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Wednesday, Sep. 27 8:05pm ET
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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The fireworks started long before the game ended. The Milwaukee Brewers outscored the Cincinnati Reds 10-6 Wednesday night and outhomered them 4-3, including one from starting pitcher Paul Rigdon. "Tonight, it was weird. The ball was flying a lot," said Raul Casanova, who hit a grand slam in the eighth for Milwaukee. "The ball was jumping off the bats. I don't know, maybe we've got some angels in the outfield." With all the hitting, it was Scott Sullivan's wild pitch that allowed the go-ahead run to score in the seventh inning of the last night game in Milwaukee County Stadium history, which was followed by a fireworks show. The teams close out the venerable stadium's 48-year run with a sold-out afternoon game Thursday and several former Braves, Brewers and Green Bay Packers will be on hand to bid farewell. "I'm glad to see it go," Reds manager Jack McKeon said. "I think the people of Milwaukee certainly deserve something better than this." With Marquis Grissom at the plate and Luis Lopez on third with two outs in the seventh, Sullivan uncorked the Reds' 94th wild pitch of the season -- tying a major league record set by the Texas Rangers in 1986 -- to give Milwaukee a 5-4 lead. McKeon said he didn't pay much mind to the futility mark. "I would say there's probably 15 or 16 of them this year that could have been passed balls, depending on who the official scorer is and how he looks at it," McKeon said. Either way, it capped the Brewers' three-run rally that erased a 4-2 deficit and made a winner of Valerio De Los Santos (2-3) and a loser of John Riedling (3-1), who faced three batters, allowing two hits and a walk. The Brewers added five runs in the eighth, when Casanova hit a grand slam off Danny Graves, his second of the season. The game pitted two promising rookie starters who combined for no walks, 13 strikeouts and plenty of long balls. Rob Bell allowed just four hits -- but three solo home runs -- in six-plus innings for Cincinnati. Rigdon surrendered three runs on seven hits in six innings. He gave up two home runs. Michael Tucker led off the game with his 14th homer and Juan Castro's two-run shot, his third, made it 3-0 Cincinnati in the second inning. Rigdon's first career homer, a 410-foot shot in the third, made it 3-1, and Grissom's 14th homer cut it to 3-2 in the sixth. In the seventh, Milwaukee's Jeromy Burnitz lost Chris Sexton's two-out flyball in the lights and it struck the right fielder in the right leg, allowing Jason LaRue to score from second and make it 4-2. But Richie Sexson's 30th homer of the year, his 14th with the Brewers, made it 4-3 in the bottom half and chased Bell. Riedling surrendered Casanova's game-tying RBI single before Sullivan's wild pitch gave the Brewers a 5-4 lead. Jose Hernandez added an RBI single off Graves in the eighth before Casanova's second career grand slam. Mike Bell hit a two-run shot, his second homer of the season, off Curtis Leskanic in the ninth to cap the scoring. "That was a great show," Brewers manager Davey Lopes said. And he was talking about the game, not the pyrotechnics afterward. Game notesLaRue had his first career three-hit game for Cincinnati. ... McKeon managed his 1,500th game. ... In the fifth inning, Hank Aaron flipped a placard in the upper deck that showed the number 1, signifying just one day left for the old ballpark. ... The Reds have not been shut out in any of their 158 games so far, tied for the second-longest stretch to begin a season. | ALSO SEE Baseball Scoreboard Cincinnati Clubhouse Milwaukee Clubhouse RECAPS Oakland 9 Anaheim 7
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