 6-2 in the third inning with seven hits off
Kirk Rueter (2-2). Larkin got things started with an RBI single,
scoring Jason LaRue.
Alex Ochoa, Sean Casey, Aaron Boone, and Juan Castro also had
RBI singles in the inning and Ruben Rivera drove in a run with a
groundout.
"That's just the way we're playing right now," Dmitri Young
said. "You can't always go for the long ball. We're finding ways
to get it done."
Shawon Dunston narrowed it with an RBI double off Osvaldo
Fernandez (4-1) in fourth. Rich Aurilia's single scored Dunston to
make it 6-4.
Eric Davis' RBI groundout in the seventh brought the Giants
within one run, but Ochoa added an RBI single for the Reds in the
ninth.
Fernandez allowed four runs and eight hits over five innings,
with two walks and two strikeouts. Danny Graves pitched the ninth
for his sixth save.
Aurilia was also 4-for-5 with an RBI.
"Larkin had a pretty good night. Aurilia had a pretty good
night, too." Reds manager Bob Boone said. "I guess it was
shortstop night."
Ken Griffey Jr., still rehabbing his injured left hamstring,
pinch hit for Fernandez in the sixth inning with one out and LaRue
on third.
After he was intentionally walked by Rueter, Griffey was
replaced by pinch runner Donnie Sadler. Griffey waved to the crowd
as he walked back to the dugout.
Rueter allowed six runs and 11 hits through 5 1/3 innings. He
walked two and struck out two.
"It was a weird inning," Rueter said of the third. "It's just
one of those things. It seems that everything they put the ball on
fell in."
The Giants took a 2-0 lead in the first inning on Barry Bonds'
two-run double.
Young slipped but still managed to catch Bonds' second-inning
pop-up to left with a long reach while sitting on the grass.
The victory extended Cincinnati's NL-record streak of not being
shut out to 183.
Game notes
Aurilia matched his career high with four hits. ... The
Giants were 336 fans short of a sellout Tuesday. ... Giants 3B Russ
Davis began serving a two-game suspension Wednesday for a spring
training scuffle with Chicago Cubs' pitcher Julian Tavarez. The
suspension was reduced from three games to two. ... LaRue's triple
in the sixth was the first of his career. ... Cincinnati has batted
.448 against the Giants over the first two days of the series. ...
The last time the Giants gave up seven hits in an inning was on
April 22, 1999, against Colorado.
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