Northern Expos-ure

In a matchup of two of the NL's up an coming young star pitchers Pat Zachry looked like a world beater.  Rogers, who majors in losing close game, took all the suspense out of this one by giving up 4 runs after the first 3 innings of play.  George Foster's RBI single in the first scored Pete Rose, who led the game off with a gapper that turned into a Charlie Hustle double.  In the third inning the Reds would get to Rogers for three more runs.  Right off Rogers violated one of baseball's tenants by walking the opposing pitcher on 4 pitches.  Rose grounded into a force play to erase Zachry at second, but Griffey and Morgan did not make outs, so Rose was able to score on Morgan's single.  Foster struck out looking on a very suspect call that curled the ends of his sideburns.  After a mild debate with the umpires Foster strolled back to the dugout to watch Tony Perez come through one more time with runners in scoring position.  Perez took a low outside pitch from Rogers and lined it just inside the chalk on the rightfield line to score the speedy Griffey and the equally as fast Morgan.  Perez hit a pitcher's pitch to score both runs.  The man is an RBI machine.  Griffey would add a solo shot in the 5th to make it 5-0.  Zachry would leave the game having given up just 3 hits, no runs and 7 k's in 7 innings of dominant work.  Borbon would come on again for the second day in a row and stumble badly.  A pinch hit homer by Jose Morales, boy can that guy come off the bench and do damage, made it 5-2.  Cincy would post an insurance run in the 9th, which would offset Gary "kid" Carter's solo shot in the bottom of the inning.  Manny Sarmiento was needed to bail out Borbon and get the final 3 outs and the save.  Cincy now has taken the first 2 games of the series and has shown why they are the defending champs.