Let’s finish June in style! The Reds send Elizardo Ramirez to the mound against the Indians tonight, with an opportunity to tie the Cardinals atop the NL Central.
Discuss the game here.
253 comments to Game thread: Indians at Reds — 2006.06.30
Time for the lizard to take one for the team. Stuff or no, he needs to stay out there as long as he can at this point to try to save the bullpen for the rest of the series.
June 24, 1970: Before 28,027, the Reds play their final game at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field, beating the Giants 5–4. Johnny Bench and Lee May hit back-to-back homers off Juan Marichal in the 8th for the win.
The scene of baseball’s first ML night game on May 24, 1935, Crosley Field opened in 1912 as Redland Field, but was renamed when Powell Crosley bought the Reds in 1934.
April 21, 1912: Reds SS Jimmy Esmond, a .195 hitter, hits the first home run at Redland (later, Crosley) Field, off Bill Steele. The inside-the-park blow is his only roundtripper of the year. Nobody will hit one out of the Cincinnati park until Pat Duncan does it on June 2, 1921
Jim, I post on the yahoo board as bigredmachine_05. Getting in all the Reds I can tonight before we head off to the woods for a week of roughing it, can’t pick up the Reds on the radio there, even web feeds are useless without internet access…………
2 more quick Crosley field tidbits.
In August 1966, Crosley Field served as the setting for an outdoor rock music concert by The Beatles.
First Pitcher ever to pitch a No-hitter and hit two Home runs in the same game: Rick Wise, June 23, 1971.
I live in Western Ky. On a good night when the weather is right, and I stand on my head I can pick them up. It took me forever to find the live internet feeds, God Bless not hearing static. My wife used to fuss at me when I had to listen to the games on the radio. When I’d start out listening to the games I’d have to turn the volume up all the way and could just barely hear Marty, but as the night wore on the reception improved and before the game ended it was blasting throughout the house. Of course by the end of the games I was sound asleep!
In that Sarasota game, it was the Advanced A debut of Johnny Cueto. He had a hard time finding home plate. He pitched four innings-surrending three hits, five earned runs, five walks, and struck out three. No home runs given up.
I have a lot of respect for Kearns.
My daughter was trying to get some batting practice autographs from some of the players, Kearns happened to be one of the players signing when a ball rolled up and hit his foot. He reached down and picked it up, signed it and handed it to her. Every since that game She has gotten at least one ball at each game we’ve attended.
that’s it. no more beer tonight. i can’t get any higher than this. did it really just happen? i missed the 3-top of 9th innings and see it with one out in the top of the ninth. can’t believe it.
I was down at the waterfront tonight with a friend – my city held a little celebration of the opening of a riverwalk (part of a huge new downtown redevelopment project). Nice atmosphere, good people, fine fireworks display to cap it off. After that pleasantness, I get home to 8-4 in the ninth, and on 16 hits the Reds only scored 4 runs! And Elizardo got killed right out of the gate! Very disappointing, total buzzkill. I flipped the radio feed to the Chattanooga game to see how Tyler Pelland was doing (very well, which helped my mood). Then I notice that two were on for the Reds, and Wickman isn’t throwing strikes . . . I flip back to the WLW feed. Wild pitch, but ValentÃn grounds out for out #2. I go back to Chattanooga. But it goes 3-0 to Freel? He walks, then goes 2-0 on López and I have to flip back. Felipe walks, and I’m telling myself that there’s no way this could actually pay off. That’s just ridiculous. Radio feed is slightly behind the gameday account . . . in play, run-scoring play . . . you can’t be serious, he couldn’t have done that, could he? . . . No way. That didn’t just happen.
Spent the last hour and a half of the game on the phone with my brother in Cleveland…yeah, that was a roller coaster. Wow, nothing like stumbling, dancing around drunk with my wife over a walk off homer, screaming into the phone with my brother…what a frickin’ blast…
You could feel it. The energy – you could see it in the stadium, in the fans. You felt it, but still, you couldn’t believe it, and even as he swung the bat, and you knew it was gone, you couldn’t believe it.
I think this is the turning point. I think this is where the Reds start playing like they want to make the playoffs.
Takes brass ones to throw a 3-2 pitch out of the strike zone, when ball 4 costs you the game. But Spezio swings at it and misses, and a chance to get out of it for KC.
Say, I noticed that the Angles promoted Jered Weaver from the minors today. And to make room for him on their roster, they DFA’d their big free agent signing from this winter, his brother Jeff Weaver.
There was a lot of speculation at the time that the Reds should have signed him, especially given the fact that he was willing to sign a one-year contract.
So we’re 0 games back, but the Cards have played 2 fewer games than we have…that means their winning percentage is higher (.551 vs. .550), which means ESPN is listing them ahead of the Reds. Does the winning percentage actually count above the head-to-head?
2009 stats: Sarasota 2-1 8 Games 8 Games Started 42.1 IP 4.89 ERA 1.44 WHIP
Carolina 3-2 6 Game 6 Game Started 36 2/3 IP 2.95 ERA 1.09 WHIP
Louisville 2-2 5 Game 5 Game Started 29 IP 2.48 ERA 1.21 WHIP
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Let’s hope for better luck against Byrd this time around.
Let tonight be win two of an eleven game win streak going into the AS break.
A win tonight gets the Reds to the .500 mark at home.
not looking good
someone needs to go to the mound NOW
just did
good grief. And we were worried about our bullpen
he has nothing tonight. get him out of there.
e-5. self destructing in the 1st.
OMG. Now the defense can’t get one of the few outs that are hit?
Good thing I have to leave in an hour. I don’t think I want to see this one all the way through.
6 straight hits. man
Wonder what’s on T.V.????
3rd out! Mercifully.
why does this mainly happen when we play at home?
Bowden was just hired by the Nats’ new ownership as permanent GM.
Why, God, must this man continue on in baseball?
Time for the lizard to take one for the team. Stuff or no, he needs to stay out there as long as he can at this point to try to save the bullpen for the rest of the series.
9 pitch walk for dunn, that was just what the doctor ordered in this situation. Get guys on base, make them throw lots of pitches.
What a difference an inning makes.
Thank goodness
Let’s get a few runs this inning.
Hey anybody is C.C. pitching Sun. Chris Welsh kept saying Sat.?
We need Voodoo Byrd. They rip the ball consistently on this guy and it goes right into someone’s glove.
Okay. EZ Pitches two 1-2-3 innings. Lets get teh offence going…
Isn’t this the most runs that Lizard has given up in a start this year?
oh how i miss you latin love machine.
It’s about frickin’ time a hard hit ball didn’t go into a glove!!!
VOODOO BYRD!!!
ez breaks up the no-no
Byrd’s worst start this year was against the White Sox when he pitched six innings and gave up five runs.
Lets go Dunner!
This is a productive start!!!
Junior, we need a nice situational hit!!!
Gah.
Sounds like an ugly weekend in Pittsburgh, who are facing Detroit.
Aflac trivia question of the night – who hit the first home run at Riverfront Stadium?
Hank Aaron wasn’t it?
The first Red to hit one was Tommy Helms.
Hank Aaron wasn’t it?
I’ll be able to tell you at the next half inning!
Thanks for the unofficial error, Lopez.
I think he has regain his right to the nickname of “Oops” Lopez.
First Home run: Hank Aaron, June 30, 1970.
Voodoo Byrd isn’t as effective as Voodoo Albert. Maybe it needs to be on a first name basis so “Voodoo Paul.”
How about the last HR hit a Crosley Field?
I’m sorry…do you mind explaining the “Voodoo” thing? Is it just trying to hex the pitcher?
Hey, looks like it worked!
How about the last HR hit a Crosley Field?
I’d have to look it up…I know Johnny Bench played a season there, right? How about him?
June 24, 1970: Before 28,027, the Reds play their final game at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field, beating the Giants 5–4. Johnny Bench and Lee May hit back-to-back homers off Juan Marichal in the 8th for the win.
Makes me wonder… how often since then have new stadiums opened up mid-season?
Weren’t you around a few weeks ago for Voodoo Albert? It put Albert on the DL.
It was a creation of Sister Daedalus.
Voodoo Albert
My wife just called him the “Latin Fat Machine”…
The scene of baseball’s first ML night game on May 24, 1935, Crosley Field opened in 1912 as Redland Field, but was renamed when Powell Crosley bought the Reds in 1934.
Weren’t you around a few weeks ago for Voodoo Albert? It put Albert on the DL.
No, been in and out…sorry! But thanks for the link!
Close, Ethan!
Right on, Mike!
I was there for Game One of that final series. My first professional baseball game. Reds lost 13-6.
Box Score
True or False the first homerun at Crosley was an inside the park homer?
Likely True
April 21, 1912: Reds SS Jimmy Esmond, a .195 hitter, hits the first home run at Redland (later, Crosley) Field, off Bill Steele. The inside-the-park blow is his only roundtripper of the year. Nobody will hit one out of the Cincinnati park until Pat Duncan does it on June 2, 1921
The Reds need to find a chink in Paul Byrd’s armor. He just owns the Reds.
Jim, I post on the yahoo board as bigredmachine_05. Getting in all the Reds I can tonight before we head off to the woods for a week of roughing it, can’t pick up the Reds on the radio there, even web feeds are useless without internet access…………
Can’t pick up the Reds on radio even at night? I thought that WLW 700 signal bounced all over the country at night.
2 more quick Crosley field tidbits.
In August 1966, Crosley Field served as the setting for an outdoor rock music concert by The Beatles.
First Pitcher ever to pitch a No-hitter and hit two Home runs in the same game: Rick Wise, June 23, 1971.
So much for any Dunn magic in the two spot.
The Rick Wise no-hitter was in Riverfront in that dreadful 1971 season. It was the same year that Ken Holtzman no-no’d the Reds.
Situational hitting takes a vacation.
I live in Western Ky. On a good night when the weather is right, and I stand on my head I can pick them up. It took me forever to find the live internet feeds, God Bless not hearing static. My wife used to fuss at me when I had to listen to the games on the radio. When I’d start out listening to the games I’d have to turn the volume up all the way and could just barely hear Marty, but as the night wore on the reception improved and before the game ended it was blasting throughout the house. Of course by the end of the games I was sound asleep!
maybe Standridge can spark the team
Meanwhile down on the farm:
Bats tied with the Clippers, 1-1
Lookouts leading Jacksonville, 1-0
Sarasota trailing Dunedin, 6-3 (rain delay)
Dayton trailing Cedar Rapids, 3-2
In that Sarasota game, it was the Advanced A debut of Johnny Cueto. He had a hard time finding home plate. He pitched four innings-surrending three hits, five earned runs, five walks, and struck out three. No home runs given up.
You know sometimes Standridge kick ass!!
Now if the Reds offense could only kick ass!!
If Wayne Krivsky doesn’t swing a trade for some pitchers I wager we see Bailey soon after the break.
Come on, Ears!!! Let’s go JACK!!!!!!!!
It might do Bailey some good to come up. He’ll find out you can’t live just by the fastball up here.
wif
BP with his 2nd hit tonight!!
Is Kearns just not a very smart hitter??
I think Bailey can handle it.
Come on Valentin
Here we go again! Watch us flirt away another run producing opportunity.
Whoa!! I can’t believe Ross took that pitch.
Why could that not be a fair ball??
I have a lot of respect for Kearns.
My daughter was trying to get some batting practice autographs from some of the players, Kearns happened to be one of the players signing when a ball rolled up and hit his foot. He reached down and picked it up, signed it and handed it to her. Every since that game She has gotten at least one ball at each game we’ve attended.
I really hate Paul Byrd. The Reds should have signed that guy.
I’m sure AK is a nice guy especially with being a local product. He has a ton of talent but he looks so clueless at the plate at time.
Maybe he needs to spend the offseason giving Pete Rose chips for the slots in exchange for hitting advice.
If Yan could consistently throw strikes, he’d be scary.
Like Byrd needs help, they give him the low strike call below the knees.
Thank you!! Byrd is done for the night. Maybe the Reds can dent the Indians bullpen.
voodoo rafael?
11 runners stranded! Can’t blame it on on pitching.
Could this be the start of a tremendous rally????
Kearns breaks up the shut-out
Give us some love, LLM.
who do you bat for Yan? Ross? Freel?
KC leading St. Louis, 3-2
Castro
Apparently, you bat Castro. Eek.
Has Castro got a hit since coming back to C-Town?
I guess he’s 3 for 13 since returning. Hope he can make it 4 for 14.
JUAN GONE!!!!!
he has now
Let the meltdown continue please.
Guess that’s why Narron is in the dugout and not me.
back to back to back to back?
Griffey needs to homer to continue the streak.
Come on, Dunner!!!! Make it happen!!!!
Let’s set up things up for a AK SLAM!!
Has Kearns ever had 2 homers in a game?
Step one accomplished-Junior doubles.
6 game hitting streak
12 stranded
We gotta find a way for Arroyo to pitch every night, and Freel needs to buck up and play every day!!!
Kearns hit 2 HR’s on June 4th against Houston.
Stop the Madness!
St Louis 5 KC 3
Figure that score would hold with the KC bullpen.
If that Belliard HR had just gone foul maybe tonight would have been different.
Figure that score would not hold with the KC bullpen.
I agree
Another hit, BP?????
ok let’s tell LaRue to hit for Valentin, hit it out or pack his bags. Then we can bat Freel for Mercker.
Indians fans finally get to see the coming of Brandon Phillips.
LLM, we need you to produce here big time!
Gotta be happy with the way BP has played for us!
Reds should have dealt Valentin after that career year.
I can’t remember the last time we actually aquired quality players, til this season.
Base hit scores two.
Certainly not during the Dan O’Brien era. What a horrible GM.
well crud
come on Freel!
Come on, Freel! Knock in BP.
Alright! A jack job ties the game.
Lopez had been hot so maybe, just maybe.
Lopez owes us a dinger
Even more alright! A jack job WINS it. Can AD be the hero tonight again?
Hope so!
WOW!!!!!!!
WOW!!!!!!!
WOW!!!!!!!
WOW!!!!!!!
WOW!!!!!!!
WOW!!!!!!!
WOW!!!!!!!
$1 says he strikes out looking
No way.
DUNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i love this game!
holly cow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The BIG DUNN MACHINE!!!
how about that!
That’s clutch, boy.
I don’t believe what I just saw.
Ramirez should kiss Dunn.
Guess that’s why they play the game! Love the walk off homer!
That’s twice in a week that Dunn has come through in the clutch. Maybe Marty will shut up now.
ya see, all they had to do was put Freel into the game!
St. Louis only up by a run in the 7th inning, 5-4. Oh! Please Royals! Deliver 1st place to us!
st louis 5 kc 4
That twice in two days! He had the game winner last night!
Stick a pin in your St Louis Voodoo bobble head Jim
Imagine if Dunn could catch fire! This offense would destroy!!!
that’s it. no more beer tonight. i can’t get any higher than this. did it really just happen? i missed the 3-top of 9th innings and see it with one out in the top of the ninth. can’t believe it.
best win all year?
gets my vote for most exciting and unexpected win of the season.
17 Hits tonight!
Just when you think you got Dunn figured out…….
2nd blown save of the week for Wickham.
Castellini probably just tuned into the Cards/Royals game
Man! I hope this primes this team for the long haul!! Watch out, Cards! The Big Dunn Machine is rock’n and a-rollin’.
What a game for those in attendance to see tonight! Imagine the agony of those who left early!
Great night, Reds win, Dale Jr. wins the Busch race.
Go Royals!
Those that were on their way out had to be rushing back to the top of the steps to see the end.
Imagine being in the parking garage and hear that roar!!
I still can’t believe what happened.
Double play. Nice job, KC.
those that were in the garage deserved to miss the end! Gotta hang in there til the end and finish that last $6 beer
Unbelievable. I got out of the car to eat dinner. It was 7-1 and Marty was announcing the Delta airlines ticket winner. I get back in and it’s over.
We pulled the old what’s good for the goose is good for the gander on them. Did to their bullpens what everybody’s been doing to ours.
Anyone else watching the Cards game? Heading to the 8th inning.
i’m watching. i had to wait until marty got to the big boy play so i could hear him call it.
seeking an internet feed
tie game
woohoo! kc ties!
Love those Royals!
Buddy’s Boys!!
anyone still feeling the high from dunner’s gs? i feel elation. i don’t remember ever seeing a walk off grandslam that needed all four runs to win.
only thing to make it better is a kc win. go reggie.
Amen
I’d like to see the Reds ride this high to complete this homestand on a streak then win all seven of the road trip going into the AS break!
Go to the 9th! Pull off the improbable, KC.
link to the cards network
mms://216.139.115.135:1100/
BBTN said this was only the 5th walk-off GS down 3, two outs in the last 20 years.
Florida derailed the Red Sox Express. One of only three NL wins so far.
BBTN said this was only the 5th walk-off GS down 3, two outs in the last 20 years.
Cool Beans!
Runner on 1st, 1 out for KC!
Runner at 2nd, two out.
Come one! Base hit!
Since we’re still on the high, have to share:
I was down at the waterfront tonight with a friend – my city held a little celebration of the opening of a riverwalk (part of a huge new downtown redevelopment project). Nice atmosphere, good people, fine fireworks display to cap it off. After that pleasantness, I get home to 8-4 in the ninth, and on 16 hits the Reds only scored 4 runs! And Elizardo got killed right out of the gate! Very disappointing, total buzzkill. I flipped the radio feed to the Chattanooga game to see how Tyler Pelland was doing (very well, which helped my mood). Then I notice that two were on for the Reds, and Wickman isn’t throwing strikes . . . I flip back to the WLW feed. Wild pitch, but ValentÃn grounds out for out #2. I go back to Chattanooga. But it goes 3-0 to Freel? He walks, then goes 2-0 on López and I have to flip back. Felipe walks, and I’m telling myself that there’s no way this could actually pay off. That’s just ridiculous. Radio feed is slightly behind the gameday account . . . in play, run-scoring play . . . you can’t be serious, he couldn’t have done that, could he? . . . No way. That didn’t just happen.
Spent the last hour and a half of the game on the phone with my brother in Cleveland…yeah, that was a roller coaster. Wow, nothing like stumbling, dancing around drunk with my wife over a walk off homer, screaming into the phone with my brother…what a frickin’ blast…
Listening to MLB.com, catching Marty’s call of the game…he’s the man…
Reggie Sanders with a chance to put his team ahead.
You could feel it. The energy – you could see it in the stadium, in the fans. You felt it, but still, you couldn’t believe it, and even as he swung the bat, and you knew it was gone, you couldn’t believe it.
I think this is the turning point. I think this is where the Reds start playing like they want to make the playoffs.
Reggie! Reggie! Reggie!
Go Reggie!
i think pujols is hitting one out here.
Aww. No Reggie heroics there. Elmer Dessens comes on to try and bring it into extras – has to face Pujols & Rolen.
Hush, daedalus. Not going to happen.
Stick a couple more pins into the voodoo doll!
i’m trying to jinx it.
Well, at least Pujols didn’t hit a homer.
see, it’s because i said it.
another pin.
Watch out for the squeeze bunt . . .
Oh, Elmer. Help your former teammates!
Wow. Two intentional walks in a row! I like that play to bring up the double-A quality bat of Molina.
…except Spezio pinch-hits. Still, better than having to worry about a squeezeplay with Taguchi up.
I’m nervous…about a Kansas City Royals game. A pennant race is weird that way.
Two out! Hold on, KC. Take it the 10th and win it.
Takes brass ones to throw a 3-2 pitch out of the strike zone, when ball 4 costs you the game. But Spezio swings at it and misses, and a chance to get out of it for KC.
Randon thought:
Don’t you just love Bob Castellini?
WOW!! Two K’s to end the inning!
K! wow. nice pitching to get out of it.
Oh my goodness. I don’t believe the Royals got themselves out of that jam!
Bob Castellini is god, I think.
Word association:
Bob Castellini – god
Carl Lindner – fill-in-the-blank
Teahen leads off with a BB.
did you ever think you’d root for the royals like this?
Bob Castellini – god
Carl Lindner – without form and empty, and darkness on the face of the deep
Brown with a single, Teahen to 3B.
Brandon Claussen – Ned Flanders
Carl Lindner – Mr. Burns
The Royals are my favorite AL team. It’s not much of a compliment, but there it is.
KC threatening, runner at third with less than two out. Sluggin’ Matt Stairs coming up.
Come on, Big Buck! Be the man!
Mighty Matt! Take one deep!
yes!
Teahen scores on a bad throw from a sac fly. 6-5.
No, Mr. Burns has a personality. Carl Linder is more like one of the characters in the old folks’ home that stares at the walls.
Add one more for good measure, KC!
So Carl has had dementia all these years!
Ha ha! Speedy Joey Gathright doubles in another run, 7-5.
3 outs, and the Reds are 1st place in the NL Central…
John Rodriguez, pesky Eckstein, and Jim “I could go 0-6 tonight” Edmonds coming up.
Methinks it’s time to head over to Viva Los Birdos, or whatever the heck their website is named. They must be FREAKING out over there.
2 outs to go!
2 outs and the Reds are 1st in the NL Central…
1 out to go!
pujols is going to hit one out.
(trying to jinx again.)
Don’t go trolling at the Viva El Birdos. Bad experiences last time that happened.
D’oh, Pujols comes up. But he can’t win it with a swing of the bat.
VOODOO ALBERT!!! Cast your power!!
Tying run, in Pujols, at the plate…2-1 count…
Easy.
Game over.
First place!
YES!!! The Reds are in 1st Place. God Bless the KC Royals!!!
Wow! The night is complete! What a great night to be a Reds fan…
yeah, no trolling at viva – i had to change my whole comment system becauses of it.
Fantastic. Reds beat a good team, and Cards lose to a bad one. Tomorrow’s game will put the Reds at the 81-game halfway point.
We can visit Viva El Birdos when the Reds clinch the pennant in September.
I’m just browsing. (El Birdos site). They aren’t going too crazy. And at least they are acknowleding the Reds exist.
A win over the Tribe tomorrow puts the Reds over .500. Maybe they can become the Big Red Home & Road Machine.
I particularly like this comment.
Looper’s 1st loss.
I particularly like this comment.
Love it!
oh, those viva el birdbrain comments sound like a suicide hotline! i’m going to enjoy it while it lasts! (hopefully through october.)
Say, I noticed that the Angles promoted Jered Weaver from the minors today. And to make room for him on their roster, they DFA’d their big free agent signing from this winter, his brother Jeff Weaver.
There was a lot of speculation at the time that the Reds should have signed him, especially given the fact that he was willing to sign a one-year contract.
I’m pretty glad the Reds didn’t sign him.
So we’re 0 games back, but the Cards have played 2 fewer games than we have…that means their winning percentage is higher (.551 vs. .550), which means ESPN is listing them ahead of the Reds. Does the winning percentage actually count above the head-to-head?
jeff has to be better than claussen. even now.
in the end, everyone plays the same amount of games, so there can be no ties.
There’s no tying in baseball.
didn’t the reds have a tie a couple of years ago? rain came down and they were so far out the game didn’t matter?
sorry, i’m thinking of that all-star game. 2002.
Well, as I hoped for in the first line of the post up there — the Reds certainly finished June in style, didn’t they?
Great night! See each of you tomorrow.