Arroyo, Gorzelanny highlight Reds/Bucs finale

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08/05/2007 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Young left-hander Tom Gorzelanny makes his fourth attempt at his 10th victory of the season today when the Pittsburgh Pirates host the Cincinnati Reds to close out a three-game National League Central division series at PNC Park.

Just 25, Gorzelanny improved to 9-4 on July 5 with a 6-3 defeat of the Milwaukee Brewers. He's 0-2 with a no-decision since having surrendered 19 hits and 12 earned runs in 15 1/3 innings, including a 6-3 loss to the New York Mets on July 25 in which he lasted just 2 1/3 innings.

The Illinois native and former second-round draft choice made his lone career appearance against the Reds on April 28, allowing eight hits and five runs in an 8-1 Cincinnati victory.

Gorzelanny entered this season with a 2-6 record in 14 major league appearances -- 12 starts.

The Reds counter with lanky right-hander Bronson Arroyo, whose 2007 struggles continued in his last start.

On August 1, the 6-foot-5, 194-pounder allowed seven hits and seven runs over just 1 2/3 innings, suffering his 12th loss of the season via a 7-2 thumping by the Washington Nationals.

Arroyo won 14 games with the Reds in 2006 after being acquired in Spring Training for Wily Mo Pena.

A third-round pick of the Pirates in 1995, Arroyo allowed seven hits and six runs in a 9-5 loss to Pittsburgh on May 26.

He is 1-3 in four career starts against them, posting a 5.40 earned run average in 25 innings.

On Saturday, Adam Dunn hit his 30th home run of the season, a two-run blast in the top of the 10th inning, to propel the Reds to a 9-8 comeback victory over the Pirates.

Dunn's homer off Pittsburgh closer Matt Capps came after Jeff Keppinger tied the game with a solo homer off Capps in the top of the ninth.

The late-inning support made a winner of right-hander Jared Burton (3-1), who pitched a hitless 1 2/3 innings. David Weathers came on in the 10th for his 21st save of the season, despite giving up a one-out homer to pinch-hitter Jack Wilson.

Reds starter Bobby Livingston went 5 1/3 innings, allowing just two runs on six hits, striking out four and walking none. Javier Valentin went 3-for-5 and drove in two runs for Cincinnati.

The Reds have now won two straight over the Bucs following a five-game losing streak.

Capps (4-5) blew his first save since moving into the closer's role, and it negated a go-ahead home run by Pirates catcher Ronny Paulino, who had given the Bucs a 7-6 lead heading into the ninth.

Pittsburgh has now lost six of eight, and wasted a solid outing from Matt Morris, who was making his first start since being acquired from San Francisco at the trade deadline. Morris allowed five runs -- four earned -- in 6 1/3 innings and helped his own cause with a single and a solo home run.

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