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CINCINNATI (AP) -- Milton Bradley is making the most of the
opportunity.
Appearing in only his 34th big league game, Bradley twice gave
Montreal the lead -- the second time for good -- and the Expos beat
the Cincinnati Reds 9-5 Saturday night.
"When I get the opportunity to go out there and show what I can
do, that's all I can do," said Bradley, who spent last year in
Double-A.
He tripled in a run to give Montreal a 3-2 lead in the fifth. He
singled in two more to give the Expos a 6-4 lead in the sixth.
"We hit. We have other problems, but we hit, no doubt about
that," Montreal manager Felipe Alou said.
Felipe Lira (4-5) earned the win with 2 2/3 innings of relief,
allowing two runs and two hits.
The victory snapped Montreal's three-game losing streak and
prevented Cincinnati from winning three in a row at home, something
the Reds have not done in three months.
Trailing 4-3, Montreal scored three times in the sixth on an RBI
single by pinch-hitter Wilton Guerrero and a two-run single by
Bradley.
Ron Villone (9-8) allowed seven hits and walked five in 5 2/3
innings.
"He had been burning me with fastballs," Bradley said of his
fifth-inning at-bat. "I was trying to stay back and he hung a
change-up."
The result was a triple that rolled to the wall after center fielder Ken Griffey Jr., tried to make a diving catch.
"Griffey helped out a little bit when he laid out," Bradley said.
Montreal starter Trey Moore walked five batters in 2 1/3
innings, giving up only two runs after loading the bases three
times.
"That's some miracle," Alou said.
Feeling slightly desperate after three straight losses, Alou
ordered the squeeze bunt that scored a run and gave Montreal a 2-1
lead in the third.
"We said yesterday that we were going to start doing some crazy
things," Alou said. "We put on a hit-and-run with two outs for
the first time in my life."
When Moore left in the third, Lira got Chris Sexton to ground
into an inning-ending double play.
But Lira gave up two runs in the fifth when Chris Stynes
singled, Griffey doubled and both scored on consecutive sacrifice
flies by Dmitri Young and Sean Casey.
The teams traded pinch-hit solo home runs in the eighth. Andy
Tracy homered, his seventh of the year, off Cincinnati reliever
Mark Wohlers, and Mike Bell got his first major league homer off
Montreal's Steve Kline.
Vladimir Guerrero hit his 32nd homer of the season with a
two-run shot in the ninth off Larry Luebbers, making the score 9-5.
Guerrero had three hits, including a triple in the second inning
that frustrated Villone.
"Vladimir's ball hits the lip (of the artificial turf) his
first time up," Villone said. "It seems like those things are
always happening to us this year.
"Those are the kinds of things that make you want to sit down
and examine everything, but it'll drive you crazy if you do."
Game notes
Cincinnati recalled IF Bell, OF Brady Clark and IF D.T.
Cromer, and purchased the contract of OF Kimera Bartee from
Triple-A Louisville. ... The Reds transferred IF Aaron Boone to the
60-day DL. He had ACL surgery on his left knee Aug. 8. ... The
Expos were 8-20 in August, their worst record for that month since
the opening season for the franchise in 1969 (8-23). ... RHP Julio Santana will start in place of Lira on Tuesday at St. Louis. It will be Santana's first start since going to the bullpen July 21.
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