DDN: McCoy: Cueto leaves early during atrocious loss

Hal McCoy knows how to write a gamer:

DENVER — Losing the worst-played major-league baseball game in this millennium was bad enough, but the Cincinnati Reds lost more than that — pending a medical work-up today of pitcher Johnny Cueto. [...]

As far as the game goes, it was the Reds falling out of an ugly tree and hitting every branch on the way to the ground.

They made as many errors (five) as they had hits (five), they struck out 14 times. They walked nine Rockies, threw two wild pitches, committed a balk, perpetrated a passed ball and Corey Patterson made his daily baserunning blunder by getting picked off base.

The videotape is going to Cooperstown as one of the five worst professional baseball games ever played.