Alfredo Simon limited the Dodgers to one run in eight innings and struck out five to win for the ninth time on Thursday. Simon avenged one of his worst starts of the season, when he gave up five runs over 3 2/3 innings in a loss to the Dodgers on May 27. This makes six times this year that he's pitched at least six innings and allowed one or no runs. His peripherals still say a reckoning is coming, but he's been huge for the Reds thus far.