Homer Bailey felt a tweak in his arm in the third inning of his last start against the Chicago Cubs.
Bailey had three surgeries in his last two years and left the game early. He was given extra rest before facing the New York Mets Wednesday night.
The Reds veteran pitched well but Rafael Montero was lights out in the New York Mets 2-0 win over the Reds. It was the Mets 15th win in the last 16 games between the two foes.
"Sometimes you have to pitch with what you have,' Bailey said. "With what I've been through, six months after surgery, it is literally one game at a time."
The Reds veteran pitched well but Rafael Montero was lights out in the New York Mets 2-0 win over the Reds. It was the Mets 15th win in the last 16 games between the two foes. The Reds were shut out for the second time in four games.
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Bailey was stingy after that, allowing a single, walk and a hit batter over the next five frames.
"After the first inning, I made them hit the ball where the fielders were," said Bailey who had one striketout.
Price felt that Bailey did all he could and wasn't going to push.
'I felt his stuff was down a tick from the 5th to the sixth," Price said. "It was reminiscent of games when he didn't have his best stuff. He managed the strike zone and worked ahead.
Tim Adleman kept the Reds in the game with three innings of scoreless relief.
Unfortunately for the Reds Rafael Montero pitched hitless baseball until Joey Votto hit a double one out into the fourth inning. Adam Duvall walked but Scooter Gennett’s weak grounder became a 4-3 double play/ The team that scored 14 runs Tuesday night was holding a scoreless bag after five innings.
The Reds pounded Mets' pitching for 14 runs on Tuesday.
"It's a strange game. We all know it. We score 14 runs, yesterday. Today we get shut out by a rookie with an ERA above 5.00," Bryan Price said. "He earned it. We didn't help him any."
Jose Peraza flied out to open the eighth as a pinch hitter for Bailey. Bailey finished with six innings of two-run baseball.
Montero, who started the 2015 Future’s game at Citi Field before the 2013 All-Star Game, took a one-hit shutout into the ninth. After a walk to Eugenio Suarez, who Montero picked off, he retired 11 straight heading into the final stanza.
Montero got pinch hitter Billy Hamilton to ground out but Philip Ervin singled. Erving went to third on Zack Cozart's double into the leftfield corner. Votto was walked intentionally, as the potential winning run. Mets' manager Terry Collins summoned A.J. Ramos into a tough situation.
In this same situation on Sunday against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Adam Duvall grounded out to end the game. Duvall was hoping to make up for it.
Duvall struck out looking.
Ramos needed to get Gennett to earn his 26th save in 28 chances. The count went full. Gennett fouled off two 3-2 pitches before he struck out swinging.
"We made a push but Ramos came in and made good pitches," Price said.
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