With his 2-yard touchdown catch Sunday on the second play of the fourth quarter, Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver A.J. Green made NFL history.

The 100^th catch of Green’s career made him the first player to achieve at least 100 receptions, 1,500 receiving yards and 11 touchdowns in his first 20 games.

Green had nine catches for 65 yards in the Bengals’ 17-13 loss to the Dolphins, giving the second-year receiver 101 receptions for 1,550 yards with 11 TDs for his career.

Sunday also marked the fourth consecutive game in which Green has caught a touchdown, and the nine catches were one shy of the career high 10 he collected last year at Denver in Week 2.

Green entered the day 28 yards behind Miami’s Brian Hartline for the NFL lead, but Hartline finished with four catches for 59 yards to stay 22 yards ahead of Green.

Scott out: Running back Bernard Scott left Sunday’s game with what is believed to be an ACL injury that would likely end his season.

Scott provided the Bengals with their longest play of the game when he burst off right tackle for 29 yards on the team’s second possession. He gained 43 yards on four carries on the drive before being stuffed for a 3-yard loss on first-and-goal at the 4, which is likely when the injury occurred because he didn’t log a carry the rest of the game.

After suffering a hand injury in training camp, Scott missed all four preseason games and was inactive for the first two games of the regular season. He returned to action in Week 3 at Washington, carrying three times for minus-5 yards before suffering a second-quarter ankle injury that kept him out of last week’s game at Jacksonville.

Sunday he failed to make it out of the first quarter.

Decisions debated: Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis was asked about two specific calls in his postgame press conference.

The first was why he elected to kick the PAT instead of going for two after Andy Dalton hit A.J. Green with a 2-yard touchdown pass to cut the Miami lead to 17-12 with 14:15 left in the game.

“The way we looked at it was we were at the beginning of the fourth quarter and it was early,” Lewis said. “If it was later on, it would have been a different situation. We just got our legs back under us on defense, and we were starting to stop them. I didn’t expect that would be our last score of the game.”

The other question was why he decided to try for a field goal with the team trailing 17-13 with 3:05 left in the game and facing a fourth-and-5 at the Miami 23.

“We thought we could stop them and get the ball back again, then kick another field goal and win the game,” Lewis said.

Nugent hooked the kick right, his first miss in 10 attempts this year.

“It’s easy to sit here and second guess it now,” Lewis said.

Third-and-wrong: The Bengals converted 2-of-14 third downs, furthering what has been an ongoing problem.

In five games, the Bengals are 15-of-61 on third downs.

“I think getting better on first and second down would help that some,” Lewis said. “I think we’re just a tick off on third down.

“We got the ball tipped in the end zone on one drive; we got the ball tipped late in the game and so forth,” Lewis continued. “Those things are what are stopping us on third down. We have to get a tick better and get that extra inch to win.”

Six of the team’s 12 failed attempts Sunday came on third-and-5 or shorter, including three on third-and-2 or less.

Ironically, the Bengals are 5-of-7 on fourth down this season, including 1-for-1 Sunday when Andy Dalton hit Jermaine Gresham with a 20-yard pass on fourth-and-2 at the Miami 35, leading to an eventual Mike Nugent 24-yard field goal.