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GAME LOG
PHOENIX (AP) -- Cincinnati manager Jack McKeon didn't get any
arguments Sunday when he pulled his starters early.
Aaron Boone had a career-high five RBIs and Barry Larkin went
4-for-4, including a double in Cincinnati's five-run first inning,
as the Reds beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 14-2.
Larkin was one of several Cincinnati regulars taken out of the
game after the top of the fifth -- another five-run outburst. They
included Ken Griffey Jr., who argued with his father, Reds coach
Ken Griffey, after being pulled out of Saturday's game.
"They didn't complain today," McKeon said with a laugh. "They
already had their work in."
Boone, Chris Stynes and Alex Ochoa each had three hits for the
Reds, who finished with a season-high 20 hits off six pitchers.
"You go through up and downs during the season," said Boone,
who hit his second homer in as many days. "I've felt the last
three weeks that I've gotten my hits but I never felt locked in.
This makes for a nice day."
The 14 runs were the most at Phoenix by a visiting team.
"It sure was nice to sit back and relax and not put a lot of
pressure on our pitcher," McKeon said. "We needed one like
that."
The Reds added two runs each in the second and fourth innings to
build a 14-1 lead.
Denny Neagle (7-2) scattered eight hits in seven innings and
helped his own cause with a double and an RBI single.
"That's definitely a bonus," Neagle said of his 2-for-4 day.
"Anytime you can get a 'two-for' as a pitcher, that's really
fun."
Steve Finley hit his 24th home run for the Diamondbacks, a solo
shot in the fourth.
Omar Daal (2-9), who has not pitched past the fifth inning in
his last three starts, allowed seven runs and seven hits in 1 1/3
innings with three walks -- two intentional. He hasn't won since May
25 against Pittsburgh and has lost six of his last seven decisions.
"I've just got to go out and do my job," Daal said. "It's not
like this year is going to end next week. I've got to get ahead of
the hitters. When I get behind 2-0, I want to throw a strike so I
throw it right down the middle. That's when they get their base
hits."
Stynes led off the game with an infield single and Larkin lined
a double off the bullpen wall in left. Griffey, back in the lineup
after twisting his right knee Saturday, hit a soft grounder to
first to score Stynes for a 1-0 lead.
Dante Bichette singled home Larkin, and Boone walked. Daal
struck out Dmitri Young, and Ochoa hit a two-run double off the
wall in right-center field to make it 4-0.
Daal intentionally walked Benito Santiago and Neagle blooped an
RBI single to left.
Mike Morgan, who started and took the loss on Friday, gave up a
two-run single to Boone in the second.
Game
notes
The game was interrupted in the top of the fifth by a fan
running in from right field and sliding head first into second
base. ... Finley has homered in four of his last five games after
going 20 games without one. ... The Reds are 15-6 against the
Diamondbacks and have won eight of the last nine. ... Young, one of
two Reds' starters not to get a hit, struck out three times. ...
The Reds placed RHP Manny Aybar on the 15-day disabled list with a
strained right groin and purchased the contract of RHP Andy Larkin
from Triple-A Louisville. Aybar was ejected from Saturday's game
after hitting Tony Womack with a pitch.
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