Loading ...Brandon Claussen vs. Greg Maddux. I don’t know what to make of this matchup.
I don’t want to give up on this team, because there is so much to be optimistic about. If the offense could turn it back on, the pitching has been quite good enough to make this a decent team. They just can’t put it together.
Unfortunately, it’s starting to look like the Reds are in the midst of the descent we all feared. Perhaps today is the day that they start another big winning streak.
Keep those fingers crossed, and discuss the game here. And if you’re looking to be optimistic, Red Hot Mama has ten reasons why the Reds will win tonight.
Claussen strikes out the first hitter! That’s a good omen.
Wow. Where has this Claussen been? Nice first inning, 1,2,3.
Claussen needs to study Maddux to see how he can get it done.
Dunn up to lead off the second inning. I hope doesn’t hit a homer. Marty will get on him about hitting a solo homer.
So Clemens is going to stay in Houston-Town.
It’s a double for Dunn. He would have struck out if someone were on base. I know, because Marty told me.
Yeah, Jim, I wish we could have gotten Clemens. That was always a long shot, though.
Kearns just missed tha tone. Maddux hung it a bit.
Maddux made Kearns do exactly what he wanted him to do.
Way to go, EdE! He moves all the way to third on the bad throw!
1-0
That’s the first throw I ever saw almost go into the upper deck!
That’s the first throw I ever saw almost go into the upper deck!
Well, except when Dibble did it on purpose.
Now we’re throwing bats into the upper deck!
Didn’t Pedro Borbon once try to hit the top of the Astrodome with a throw or something like that?
:?::?::?::?::?::?:
Freel pulled a Kearns on throwing that bat. How many times did Kearnie do that last year?
A hundred.
Okay, which Claussen will we see in the second inning?
Kearns nails Ramirez at third base!
That throw was awesome. The play wasn’t even close!
The offense may not be working now, but it won’t continue. This offense has been among the league’s best for the past couple of years. Remember, we were supposed to worry about the pitching!
I’m thinking if we’re still in second in the next couple of weeks, Krivsky will make a BIG move. Don’t forget we don’t need to beat the unbeatable Cardinals and win the division. I’m still thinking that’s possible, but the Wild Card is more likely.
Well, if the pitching continues, things could really be good. You’re right, daedalus, the hitting is going to come around.
Claussen continues to look good. Nice.
Hey, everyone…
Did you know that even after starting tonight 0-2, Tony Womack is now batting .344 this season? And that includes his time with the Reds.
I wonder if Womack is this year’s Aurilia – a completely foolish signing of a player that somehow turns into something other than a drain on the team.
Rain delay…
Shouldn’t last too long.
I don’t know. There seems to be a string of cells lined up coming out of the SSW. Be nice to get the extra inning in and win this thing 1-0.
Do you have to have an IQ of about 75 to make the calls to the banana phone during rain delays? I mean, a woman just asked if there was going to be RED in the new uniforms next year!
Hahahaha…that’s classic. I’m going to have to turn the radio back on.
She was worried that she’d have to redecorate her house and change her wardrobe.
I see Carpenter went on the DL for the Cards. I thought the Cards had some invisible aura that kept their players from getting hurt.
Voodoo Albert did it!
Wasn’t there a nasty rumor about all-blue uniforms next year?
Though, obviously there is some red in those mock-ups…though it’s largely in the sox, which won’t show at all on most current players (especially Griffey, Dunn, López).
Anyhoo, I’ve often wondered if you have to have the 75-IQ to be a talk-radio host…the callers fit right in.
Delay over. Claussen retakes the mound! Interesting.
Yan can do? Egad. Who’s on their way out of town? I think it’s safe to say the lizard isn’t on the bubble this go round. Baby steps. Here’s hoping Wagner turns it around in the next 45 days…
Maybe they shouldn’t have sent Claussen back out. His control has disappeared after the rain delay.
The Cardinals don’t have invincibility powers (against injuries). But what they do seem to have is a constant supply of power-ups. All the players they acquire seem to suddenly blossom after years of disappointment (Carpenter, Edmonds), or immediately enjoy career-best years (Rolen), or undergo a sudden rejuvenation of some sort (McGwire…okay, maybe not the best example).
We’d have had a great chance to win this game if that rain delay never occurred. Now, it’s much more difficult.
That lead went away about as fast as it possibly could have.
Yuck. 4-1.
Now we have to hope that Maddux will be sent back to the mound, and that he was just as affected by the delay as Claussen.
Two-out trouble for Maddux? Good hustle by Brandon on the infield hit.
I wish just once in his career with the Reds that Claussen would take the mound for a game and leave me with the feeling “Wow! That was an amzing pitching performance!”
The Reds need to hire Maddux as a player-coach to show our soft tossers how to soft toss effectively.
Freel can’t even throw the ball thrity feet?
#Freel can’t even throw the ball thirty feet?
Jim – tpyos re prmitted.:smile:
WHAT ON FREAKIN’ EARTH WAS THAT THROW!!!
5-1. Ugly.
what the????
Oh well! The bases are empty now.
Have the Reds ever had a bobblehead for a pitcher?
they’ve never had a pitcher…
Someone needs to write a song about Rick White.
BTW, he’s coming in the next inning.
I just wanted to say… TRADE LARUE!
I think it’s possible that there was a Danny Graves bobblehead at some point.
Wasn’t that Valentin that threw if halfway to Lake Michigan?
Are the bobblehead plastic now or are they still ceramic? Whichever, if they ever had one for a Reds pitcher it would have to have a rag arm on it.
I still have a Mr. Red bobblehead that I got when I was a kid. The head is about 500 pieces glued together since it has fallen of a shelf about 50 times.
Valentin is behind the plate tonight. A wet baseball is tough to catch, transfer, and throw, within 1.2 seconds.
Alright!! We have two runners in scoring position that we can strand.
Bobbleheads are plastic. At least the ones I’ve seen are.
So pessimistic. We’ll only strand one.
Valentin is behind the plate tonight. A wet baseball is tough to catch, transfer, and throw, within 1.2 seconds.
True but overthrowing the third baseman by 100 feet is an amazing feat.
well, that’s a run.
i guess i thought it was larue because marty was talking about him during the delay. i still say trade larue. for a reliever that isn’t 89 years old.
So pessimistic. We’ll only strand one.
Wow! We didn’t strand either one. Time for another downpour.
Hurrah! Won’t strand either of those runners, thanks to LLM.
see, larue would have stranded him!
Come on, Maddux has gotten rocked during May, let’s tie it up Ed E
I say trade Larue as well but maybe wait for his traditional July hot streak so some GM thinks he a catching god.
Maddux is done.
I hope they don’t bring in Aardsma again. That 98 MPH stuff will look like 120 MPH.
Guess what? It’s Aardsma!
Due to the 2-year contract that LaRue signed over the winter, which calls for him to be paid $5mil next year (and an extra $450k or so if traded)), I’d expect that LaRue will be quite difficult to trade.
Aardsma replaced Hank Aaron as the first name in the Baseball Encyclopedia. For that, he deserves to be lit up.
The Yankees are likely the only ones who could care less about Larue’s contract. Of course, they have little to offer in return unless the Reds want something like single-A talent.
Aardsma replaced Hank Aaron as the first name in the Baseball Encyclopedia. For that, he deserves to be lit up.
He probably got more attention for that than Bonds did for passing the Babe.
Ha! You’re probably right.
That Old Rick White Magic
That old Rick White magic has me in its spell, that old Rick White magic that you weave so well.
WHITE SUX!!!!!
So I wonder if Jerry Narron is beginning to feel the noose tightening around his neck?
This hurts to listen to.
he was OUT on the replay!
Rick White Stinks
Rick White stinks
Rick White stinks yeah yeah
Rick White stinks
Rick White stinks yeah yeah
Rick White stinks
Rick White stinks yeah yeah
Rick White stinks
Rick White stinks yeah yeah
Guess what?
Rick White still hasn’t record an out!
Well now he finally has!
What’s the chance that Esteban replaces White?
So Chris Welch is advocating hitting the batter if you see the runner coming from 3B?
well, chris welch is a hall of fame pitcher; he knows what’s best.
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And then he comes back and strikes out the side leaving Cedeno on third (even though Cedeno was OUT at third).
OK! Time to be optimistic!
White struck out the side! Good job, Rick!
We’re only down four runs. Let’s put on the rally hats.
i vote for a cubs bullpen meltdown:!::!:
George Grande is talking about Freel’s non-HR yesterday. Everyone on the Cubs couldn’t believe the umpires couldn’t see that it was a HR.
I just saw the Freel HR replay from yesterday. How did the umpires ever miss that?
I hate the new policy on checked swings. It is virtually impossible to check a swing anymore.
What’s the new policy?
Looked at the forecast for tomorrow night’s game. No rain forecast but the same forecast said no rain tonight either.
Yikes. I got snookered into Soap Net during the rain delay…which has now proven to be bad luck in more ways than I can count. On the other hand, it might have been less painful than watching Claussen/White. Anyone know the whereabouts of Danny Serafini and Jim Brower?
I don’t know if it has ever been declared a policy but I seen maybe three checked swings this year. Everything else the umps have said that the hitter didn’t check their swing.
Yet more proof that Ryan Freel isn’t a 2B.
For those that watch the Fox Sports Ohio broadcasts:
Which commercial is the worst?
JTM – “More, More, More”
or
Red Roof Inn – “How low can you go?”
I probably should go to bed.
This is about to get horrid.
That was huge!!
Nice job by Mr. E and Mr. H.
So was Germano drafted as a soft tosser?
Color me impressed with Justin Germano in the early going.
that was close. not that it matters anymore after white’s outing.
How’s this for optimism?
Griffey-Dunn-Kearns-Valentin-Encarancion
All back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back HR’s!
i’ll take a single, walk, homer, single, homer
Yet another 90+ MPH reliever out of the Cubs bullpen. No wonder the Reds have none. The Cubs have them all.
at least the deadbirds lost.
I suppose Houston is about to wake up and start kickin’ Central Division rear!!
Mercker is toast
This game is about as exciting as the NHL playoffs or NBA playoffs. Take your pick.
once upon a time we used to call him Dumpster…
Woof. That one was a real dog.
Dempster MPH in the 9th
90-92-89-84-93-91-91-85-91-85-86-92-91
-91-94-94-94-94
How about the last four pitches?
As Charles Dickens would have said (if he was a Reds fan):
It (April) was the best of times. It (May) was the worst of times.
That’s it. This season is over.
The last two weeks have been unwatchable.
I can’t see them getting better under Narron. While you can’t blame it all on him, he has allowed it to spiral out of control.
Castellini will have to get on his hands and knees to convince Pinella to take this job.