Article: Failure to lay down bunt lets Dunn blast walk-off ; Cincinnati win streak hits five as slugger ends a game with a last at-bat homer for the seventh time.

CINCINNATI -- On the first two pitches, Adam Dunn was told to bunt. With runners on first and second, no one out and his team trailing by one run, Cincinnati Reds manager Dusty Baker wanted to play small ball.

"He's been bragging to me since spring training how he can bunt," Baker said.

It didn't quite end that way.

After failing twice to lay down a bottom-of-the-ninth sacrifice, Dunn blasted a three-run, game-ending home run to give the Reds a 4- 2 walk-off victory against the Cleveland Indians on Saturday, May 17. The win was Cincinnati's fifth straight against first-place teams and another come-from-behind performance for the surging Reds.

Cincinnati trailed 2-1 entering the ninth with ...

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