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				<title><![CDATA[Cueto, Reds beat slumping D-Backs 1-0]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By JOE KAY
AP Sports Writer

CINCINNATI(AP) -- They saw him reach for his back on the mound.
They saw him stretching in the dugout. The Arizona Diamondbacks
knew Johnny Cueto was hurting.

With the exception of a comeback grounder off his leg, they
couldn't touch him.

Cueto overcame a stiff back on Wednesday night, and Joey Votto
singled home a sixth-inning run that sent the Cincinnati Reds to
a 1-0 victory over the slumping Diamondbacks, who have trouble
getting the ball out of the infield these days.

Arizona has lost nine of 11 due largely to an offense that's
among the NL's worst. The Diamondbacks managed only two hits,
and neither left the infield. Cueto (8-4) went six innings and
allowed only an infield single that deflected off his leg. The
bullpen gave up a bunt single.

"It's frustrating," Arizona manager A.J. Hinch said. "We were in
position to put a couple of good at-bats together, and we
didn't."

Jon Garland (4-8) pitched six solid innings but couldn't break
the longest losing streak of his career. The right-hander hasn't
won since May 19, going 0-6 with a pair of no-decisions. Blame
Arizona's offense, which has scored three or fewer runs in five
of those games.

"I think over my last six or seven, I've gone out and given my
team a pretty darn good chance to win the ballgames," Garland
said. "That's my job. If I keep throwing the ball the way I did
tonight and in a few of those previous ones, it will turn
around."

The Diamondbacks had their best chance in the seventh, when
Gerardo Parra bunted for Arizona's second hit and Arthur Rhodes
loaded the bases with two outs on a pair of walks. Felipe Lopez
flied out to end the threat.

Francisco Cordero pitched a perfect ninth for his 19th save in
20 chances, completing Cincinnati's seventh shutout of the
season.

Cincinnati scored in the sixth with a pair of hits over the
infield. Chris Dickerson hit a soft liner to center for a
single, advanced on a groundout and came around on Votto's
single to center, another ball that found the right spot.

Since he was reinstated from a stint on the disabled list for
anxiety issues, Votto has gone 11 for 32.

Reds manager Dusty Baker held a team meeting in before the game,
assembling all 25 players in his spacious office. Baker doesn't
hold many team meetings, but sensed that his club - which has
been stuck around .500 - needed encouragement.

"You just feel it," Baker said. "Sometimes you've got to use
your office to do more than just chastise."

Cueto gave a reassuring performance that got Cincinnati back to
break-even at 38-38.

The 23-year-old righty made an attention-grabbing debut against
the Diamondbacks last season, allowing only one hit - Justin
Upton's solo homer - during seven innings of a 3-2 win.

He was in deep trouble early Wednesday, walking four of the
first eight batters in part because of a stiff back. He grabbed
his lower back after one pitch, bringing Baker and a trainer
from the dugout.

"Very concerned," Baker said. "When we went out to talk to him,
even the umpire said he wasn't himself, and umpires know
pitchers as well as anybody. You could tell his velocity wasn't
there, but then I looked up and it was 93, 94 mph, so I guess it
cleared up."

Trainers worked on his back between innings and got it to loosen
up. He stretched in the dugout between innings and got through
the problem, allowing only Lopez's infield single. He retired
the last 12 batters he faced.

"Sometimes, pitchers go through stretches in games where they
don't have their best stuff," Votto said. "He didn't have his
good stuff early, but he got locked in."

NOTES: The Diamondbacks plan to activate RHP Yusmeiro Petit off
the DL to start Saturday against Colorado. Petit has been out
since May 9 with a sore right shoulder. In five rehab starts,
Petit is 0-1 with a 6.89 ERA. "He hasn't pitched as well as we
would have liked," Hinch said. "He is healthy." ... The Reds
called up INF Drew Sutton from Triple-A Louisville and optioned
reliever Jared Burton, adding depth to their injury-depleted
infield.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:54:46 GMT</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Arizona (30-46) at Cincinnati (37-37), 7:10 p.m. EDT

With a stellar performance on the mound and at the plate from
the NL's ERA leader, the Arizona Diamondbacks ended a
season-high five-game losing streak and an equally long skid to
the Cincinnati Reds.

The teams continue their three-game set Wednesday night, and
it's the Reds who will send one of the league's top pitchers to
the mound in Johnny Cueto as they look to even the series.

Arizona's Dan Haren lowered his NL-best ERA to 2.19 on Tuesday
night, giving up one run over seven innings in a 6-2 victory. In
snapping his team's five-game slide, Haren took a no-hitter into
the fifth inning and struck out nine while walking one.

He also doubled and hit his first career home run as the
Diamondbacks (31-46) snapped a five-game skid to the Reds and
won for the second time in eight games at Great American Ball
Park.

Cueto (7-4, 2.86 ERA) has been nearly as good as Haren this
season, posting an ERA that is fifth in the league. He is 2-0
with a 2.37 ERA in three starts against the Diamondbacks,
although he allowed five earned runs in each of his last two
outings this season.

Cueto benefited from one of his team's best offensive
performances  of the year May 13, when he beat the Diamondbacks
10-3 at Arizona with seven innings of three-run ball.

Cincinnati (37-38) managed only six hits Tuesday after getting
24 runs and 49 hits while winning three of its previous four.
Catcher Ramon Hernandez doubled for the third time in four
contests and got his fourth RBI in that span to end Haren's
shutout bid.

"Ramon has been one of our best, clutch RBI guys," manager Dusty
Baker told the team's official Web site. "Even though his
average isn't indicative, but his runners in scoring position
(.321 average) and his RBI total (32) is."

The Diamondbacks, batting .246 this season to Cincinnati's .247,
had 12 hits Tuesday to give them 27 in the past two games.

Miguel Montero preceded Haren's solo shot with a two-run homer
for one of his three hits, and Mark Reynolds had a two-run
single among his three.

Montero is 7 for 13 over the past three games to raise his
average from .229 to .255.

The Diamondbacks lineup will try to give more support to
right-hander Jon Garland (4-7, 5.04), who is 0-5 with a 5.40 ERA
in his last seven starts. He has received 2.6 runs per outing
since his last win May 19 at Florida.

Garland posted a 3.10 ERA in his last three starts. He gave up
six runs - four earned - in 6 1-3 innings of Arizona's 9-8,
12-inning loss Thursday night, and has pitched at least six
innings in each of his previous five starts.

The right-hander is 1-1 in two starts versus the Reds. He threw
eight innings of one-run ball in an 8-1 victory for the Chicago
White Sox on June 18, 2006, but gave up seven runs in 3 2-3
innings of a 13-5 loss last May 11 with the Diamondbacks.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:36:04 GMT</pubDate>
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