Usually mild-mannered right-hander Aaron Harang beat up a Gatorade container and threw a bat in the dugout Saturday in Minute Maid Park after he came out of the game.
The frustrations finally are getting to him. He said it was because the first six Houston hits were ground-ball singles that found the holes in the infield, but some of it probably had to do with his offensive support -- or the lack of it. Despite a 2.60 ERA, Harang is 1-2 in his three starts because his teammates have scored a total of three runs in his outings. And two came in his win, a 2-0 three-hitter over the Pirates.
In his other two starts, they scored one run on Opening Day and no runs Saturday in Houston.
"It has been a frustrating year-and-a-half (he was 6-17 last season, losing several due to lack of offensive support) and I guess I finally went over the top of the boiling point," he said.
REDS 4, ASTROS 2: RHP Micah Owings, who doubles as a pinch hitter, did just that Sunday, hitting a two-run pinch-hit double in the seventh inning Sunday to break a 1-1 tie and carried the Reds to their second win in three games in the four-game series in Houston.
