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Reds feel ‘due’ after Game 1 ‘nightmare’ 10.07.10 at 9:20 am ET
By Mike Petraglia

PHILADELPHIA — Dusty Baker has seen a lot of history in his days as a major league manager.

Baker was on-deck when Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth‘s home run record on April 8, 1974. He watched his San Francisco Giants experience heartbreak in the 2002 World Series when they lost a 5-0 lead in Game 6. And he was in the dugout the next year managing the Chicago Cubs in 2003 when Steve Bartman – not Moises Alou – caught a foul pop near the left field wall at Wrigley Field in Game 6 of the NLCS, just five outs away from Chicago’s first trip to the World Series since 1945.

So he’s certainly seen both sides of history before. That should help as he readies his team for Friday night’s Game 2 in South Philly. What he saw Wednesday in Philadelphia certainly qualifies as Roy Halladay became the second pitcher in MLB postseason history to throw a no-hitter with a 4-0 gem over his Cincinnati Reds.

Get over it? Baker thinks his team certainly can.

“Well, I mean, you have no choice,” he said. “It still counts as a loss, but that was a very dramatic loss. That is the best pitched game I’ve seen since I’ve been going to the playoffs and the World Series. You have no choice but to bounce back. You’ve got to put that one behind us. Figure we got beat by a great performance tonight.

“The thing about it is, you know, I don’t think he threw anything down the heart of the plate, everything was on the corners and moving. I don’t know what his percentage was, but it looked like he threw 90 percent for first pitch strikes. Any time you do that with the stuff he has, then he can go to work on you after that.”

Baker managed his Reds to a 91-71 record and the NL Central Division title. He was rewarded Monday with a two-year contract extension.

Was Baker even thinking of this possibility before the game with Halladay on the mound?

“No, if I was thinking of this scenario, it would be like a nightmare, and I don’t like having nightmares. This is the last thing on my mind. You know, last time I think we hit him pretty good in Cincinnati. He made the proper adjustments. He was working very quickly. No, like I said, you don’t want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.

“One thing’s for sure, we’re due to get a lot of hits after this game.”

The flip side of the experience coin is Reds outfielder Jay Bruce, whose dramatic homer leading off the ninth inning eight days earlier gave his Reds the division title, feels the Reds can bounce back. But Bruce also admitted something else. The Reds were stunned by what hit them – or more to the point – what they didn’t hit on Wednesday.

“You have to have a short memory,” said Bruce, whose fifth-inning walk was the only thing between Halladay and a perfect game. “None of these guys are going to be easy. It’s the playoffs and we’re all here for a reason. There’s a little shock factor right now I think but I fully expect us to be ready to go the next game.”

Bruce – in only his second full season at the age of 23 – has become a true spokesman for one of the landmark franchises in the sport. And what he said after Wednesday night’s game spoke to why even teammates 10 and 15 years older respect him so much.

“Honestly I don’t think it’s going to be a problem,” Bruce said of the Reds’ psyche. “We’re all grown men here and we can be professional enough to move on and get ready for the next game ahead of us because, and I’m not discounting anything Roy did, at the end of the day, it’s just a loss.”

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