Heisey Stars With Bat and Glove in Reds 6-5 Win Over Mets

Chris Heisey hit a three-run home run and made a dazzling catch to put the Reds over the top in the Big Apple.

With the Reds trailing 4-3 in the seventh inning, Heisey followed singles by Joey Votto and Jay Bruce, by greeting Josh Stinson with a long home run to left field. It is Heisey's 18th of the season and gave him an even 50 RBI on the year.

Heisey kept the Reds close with a diving catch of David Wright's line drive to the gap in left center.  The Mets had runners on first and second with two outs. The blow would have scored two unless runners, Jose Reyes or Willie Harris pulled up lame scampering to the plate.

Logan Ondrusek will take the win but Wright's line drive came on a 3-1 pitch and was the only batter "Big" Ondrusek faced.

Nick Masset and Jose Arredondo held the lead to turn it over to Francisco Cordero.

Homer Bailey pursued his 10th win of the season, his nine wins remain a career high.

Bailey pitched out of trouble in the first but could not repeat his escape act in the third with a 2-0 lead.

Jose Reyes and Ruben Tejada singled off Bailey with one out.  Bailey worked on Wright and made some good pitches but Wright being the good hitter that he is, took a 3-2 pitch up the middle to get the Mets within a run.

Nick Evans doubled out of the wrong barrel to right field to put the Mets on top.

Heisey had a big role in getting the Reds even.  He bunted for a hit, then stole second.  Dave Sappelt delivered Heisey with a ground single to left.

Bailey has touched for a triple by Jason Pridie one out into the fourth inning.  Bailey committed a "Cardinal" baseball sin by walking rookie pitcher, Chris Swinden.  A strike out would have gone a long way to extricating himself from the inning.  Reyes hit a fly to right to put the Mets back on top.

The Reds showed the main reason they will not be in the playoffs in the sixth.

Cincinnati loaded the bases with no one out in the sixth. Heisey and Juan Francisco singled to open the frame off former teammate, Daniel Ray Herrera.. Sappelt laid down a great bunt.  He was credited with a sacrifice but it could have been scored a hit. Instead, Wright was charged with a tough error.

The Reds imploded from there.  Needing a big hit to put Bailey in position for his 10th win, Devin Mesoroco tried to do too much with a good pitch to hit and popped it up in front of the plate against Ryota Igarashi.  Yonder Alonso batted for Bailey.  He struck out swinging on a 3-2 pitch.  Brandon Phillips, who ended the game with an average at an even .300, grounded meekly to second.

Coco Cordero gave up a leadoff double then hit Wright with a pitch.  He got out of the inning by turning Evans bunt into a force at third.  Cordero got Josh Thole to hit a 1-0 pitch to Phillips, who started a 4-6-3 double play.  It was Cordero's 326th career save that ties Roberto Hernandez for 12th place on the all time list.  He passed John Franco, a former Met that attended the game, to become second on the Reds career save list with 149.