Dusty Baker

The Sports Xchange By Walter Villa, The Sports Xchange Reds' Bailey goes distance to beat Marlins MIAMI -- For a while now, Homer Bailey felt he had a big performance coming. Tuesday night, it finally arrived. Bailey (2-3) pitched a complete-game...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Cincinnati Reds - INSIDE PITCH Reds No. 1 starter Johnny Cueto will make his second rehab start Tuesday for Class A Dayton. If all goes well, he'll rejoin the Reds rotation Sunday against Philadelphia. "I feel...

Carlos Marmol isn't the only struggling pitcher in the Cubs' bullpen. Setup man Shawn Camp has an earned-run average of 8.03 after giving up two runs in the seventh inning of Sunday's 7-4 loss to the Reds. "A lot of balls find holes and you get deep...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Cincinnati Reds - INSIDE PITCH l The Reds went into Sunday's game on a bad streak for the starting pitchers. They had gone nine straight games without a quality start. Given the way Bronson Arroyo felt, he wasn't a...

The Sports Xchange By Jeff Wallner, The Sports Xchange Reds' Lutz gives mother in Germany a gift HR CINCINNATI -- Cincinnati Reds left fielder Donald Lutz made no predictions when he learned his mother, Marlen, would be watching Sunday's game in his...

The Sports Xchange By Jeff Wallner, The Sports Xchange Reds 13, Brewers 7 CINCINNATI -- Cincinnati outfielder Jay Bruce went 3-for-5 with a homer, two doubles, and two RBI to lead the Reds' 14-hit outburst in a 13-7 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers...

Bruce paces Reds' 13-7 win over Brewers CINCINNATI -- There are streaky hitters, then there's Jay Bruce. Right now, the Cincinnati Reds' outfielder is in a good one. On Saturday, Bruce went 3-for-5 with a home run, two doubles and two RBI to lead the...

Brandon Phillips leads the National League in RBIs and added to his total with two more Friday, but it was the second baseman's glove that had everyone buzzing in the Cincinnati Reds' 4-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers. Phillips' highlight-reel double...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Cincinnati Reds - INSIDE PITCH When the Reds traded Drew Stubbs and Didi Gregourius to get center fielder Shin-Soo Choo, they were hoping to get a solid leadoff man. So far, Choo has been much more than solid....

The 121-year-old Cubs-Cardinals rivalry probably peaked 10 years ago, when Dusty Baker and Tony La Russa shouted obscenities at one another from their dugouts. That was back when there was some real hatred between the teams, with beanball wars in...

Almost 10 years. That's how long it has been since the Cubs beat the Cardinals in a series that mattered, not that St. Louis fans would remember it. When Dusty Baker's 2003 team took four out of five from the Cardinals in a four-day September war that...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Cincinnati Reds - INSIDE PITCH The Reds about to get a whole lot healthier -- barring any major glitches. Catcher Ryan Hanigan is on a rehab assignment with Triple-A Louisville. No. 1 starter Johnny Cueto started...