100. Oct.17, 1976: Tony Perez's ninth-inning RBI single beat the Yankees in the first Sunday night game in World Series history.

99. Oct.14-15, 1972: Gene Tenace hit two homers in Game1 and Joe Rudi robbed the Reds' Denis Menke of extra bases in Game2 as the Oakland A's won the first two games of the World Series.

98. Oct.16, 1976: Johnny Bench threw out would-be Yankees base-stealer Mickey Rivers in the sixth, then tripled in the eighth of the Reds' 5-1 victory in Game1 of the World Series.

97. Oct.5, 1990: Paul O'Neill drove in both runs in the Reds' 2-1 victory in Game2 of the NLCS. He also threw out Pittsburgh's Andy Van Slyke at third base from right field in the sixth inning.

96. July 12, 1988: Reds third baseman Chris Sabo, making his All-Star debut as a pinch-runner in the seventh inning, stole second base, but the American League beat the National 2-1.

95. May 5, 1978: Pete Rose smacked his 3,000th career hit off Montreal right-hander Steve Rogers.

94. Oct.5, 1970: Bobby Tolan's eighth-inning RBI single gave the Reds a 3-2 victory and swept the Pittsburgh Pirates out of the NLCS.

93. Oct.21-22, 1972: Johnny Bench nailed Oakland's Bert Campaneris trying to steal second base on what the Reds' Joe Morgan called the best throw and quickest release he'd ever seen. The Reds won Game6 of the World Series 8-1, but lost Game7 the next day.

92. Sept.22, 1996: Barry Larkin's homer made him the first shortstop in major league history to hit 30 home runs and steal at least 30 bases in a single season.

91. June 2, 1989: Eric Davis hit for the cycle, saving the hardest one of all - the triple - for last.

90. July 28, 1978: Pete Rose's sixth-inning bunt single against the Philadelphia Phillies kept his hitting streak alive through 41 games. Rose's streak ended a few days later at 44.

89. June 14, 1990: Warmup jacket-wearing Norm Charlton roared through a "stop" sign from third-base coach Sam Perlozzo in the seventh inning and blasted into Mike Scioscia, causing the Dodgers catcher to drop the ball and inspiring the Reds' 10-6 victory over Los Angeles.

88. Sept.9, 1998: One day after breaking Roger Maris' single-season home run record in St.Louis, Mark McGwire received a huge ovation from 50,000-plus fans. He failed to homer in two at-bats.

87. May 5, 2000: Mark McGwire hit a 2-1 Ron Villone changeup 473 feet into the red seats in left field, the longest homer in the stadium's history. Reds outfielder Ken Griffey Jr.'s blast was 50 feet shorter, but it was the game-winner, 3-2.

86. Oct.6, 1995: Mark Lewis' pinch-hit grand slam gave the Reds a 7-1 lead in Game3 and iced a sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL Division Series.

85. Oct.15, 1975: The Boston Red Sox tied the World Series at two games apiece with a 5-4 victory behind Luis Tiant, who threw 163 pitches and constantly worked out of jams (nine hits, four walks).

84. Aug.11, 1970: Tony Perez blasted the first red-seat homer, a second-inning grand slam off the New York Mets' Jim McAndrew, to spark an 8-1 Reds win.

83. June 23, 1971: Phillies pitcher Rick Wise threw a no-hitter and hit two home runs, the only player to do that in the same game.

82. May 3, 1975: Reds manager Sparky Anderson put Pete Rose at third base, allowing him to insert George Foster in left field and giving Ken Griffey Sr. the full-time job in right.

81. July 21-23, 2000: Barry Larkin received an ovation during every at-bat in a three-game series with the Arizona Diamondbacks because it appeared he was going to be traded to the New York Mets. Soon afterward, Reds CEO Carl Lindner gave Larkin a three-year contract.

80. June 28, 1991: Barry Larkin hit three homers in an 8-5 Reds win over the Houston Astros, giving him five round-trippers in two games. He was the first shortstop to accomplish the feat.

79. May 12, 1984: Reds right-hander Mario Soto came within one strike of a no-hitter, but he failed to get the no-no or the shutout. George Hendrick homered to tie the score at 1, but the Reds ralled in the bottom of the ninth to beat the St.Louis Cardinals 2-1.

78. Aug.3, 1989: The Reds scored 14 runs on 16 hits in the first inning of a 18-2 shellacking of the Houston Astros.

77. July 15, 1980: Johnny Bench homered off Montreal's David Palmer for his 314th as a catcher, breaking Yogi Berra's record.

76. July 26, 1970: Johnny Bench hit three home runs in one game off Hall of Fame left-hander Steve Carlton.

75. June 3, 1987: For the second consecutive night, Reds center fielder Eric Davis robbed Cardinals slugger Jack Clark of a homer with an above-the-wall grab.

74. April 7, 1975: George Foster singled in Cesar Geronimo for a 2-1, 14-inning Reds victory on Opening Day.

73. April 4, 1994: Kevin Mitchell's 10th-inning, game-winning homer off the red seats in left-center downed the St.Louis Cardinals.

72. April 8, 1985: The Reds battled the elements on Opening Day - rain, high winds and snow flurries - and won 4-1 before 52,971 fans. Pete Rose drove in three of the four runs and scored the other.

71. April 15, 1993: The Reds' Jose Rijo and the Montreal Expos' Dennis Martinez, two great Latin pitchers, started in a game featuring two great former Latin players as managers, the Expos' Felipe Alou and the Reds' Tony Perez. Cincinnati won 2-1.

70. April 2, 1984: Reds general manager Bob Howsam lowered the 12-foot outfield wall to 8 feet and added fireworks to celebrate home runs. Dave Concepcion and Eddie Milner capitalized, hitting home runs that barely cleared the barrier on Opening Day .

69. April 9, 1980: Another memorable Opener. Twenty-two-year-old pitcher Frank Pastore was a late fill-in for flu-ridden Tom Seaver and threw a three-hit shutout as the Reds defeated the Atlanta Braves 9-0.

68. April 3, 1989: Paul "O'Neil" - yes, that's how O'Neill's name was spelled on the back of his uniform - went 4-for-4 with a three-run homer in the Reds' 6-4 Opening Day win over the Dodgers.

67. April 6, 1978: Three rain delays on Opening Day totaling 102 minutes and a first-batter home run (Houston's Terry Puhl) couldn't slow a Reds rally from a 5-1 deficit .

66. April 6, 1977: Despite a four-inch snowfall that wasn't cleared until 25 minutes before game time, the Reds beat the San Diego Padres on Opening Day before 51,869 shivering fans.

65. May 6, 1995: Capped by Jerome Walton's two-run homer, the Reds rallied from an 11-4 deficit to beat the New York Mets 13-11 with six runs in the eighth inning and three in the ninth.

64. July 23, 1995: The Chicago Cubs scored twice in the top of the 10th inning to take a 5-3 lead, but with two out and nobody on base in the bottom half, the Reds began a rally that climaxed with Bret Boone's three-run homer to win it 7-5.

63. Aug.17, 1999: Reds manager Jack McKeon called on pinch-hitter Chris Stynes in the 12th inning, and he ripped a three-run homer to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-4.

62. Sept.27, 1999: Eddie Taubensee's two-run, eighth-inning homer into the red seats capped a rally from a 6-1 deficit and gave the Reds a 9-6 victory over the St.Louis Cardinals. The win moved the Reds into a first-place division tie with the Houston Astros.

61. Aug.22, 1979: Johnny Bench hit his 325th career home run, breaking the Reds' all-time mark set by Frank Robinson.

60. Sept.7, 1979: Joe Morgan struck his 2,000th career hit, a call made by Marty Brennaman and Joe Nuxhall, who were in their third consecutive day of the first in-the-seats radio broadcast (first row of the red seats behind home plate).

59. Aug.5, 1977: Cincinnati native Dave Parker became the first man to reach the red seats in right field with a blast off the Reds' Fred Norman.

58. July 4, 1979: Reds third baseman Ray Knight taunted the Houston bench after an exchange of beanballs between the Reds and Astros pitchers. Knight hit Houston utilityman Cesar Cedeno with several punches before being overwhelmed by a sea of rainbow-colored jerseys.

57. June 30, 1970: Joe Morgan reached base five times without a hit - three walks and two errors - and scored every time in an 11-5 victory over the San Francisco Giants.

56. Aug.19, 1974: In his first two at-bats, Joe Morgan hit a three-run homer and a third-inning grand slam for seven RBI against the Phillies as the Reds built a 14-0 lead. Cincinnati manager Sparky Anderson gave Morgan the rest of the night off.

55. Aug.27, 1976: Joe Morgan stole two bases but was credited with only one. Morgan (on second base) and Johnny Bench (on first) each took off on the pitcher's delivery, and the catcher's throw went to second. Morgan blew past third base and Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Dave Cash's throw home was late. The official scorer gave Morgan one steal, but ruled he reached home on a fielder's choice.

54. May 13, 1985: Tony Perez hit a game-winning, pinch-hit grand slam in the sixth inning vs. the Phillies. It was the day before Perez's 43rd birthday, making him the oldest Red - and the second-oldest player in baseball history (Carlton Fisk) - to hit a grand slam.

53. Oct.4, 1986: Tony Perez smacked his 379th career home run, tying him with his longtime friend, Orlando Cepeda, for the most by a Latin player.

52. April 20, 2001: Barry Larkin hit his first career grand slam in his 6,735th at-bat.

51. July 9, 2000: Ken Griffey Jr. drove in eight runs (two homers, one double, one single) as the Reds beat the Cleveland Indians 14-5.

50. Sept.24, 2000: Final game of the "original" Riverfront Stadium/Cinergy Field before the center-field seats were removed. The Reds rallied from a 3-1 deficit in the ninth, capped by Chris Stynes' two-run, two-out, game-winning homer .

49. Aug.20, 2001: Ken Griffey Jr. snapped a 4-4 tie in the 11th inning with an inside-the-park homer off the Cardinals' Andy Benes.

48. May 1, 2001: Football star - and erstwile Red - Deion Sanders batted 3-for-3 with a three-run homer.

47. Aug.9, 2001: On the same night Ken Griffey Jr. became the youngest player to hit his 450th career homer and the Giants' Barry Bonds hit his 49th of the season in the fewest games (115), the Reds' Adam Dunn smacked his 12th of August, breaking the NL rookie record for homers in a calendar month (11 by the Reds' Frank Robinson in August 1956).

46. July 29, 1996: Chris Sabo was ejected when his bat broke and umpires noticed it had been hollowed out and corked. Sabo said it wasn't his bat, but the no-no earned him a seven-day suspension.

45. July 19, 1985: Third baseman Buddy Bell, son of former Crosley Field star Gus Bell, was acquired by the Reds in a trade.

44. Aug.17, 1982: Mario Soto struck out 15 Mets without giving up a walk in a 9-2 Reds victory. Even though the Reds lost 101 games in '82, Soto was 14-13 with a 2.79 ERA.

43. Aug.26, 1998: Cubs phenom Kerry Woods struck out 16 Reds and Sammy Sosa hit his 52nd home run in a 9-2 Cincinnati loss.

42. April 11, 1984: Reds pitchers walked then-Montreal Expo Pete Rose four times as he made his bid for 4,000 career hits. Rose wasn't the only one disappointed. The Reds had printed up 28,000 certificates that read: "I was there when Pete Rose hit No.4,000."

41. Oct.4, 1999: The Reds lost a one-game playoff to the Mets 5-0 before 54,621 fans, giving the Mets the NL wild-card berth.

40. Oct. 3, 1976: Even though the Reds beat the Atlanta Braves 11-1, manager Sparky Anderson removed Ken Griffey Sr. after he went hitless in his first two at-bats, trying to protect Griffey's league-leading .336 batting average. It opened the door for the Pirates' Bill Madlock to go 4-for-4 and finish at .339.

39. May 4, 1983: Ex-Reds Pete Rose, Joe Morgan and Tony Perez all looked on from their positions as Philadelphia Phillies. Still-a-Red Johnny Bench smacked his 2,000th career hit, a single off Steve Carlton in a 9-4 Cincinnati loss.

38. June 4, 1989: Rob Dibble struck out three San Diego Padres on nine pitches in the eighth inning of the Reds' 6-2 victory. The last Reds pitcher to accomplish the 3-in-9 trick was Fred Toney in 1917.

37. May 13, 1980: Ray Knight became the only Red to hit two home runs in one inning, one a grand slam in a 15-4 victory over the Mets.

36. Sept.26, 1982: Houston Astros fireballer Nolan Ryan got caught up in the craze created by Brad "The Animal" Lesley - the Reds' 6-foot-6 reliever who stalked the mound, yelling at hitters, pounding his glove and signaling strikes. Ryan did a comical imitation of Lesley during his start against the Reds.

35. Aug.17, 1986: Pete Rose's final at-bat. In a tough sun, he struck out against the San Diego Padres' Goose Gossage.

34. June 4, 2000: Ken Griffey Jr., slumping badly early in his first Reds season, swung at a pitch and the bat slipped from his hands. It hit Christine Lindner, the 10-year-old granddaughter of Reds CEO Carl Lindner. The cut on her forehand took eight stitches to close. The Reds won in 10 innings, 3-2 .

33. May 21, 2002: Austin Kearns hit a grand slam off Florida's A.J. Burnet in a 6-1 Reds victory, snapping a two-game losing streak and maintaining a three-game lead over the St.Louis Cardinals in the NL Central. Fans began thinking of Kearns as a future star.

32. June 30, 1970: 51,050 fans turned out for the inaugural game at Riverfront stadium, an 8-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves, as Henry Aaron hits the stadium's first home run.

31. April 17, 1976: Reds assistant general manager Dick Wagner went onto the field to try to repel a huge angry swarm of bees, but he and a fire extinguisher are no match for them.

30. Sept. 26, 1999: Pokey Reese belts a dramatic 3-run homer to give a reds a 7-5 victory over the Cardinals. Mark McGwire had hit his 60th home run in the eighth inning).

29. April 23, 1991: Reds reliever Rob Dibble ignited a brawl when he threw a pitch behind the back of the Astros' Eric Yelding late in the game of a 4-1 reds loss and wound up on the bottom of a pile with Astros coach/former college wrestler Ed Ott, who put Dibble in such a choke hold his face turned blue.

28. Sept. 1, 1997: Pete Rose Jr., starting at third base, made his big-league debut in front of the old man, and went 1-for-3 with a single.

27. Aug. 17, 2001: 1990 World Series MVP Jose Rijo's accomplishes the impossible, returning to the Reds after years of injury.

26. May 13, 1993: Kevin Mitchell slammed a red-seat home run and a yellow seat home run.

25. July 25, 1974: Tony Perez slammed a 2-out, 2-run homer off Randy Moffitt to cap a 5-run 9th-inning rally to beat the Giants 14-13..

24. July 22, 1986: Eric Davis slid hard into Mets third baseman Ray Knight, who responded by punching Davis in the face, igniting a 16-minute bench-clearing brawl in the 10th inning of a 14-inning game the reds lost, 6-3.

23. Sept. 7, 1974: The Reds trailed the archrival Dodgers 5-0 before rallying to a 7-5 victory, capped off by a two-run home run in the eighth inning by Joe Morgan, who had badly sprained his ankle in the 6th inning and was limping badly when he stepped to the plate in the eighth.

22. May 2, 1988: Ron Robinson retired the first 26 montreal Expos, and had an 0-2 count on the next, but Wallace Johnson singled, Tm Raines homered, and the Reds hung on to win 3-2.

21. June 16, 1978: Tom Seaver was terrific indeed, throwing a no-hitter in a 4-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.

20. July 1, 1973: Hal King's home run against the Los Angeles Dodgers helped propel the Reds back into the NL West race after being 11 games behind the Dodgers.

19. Sept. 7, 1993: The St. Louis Cardinals' Mark Whiten smashed four home runs (tied major-league record) and drove in 12 euns (broke major-league record) in second game of a doubleheader

18. April 3, 2000: Ken Griffey Jr., traded to the Reds in the offseason from the Seattle Mariners, received a standing ovation as he debuted in his hometown as a Red.

17. Aug. 21, 1990: Lou Piniella came out to argue a call, threw his hat, got ejected, pulled first base from its moorinig and threw it, and picked it up and threw it again as the crowd roared in delight. .

16. Oct. 16, 1975: Tony Perez broke an 0-for-15 streak in series by going deep two times in Game 5 of the World Series.

15. Sept. 17, 1983: Johnny Bench hit a home run and threw out a would-be basestealer on, appropriately enough, Johnny Bench Night.

14. April 30, 1988: Pete Rose argued a call with umpire Dave Pallone, who accidentally poked him in the eye, incensing the Reds skipper, who pushed Pallone twice, thereby incensing the crowd, which threw all sorts of debris on the field, earning Rose a 30-day suspension.

13. Oct. 6, 1973: Reds trailed the Mets' Tom Seaver 1-0 going into bottom of eighth in Game 1 of the NLCS when Pete Rose homered to tie it, and Johnny Bench homered in the 9th to win it.

12. Oct. 10, 1970: Elrod Hendricks taged out Bernie Carbo on a controversial call in Game 1 of the World Series, the first at Riverfront.

11. Oct. 12, 1990: Glenn Braggs robbed the Pirates' Carmelo Martinez of a game-winning home run with one out in the ninth inning, leading 2-1 in Game 6 of '90 playoffs.

10. April 4, 1974: Henry Aaron's 714th home run, tying Babe Ruth's record, came in the first inning on a 3-1 pitch in the first inning from the Reds' Jack Billingham, whose reaction was, "Oh, my God, I did it."

9. Sept. 16, 1988: In a game that didn't start until 10:02 p.m. after a two-hour and 27-minute rain delay, Tom Browning twirled the first and only pefect game in Reds history, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 1-0.

8. Oct. 16, 1990: Billy Bates, Chris Sabo and Joe Oliver came through in the 10th inning as the Reds beat the Oakland Athletics in Game 2 of the World Series.

7. Oct. 12, 1990: Johnny Bench and George Foster hit back to back homers in Game 3 of '76 NL playoffs to set up the sweep of Phillies, pavig the way for a 4-game sweep of the Yankees in the World Series.

6. Aug. 16, 1984: Pete Rose slid headfirst into third with a "triple" (double and an error, actually) on the night of his return to Riverfront after being named Reds player/manager.

Sources: John Erardi, Tim Sullivan, Mike Ball, Mike Bass, Howard Wilkinson, John Kiesewetter; Redleg Journal, Greg Rhodes and John Snyder, 2000; Big Red Dynasty, Greg Rhodes and John Erardi, 1997; The Cincinnati Game, Lonnie Wheeler and John Baskin, 1988; Unleashed, Mike Bass, 1993; Reds Media Guide, 2002; Reds media relations staff; Enquirer archives.