1969: Reds Beat Padres in Hit Parade
Monday, September 17, 2007by Geoff Young
September 17, 1969, San Diego: Reds 10, Padres 5 (box score)
Like offense? You'd have loved this one. Thirty-one hits. Six batters collected three base knocks -- five of them played, as you might have imagined, for the visiting Reds.
Cincinnati scored early and often against starter Joe Niekro (and everyone else the Padres sent out there, come to think of it). They tallied single runs in the first and seventh innings, and two each in the third, fourth, fifth, and eighth.
The Reds were, in a word, relentless.
Midway through the game, the Padres trailed, 7-0, and were burning through their second pitcher. In the bottom of the fifth, they ...
