Dave Miley was fired Tuesday afternoon as the manager of the Cincinnati Reds.
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The last-place Cincinnati Reds fired manager Dave Miley on Tuesday and promoted bench coach Jerry Narron to take over on an interim basis for the rest of the season.
Cincinnati Reds general manager Dan O'Brien will officially announce the personnel changes at a 3:00 p.m. press conference at Great American Ball Park.
Pitching coach Don Gullett also was fired. Vern Ruhle will handle the job for the remainder of the season.
At 27-43, the Reds were 18 1/2 games behind St. Louis in the NL Central. Cincinnati lost 6-1 at home to St. Louis on Monday night in Miley's last game.
The dismissal of Miley was not unexpected.
Earlier this month, Reds chief operating officer John Allen called the Reds' performance "unacceptable" and hinted that changes could be made if there was no improvement.
The Reds went 5-9 after Allen's remarks.
Coming off a 76-86 season in which injuries to Ken Griffey Jr. and other players hurt them, the Reds started this year with three straight wins. But a 1-10 slump that began in late April dropped them far behind in the NL Central.
Miley became the Reds' manager on July 28, 2003. Cincinnati was 125-164 during parts of his three seasons. He has spent 26 years in the Reds' organization as a player, coach or manager.
Gullett, a former ace for the Reds, had been the team's pitching coach since May 24, 1993.
Narron was in his second season as Miley's bench coach. Narron managed Texas in 2001-02, and also managed for four years in Baltimore's minor league system. He was Boston's bench coach in 2003 and coached with Texas from 1995-2001.
The 49-year-old Narron becomes the 58th manager in Reds history and the 48th since 1900.
Ruhle was hired by the Reds in 2004 as a minor league pitching coach. The former pitcher was the Reds' minor league pitching coordinator this season.
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Adapted from articles on the FoxSports and Major League Baseball websites.
Don Gullett has been replaced as the pitching coach of Cincinnati - a position he held since 1993.
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