Cincinnati Reds manager David Bell picked up a win in his managerial debut Thursday, 5-3 over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Opening Day Adam Baum, abaum@enquirer.com
For the first Major League Baseball game Sonny Gray ever attended, his father, Jesse Gray, a Reds fan, drove his son more than four hours from Nashville, Tennessee, to Great American Ball Park.
Gray, a 29-year-old right-handed pitcher who will make his Cincinnati Reds debut Saturday afternoon (2:10 p.m., FSO) against the Pittsburgh Pirates, remembers that game well. He remembers walking across a bridge with his dad to get to the stadium.