Haren pitches, hits D-Backs past Reds
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06/30/2009 - Cincinnati, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Dan Haren threw seven innings of one-run ball and added a double and solo home run at the plate to help snap the Diamondbacks' five-game losing streak with a 6-2 decision over the Reds.
Haren (7-5) struck out nine and gave up just four hits and a walk en route to lowering his National League-leading earned-run average to 2.19. The right- hander retired the first 11 hitters he faced and has allowed two runs or less in seven straight starts.
Miguel Montero and Mark Reynolds each had three hits and two RBI, with Montero's coming via the longball for Arizona, which had lost eight of nine overall.
Ramon Hernandez and Brandon Phillips each drove in a run for Cincinnati, while Bronson Arroyo (8-7) was touched for six runs -- five earned -- on 10 hits and four walks in 5 1/3 frames to take the loss, the club's sixth in nine games.
Arizona had a runner thrown out at home on two occasions early on. Jay Bruce threw out Chris Young from right field to end the second, and Jerry Hairston made a diving stop at third before nailing Haren at the plate an inning later.
The latter was the second out of the third, and Phillips' throwing error on a hit by Justin Upton put two runners in scoring position for Reynolds, whose broken-bat flare to left brought in a pair. Gerardo Parra then hit a comebacker through the middle for a 3-0 score.
Haren didn't allow a hit until Bruce's single with two outs in the fifth.
The ace turned slugger in the sixth, when he followed Montero's monstrous two- run homer with his first career round-tripper, barely clearing the left-field wall to make it a six-run game.
Back-to-back doubles by Laynce Nix and Hernandez got Cincinnati on the board in the seventh.
Tony Pena and Scott Schoeneweis combined to fill the bases with Reds in the eighth, but Jon Rauch came on to induce a meaningless sacrifice fly from Phillips and a weak pop out from Nix.
Chad Qualls retired the side in order to give the D-Backs a much-needed win.
Game Notes
The loss puts the Reds under .500 (37-38) for the season...Cincinnati swept a three-game series from the Diamondbacks in Phoenix from May 11-13 and had won five in a row and seven of its last eight matchups with Arizona...Upton had two hits for Arizona, which won despite leaving 10 runners on base...Phillips now has seven errors on the season.
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