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SNS sports mobileArroyo can't make it out of fourth inning
Thursday, April 24, 2008
CINCINNATI — It wasn't the kind of game new Cincinnati Reds General Manager Walt Jocketty wanted attached to his name as his first game, nor was it the kind of game pitcher Bronson Arroyo wanted attached to his name, ever.
For the fifth straight time this season, Arroyo didn't make it beyond 52/3 innings, this time only 32/3 horrendous innings, as the Houston Astros obliterated the Reds 9-3.
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It was the eighth straight time this year the Reds have lost the opener of a series, and this one was made possible by Arroyo giving up eight runs and a cacophony of 10 hits.
"I can't figure it out," he said. "I feel good physically, no, I feel great physically. I've watched video, and there is nothing to see. I'm just getting beat, man, nothing else to it."
Said Reds manager Dusty Baker, "Boy, he is going crazy. We're trying to help him figure it out, and right now we don't have answers. He had better location tonight, but not velocity (88 miles an hour to his normal 91)."
Ken Griffey Jr. powered his 597th career home run in the first inning to give the Reds a 1-0 lead, then came Houston's run avalanche, then a ninth-inning home run by Edwin Encarnacion, his team-leading sixth, extending his hitting streak to a career-best 13.
