Reds Pound White Sox

Former Red Adam Dunn crushed a Homer Bailey pitch high off the batter's eye in centerfield with two men on but Chris Heisey and Jay Bruce connected for back-to-back home runs to beat John Danks and the White Sox 10-6

Bailey was better than the five runs (four earned) the White Sox scored off him but the Reds gave Chicago two extra outs in the first inning.

Todd Frazier dropped a foul pop up to allow another former Red, Dewayne Wise, a chance to hit a single.  Leftfielder Chris Heisey misplayed a fly ball by Dayan Viciedo to push Bailey's pitch count up.

Brandon Phillips had two hits in his first game back from the World Baseball Classic.

Derrick Robinson had three of the Reds' 13 hits, including a double.  Robinson signed a minor league contract with the Reds. He had been in the Kansas City organization. Robinson is playing in place of Shin-Soo Choo, who is out with back spasms.

Heisey had an RBI single in the first and his third home run came with two men on off Danks in the fourth.  Bruce also hit his fourth.

Todd Frazier drove in two runs with a single.  Devin Mesoraco had a single to boost his average to .440 on the spring.

Bailey gave up three in the first and two in the third.  Gordon Beckham hit his second home run of the spring and Viciedo tripled home a run.

Bailey finished with 4 1/3 innings, allowing five runs (four earneed) on nine hits and a walk. He fanned five.

"I feel good, that's the most important thing," Bailey said. "I need to work more from the stretch a little bit and my curveball. It might be me. It might be the thin air but I need the curve to get better."

Baker thought Homer did all right considering the circumstances.

"Homer looked pretty good. Our defense didn't help him. We gave them a lot of outs in the first inning. That's how his pitch count got up. He threw the ball well though. They used the DH and we didn't, that gave them another offensive player. Plus they have a good hitting lineup."  

"The main thing is we got our offense going," Baker said. "But we didn't play very good defense."   

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