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Friday, Jun. 30 10:05pm ET
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PHOENIX (AP) -- Pete Harnisch is back. Maybe the Cincinnati Reds are, too. Harnisch, just off the disabled list, got his first victory of the season and drove in the go-ahead runs with a bases-loaded single Friday night as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-4. The have never lost at Bank One Ballpark in their seven appearances over three seasons. It was a big start to a seven-game road trip that includes three more in Arizona and three in St. Louis. Harnisch, in his first outing since May 5, gave up a two-run home run to Jay Bell, the second batter he faced, but then shut out the Diamondbacks the next five innings. "Except for the two-run homer in the first inning, he was like the Pete Harnisch of old," Cincinnati manager Jack McKeon said. Harnisch (1-4) had been out nearly four weeks with weakness in his rotator cuff, one of several problems plaguing Cincinnati's starters. He entered with a 9.95 ERA. "I hadn't been out there in a long time," Harnisch said. "It was a little weird being out there, but I think I got a little more comfortable after the first inning was over, and I got a little more aggressive." Danny Graves got five outs for his 12th save in 13 opportunities. Ken Griffey Jr. was 0-for-4, only the second time he failed to get a hit in 15 games. "If you're going to win it all, it's got to come from everybody," said Dante Bichette, who was 3-for-4 and scored three runs. "Everybody's got to chip in. It can't be Junior every night. We did that tonight. We had some RBIs late in the lineup." Tony Womack led off the game with a single, then Bell hit Harnisch's 2-0 pitch into the left-field seats, his ninth homer of the season but first since June 2. Harnisch allowed only two hits after the first inning. In six innings, he gave up two runs on five hits, struck out five and walked three. "We couldn't put together any runs against Pete," Bell said. "He kept the ball down better than I've seen him a long time. We hit the ball well, but we just hit it at people all the time." Down 5-2, Arizona scored twice in the eighth on wild pitches by Dennys Reyes and Graves. Reyes walked Bell to lead off the inning, then Luis Gonzalez singled to put runners on first and third with no outs. With Finley up, Bell scored on Reyes' wild pitch. Finley struck out, and the closer Graves came in. Graves struck out Cabrera, but with Lee up, was called for a balk that allowed Gonzalez to go to third. Gonzalez score on Graves' wild pitch before Dmitri Young's diving catch in left field ended the inning. "We like to make it interesting," McKeon said. "We like to sweat 'em out." Mike Morgan (3-2), taking injured Todd Stottlemyre's spot in Arizona's rotation, allowed four runs on eight hits in five innings. He walked two and didn't strike out anyone. Bichette led off the second with a double, moved to third on Sean Casey's ground out and scored on Aaron Boone's sacrifice fly to make it 2-1. The Reds scored three runs in the fifth. Consecutive singles by Bichette, Casey and Boone loaded the bases with one out. Bichette scored the tying run on Eddie Taubensee's groundout to shortstop, then Morgan walked Pokey Reese intentionally to load the bases for Harnisch. Harnisch singled to left to drive in two runs and put the Reds up 4-2. "I thought I hit three pretty good ground balls tonight," Harnisch said. "That's like a 5-for-5 night for a position player, and one of them actually went through." The inning ended when Womack threw out Reese trying to score from second on Larkin's grounder after the throw to second too late to force out the runner. The Reds added a run in the eighth on Boone's RBI single. Game notesReyes gave up a run for the first time in six games. ... Cincinnati was 3-0 in Phoenix in 1998 and 3-0 in 1999. ... Larkin hit his 350th career double in the third inning. ... Womack saved a run when he made a diving stab of Dmitri Young's sharp grounder and threw him out to end the third. ... Morgan, 40, has played for a major league-record 12 teams, including Cincinnati. | ALSO SEE Baseball Scoreboard Cincinnati Clubhouse Arizona Clubhouse RECAPS Minnesota 7 Cleveland 2
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