Alex Wood pitched 6 1/3 innings for the win

Mat Latos is searching for his old self on the mound and so far coming up short in three starts for the Los Angeles Dodgers. “Some of his misses were by such a significant margin that there was obviously something that was off with him”.

“I’ve thrown enough”, Hatcher said. “Turn the page. It’s done and over with”. “It was exciting. I fed off it. I’m anxious to go back to the hospital and see my son”.

Reds rookie left-hander David Holmberg took the brunt of the beatdown, charged with seven runs on five hits in two 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. The Dodgers announced that Ron Roenicke will replace Lorenzo Bundy as the team’s third base coach, starting with Tuesday’s game.

Lamb has been lights out in AAA this season, going 10-2 with a 2.67 ERA and 117 strikeouts over 111.1 innings pitched. In 21 interleague starts in his career, Latos is 9-4 with a 3.93 ERA, with 116 strikeouts and 41 walks in 130⅔ innings.

“He asked how I felt, but also gave a semi-scouting report”, Greinke said.

The Oakland Athletics just can’t seem to string anything positive together in 2015 which is why they are down in the standings.

Byrd scored two batters later on a sacrifice fly by Billy Hamilton. L.A. maintained a 2 1/2-game lead over the San Francisco Giants in the National League West.

Even as he raised his batting to.226, Greinke said hitting remains a supplementary part of his game.

On Sunday, he hit a go-ahead home run to win his eighth straight decision, lowering his major league-leading ERA to 1.58 with seven sharp innings as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Cincinnati Reds 2-1.

Joey Votto drove in all three of Cincinnati’s runs, including a two-run homer that left the Reds trailing 5-3 in the sixth. Barnhart walked and then Jason Bourgeois and Hamilton each singled to load the bases for Phillips.

Greinke became the first Dodger pitcher with multiple home runs in a single season joining Darren Dreifort (3) and Chan Ho Park (2).

Trevor May (8-8) gave up two runs on five hits in three innings in his first start for Minnesota since moving to the bullpen in early June.

The game time temperature was 90 degrees on what had been a scorching day by Los Angeles standards.

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.

Sam Dyson (1-1) worked two scoreless innings in relief of starter Martin Perez.

John Lamb was waiting to make his major-league debut for the Cincinnati Reds when he spotted Vin Scully on the video board talking about him and his grandfather.

Lamb, who played high school ball about an hour south of Los Angeles in southern Orange County, was one of the players the Reds acquired for right-hander Johnny Cueto in a deal with the Kansas City Royals last month.