"Just really locked in," Reds manager Bryan Price said of the performance. "That was fun for me to watch. It looked like the Homer Bailey that we knew before the injury."
What made the sixth inning more climatic -- especially when it was still a 3-0 game -- was Bailey returned from a 31-pitch bottom of the fifth during his lone danger of the game. It opened with a leadoff walk and broken-bat single, but Bailey hunkered down from there. Kirk Nieuwenhuis fouled off three changeups before striking out on a 95-mph fastball. Following a popout by Martin Maldonado, pinch-hitter Andy Wilkins went from a 2-0 count to striking out on three fastballs, the last also at 95 mph.