05/13/2008 - Cincinnati, OH (Baseball Betting) - Edinson Volquez continued his strong rookie year, holding the Marlins to one run in six innings, but Cincinnati's 5-3 win over Florida came coupled with the loss of shortstop Jeff Keppinger, who left with a broken kneecap after fouling a ball off his left knee.
Keppinger, who leads the club with a .324 batting average and 21 runs batted in, fouled a ball off the kneecap in the second inning, but remained in the game until he was lifted in the fourth. X-rays revealed the fracture, and he is scheduled to undergo an MRI on Wednesday.
Volquez (6-1), meanwhile, scattered seven hits and two walks while fanning five for the Reds, who have won three of four, including the first two of this four-game set. Joey Votto went 2-for-3 and hit a solo homer for Cincinnati.
Mark Hendrickson (5-2) was roughed up for eight hits and four runs in five innings, walking five and striking out four to take the loss. Cody Ross hit a pinch-hit solo homer to make it a two-run game in the eighth, but that was as close as the Marlins would get. Florida had won seven straight prior to this series.
Ross' homer to left with two outs in the eighth cut the deficit to 5-3, and Reds closer Francisco Cordero walked Jeremy Hermida to start the ninth. A wild pitched moved Hermida to second, but Edwin Encarnacion made consecutive great plays to throw out Hanley Ramirez and Jorge Cantu on groundouts. Cordero then fanned Dan Uggla to nail down his seventh save.
The Reds touched Hendrickson for two runs in the second, but lost their shortstop in the process. Votto walked, Jerry Hairston Jr. singled to left, and David Ross worked a one-out walk, loading the bases for Volquez. The pitcher grounded right back to his counterpart, and Hendrickson threw home for the second out, bringing Ryan Freel to the plate.
Freel ran out a grounder to the right side, sliding into first just ahead of Hendrickson covering to plate the first run. Keppinger then fouled a pitch off his left knee, breaking his bat in the process. He grimaced in pain and walked the injury off for a bit before stepping back in and working a walk to force in another run.
Brandon Phillips then flied out to right to end the threat. Keppinger stayed in the game for two more innings, but was lifted for pinch-hitter Corey Patterson in the fourth. Hairston moved to shortstop from right, Freel moved over to right, and Patterson came in to play center.
The Reds added a run in the third on an RBI groundout by Adam Dunn.
The Marlins loaded the bases with one out against Volquez in the fifth, and Ramirez brought in one run with a sacrifice fly to right. Volquez then walked Cantu, but was able to bear down and punch out Uggla to end the threat.
The Reds tacked on another run in the fifth when Hairston doubled to left with two outs, stole third, and came home on Ross' bunt single.
Uggla made it a 4-2 game with an RBI single in the seventh, but Votto's leadoff homer in the home half of the frame restored the three-run lead.
Game Notes
Reds outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. took the night off. Griffey, who is three home runs shy of 600 for his career, has not homered since April 23, and committed a two-run error on Monday...Volquez is the second pitcher in 60 years, the first since Oakland's Mike Norris in 1980, to allow one or zero runs in his first eight starts...Ross' pinch-hit homer was the third of his career.
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