"With the sparse crowd chanting, 'Cody, Cody', it was all set up for Cody Ross and not Jorge Cantu to be the hero for the Marlins Get your Marlins Tickets now! on Monday night at Sun Life Stadium.

Full-count, two outs, bases loaded of a 5-5 game in the bottom of the ninth. Every little-leaguer and big-leaguer's dream. Not this time. Ross bounced out to short and instead it was Reds slugger Scott Rolen punctuating his multihomer evening with a soft single to drive in the winning run in the top of the 10th off Burke Badenhop to seal Cincinnati's 6-5 victory.

"I had him where I wanted him, 2-0 … after that it was just a battle,'' Ross said. "I think I swung at ball four, probably down but a tough pitch to take.

"When you're a kid that's your dream. When you're up here it's more 3-2, zero outs, that's more of a dream. When you have no outs, you just have to hit a fly ball, but it's a tough loss for us.''

Although Cantu continued his hitting heroics with a two-run double — his 12th RBI in the first seven games — even he couldn't overcome a sloppy effort from starter Ricky Nolasco, who was tagged for five runs, including three home runs for the first time since June 2008."