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CINCINNATI (AP) -- Steve Parris has found very little difference between winning and losing.
After going 5-14 in the first four months, Parris won his
seventh straight start as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Milwaukee
Brewers 6-4 Friday night.
"I told you a hundred times -- well, 14 times -- that things
weren't as bad as they seemed," Parris said. "And now, I've got
to be honest, I don't think I'm pitching as good as the results
indicate."
Parris (12-14) allowed two runs on five hits in six innings. He struck out six and walked four. He has not lost since the New York Mets beat the Reds 3-2 on Aug. 1.
"When you throw strikes and make them hit the ball, you have a
chance to be a winner," Reds manager Jack McKeon said.
Parris is throwing more strikes while serving up fewer home run
pitches. He allowed 19 home runs in the first half of the season,
and seven since the All-Star break.
"He's always been a pretty tough pitcher," said Milwaukee
manager Davey Lopes. "He's got quality stuff."
Danny Graves pitched a perfect ninth for his 29th save. Graves, whose locker is between Parris and Pete Harnisch in the Reds' clubhouse, said the pitchers all try to keep each other loose.
"This is a fun corner, whether you're going good or bad. People
over here keep you upbeat," Graves said. "We've got to be sure
nobody stays down too much.
"You have a couple bad outings and you start to wonder why you're here. Steve could have shut it down, but he kept going out every fifth day."
Jamey Wright (6-8) allowed four runs on seven hits in five
innings.
The Reds took a 3-1 lead in the third inning when Wright loaded
the bases on two walks and a single by Pokey Reese. Dmitri Young
followed with a sacrifice fly and Sean Casey added an RBI single.
Cincinnati added a fourth run in the fifth inning on an RBI
single by Alex Ochoa, who was 2-for-3 and scored two runs. He is
12-for-22 (.545) in the past six games.
The Brewers closed to 4-2 in the sixth inning on a solo home run
by Mark Sweeney, his first of the season.
Cincinnati made it 5-2 in the sixth on a pinch-hit RBI single by
D.T. Cromer.
Milwaukee closed to 5-4 in the seventh when Scott Sullivan
allowed consecutive homers to Geoff Jenkins and Richie Sexson.
It was the fifth time this year the Brewers have hit
back-to-back homers.
The Reds scored the final run in the eighth as Ochoa walked and
came home on Chris Stynes' triple.
Cincinnati took a 1-0 lead in the second as Ochoa doubled,
advanced to third on a balk by Wright and scored on a wild pitch.
Milwaukee tied the game at 1 in the third inning as Mark Loretta
doubled, went to third on Parris' wild pitch and scored on Jeromy
Burnitz's sacrifice fly.
Game notes
The Reds have a club record and major league-leading 90
wild pitches, one short of the NL record shared by the 1970 Astros
and 1989 Phillies. The major league record is 94 set by the 1986
Texas Rangers. ... Scott Williamson has 21 of the Reds' 90 wild
pitches. He has missed one start and will miss at least one more
because of two broken toes in his right foot. He threw on the turf
Friday and will throw from the bullpen mound on Sunday as the Reds
monitor his progress. ... Ken Griffey Jr. ran at half speed Friday,
and the Reds reaffirmed the prognosis that Griffey would be out 5-7
days with a partial tear of his left hamstring suffered Monday.
Griffey could return early next week during a three-game series in
San Francisco. ... Jenkins has homered in two consecutive games
against the Reds. ... The Brewers' 6-2 record against the Reds is
tops this year.
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