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HOUSTON (AP) -- Mitch Meluskey hit a three-run home run and Scott
Elarton limited Cincinnati to four hits in seven innings as the
Houston Astros won 10-3 Sunday night, snapping the Reds' six-game
winning streak.
Houston won for the first time in three games and improved to
6-12 at Enron Field, the Astros' new ballpark.
Meluskey's homer, his fifth of the year, broke a 2-2 tie in the
fifth inning. He drove in Jeff Bagwell, who was hit by a pitch, and
Richard Hidalgo, who walked. Meluskey, who was 2-for-4 with two
runs scored, hit the first pitch over the right-field wall.
Elarton (2-0) allowed two runs, struck out a season high eight
and walked five. He protected Houston's four-run lead in the
seventh, fanning Dmitri Young with the bases loaded.
Young, who was 0-for-4 with a walk, had his career-high 18-game
hitting streak -- the NL's longest this season -- snapped.
Steve Parris (2-5) lasted six innings and allowed six runs on 10
hits. He struck out three and walked four.
The Reds took a 2-0 lead in the first when Dante Bichette
singled to left-center, driving in Sean Casey and Ken Griffey Jr.
Bill Spiers, who went 3-for-4, drove in Hidalgo from second with
a single to left center, cutting the deficit in half. The Astros
then loaded the bases on Meluskey's single and a walk to Elarton.
Roger Cedeno hit into a double play that scored Meluskey and tied
it at 2.
After Meluskey gave the Astros the lead in the fifth, Bagwell's
RBI double in the sixth made it 6-2. Houston added four runs in the
eighth, highlighted by Bagwell's two-run single.
Reds first baseman Sean Casey and third base coach Ron Oester
were ejected by plate umpire Mike Van Vleet after arguing a called
third strike in the fifth inning.
Juan Castro's triple to left center in the eighth off Joe
Slusarski drove in Eddie Taubensee with Cincinnati's final run.
Game notes
The attendance was 41,882, the Astros' seventh sellout in
18 home games ... Pokey Reese and Cedeno each stole one base to
remain tied for the NL lead with 14. ... Reds pitchers lead the
majors with 32 wild pitches.
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