The Enquirer
When: Today and Wednesday, 7:10 p.m.; Thursday, 1:10 p.m.
Where: Shea Stadium.
TV: Fox Sports Net (today, Wednesday).
Radio: WLW-AM (700).
Records: Reds - 38-31, third place in the NL Central; Mets - 34-34, second in the NL East.
The arms: Today - Reds RHP Paul Wilson (7-0, 3.17 ERA) vs. Mets RHP Matt Ginter (1-1, 2.79); Wednesday - Reds RHP Todd Van Poppel (3-2, 4.53) vs. Mets RHP Jae Seo (3-5, 4.63); Thursday - Reds RHP Cory Lidle (4-5, 5.29) vs. Mets LHP Tom Glavine (7-3, 2.07).
The bats: The Mets rank 15th in the National League with a .247 batting average and 284 runs. ... Outfielder Richard Hidalgo was acquired from the Astros June 17. He has two hits in his first 11 at-bats since the trade. ... First baseman/catcher Mike Piazza is batting .303 with 15 homers and 34 RBI.
The rest: The Reds are 280-229 all time against the Mets, and 120-120 at Shea Stadium. ... New York has won four consecutive games. Its pitching staff has an NL-leading 3.52 ERA.
REDS FACT: They have won four of the last six series at Shea Stadium against the Mets, today's opponent.
Reds statistics
(Through Sunday's game)
| BATTERS | AVG | OBA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | E |
| Casey | .357 | .407 | 263 | 52 | 94 | 26 | 1 | 13 | 50 | 21 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Larkin | .303 | .351 | 208 | 38 | 63 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 29 | 17 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Castro | .298 | .337 | 84 | 11 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Hummel | .286 | .317 | 56 | 6 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Pena | .267 | .315 | 101 | 10 | 27 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 6 | 39 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Cruz | .266 | .347 | 64 | 10 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Griffey | .260 | .363 | 242 | 42 | 63 | 15 | 0 | 19 | 54 | 38 | 53 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Dunn | .259 | .413 | 228 | 45 | 59 | 11 | 0 | 19 | 43 | 57 | 87 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Jimenez | .254 | .370 | 232 | 33 | 59 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 42 | 39 | 7 | 5 | 4 |
| Freel | .250 | .364 | 212 | 28 | 53 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 31 | 37 | 11 | 4 | 7 |
| LaRue | .224 | .326 | 156 | 21 | 35 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 24 | 13 | 42 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Larson | .224 | .310 | 76 | 8 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Kearns | .195 | .327 | 87 | 10 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Lopez | .156 | .174 | 45 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Valentin | .156 | .196 | 90 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Clark | .105 | .227 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team Totals | .252 | .342 | 2310 | 334 | 581 | 122 | 13 | 82 | 316 | 290 | 551 | 28 | 12 | 47 |
| PITCHERS | W | L | ERA | G | GS | SV | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | SO |
| White | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Wilson | 7 | 0 | 3.17 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 82.1 | 84 | 32 | 29 | 8 | 24 | 48 |
| Graves | 1 | 3 | 3.43 | 39 | 0 | 27 | 39.1 | 41 | 20 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 24 |
| Jones | 5 | 1 | 3.51 | 36 | 0 | 1 | 41.0 | 30 | 17 | 16 | 2 | 19 | 30 |
| Matthews | 1 | 1 | 3.68 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 14.2 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
| Riedling | 4 | 1 | 3.93 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 36.2 | 31 | 19 | 16 | 3 | 18 | 21 |
| Van Poppel | 3 | 2 | 4.53 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 57.2 | 61 | 29 | 29 | 6 | 11 | 34 |
| Bong | 1 | 1 | 4.70 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 15.1 | 17 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 11 |
| Lidle | 4 | 5 | 5.29 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 95.1 | 100 | 57 | 56 | 13 | 24 | 56 |
| Acevedo | 3 | 6 | 5.31 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 79.2 | 90 | 48 | 47 | 17 | 17 | 64 |
| Harang | 4 | 2 | 5.43 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 59.2 | 79 | 37 | 36 | 7 | 22 | 44 |
| Norton | 1 | 2 | 5.86 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 27.2 | 32 | 21 | 18 | 3 | 17 | 16 |
| Team Totals | 38 | 31 | 4.88 | 69 | 69 | 28 | 610.2 | 665 | 358 | 331 | 88 | 217 | 399 |
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