By John Fay
The Cincinnati Enquirer

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Photos of Tuesday's game

Reds manager Dave Miley said before Tuesday's game that what separates the frightfully young Reds from other teams is opponents' ability to hit the home run.

Miley's Reds found a little power of their own Tuesday night in a 10-6 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates before a crowd of 21,241 at Great American Ball Park.

The Reds were powered by two-run homers by Jason LaRue and Wily Mo Pena, sandwiched around a three-run shot from Russell Branyan.

"We've been talking about it for the last couple of days," Miley said. "Those were big blows for us."

The Reds snapped a three-game losing streak and won for only the fourth time in 16 games. They also broke a seven-game string of losses to the Pirates in Cincinnati.

"That's a nice win for us to come back like that," said Sean Casey, who had three hits and just missed a home run.

The Reds rallied from a 6-2 deficit.

Josh Hall, just called up from Double-A, started and allowed six runs over 4 1/3 innings.

"You have good nights and bad nights," Hall said. "Tonight was a bad one. I left everything up."

Craig Wilson's third home run in two nights gave the Pirates a 2-0 lead in the second.

They added two more in the third, but LaRue cut the lead in half with a two-run home run in the fifth. It was LaRue's 16th of the year.

Hall gave up back-to-back hits to start the fifth, and Juan Cerros was brought in.

The first batters to face him reached base, making it 6-2.

The Reds have been averaging 3.1 runs a game over their last 33 games, so a four-run lead looked safe for Pittsburgh.

That is, until Branyan hit a three-run homer into the Reds' bullpen in the sixth.

LaRue followed with a double. Pena then went the opposite way and hit one out to right-center for his third of the year.

Juan Castro's RBI led to an 8-6 lead for the Reds, who recorded a season-high seven hits in the inning.

"That's the way hitting is," Casey said. "A couple of guys get hits and you get on a roll. It was good to get six like that. We've been puttering along for a while now."

Matt Belisle, who pitched a scoreless sixth in his second big-league outing, earned his first win.

Pittsburgh	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
TRedman cf	5	0	1	0	0	0	.286
ANunez 2b-ss	5	1	2	0	0	0	.247
Kendall c	5	1	1	0	0	0	.322
RSanders rf	5	2	3	1	0	1	.280
Stairs 1b	5	1	3	1	0	0	.300
CWilson lf	4	1	2	3	0	0	.263
Mackowiak 3b	3	0	1	1	1	1	.238
JWilson ss	3	0	1	0	1	1	.249
Corey p	0	0	0	0	0	0	---
Meadows p	0	0	0	0	0	0	.077
STorres p	3	0	0	0	0	3	.034
Gonzalez p	0	0	0	0	0	0	---
Boehringer p	0	0	0	0	0	0	---
Beimel p	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Reboulet 2b	1	0	0	0	0	0	.252
Totals	39	6	14	6	2	6

Cincinnati	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
JCastro ss	5	0	1	1	0	1	.264
Valent rf	5	0	1	0	0	1	.231
DJimenez 2b	4	1	1	0	1	2	.308
Casey 1b	4	2	3	0	0	0	.288
Branyan lf	3	2	2	3	1	0	.220
LaRue c	4	3	2	2	0	1	.233
WPena cf	4	1	2	2	0	2	.221
Hummel 3b	4	0	1	2	0	2	.214
Hall p	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000
Cerros p	0	0	0	0	0	0	---
RMateo ph	1	0	0	0	0	1	.251
Belisle p	0	0	0	0	0	0	---
Smitherman ph	1	1	0	0	0	0	.171
Riedling p	0	0	0	0	0	0	.235
Stenson ph	1	0	0	0	0	1	.265
PNorton p	0	0	0	0	0	0	---
Reitsma p	0	0	0	0	0	0	.125
Totals	37	10	13	10	2	12

Pittsburgh	022	020	000	-6	14	2
Cincinnati	000	206	20x	-10	13	0

E-Kendall (7), Mackowiak (1). LOB-Pittsburgh 9, Cincinnati 5. 2B-RSanders (26), JWilson (19), LaRue (21), WPena (6), Hummel (3). HR-WPena (3), off Boehringer; Branyan (8), off Gonzalez; LaRue (16), off STorres; CWilson (15), off Hall. RBIs-RSanders (81), Stairs (48), CWilson 3 (42), Mackowiak (11), JCastro (32), Branyan 3 (20), LaRue 2 (49), WPena 2 (11), Hummel 2 (7). SB-Smitherman (1). GIDP-DJimenez.

Runners left in scoring position-Pittsburgh 5 (TRedman 4, JWilson); Cincinnati 3 (Branyan, Hall, Stenson).

DP-Pittsburgh 1 (JWilson, ANunez and Stairs); Cincinnati 1 (WPena, DJimenez and Casey).

Pittsburgh	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
STorres	5	5	4	4	2	8	81	4.43
Gonzalez	0	1	1	1	0	0	5	8.10
Boehringer L, 5-4	BS, 3 1/3	3	3	2	0	1	12	5.71
Beimel	2/3	3	2	2	0	0	14	5.37
Corey	1	1	0	0	0	2	21	4.22
Meadows	1	0	0	0	0	1	11	5.08

Cincinnati	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Hall	4	10	6	6	1	5	83	9.00
Cerros	1	2	0	0	1	1	12	16.20
Belisle W, 1-0	1	1	0	0	0	0	15	3.00
Riedling H, 3	1	0	0	0	0	0	10	5.12
PNorton	1	1	0	0	0	0	20	5.40
Reitsma	1	0	0	0	0	0	9	3.91

STorres pitched to 2 batters in the 6th, Gonzalez pitched to 1 batter in the 6th, Beimel pitched to 2 batters in the 7th, Hall pitched to 2 batters in the 5th.

Inherited runners-scored-Corey 2-1, Gonzalez 2-2, Beimel 1-0, Cerros 2-2.

IBB-off Cerros (JWilson) 1. HBP-by Cerros (CWilson).

Umpires-Home, Mike Winters; First, Doug Eddings; Second, Ron Kulpa; Third, Bruce Froemming.

T-2:55. A-21,241 (42,263).