SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) -Alex Gonzalez was relieved to be back on the field.
Gonzalez singled in two at-bats as the designated hitter after missing all of last season with a knee injury, and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Netherlands 4-3 in 10 innings on Wednesday night.
He felt some tightness in the left knee, which was packed in ice after he was removed.
Luis Bolivar scored in the 10th inning on a wild pitch by Berry Van Driel. A pair of errors by Netherlands third baseman Yurendell DeCastier, a Tigers farmhand, helped the Reds score two runs in the fourth.
Jay Bruce hit a home run for the second straight day off Cincinnati minor leaguer Alexander Smit. Randall Simon drove in a run and DeCastier hit a two-run homer for The Netherlands.
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