| Blue Jays take flight in seventh; hammer Reds |
| With the Blue Jays trailing 3-2 in the bottom half of the seventh with several on base, Reds manager Lou Piniella went to Rob Dibble in the hope that his ace reliever would close the book on the Jays comeback attempt. However, Dibble uncharacteristically gave up three runs as the Jays ended up scoring 8 runs in that inning to defeat the Reds 9-3 before 50,518 fans at Skydome. Dave Stieb started the game and the only mistake he made was a three-run home run surrendered to Eric Davis in the top of the first inning. Stieb calmed down considerably after that. "I knew that I had thrown a bad pitch to Davis, but thankfully I was able to settle down after that. Rijo pitched well for them, but we were able to be patient and get our big inning." |
| Outs: | 3 | Inning: | 9 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | R | H | E | |
| Away | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | ||||||
| Home | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 0 | |||||||
| 1990 Cincinnati Reds | |||||||||||
| AB | Runs | Hits | 2b | 3b | HR | BB | SO | RBI | SB | CS | |
| Barry Larkin | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Chris Sabo | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Paul ONeill | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Billy Hatcher | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Eric Davis | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Mariano Duncan | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Joe Oliver | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Todd Benzinger | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Hal Morris | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| IP | Hits | Runs | BB | SO | W | L | S | PC | |||
| Jose Rijo | 6.3 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 112 | ||
| Rob Dibble | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |||
| Scott Scudder | 0.6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | ||
| Norm Charlton | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |||
| 1990 Toronto Blue Jays | |||||||||||
| AB | Runs | Hits | 2b | 3b | HR | BB | SO | RBI | SB | CS | |
| Tony Fernandez | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Kelly Gruber | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Fred McGriff | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Mookie Wilson | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| George Bell | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Junior Felix | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| John Olerud | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nelson Liriano | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Pat Borders | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Manuel Lee | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| IP | Hits | Runs | BB | SO | W | L | S | PC | |||
| Dave Stieb | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 101 | ||
| Jim Acker | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 17 | ||||||
| Tom Henke | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15 | ||||||