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Philadelphia 4, St. Louis 0: Kyle Kendrick threw a seven-hitter for his first career shutout, winning his first game of the season and putting the Phillies on the verge of their first four-game sweep in St.

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How on earth do the Rockies win when the match-up is Christian Friedrich vs. Johnny Cueto and lose when it's Jeremy Guthrie vs.

John McDonald hit a three-homer and Milwaukee's Zack Greinke had his worst outing of the season in the Arizona Diamondbacks' 8-5 victory over the Brewers on Saturday night.

Here's a Cincinnati Reds Scoreboard Stumper question that wouldn't force fans to dig into their memory banks but still would have the same desired challenging effect: If you guessed catcher Ryan Hanigan, you may have received some weird looks from your friends.

The ups and downs of the past year are starting to take their toll on Pirates fans everywhere, an emotional roller coaster that started like April and has continued during this Jekyll and Hyde season for the Bucs in 2012.A The Pirates are sitting at 21-24, 4.0 games out in the dilapidated N.L. Central - a division that is starting to resemble a ... (more)

Chris Heisey and Ryan Ludwick both hit three-run homers to lead the Cincinnati Reds to a 10-3 rout of the Colorado Rockies on Saturday.

Two games qualifies as a winning streak, right? I mean, technically anytime you win a game followed by another game, you're on a winning streak.

As the Reds are in the midst of playing their best baseball of the season, manager Dusty Baker said the game has come easy to his players.

CINCINNATI - Todd Helton homered and drove in three runs Friday night, leading the Colorado Rockies to a 6-3 victory that ended the Cincinnati Reds' longest winning streak of the season at six games.

Following a four-game series sweep of the Braves , the Cincinnati Reds find themselves atop the NL Central with a record of 25-19. Winners of six in a row overall, the Reds have mostly relied on pitching; during their streak, they have allowed more than three runs just once - a 6-5 victory over the Yankees in the Bronx.

Who needs an Iron Chef with wacky recipes? The Reds have cooked up a six-game recipe with two dominant ingredients.

Fingers crossed Nick Masset should be throwing some baseballs today. He hasn't thrown in over a month due to soreness in his shoulder.

Since starting the season 4-8, the Reds have proceeded to win 19 of 30 games. Not that it matters at all right now, but they're currently .5 games behind the reeling Red Birds, who are getting a short vacation from havoc in San Diego.

Yes, there are obvious ones. But it doesn't take into account plays that could not be made by another team's defense, nor plays made that others could not make, which are scored errors.

When Reds pitcher Mike Leake hit his first career home run Monday night off Braves starter Mike Minor at Great American Ballpark, it landed directly in the lap of 20-year-old casual-turned-hardcore fan Caleb Lloyd , who was sitting at the edge of the left field bleachers.

Day 3 in the Queen City, and the Braves are still looking for their first win in this four-game series against the Reds, who've played ball the last two nights as if someone left the ballpark in a dryer too long and shrunk it.

Welcome to the abbreviated blog, wherein we'll discuss the worst-to-first nature of the Braves' first two pitchers in this series - Mike Minor last night, Brandon Beachy tonight - and the ridiculous odds defied by a fan catching home runs hit by consecutive batters three pitches apart.

For the first month and a half, we watched a lineup that couldn't seem to hit when its collective life and the games, depended on it.

Carlos Pena follows his fourth-inning, three-run home run off Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Drew Hutchison.