After scoring 20 runs on 31 hits in the first two games, the Reds had just one hit, a single by former Indian Jason Donald. Joey Votto was on base twice with walks but didn't have to run the bases to test his surgically corrected knee. Neftali Soto reached base via a walk in his first at bat. Soto had four hits on Saturday. His streak of five straight plate appearances ended on a ground out.
"Joey got on base. We're looking good. We didn't win but we played better," Dusty Baker said.
The Reds' pitching had been drawn and quartered by the Tribe in the first two games, allowing 24 runs and 31 hits.
On Sunday, Sam LeCure, Manny Parra, Jose Arredondo, Logan Ondrusek, Josh Ravin, Drew Hayes and J.J. Hoover had shut-out stuff.
"At least we got good pitching," Baker said. "LeCure was good. He was very good.
Manny Parra was good. Arredondo looked good. Ravin was pretty good.
Hoover looked very good."
LeCure, the staff Swiss army knife, was fine with his outing.
"It's always good to get out there and have some kind of measuring
stick," LeCure said "You can throw all the bullpens and even live batting practice
doesn't prepare you to go out there and face hitters. I was able to
keep the ball down. That's something we've been working on anyway.
Honestly the results were probably a little bit better than I thought
I threw the ball."
The only runs scored because of a wind-blown, ground-rule double by Omir Santos off Ravin drove in two runs. Santos scored on a double by Carlos Moncrief.
The wind was blowing out at over 30 miles per hour. The expectation was that there would be a lot of runs scored for the third straight day.
"We had that wind-blown double," Baker said. "You know it was going to rear its
ugly head some point in time today. We didn't win but we played better."
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