The Bats scored all 8 runs in the 5th and 6th innings to capture their 3rd straight win over the Tide. The 6 run 5th inning was capped by Andy Phillips’s grand slam. That is Phillips’s 3rd homerun in 3 straight games. Ryan Hannigan went 3-4 in the game with 3 singles. Luis Bolivar, Jay Bruce, and Chris Dickerson each added 2 hits apiece. Dickerson had a double and drove in 2 rbis. Bruce added an rbi and a double while Bolivar scored twice.
Adam Pettyjohn remained undefeated and improved to 3-0 with the win. Adam allowed 5 runs on 7 hits and a walk while striking out 2 in 5 innings pitched. Gary Majewski picked up his 2nd save of the season, but it was not a smooth inning of work. Gary gave up a run on 2 hits and a walk while striking out 1.
The Lookouts had only 8 hits, and Tonys Gutierrez had 3 of them. Tonys went 3-3 with 3 singles in the game to bump his average to .337 on the season. Chris Valaika went 2-4 with 2 runs scored and a homerun in his first game at Double-A. He hit .363/.393/.585 in 32 games at Sarasota before getting called up to Chattanooga. Cody Strait hit a homerun of his own, his 5th of the season, in a 2-5 game. He added a double.
Pedro Viola, Carlos Fisher, and Josh Roenicke combined to pitch 4 scoreless innings in relief for the Lookouts. They combined to allow 4 hits and a walk while striking out 1.
Chris Heisey went 2-2 with a double, run scored, an rbi, and 2 walks in the game to help the Reds to a 3-2 win. Todd Frazier and Jason Louwsma each had 1 rbi.
Daniel Guerrero improved to 2-2 on the season by going 7 scoreless innings, scattering 4 hits and striking out 6. This was by far Guerrero’s best start of the ‘08 season.
Matt Klinker go the start in this one and didn’t have his best game. Matt allowed 4 runs on 7 hits and 2 walks in 5 innings pitched. He struck out 3. He received a no-decision.
Keltavious Jones, Zach Cozart, Denis Phipps, Brandon Waring, and Logan Parker each had 2 hits in the game. Parker had a homerun, 2 runs scored and 2 rbis while Jones hit a homerun as well. The Reds #1 draft pick from last season, Devin Mesoraco, made his debut last night in Dayton. Mesoraco went 1-4 with a walk, rbi, and 2 strikeouts.
July 4, 1998: The Reds deal pitcher Jeff Shaw to the Dodgers for Dennys Reyes and Paul Konerko.
Shaw, who had been selected as the Reds only representative to the All-Star game, appeared in teh game on July 7 at Coors Field in a Dodgers uniform. This was was the first time that a player had made his first appearance for a team at an All-Star game. The Reds wound up with a player in the game when Bret Boone was named to replace an injured Sammy Sosa.
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Andy Phillips had not had a homerun all season until 2 days ago. Now he has 2 in 2 days. In yesterday’s game, he went 2-4 with a homerun, run scored, and 4 rbis. Kevin Barker hit his 5th homerun of the season, going 1-5 with a run scored and 3 rbis. Jay Bruce went 4-5 for the Bats while Jolbert Cabrera and Paul Janish had 2 hits each.
Matt Maloney improved to 3-2 on the season by allowing 2 runs on 7 hits while striking out 2 over 7 innings pitched. Bill Bray struggled in his first outing since being sent back down to AAA. Bray allowed 2 runs on 2 hits and 2 walks in .1 innings pitched. Jon Adkins picked up his 5th save of the season by recording the final 2 outs of the game. Adkins now has a 0.87 ERA in 20.2 innings pitched.
The Smokies scored 5 runs in the 7th and then 6 more in the 9th to blow the game open late. Derrick Lutz pitched .1 innings, allowing 5 runs (3 earned) on 2 hits and 2 walks to get the loss. Justin James did not help matter any. James pitched 1 inning, giving up 6 runs (2 earned) on 3 hits and 4 walks.
Michael DeJesus led the Reds in hits by going 3-4 with a double and an rbi. Jason Louwsma went 2-4 with an rbi and Juan Francisco had 2 rbis and hit his 5th homerun of the season.
Rafael Gonzalez picked up his 2nd win of the season by going 5 scoreless innings, scattering 4 hits and 1 walk while striking out 4.
The Reds announced that longtime Triple-A Louisville voice Jim Kelch will do fill-in work on 14 Reds radio broadcasts this season.
How many announcers does this team need? Why can’t Thom Brennaman do radio when his dad is on vacation, or whatever? And the larger question is this: if the Reds needed an announcer to fill in, why didn’t they ask me? I have a history of some radio sportscasting from my college days (back when I wanted to grow up to be Marty Brennaman). Clearly, I would do a great job.
UPDATE: Chris from Seeing Reds has suspicions that Jeff Brantley might be on his way out the door. I doubt that will happen, but I wish it were true. Brantley is, by far, the worst Reds broadcaster…including George Grande.
Give me Chris Welsh and Thom Brennaman on television, and Marty Brennaman all by himself on radio (a la Vin Scully). That would work just fine, in my opinion.
August 2, 1939: The Reds announce plans to add 3,100 seats to Crosley Field by erecting a second deck to the pavilions down the left and right field lines, at a cost of $125,000. The extra seats raised the capacity of Crosley Field to 29,401. The added sections were finished wit a steel floor, instead of concrete like the remainder of the upper deck, and were completed just before teh end of the season.
Fans quickly discovered the unique sound properties of the new steel floor by banging their feet in unison to “cheer” the Reds on during rallies. The 1939 addition was planed by Harry Hake, Jr., the son of the original architect. Despite the additional seating, Crosley Field still had the smallest capacity of any ballpark in the NL.
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WasWatching.com has a pretty good post here about the lights-out season Edinson Volquez is having so far, and discusses some lessons that the Yankees can learn from Volquez’s career (to use with Phil Hughes).
All I have to say about Volquez is: wow. Just, WOW. A 5-1 record, 1.06 ERA after 7 starts. It’s almost unfathomable. Volquez hasn’t allowed more than one earned run in any of those starts. No Reds pitcher has EVER done that (since earned runs became an official statistic). WOW.
Volquez is going to have some ups and downs; he’s still a young pitcher, and young pitchers are inconsistent. But I don’t think I’ll ever forget this fantastic beginning he’s been able to put together. Simply outstanding.
Well, yesterday looked like the same old Reds who couldn’t hit water if they fell out of a boat. The good news is that the Reds can clinch a winning homestand with a win this afternoon. Yeah, it was just a three-game homestand, but I’ll take a series win against the presumed NL Central favorite.
More good news: Edinson Volquez is on the mound against someone who could be his grandfather, Jon Lieber. The Redlegs really need another good start from Volquez because, heaven knows, the Reds’ hitters aren’t going to contribute to the cause.
At any rate, ignore your job and discuss the game here….
The top 6 guys in the Bats lineup combined to go 12-20 with 6 runs scored and 5 rbis. Adam Rosales went 3-4 with a run scored and run batted in. Andy Phillips hit his first homerun of the season and added a double in a 2-4 night, scoring twice and driving in a run. Jay Bruce went 2-4 with a triple, run scored, and 2 rbis. Finally, Andy Green went 2-4 with a run scored.
Tom Shearn improved his record to 5-1 on the season by going 6 innings, allowing 2 runs on 5 hits and a walk while striking out 5.
Ramon Ramirez gave up 2 runs on 1 hit and 2 walks while striking out 8 over 6 innings pitched to go to 2-1 on the season. Ramirez lowered his ERA to 3.58 on the season.
Jerry Gil and B.J. Szymanksi each hit homeruns for the Lookouts. For Gil, it was his first of the season while Szymanski hit his 7th of the season.
The game was probably closer than the score indicates. The Reds scored 6 times in the 9th inning to pull away late. Jason Louwsma went 3-4 for the Reds with an rbi and 3 runs scored. Carson Kainer went 2-5 with a double, triple, run scored and 3 rbis. Juan Francisco and Michael DeJesus each added two hits. DeJesus also had a run scored, double, and rbi.
Alexander Smit threw 5 innings, allowing 2 runs on 5 hits and 4 walks while striking out 3. Camilo Vazquez and Ramon Geronimo combined to go 4 scoreless innings of relief, allowing just 1 walk and striking out 2. Vazquez picked up the win, his 3rd of the season.
The farm system pulls the sweep, winning all 4 games on the schedule yesterday. The Dragons pounded out 16 hits and scored 11 runs in this blowout win. Jason Bour and Todd Frazier had 3 hits apiece for the Dragons. Each had a double and combined for 3 runs scored and 3 rbis. Zachary Cozart, Denis Phipps, and Michael McKennon each had 2 hits in the game. Phipps and Cozart each hit homeruns in the game while McKennon had 2 triples.
Enerio Del Rosario allowed 1 run on 3 hits and a walk in 6 innings pitched to improve to 2-1 on the season. He struck out 6. Tyler Rhoden pitched 3 scoreless, hitless innings of relief to pick up his 2nd save of the year.
September 4, 1988: Danny Jackson records his 20th win of the season and collects 4 hits as the Reds demolish the Cubs 17-0, at Wrigley Field. Cincinnati scored 9 runs in the 5th inning.
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The Reds have won one straight game! It’s a winning streak!!
We gotta whale of a pitching matchup tonight: Aaron Harang vs. Carlos Zambrano. I don’t care how pathetic the Reds have been this season, on paper this is a game worth watching.
Sounds like Ken Griffey, Jr., expects that his time as a Red is drawing to a close, which is sad for an old romantic baseball fan like me. Can’t blame Junior for wanting a championship, and the Reds are in such disarray, I’m not sure they will ever contend for a championship again.
Well, I’m certainly not the only one. Jim Donten, a Sarasota Reds season ticket holder and a good friend of Redleg Nation, has an equal interest, and much more talent than I. Check out his Sarasota Reds photo site, with a TON of great pics of the Reds Class A-advanced affiliate and their opponents…including this one of our old friend ThomasPauly:
