The Price was wrong.
Manager Bryan Price did not get his fourth win as the Reds' manager because Tampa Bay's David Price threw 8 1/3 innings of shutout baseball at the Cincinnati Reds in a 2-1 loss.
Reds' ace Johnny Cueto was solid again. He pitched seven strong innings, allowing just five hits. One of those hits was a home run by Matt Joyce and another was a ground single to left by Evan Longoria in the first inning. Cueto did walk four, including two that set the table for the Rays' thirdbaseman.
"I didn't feel right in the first inning," Cueto said. "I'm human and reacted to some close pitches that went against me but I was careful not to let the umpire see it."
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He has pitched seven innings in all three of them, allowing just five runs for a 2.14 ERA but is 0-2.
The Reds wasted a leadoff double by Mesoraco in the third and Brandon Phillips in the fourth.
"You hate to waste good pitching," Bryan Price said. "We've played good defense and made some big pitches. We're not built just to move runners along. We may do some things at the bottom of the lineup and the top but the middle of our lineup is built to drive in runs. They will be driving them in at some point."
The Reds managed just four hits off Price, the Vanderbilt grad, now has the highest winning percentage of any pitcher active pitcher with at least 150 starts.
Joey Votto hit his first home run of the season off Price with one out in the ninth. Rays' manager Joe Maddon replaced his starter with Grant Balfour, who was in the Reds' organization in 2006 but never pitched in the majors. He was rehabbing his shoulder when he met his current wife Angie Kist from Colerain.
Balfour had trouble closing out the Reds. He struck out Ryan Ludwick looking. It was Ludwick's fourth strikeout of the night. Balfour walked Jay Bruce, Todd Frazier and Devin Mesoraco but caught pinch hitter Brayan Pena looking for the third out to end the game.
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