Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Diamondbacks	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	0	7	10	0
Reds	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	0

Boxscore

A lightning storm blew through before the game, prompting the team to open the gates early to let the fans who were already waiting in line for their Jay Bruce bobbledheads find shelter. The rain made the bobblehead boxes soggy, but it didn’t cancel the game, which was maybe too bad for the Reds.

Mat Latos was the starter and he had his worst appearance since that debacle against the Indians last month. He only worked 4.2 innings, but he gave up 5 runs (earned) on 6 hits and 2 walks.

Sam LeCure scorelessly finished the fifth and took on the sixth. Bill Bray got a chance in the seventh and didn’t allow so much as a hit.

Jose Arredondo didn’t fare so well. He gave up 2 more runs (1 earned) on 3 hits before he could get the third out in the eighth. Logan Ondrusek finished off the inning and the game with no more runs, but it was far too late by then.

There wasn’t much scoring to talk about on the Reds’ part, but there were plenty of hits. Drew Stubbs continued his shocking about-face toward goodness by going 2-for-4 with the team’s only RBI.

Todd Frazier, who’s got some pretty big shoes to fill while filling in at first base, also went 2-for-4. His AVG is .277 (second highest in the line-up last night to Brandon Phillips) and his OBP is .343 (second in the line-up last night to Ryan Hannigan). They aren’t Joey Votto numbers by a long shot, but if there’s a silver lining to the arthroscopic cloud, it may be consistent playing time for Frazier.

The loss brings the Reds record to 51-40 and pushes them back into a tie with the Pirates. They try to split the 4-game series today at 12:35 p.m. Mike Leake (3-6, 3.96 ERA) defends against Joe Saunders (4-6, 3.52 ERA).

Fresh off a one-out save that many feel was a waste, Cincinnati Reds reliever Aroldis Chapman will be appearing in court today regarding his speeding charge from last May.

Chapman was charged with going 93 miles-per hour in a 65 miles-per-hour area on Interstate 71.

Chapman, who holds the current record for the fastest pitch speed in Major League Baseball at 105.1 mph, is scheduled to appear at 1 p.m. before Magistrate Donald Breckenridge in Grove City Mayor’s Court, a court employee said this morning.

The original hearing date, scheduled for June 6, was postponed until today from a request from Chapman’s lawyer. Considering his suspended license, hopefully, Chapman is driven to the hearing.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Diamondbacks	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	2
Reds	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	-	4	5	1

Boxscore

After dropping the first game of the series, the Reds bounced back yesterday with a 0-4 win.

Johnny Cueto started for the Reds after being pushed back a couple days with a blister problem. It must have been mostly cleared up, though, because he worked 6.0 innings of shutout baseball. He gave up 4 hits and 4 walks and found himself pitching out of jams later in the appearance, which is how he ended up with a pitch count of 105 despite the short (for him) appearance.

Jose Arredondo and Sam LeCure pitched the seventh and eighth innings, respectively. Each gave up one hit and zero runs. Sean Marshall came in for the ninth, but just when you thought he might finish a game out, Baker swapped him out for Aroldis Chapman for the last out of the game. There were two guys on, making it a save opportunity for Chapman, but it seems like kind of a dick move to yank Marshall. I wish Dusty Baker were as hard on actually bad players as he’s been on Marshall.

The offense was a one-man story. Ryan Ludwick owns all three of the Reds’ RBI for the night (the first run having come on a wild pitch and therefore didn’t have a corresponding RBI). He hit a long ball over the left field wall while Zack Cozart and Brandon Phillips were on to provide plenty of padding for the rest of the game.

There were a lot of walks to be had last night; in fact, the Reds got on base more from walks (6) than from hits (5). The much maligned Drew Stubbs got aboard twice: once on a hit and once on a walk. That’s just the same as Cozart and Ludwick (and once less than Scott Rolen, who walked twice) but it feels like more of an accomplishment in Stubbs’ case.

The win brings the Reds’ record to 51-39. Tonight the series continues with Arizona at 7:10 p.m. Mat Latos (7-2, 4.10 ERA) defends against Ian Kennedy (6-8, 4.55 ERA).