Rose at Reds’ Game

Pete Rose attended his first game at the Cincinnati Reds’ new ballpark Sunday, getting tickets for some of the best seats behind home plate.

Hardly anyone expected baseball’s all-time leader in hits, and few fans realized he was there. Rose sat inconspicuously in an aisle seat in the sixth row behind the plate, then left in the third inning of the Reds’ rain-delayed game against the Toronto Blue Jays.

The Reds didn’t announced his presence or show him on the videoboard.

Under his lifetime ban for gambling, Rose can go to games as a fan. He hadn’t been to a Reds game since 1997, when his son, Pete Jr., made his major league debut at Cinergy Field.

Rose had four $225 “Diamond Seat” tickets behind home plate at Great American Ball Park. He arrived about an hour before the scheduled start. His agent told the Reds that he wouldn’t give any interviews.

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One day after coming off the 15-day disabled list with a bad back, Chan Ho Park of the Texas Rangers was put back on it with stiffness and soreness in his right rib cage area.

Park went on the disabled list April 28 with a strained lower back. He lasted only two innings against Montreal on Saturday, giving up four runs -- three earned -- three hits and four walks in a 5-4 loss.

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Hee Seop Choi was resting at home, a day after a violent collision with pitcher Kerry Wood that left the Chicago Cub first baseman with a concussion.

Choi, who was put on the 15-day disabled list, still had a headache and his neck was sore, but he was in good spirits, according to Cub Manager Dusty Baker.