Baseball: Futile Reds swinger sets dubious baseball record
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CHICAGO : Cincinnati Reds batter Adam Dunn set a dubious Major League Baseball record here, striking out three times to become the sport&#39;s all-time single-season strikeout king.
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Ryan Drese became an instant trivia subject on Friday night, courtesy of Ichiro Suzuki. What pitcher gave up Ichiro&#39;s record-breaking 258th hit?
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Bronson Arroyo outfoxed Barry Bonds &#151; and outhomered him, too. Bonds managed only a modest single Thursday night, stalling his chase of the home run record, while the Cincinnati Reds rolled to a 6-3 victory over the San Francisco Giants behind their power-hitting pitcher.
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Whaddya think? Let him close tonight? He threw only 99 pitches and he was still pumping high-octane gas at the end. Curt Schilling might be good for a batter or two in a pinch tonight.
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The Cincinnati Reds, tagged with the worst record in the major leagues, named advance scout Pete Mackanin as interim skipper.
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Few situations in baseball are as awkward as the legendary player whose skills have diminished greatly in the twilight of his career. Double the awkward quotient when he has spent his entire career in one city, and triple it when he is on the verge of a career-defining milestone.
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The Cincinnati Reds turn to new manager Pete Mackanin to try to jolt the major leagues' worst team out of its doldrums.
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Braves Manager Bobby Cox is one ejection shy of matching the career record after he is tossed from Saturday's game against the Phillies.
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Japan's Ichiro Suzuki is poised to break one of the oldest records in major league baseball.
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Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 587th home run Monday night, passing Frank Robinson for sixth on the career list. Griffey's 24th homer, a three-run shot into the right-field seats at Turner Field, came off Atlanta reliever Oscar Villarreal in the second inning and gave the Reds a 5-0 lead.
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Tim Wakefield is a knuckleballer. The normal rules do not apply.
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Graves, a right-hander, was out with back spasms. He leads the Reds with 37 saves. Matthews, a left-hander, had surgery in July to remove bone chips in his elbow.
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Adam Dunn reached 100 RBIs for the first time with his 44th home run, and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Cubs 8-3 on Tuesday night &#151; a loss that could be costly for Chicago in the NL wild-card race.
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So, why not 800? Is there anyone prepared to say that Barry Bonds, who hit the 700th home run of his career Friday night -- and his 701st yesterday afternoon -- can't become the charter member of the 800 club?
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CINCINNATI, United States : Former all-star Barry Larkin, who has the longest tenure of any current player with one team, was cut loose by the Cincinnati Reds.
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Exhibit A: Sometime over the next few days, a San Francisco athlete will break baseball's most treasured record. Despite his achievement of hitting more home runs than anyone else in Major League Baseball, Barry Bonds will be greeted with rage, ridicule and vast amounts of spit -- because many pe...
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The split between the Reds and Barry Larkin left the club with two very big holes to fill. The obvious one is at shortstop. The less obvious one is in the clubhouse - where he was the undisputed