Hal: Greinke pitches Dodgers past Reds

“It was a close play and I didn’t know if he was going to catch it or not”, Greinke said of Puig’s attempt.

Hamilton also had two RBIs for the Reds, who piled up 15 hits while never trailing against a team coming off consecutive shutout victories.

When the beginning of the 2015 Major League Baseball season arrived in Cincinnati, prized pitching prospect Michael Lorenzen was flying with the Bats of Louisville while Reds’ fans were hoping to receive a glimpse of him later in the year. “He took a good one on the first pitch and then hit the ball hard on the second pitch, and they were both decent pitches”.

Anderson rebounded from his worst outing of the season Monday against the Washington Nationals with a quality start, allowing three runs in six innings to even his record at 7-7.

Sampson was able to work out of a second and third jam during the first inning, but Latos was unable to wiggle off the hook in his first sign of trouble in the third. “I got to worry about what I got here”. He has struck out 16 batters in 17 2/3 innings. The Dodgers’ starter, Mat Latos, was roughed up in his first start facing his former team since being traded in the winter. They have decreased their season average of 3.9 runs per game by averaging 2.7 during that stretch. He was acquired by the Dodgers last month.

“Who cares?” he said about the opponent. The 25-year-old right-hander was 2-0 with a 2.60 ERA in his previous eight road starts following back-to-back losses in Atlanta and Pittsburgh on May 1 and 7. Greinke is 5-2 with a 2.75 ERA in 10 career starts against the Reds but has struggled against first baseman Joey Votto (10-for-24, three homers, three doubles).WALK-OFFS1. Frazier’s fellow Home Run Derby finalist, Joc Pederson, cracked his 22nd home run, tops among rookies, to get L.A. on the board. That opened the flood gates against Latos as Phillips and Suarez smacked back-to-back doubles and the Reds were up four.

BREWERS 3, PHILLIES 1: Wily Peralta pitched seven scoreless innings and Jean Segura dashed home on a rare two-base sacrifice fly to lift Milwaukee to a victory over Philadelphia.

Scully mentioned in his game preview that Lamb’s grandfather John Ramsey used to be the Dodgers’ public address announcer.

DeSclafani held the Dodgers at bay until the fifth, when Pederson, who lost in the finals of the Home Run Derby at Great American Ball Park, hit his 23rd home run of the season and second of the series to tie the game at 1.

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.

In addition to limiting the Reds to a run over seven innings, Greinke belted a fifth-inning solo home run that accounted for the winning run.

Hamilton stole his major league-leading 53rd base, leaving him three shy of his career high set last season.

“I try not to overthink too much”, Greinke said of his mindset over his past 11 starts. He has performed decently in the minor leagues after a setback involving Tommy John surgery in his second year with the Kansas City organization.