Allentown Morning Call - July 22, 1980

Reds rally in the 7th to top Phils, 5-4

CINCINNATI (AP) - Doubles by Ken Griffey and Johnny Bench and Dan Driessen's single gave Cincinnati two seventh-inning runs and enabled the Reds to beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-4 last night in a game delayed twice by rain. 

Bench's two-out double to the right-centerfield gap off Randy Lerch, 3-12, bar"ely beat a downpour that halted the game for 56 minutes. When play resumed, Driessen's single sent Bench home. 

Rain also delayed the game 14 minutes in the sixth inning. 

The RBI gave Cincinnati a 5-3 lead and enabled them to withstand Larry Bowa's triple and Bake McBride's pinch double for the Phillies' final run in the ninth.

Bench also contributed an RBI single in the third. Charlie Leibrandt. 9-6. the second of three Cincinnati pitchers, threw one perfect inning for the win and Tom Hume earned his 15th save. 

The Reds got a run in the first when Dave Concepcion doubled, moved up on Lerch s wild pitch and scored on George Foster's sacrifice fly. Bench's sharp single to left scored Dave Collins in the third for a 2-0 lead, but Concepcion was thrown out at the plate trying to score from second on the play. The Reds had loaded the bases on Collins' walk and singles by Concepcion and Griffey. 

The Phillies tied it in the fourth on Mike Schmidt's walk and Keith Moreland s fourth homer of the season. They took the lead in the sixth when Garry Maddox singled, took second on Mike LaCoss's wild pickoff throw, and rat ed home on Bowa's bloop single to left. 

Junior Kennedy doubled home Ray Knight, who had singled and moved up on Driessen's walk, for the Reds' tying run in the sixth.