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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dante Bichette was back in the cleanup spot
for the Cincinnati Reds and looked as if he belonged there.
Bichette went 5-for-6 Wednesday night, the second five-hit game
of his career, and drove in four runs as the Reds beat the Los
Angeles Dodgers 10-3.
"Skip said, 'OK, you're back in the four hole; go with it,' "
Bichette said after he doubled in two runs and had a pair of RBI
singles to help the Reds rally from an early 3-0 deficit.
"I hope I can stay with it a little while and feel comfortable
there. That's more of what I envisioned the season being like _
them walking Griffey and I come through a couple of times. We need
that a little more often."
Cincinnati manager Jack McKeon was impressed with the
performance by Bichette, who had been batting fifth or sixth.
"Hopefully, we're seeing the Dante we knew we were getting,"
McKeon said. "I could see he was starting to hit the ball
better."
Before the game, 16 Dodgers players and three coaches were
suspended for three to eight games apiece and fined for their roles
in a May 16 brawl with fans at Wrigley Field in Chicago. But the
Dodgers all appealed, meaning the suspensions can't start until
after hearings.
Dodgers manager Davey Johnson wasn't sure the proposed
suspension had any effect once the game began. Los Angeles jumped
out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning.
"We started just fine," Johnson said. "Then we went cold."
Pokey Reese, whose fielding error in the first led to three
unearned runs for the Dodgers, started a four-run seventh with a
leadoff homer off Chan Ho Park (4-4) as the Reds turned a 3-2
deficit into 6-3 lead.
Reese's drive tied it at 3, with the ball barely clearing the
outstretched glove of center fielder Todd Hollandsworth.
Cincinnati third baseman Aaron Boone wasn't surprised Reese
atoned for his error.
"We don't let things fester. We know you have a chance to
redeem yourself all the time. I think that's one of the qualities
of this team -- we don't get down on ourselves," Boone said. "That
was the case tonight with Pokey."
Park, one of the players who drew suspensions, hit Michael
Tucker in the foot with a pitch following Reese's second homer of
the season. Matt Herges relieved and walked Ken Griffey Jr. after
Tucker stole second.
Bichette singled home the go-ahead run, and ex-Dodger Juan
Castro capped the rally with a two-run single after Hal Morris was
intentionally walked with two outs.
Cincinnati extended the lead in the eighth on a Griffey's
run-scoring groundout and Bichette's RBI single.
Scott Sullivan (1-2) allowed two hits in three scoreless
innings.
Cincinnati closed to 3-2 in the fifth on Bichette's two-run
double, a hard grounder that caromed off third baseman Adrian
Beltre's glove and into foul territory.
Los Angeles took the early lead after Reese booted
Hollandsworth's two-out grounder to second, allowing Mark
Grudzielanek to score from second. Beltre followed with a two-run
double.
Four of the penalized Dodgers played, including catcher Chad
Kreuter, whose confrontation with a fan began the melee in Chicago.
Green and Eric Karros were the others.
The commissioner's office thinks the suspensions are the most
ever for one fight.<
Game
notes
Bichette's other five-hit game was at Houston on April 6,
1998, when he was with Colorado. He came into the game against the
Dodgers with only three RBIs in 36 at-bats since May 11. ... Park
plunked Griffey on the outside of the right knee in the fourth
inning before hitting Tucker in the seventh. Dodger pitchers have
hit 32 batters _ most in the majors. ... LHP Trever Miller, making
his Dodgers debut after being claimed on waivers from Philadelphia
last Friday, was charged with two runs and retired only one of five
batters he faced.
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