Marquee Lights Go Out On Jason Marquis

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It was less than a marquee night for Reds' veteran Jason Marquis, or the smokestack on the Riverboat replica in right centerfield. in a 10-2 Giants win.

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Only when the movie theaters showed the Titanic did a movie marquee promote such a disaster.

Alright, that was a stretch, but when the light hitting Giants got a three-run, two-out home run from Brandon Belt, his first of the season, one could say it looked like a bad night.

It was and it got worse. With Star Wars characters all over the park, the rightcenterfield smokestacks caught fire. It emitted heavy smoke for two innings until the Cincinnati Fire Department put it out. The Reds pitching staff never did put out their fires.

"Marquis just had a lot of location mistakes," Bryan Price said. 'When he's really good he keeps the ball down."

Marquis wants to figure things out but was unable to adjust during the game.

"I have to figure things out," Marquis said. "I try not to think about it during the game. I threw a sinker in to Belt. Brayan Pena said that I got it in far enough but he was able to get the barrel of the bat to it."

Zack Cozart, last year's radio talk show whipping boy, made the Reds feel a little better with a home run, his sixth in the bottom of the first. Cozart started the season 1-for-12 prompting an "i-told-you-so" looks but since then, he was 34-for-97 (.351). He hit just four home runs last season.

"Cozart has been great," Price said. "He had such a bad year last year and struggled to begin this season but he found a flaw in his swing over the winter and has worked on it. I have never seen him swing the bat like this."

The Giants tacked on three more in the third and last inning for Marquis. Buster Posey hit a two-run home run and Casey McGehee, scuffling along at a .187 clip drove in a run with a single.

Burke Badenhop appears to have turned the corner with two scoreless innings for the Reds.

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Billey Hamilton hit his third home run on the fifth hit the Reds got off World Series MVP Madison Bumgarner.  The left-hander finished with seven innings, allowing seven hits and two runs.

Hamilton played near the flaming smokestack while it was at its worst.

"I wanted no part of it," Hamilton said. "It was shaking. I saw it shake, like it was going to blow up or something. You still have to stay focused, it's like when there is 35,000 fans in the stands. You still have to stay in the game."

The Giants added three more runs off Miehael Lorenzen, making his first relief appearance, in the seventh.

Ryan Mattheus allowed a run in his Reds' debut.