The other flu victims are Drew Stubbs, Zack Cozart, Logan Ondrusek, Brandon Phillips, Todd Frazier and Joey Votto. These players went to Kings Island on the off day Monday but the exact cause is unclear.
Votto is playing. Cozart is missing his second straight game. "Zack is better but we want him to stay out another day," Dusty Baker said. "It is hot today and we have a day game tomorrow which doesn't help much when you're weakened."
Stubbs is out his ninth day of a strained oblique. Stubbs had been running and was supposed to take batting practice Wednesday but that was scratched.
On Monday the Reds were down to a two-player bench. "We don't want to use Stubbs because if we need to disable him we lose the nine retroactive days," Baker said. A player can be put on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to the day after his last game. If he plays, the 15-day clock starts over.
If Leake is not feeling up to pitching on Thursday, one of the Reds options is a bullpen day. To carry this off, the Reds need Latos to pitch deep into the game on Wednesday.
Dusty Baker would not say what the commonality was among the effected players but Phillips did.
"We went to Kings Island. I was with Todd Frazier. He threw up a little bit and I had diarrhea," Phillps said. "A couple guys had IV. I wasn't as bad as they were."
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