ST Game 12: Reds 7, Blue Jays 6
By
Amanda
Posted at 8:31 pm
The Reds outlasted the Blue Jays to win 7-6 in the tenth inning in Sarasota yesterday.
Brandon “Pickle Man” Claussen got his second spring training start. He allowed two earned runs on five hits in four innings of work. He's well on his way to getting into the seventh inning, like he promised after his last start.
Jimmy Journell and Matt Belisle each contributed a scoreless inning of relief and Brian Shackelford contributed two scoreless innings. Jason Standridge's two strike outs in his inning of work were drowned out by the two home runs he allowed to blow the lead. Allan Simpson came in in the tenth to walk one, strike out one, give up an unearned run on an error he himself made, and get the unearned win in the bottom of the inning.
Third baseman Edwin Encarnación continued his spring training hotness by going 2-for-3. Dewayne Wise went 1-for-2 with a home run in the seventh inning. It was Wise's second home run of spring training, making him only the second Red with more than one home run.
The win brought the Reds record to 7-5.
And in Sunday’s game, Dewayne Wise continued his campaign to make sure that RHM will remember him by leading off the game with a dinger to right for the Reds’ only run of the ballgame. For good measure, he also walked and stole a base.
Also on the positive side, EE, the Dominican Tony Perez (or Babe Ruth, depending) went 2-for-3 with a double and is scorching the ball at a .481 clip so far this spring.
On the negative side, 11 Reds hitters struck out, and – oh yeah – they lost to the Phillies, 4-1.
HMZ