Reds calling up prospect John Lamb for Major League Baseball debut

Billy helped fuel the Cincinnati Reds to a W over their former teammate, Mat Latos, in the first game of a 4 game set against the Los Angeles Dodgers, and he did so with the sweet, sweet dulcet tones of Vin Scully calling every minute of it. We keep going. What do you want me to say? J.P. Howell served up Hamilton’s home run two innings later.

“There’s nothing like runs early, and then add-on runs”, Reds manager Bryan Price said.

“I need to get back to pitching like me instead of trying to fool everybody”, Latos said.

“It’s going to be unusual for him, for sure”. He allowed just two runs on five hits over 5.0 innings. He struck out seven and walked one in his first matchup against his old team since being traded by the Reds to Miami last December. He spent his best years with the Reds going 33-16 with a 3.31 ERA and threw over 200 innings in 2012 and 2013 helping Cincinnati reach the playoffs in each of those seasons.

The total has gone OVER in 6 of LA Dodgers’s last 8 games. “Turn the page. It’s done and over with”.

“I’ve gotta get back to the way I used to throw and not try to become something I’m not”.

Yadier Molina tripled in the go-ahead run in the sixth inning when right fielder Gregory Polanco missed an attempted shoe-top catch and Michael Wacha got his 14th win to tie for the major league high as the St. Louis… Phillips’ groundout to the pitcher scored Tucker Barnhart, who walked.

Phillips and Suarez had back-to-back RBI doubles in the fifth, keeping the Reds ahead 5-1. The former Dodgers utilityman, now playing for the Cincinnati Reds, took a second to hug Clayton Kershaw behind the batting cage.

Kershaw tied Sandy Koufax’s franchise record of six straight 200-strikeout seasons while tossing eight scoreless innings in the Dodgers’ 3-0 victory. The Dodgers won two of three against the Phillies, but the Pirates swept the Dodgers in a three-game series.

Dodgers: INF Justin Turner was reinstated from the 15-day DL after recovering from a right thigh skin infection that he said was MRSA, a contagious and antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria. The fourth start was by Ricky Nolasco, who lasted four innings in a Game 4 loss to the St Louis Cardinals in the 2013 National League Championship Series. It was his second home run since the All-Star break and his 22nd of the season, which leads all major league rookies.

This isn’t the first time a Dodgers columnist has called out the team for not having a good enough “third wheel” in the starting rotation.

“I always think I’m safe”, he said.

A newcomer to the Reds in last month’s Johnny Cueto trade that also sent Brandon Finnegan from the Kansas City Royals, Lamb is 1-1 with a 2.65 ERA in three appearances for the Bats.