# 2002 Cincinnati Reds season

The 2002 Cincinnati Reds season was the 133rd season for the franchise in Major League Baseball. It consisted of the Reds finishing with a 78-84 record to finish in third place in the National League Central, 19 games behind the St. Louis Cardinals. The Reds were managed by Bob Boone. The 2002 Reds season was their final one in Cinergy Field.

## Offseason

* January 7, 2002: José Rijo was signed as a free agent by the Reds.

## Regular season
### Season standings
#### National League Central

vteNL Central :
| Team | W | L | Pct. | GB | Home | Road |
| St. Louis Cardinals | 97 | 65 | .599 | — | 52‍–‍29 | 45‍–‍36 |
| Houston Astros | 84 | 78 | .519 | 13 | 47‍–‍34 | 37‍–‍44 |
| Cincinnati Reds | 78 | 84 | .481 | 19 | 38‍–‍43 | 40‍–‍41 |
| Pittsburgh Pirates | 72 | 89 | .447 | 24½ | 38‍–‍42 | 34‍–‍47 |
| Chicago Cubs | 67 | 95 | .414 | 30 | 36‍–‍45 | 31‍–‍50 |
| Milwaukee Brewers | 56 | 106 | .346 | 41 | 31‍–‍50 | 25‍–‍56 |

#### Record vs. opponents

2002 National League recordvte Source: :
| Team | AZ | ATL | CHC | CIN | COL | FLA | HOU | LA | MIL | MTL | NYM | PHI | PIT | SD | SF | STL | AL |
| Arizona | — | 3–3 | 4–2 | 6–0 | 14–5 | 5–1 | 3–3 | 9–10 | 4–2 | 4–2 | 5–2 | 4–3 | 4–2 | 12–7 | 8–11 | 2–4 | 11–7 |
| Atlanta | 3–3 | — | 4–2 | 4–2 | 4–3 | 11–8 | 3–3 | 2–4 | 5–1 | 13–6 | 12–7 | 11–7 | 3–3 | 3–3 | 3–3 | 5–1 | 15–3 |
| Chicago | 2–4 | 2–4 | — | 5–12 | 4–2 | 4–2 | 8–11 | 2–4 | 7–10 | 3–3 | 1–5 | 2–4 | 10–9 | 2–4 | 3–3 | 6–12 | 6–6 |
| Cincinnati | 0–6 | 2–4 | 12–5 | — | 3–3 | 5–1 | 6–11 | 4–2 | 13–6 | 1–5 | 2–4 | 2–4 | 11–7 | 5–1 | 2–4 | 8–11 | 2–10 |
| Colorado | 5–14 | 3–4 | 2–4 | 3–3 | — | 5–2 | 3–3 | 7–12 | 3–3 | 4–2 | 3–3 | 3–3 | 4–2 | 11–8 | 8–12 | 2–4 | 7–11 |
| Florida | 1–5 | 8–11 | 2–4 | 1–5 | 2–5 | — | 3–3 | 3–3 | 4–2 | 10–9 | 8–11 | 10–9 | 4–2 | 5–1 | 4–3 | 4–2 | 10–8 |
| Houston | 3–3 | 3–3 | 11–8 | 11–6 | 3–3 | 3–3 | — | 3–3 | 10–8 | 3–3 | 4–2 | 3–3 | 11–6 | 4–2 | 1–5 | 6–13 | 5–7 |
| Los Angeles | 10–9 | 4–2 | 4–2 | 2–4 | 12–7 | 3–3 | 3–3 | — | 5–1 | 5–2 | 4–2 | 4–3 | 4–2 | 10–9 | 8–11 | 2–4 | 12–6 |
| Milwaukee | 2–4 | 1–5 | 10–7 | 6–13 | 3–3 | 2–4 | 8–10 | 1–5 | — | 2–4 | 1–5 | 1–5 | 4–15 | 5–1 | 1–5 | 7–10 | 2–10 |
| Montreal | 2–4 | 6–13 | 3–3 | 5–1 | 2–4 | 9–10 | 3–3 | 2–5 | 4–2 | — | 11–8 | 11–8 | 3–3 | 3–4 | 4–2 | 3–3 | 12–6 |
| New York | 2–5 | 7–12 | 5–1 | 4–2 | 3–3 | 11–8 | 2–4 | 2–4 | 5–1 | 8–11 | — | 9–10 | 1–4 | 3–4 | 0–6 | 3–3 | 10–8 |
| Philadelphia | 3–4 | 7–11 | 4–2 | 4–2 | 3–3 | 9–10 | 3–3 | 3–4 | 5–1 | 8–11 | 10–9 | — | 2–4 | 2–4 | 3–3 | 4–2 | 10–8 |
| Pittsburgh | 2–4 | 3–3 | 9–10 | 7–11 | 2–4 | 2–4 | 6–11 | 2–4 | 15–4 | 3–3 | 4–1 | 4–2 | — | 2–4 | 2–4 | 6–11 | 3–9 |
| San Diego | 7–12 | 3–3 | 4–2 | 1–5 | 8–11 | 1–5 | 2–4 | 9–10 | 1–5 | 4–3 | 4–3 | 4–2 | 4–2 | — | 5–14 | 1–5 | 8–10 |
| San Francisco | 11–8 | 3–3 | 3–3 | 4–2 | 11–8 | 3–4 | 5–1 | 11–8 | 5–1 | 2–4 | 6–0 | 3–3 | 4–2 | 14–5 | — | 2–4 | 8–10 |
| St. Louis | 4–2 | 1–5 | 12–6 | 11–8 | 4–2 | 2–4 | 13–6 | 4–2 | 10–7 | 3–3 | 3–3 | 2–4 | 11–6 | 5–1 | 4–2 | — | 8–4 |

### Notable transactions

* June 7, 2002: Ben Broussard was traded by the Reds to the Cleveland Indians for Russell Branyan.

### Game log

2002 regular season game log: 78–84 (Home: 38–43; Away: 40–41) :
April: 16–9 (Home: 9–6; Away: 7–2)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecordBoxStreak
1April 1Cubs5–4GravesFassero—41,9131–0W1
2April 3Cubs3–10WoodDessens—19,7451–1L1
3April 4Cubs3–1AcevedoCruzGraves16,4482–1W1
4April 5Expos7–8YoshiiHaynesLloyd17,1232–2L1
5April 6Expos2–5OhkaPinedaLloyd18,1762–3L2
6April 7Expos6–5SullivanLloyd—17,5493–3W1
7April 8at Pirates0–1VilloneDessensWilliams36,4023–4L1
8April 10at Pirates8–5AcevedoWellsGraves36,0484–4W1
9April 11at Pirates3–2HaynesAndersonGraves12,7955–4W2
10April 12at Phillies8–5BrowerCormierGraves13,3666–4W3
11April 13at Phillies5–2HamiltonPersonGraves15,6067–4W4
12April 14at Phillies1–3PadillaDessensMesa19,1957–5L1
13April 16Astros3–8MlickiAcevedo—15,8537–6L2
14April 17Astros2–7HernándezHaynes—14,5277–7L3
15April 18Astros5–4WhiteCruz—15,8488–7W1
16April 19at Cubs2–5ClementHamiltonAlfonseca33,9498–8L1
17April 20at Cubs6–1DessensWood—36,4769–8W1
18April 21at Cubs5–3RijoCruzGraves29,45810–8W2
19April 23Rockies3–2HaynesJenningsGraves14,51811–8W3
20April 24Rockies4–3WilliamsonJiménez—13,00412–8W4
21April 25Rockies4–3SullivanWhiteGraves14,41613–8W5
22April 26Giants4–3SullivanRodríguezGraves28,34114–8W6
23April 27Giants8–4RijoJensen—22,61615–8W7
24April 28Giants4–5RueterHaynesNen23,42615–9L1
25April 30at Dodgers3–1ReitsmaBrownGraves25, 17816–9W1 :
May: 0–0 (Home: 0–0; Away: 0–0)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecordBoxStreak
26May 1at Los Angeles Dodgers4–0HamiltonNomo23,34617–9W2
27May 2at Los Angeles Dodgers2–3CarraraPineda27,22417–10L1
28May 3at San Francisco Giants1–6RueterRijo39,84517–11L2
29May 4at San Francisco Giants0–3JensenHaynesNen40,95917–12L3
30May 5at San Francisco Giants5–6NenPineda41,26317–13L4
31May 6Milwaukee Brewers8–5BrowerQuevedoGraves12,86718–13W1
32May 7Milwaukee Brewers8-2DessensRusch16,167
33Wednesday, May 82002 Milwaukee Brewers season14-5AcevedoNeugebauer15,691
34May 10St. Louis Cardinals season2-4StechschulteWhiteIsringhausen29,008
35May 11St. Louis Cardinals season8-1ReitsmKile25,006
36May 12St. Louis Cardinals season8-10StechschulteGravesIsringhausen20,622
37May 13@Milwaukee Brewers5-0RijoCabrera14,844 +
38May 14@Milwaukee BrewersAcevedoQuevedoGraves15,546
39May 15Milwaukee Brewers|7-4HaynesStullGraves15,561
40May 16Milwaukee Brewers2-1WhiteDeJeanGraves18,456
41May 17@St. Louis Cardinals season1-3KileSullivanIsringhausen36,103
42May 18St. Louis Cardinals season7-3RijoMorris40,483
43May 19@ St. Louis Cardinals season1-10StephensonAcevedo42,992
44May 20St. Louis Cardinals season3-7WilliamsHaynes35,560
45May 21Florida Gators6-1ReitsmaBurnett Graves16,841
46May 22Florida Gators6-2DessensDempster20,314
47May 23Florida Gators4-8TavarezRijoNunez23,134 -
48May 24@Atlanta Braves2-11MillwoodHamilton29,307
49May 25@ Atlanta Braves6-4MarquisGraves44,026
50May 26Atlanta Braves5-7 MadduxReitsma40,142 -
51May 28@ Florida Marlinss6-5GravesNunez7,386
52May 29@ Florida Marlins8-2HamiltonBeckett6,836
53May 30Florida MarlinsW-4-1HaynesOlsenGraves6,140
54May 31Atlanta Braves0-7MadduxReitsma38,777 - :
Legend:        = Win        = Loss        = Postponement Bold = Reds team member :

## Player stats
### Batting
#### Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in
| Pos | Player | G | AB | H | Avg. | HR | RBI |
| C | Jason LaRue | 113 | 353 | 88 | .249 | 12 | 52 |
| 1B | Sean Casey | 120 | 425 | 111 | .261 | 6 | 42 |
| 2B | Todd Walker | 155 | 612 | 183 | .299 | 11 | 64 |
| SS | Barry Larkin | 145 | 507 | 124 | .245 | 7 | 47 |
| 3B | Aaron Boone | 162 | 606 | 146 | .241 | 26 | 87 |
| LF | Adam Dunn | 158 | 535 | 133 | .249 | 26 | 71 |
| CF | Juan Encarnación | 83 | 321 | 89 | .277 | 16 | 51 |
| RF | Austin Kearns | 107 | 372 | 117 | .315 | 13 | 56 |

#### Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in
| Player | G | AB | H | Avg. | HR | RBI |
| Reggie Taylor | 135 | 287 | 73 | .254 | 9 | 38 |
| Russell Branyan | 84 | 217 | 53 | .244 | 16 | 39 |
| Ken Griffey Jr. | 70 | 197 | 52 | .264 | 8 | 23 |
| Corky Miller | 39 | 114 | 29 | .254 | 3 | 15 |
| José Guillén | 31 | 109 | 27 | .248 | 4 | 16 |
| Kelly Stinnett | 34 | 93 | 21 | .226 | 3 | 13 |
| Rubén Mateo | 46 | 86 | 22 | .256 | 2 | 7 |
| Juan Castro | 54 | 82 | 18 | .220 | 2 | 11 |
| Wilton Guerrero | 59 | 78 | 19 | .244 | 0 | 4 |
| Brady Clark | 51 | 66 | 10 | .152 | 0 | 9 |
| Brandon Larson | 23 | 51 | 14 | .275 | 4 | 13 |
| Travis Dawkins | 31 | 48 | 6 | .125 | 0 | 0 |
| Raúl González | 10 | 23 | 6 | .261 | 0 | 1 |
| Wily Mo Peña | 13 | 18 | 4 | .222 | 1 | 1 |

### Pitching
#### Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
| Player | G | IP | W | L | ERA | SO |
| Jimmy Haynes | 34 | 196.2 | 15 | 10 | 4.12 | 126 |
| Elmer Dessens | 30 | 178.0 | 7 | 8 | 3.03 | 93 |
| Ryan Dempster | 15 | 88.2 | 5 | 5 | 6.19 | 66 |
| Brian Moehler | 10 | 43.1 | 2 | 4 | 6.02 | 18 |
| Shawn Estes | 6 | 28.0 | 1 | 3 | 7.71 | 17 |
| José Acevedo | 6 | 23.2 | 4 | 2 | 7.23 | 14 |

#### Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
| Player | G | IP | W | L | ERA | SO |
| Chris Reitsma | 32 | 138.1 | 6 | 12 | 3.64 | 84 |
| Joey Hamilton | 39 | 124.2 | 4 | 10 | 5.27 | 85 |
| José Rijo | 31 | 77.0 | 5 | 4 | 5.14 | 38 |
| Jared Fernández | 14 | 50.2 | 1 | 3 | 4.44 | 36 |

#### Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
| Player | G | W | L | SV | ERA | SO |
| Danny Graves | 68 | 7 | 3 | 32 | 3.19 | 58 |
| Scott Sullivan | 71 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 6.06 | 78 |
| Scott Williamson | 63 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 2.92 | 84 |
| Gabe White | 62 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2.98 | 41 |
| Bruce Chen | 39 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4.31 | 37 |
| John Riedling | 33 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2.70 | 30 |
| Luis Pineda | 26 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4.18 | 31 |
| Jim Brower | 22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3.89 | 24 |
| José Silva | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4.24 | 6 |
| Carlos Almanzar | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.31 | 7 |
| Luke Hudson | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.50 | 7 |

## Farm system

| Level | Team | League | Manager |
| AAA | Louisville Bats | International League | Dave Miley |
| AA | Chattanooga Lookouts | Southern League | Phillip Wellman |
| A | Stockton Ports | California League | Jayhawk Owens |
| A | Dayton Dragons | Midwest League | Donnie Scott |
| Rookie | GCL Reds | Gulf Coast League | Edgar Caceres |
| Rookie | Billings Mustangs | Pioneer League | Rick Burleson |
LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Stockton