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A guy out of Mississippi used his wheels to score the game-winning run in the ninth inning for Cincinnati on Sunday night — but it wasn’t speed demon Billy Hamilton of Taylorsville. Ole Miss product Zack Cozart showed a little speed of his own in scoring all the way from first base on a double to left field by Ryan Hanigan. The Reds beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2 for their fourth straight win and seventh W in the last 10. At 82-62, the Reds are tied for second with Pittsburgh in the National League Central, 1.5 games back of St. Louis. Cozart has been on a tear of late. He went 2-for-4 Sunday, extending his hit streak to 13 games, and is batting .254 with 10 homers, 53 RBIs and 69 runs in 133 games. In MLB, September is a good time to get hot. P.S. Another former Ole Miss standout, Seth Smith, contributed a three-run homer (No. 8) in a seven-run third inning to help first-place Oakland beat Houston 7-2. The A’s maintained a 1.5-game lead on Texas in the American League West.