HOUSTON - Adam Dunn grew up in Porter, Texas, a 20-minute drive from Houston. So he was expecting a big crowd for his first visit with the Reds Tuesday night. How many? A hundred?

        “Way more than that,” he said.

        Dunn was a big Astros fan.

        “We'd go to at least 10 games a year,” he said.

        Dunn was going to try to treat Tuesday as a normal game.

        “If you don't, you end up striking out five times,” he said.

        Dunn went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts and a walk, but if that wasn't the kind of performance he hoped for, he still had something to brag about: His high pop up hit a girder on the Enron Field ceiling in the seventh inning.

        This was his second trip to Enron Field. He went to a college doubleheader here in January.

        DMITRI IN; POKEY OUT: Dmitri Young was back in the starting lineup Tuesday after missing five games with a tight right hamstring.

        Pokey Reese wasn't in the lineup for the third straight game. That had something to do with his sore knees. The fact that Juan Castro was coming off a three-hit game, including a homer, had something to do with it, too.

        CHANGE IN PLANS: Aaron Boone had hoped to begin swinging the bat Tuesday. But his right wrist was too sore.

        “It's not good today,” Boone said. “I tried to swing, but I had to shut it down.”

        Boone fractured the wrist Aug.15.

        UP NEXT: Today, RHP Elmer Dessens (9-10, 4.48 ERA) faces LHP Carlos Hernandez (1-0, 0.00).

        Hernandez, a 21-year-old rookie, has not allowed a run in his two starts (13 innings) with the Astros.

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