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Reds try to salvage season after dumping Price

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CHICAGO: Having dropped 15 of their irst 18 games this season, the Cincinnati Reds will try to salvage their Major League Baseball campaign with a new manager and sense of urgency.

After losing 10 of their past 11 games for their worst start since 1931, the Reds fired manager Bryan Price and installed bench coach Jim Riggleman as interim manager starting with Friday’s game in St. Louis.

‘FOCUSED ON URGENCY’

“I think we’re going to hit the ground running,” Reds general manager Dick Williams said. “We’re very focused on creating a sense of urgency for these guys to perform now.

“When guys show up for work every day, they need to have a sense of urgency to win that day. They need to take care of the details on the field. They need to play hard. They need to play the game smart. They need to play it right. That, we can control.” With the worst record in the major leagues, the Reds are already 8 1/2 games behind pacesettin­g Pittsburgh in the National League Central division.

“This is an organizati­onal disappoint­ment and nobody here feels that Bryan... is a scapegoat for what happened,” Williams said.

“It’s just that’s the first step in the process of making this right and trying our best to fix things.”

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