With marquis battiin in the 9th LaRussa did more than mosts managers do and said it's your game until someone gets on. Then someone got on right off the bat, and the matchup was unfavorable.
Sanders and Nunez helped make a winner of Jason Marquis (4-1), who pitched shutout ball into the ninth before the Reds made a game of it. Marquis was allowed to bat in the top of the ninth, but faced only one batter in the bottom half of the inning. Marquis had settled in during the middle innings, but he entered the ninth with 111 pitches already. With the heavily left-handed heart of the Reds order coming up after Ryan Freel's single, it wasn't a hard call to go to Ray King. "I would have liked to finish the game, obviously, but it's a long season," Marquis said. "I'd like to throw a complete game in September. The bullpen did the job tonight."
Sanders and Nunez helped make a winner of Jason Marquis (4-1), who pitched shutout ball into the ninth before the Reds made a game of it. Marquis was allowed to bat in the top of the ninth, but faced only one batter in the bottom half of the inning. Marquis had settled in during the middle innings, but he entered the ninth with 111 pitches already. With the heavily left-handed heart of the Reds order coming up after Ryan Freel's single, it wasn't a hard call to go to Ray King. "I would have liked to finish the game, obviously, but it's a long season," Marquis said. "I'd like to throw a complete game in September. The bullpen did the job tonight."
