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The Reds can only win 89 games.  I guess I haven't technically lost my bet until they lose again, as 89 would be a push.  Tim Wakefield was in line to get his 200th win, before the bullpen blew the lead:

This is supposed to be a feel-good story? Numbing is more like it.
It's almost become too much to bear, watching Tim Wakefield and the Red Sox bullpen mangle efforts to collect his 200th win, which started out as a nice number for him to hang his career on but has become the hardball version of "Saw," I through VII.
The quest, now seven failed starts and counting after Wednesday night's 11-10 debacle in Toronto, is claiming more victims than simply the 45-year-old knuckleballer, who coughed up a 3-0 first-inning lead but still was in position to claim the W when the Sox staked him to an 8-5 advantage after five, which is when he departed.
The pressure of preserving what had been trimmed to a two-run lead for Wakefield on Wednesday night proved too much for Daniel Bard, or so it seemed, as the Sox setup man mislocated home plate as badly as he has in two seasons and walked home a pair of runs to tie it.

Also, R.A. Dickey had another excellent outing, giving up no runs, 4 hits and 3 walks in 7 innings of the Mets 1-0 win over the Marlins:

R.A. Dickey flummoxed the Florida Marlins once again.
Dickey made an early run stand up, blanking Florida for seven innings and pitching the New York Mets to a 1-0 victory Wednesday.
Dickey is 3-0 against the Marlins this season. The knuckleballer allowed only one run -- it was unearned -- in 20 innings over that span."I think it's coincidence," Dickey said. "Sometimes you match up better against certain type of hitters and maybe this team has those kinds of hitters for me."

Also, Charlie Haeger got roughed up in his final start of the season at Portland, Maine, giving up 6 runs in 6 innings.  He finished his time there with a 4-1 record.