By John Fay
The Cincinnati Enquirer

MIAMI - Adam Dunn has three hits in his last 34 at-bats. All three are home runs, and the three long balls have gone a long way toward getting the Reds two wins.

Adam Dunn is congratulated by third base coach Mark Berry after the first of his two homers Tuesday night. (AP photo)

Dunn's second home run of the night lifted the Reds over the Florida Marlins 7-6 in 10 innings at Pro Player Stadium.

A day after hitting a season high with five home runs Monday, the Reds hit three more Tuesday.

Dunn's first one got the Reds an early 2-0 lead, Ken Griffey Jr.'s 14th of the year tied it in the seventh, and Dunn's second of the night got the lead back in the 10th.

Wily Mo Pena's broken-bat, RBI single added an insurance run.

Danny Graves, the Reds' seventh pitcher of the night, worked the 10th for his 25th save.

The Reds have won 14 of 18. They are a season-high 10 games over .500 at 31-21. It's the first time they've been 10 over since they were 38-28 on June 15, 2002.

The pitching matchup was the same as Thursday's game in Cincinnati. Florida's Brad Penny beat Aaron Harang 5-2 in that one.

Harang was slightly better Tuesday, giving up five runs (four earned) and 10 hits over five innings. Penny was much worse. He gave up four runs on eight hits over six innings, the most he has allowed in a start all year. The eight hits equaled a career high.

The Reds jumped on Penny early, when Griffey led off the second with a walk.

Dunn followed with his second home run in four days - a shot to right-center that went almost directly over the 404 mark.

D'Angelo Jimenez followed and hit one to almost the same spot. It just didn't go as far, hitting the warning track and bouncing out for a ground-rule double.

An out later, Jason LaRue just missed hitting one out to left. It went high off the wall for a double, and the Reds had a 3-0 lead.

The Reds gave the Marlins a run in the third. Mike Lowell, Mr. Doubles against the Reds, naturally doubled (his fifth against the Reds) with two outs. Miguel Cabrera followed with a groundball right to third baseman Ryan Freel. Lowell was two steps from Freel when he fielded it. Freel made an attempt to tag, which Lowell avoided. Freel still had time to get Cabrera, but his throw was past first baseman Sean Casey, allowing Lowell to score.

Harang gave up the lead in the fourth.

Alex Gonzalez started the rally with a one-out triple. Mike Mordecai bunted. LaRue fielded it and kept Gonzalez from scoring, but Mordecai beat LaRue's throw.

Penny got a run in with a single to center. Luis Castillo followed with a little chopper that he easily beat out to load the bases. Harang struck out Juan Pierre, but Lowell followed with his 10th hit in 17 at-bats against the Reds. Mordecai and Penny scored to make it 4-3.

The Reds tied it in the fifth. Freel doubled and scored on Larkin's single.

Ken Griffey Jr. watches the flight of his home run off the Marlins' Matt Perisho in the seventh inning Tuesday. (AP photo)

Harang couldn't hold the lead again. Jeff Conine led off the fifth with a double. Hee Seop Choi bunted him to third, and Gonzalez got him home with a sacrifice fly.

The Reds loaded the bases with one out in the sixth, but shortstop Gonzalez made a great stop to start a 6-4-3 double play to end the inning.

Harang was pinch-hit for in the course of the inning. The Reds have to be concerned with Harang's string of mediocre starts.

After four starts, he had a 3.52 ERA and had allowed 24 hits in the 23 innings. In his seven starts since, he has 6.63 ERA and has allowed 55 hits in 36 2/3 innings.

Griffey got Harang off the hook as far as a loss by hitting his second home in as many days. It was No. 495 of Griffey's career and his sixth in 10 games.

Five from 500

Ken Griffey Jr.'s home run Tuesday night gave him 495 for his career. Here are the top career home run hitters:

1. Hank Aaron	755
2. Babe Ruth	714
3. x-Barry Bonds	671
4. Willie Mays	660
5. Frank Robinson	586
6. Mark McGwire	583
7. Harmon Killebrew	573
8. Reggie Jackson	563
9. x-Sammy Sosa	549
10. Mike Schmidt	548
11. Mickey Mantle	536
12. x-Rafael Palmeiro	535
13. Jimmie Foxx	534
14. Willie McCovey	521
tie. Ted Williams	521
16. Ernie Banks	512
tie. Eddie Mathews	512
18. Mel Ott	511
19. Eddie Murray	504
20. x-Ken Griffey Jr.	495

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Game statistics

Cincinnati	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Freel 3b-rf	5	1	1	0	0	0	.247
Larkin ss	4	0	1	1	0	0	.292
Riedling p	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
TJones p	0	0	0	0	0	0	---
Kearns ph	1	0	0	0	0	1	.195
PNorton p	0	0	0	0	0	0	---
Reith p	0	0	0	0	0	0	---
Hummel 3b	0	0	0	0	0	0	.188
Casey 1b	5	0	1	0	0	0	.389
Griffey Jr. cf	4	2	1	1	1	0	.243
Dunn lf	5	2	2	3	0	2	.252
DJimenez 2b	3	2	2	0	2	0	.246
WPena rf	5	0	2	1	0	2	.276
Graves p	0	0	0	0	0	0	---
LaRue c	3	0	1	1	1	1	.192
Harang p	2	0	0	0	0	1	.045
JaCruz ph	1	0	1	0	0	0	.238
MMatthews p	0	0	0	0	0	0	---
FLopez ss	2	0	0	0	0	2	.000
Totals	40	7	12	7	4	9

Florida	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
LCastillo 2b	5	0	2	0	0	0	.279
Pierre cf	5	0	0	0	0	2	.319
Lowell 3b	4	1	2	2	1	1	.349
Cabrera rf	5	0	0	0	0	1	.282
Conine lf	5	1	1	0	0	1	.283
Choi 1b	3	1	1	0	1	1	.255
AGonzalez ss	4	1	2	1	0	0	.227
RCastro c	0	0	0	0	0	0	.135
Mordecai ph-c	5	1	3	1	0	0	.233
Penny p	2	1	1	1	0	0	.103
Easley ph	1	0	0	0	0	0	.289
Perisho p	0	0	0	0	0	0	---
BHoward p	0	0	0	0	0	0	---
LHarris ph	1	0	0	0	0	0	.226
Bump p	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Sutton ph	1	0	0	0	0	0	.200
Totals	41	6	12	5	2	6

Cincinnati	030	010	100	2	-7	12	2
Florida	001	310	000	1	-6	12	1

E-Freel (7), WPena (1), Cabrera (5). LOB-Cincinnati 8, Florida 9. 2B-Freel (5), DJimenez (10), LaRue (7), Lowell (18), Conine (12), Choi (7). 3B-AGonzalez (1). HR-Griffey Jr. (14), off Perisho; Dunn 2 (14), off Bump, Penny. RBIs-Larkin (20), Griffey Jr. (43), Dunn 3 (31), WPena (9), LaRue (12), Lowell 2 (36), AGonzalez (18), Mordecai (2), Penny (1). SB-DJimenez 3 (5), WPena (1). S-Choi. SF-AGonzalez. GIDP-Freel, Griffey Jr..

Runners left in scoring position-Cincinnati 5 (Freel, Dunn, Harang, FLopez 2); Florida 7 (Cabrera 2, Conine, Penny, LHarris).

Runners moved up-Casey, Harang, Pierre, Mordecai.

DP-Florida 2 (Choi, AGonzalez and Choi), (AGonzalez, LCastillo and Choi).

Cincinnati	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Harang	5	10	5	4	0	3	81	5.43
MMatthews	1	0	0	0	0	1	9	3.38
Riedling	1	0	0	0	0	1	13	1.61
TJones	1	0	0	0	1	0	11	4.15
PNorton	2/3	0	0	0	0	0	11	4.42
Reith W, 1-1	1/3	0	0	0	1	1	10	6.52
Graves S, 25	1	2	1	1	0	0	22	2.90

Florida	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Penny	6	8	4	4	3	3	102	2.43
Perisho BS, 1	1 2/3	2	1	1	0	2	24	1.96
BHoward	1/3	0	0	0	0	1	3	0.00
Bump L, 0-3	2	2	2	2	1	3	38	5.40

Inherited runners-scored-BHoward 1-0.

IBB-off Penny (LaRue) 1. HBP-by Penny (LaRue). WP-TJones, Penny.

Umpires-Home, Tim Tschida; First, Jeff Nelson; Second, Marty Foster; Third, Joe Brinkman.

T-3:19. A-13,269 (36,331).