Loading ...Another home stand begins tonight, with the Atlanta Braves visiting town. Phil Dumatrait will pitch for the Reds, after a rough outing against Chicago in his last start. Hopefully, Dumatrait can bring that 10.32 ERA down to earth a bit tonight.
Tim Hudson will pitch for the Braves. He’s had an awfully good season, his best in several years. Dumatrait can’t get beaten up early if the Reds expect to win this one.
Joey Votto will not be starting for the Reds. Free Joey Votto! He has nothing left to prove in AAA, and these games against playoff contenders — like the Cubs, Brewers, and Braves — would be great experience for the young man in anticipation of next year.
Free Jeff Conine!
And…done.
Looks like Conine to the Mets . . . FINALLY. Been rumored for a month; I wonder what the holdup was.
5 – 0 in the top of the first. seems pretty clear that if dumatrait is ever going to have it, he sure doesn’t right now.
Strange quote from Krivsky regarding Conine doing to the Mets:
“I’m kind of becoming a pseudo Mets fan,” Krivsky said.
Why on earth is Bellhorn playing 3B?
Dumatrait is getting a major butt kicking.
Here is a small Q & A blurb from BBA on one of the prospects we are getting from the Mets:
Q: Where does Sean Henry fit in on the Mets top 30? I understand he moved to the outfield. I thought I heard he had attitude & off the field issues. Is this true?
A: There were some murmurs of a bad attitude last year, but Henry acquitted himself well in 2007 by finally reaching full season ball while transitioning to the outfield. He is a fine athlete with some speed and pop who showed good aptitude in the outfield. There are some things to like, but it took him almost three years to get out of Rookie ball so that has to be a bit of a concern and he will turn 22 in April. He is at the back end of the top 30.
Jeff Brantley: calm down. “Why don’t we just stick him out in left field? [talking about either Hatteberg or Cantu, unclear which.] Can’t be worse than what we got! I’ll tell you what, he ain’t gonna strike out much!”
I think Dumatrait’s abysmal showing has put these guys in really pissy moods, because they’re also getting red in the face shouting about why Votto and Cueto and whoever isn’t up in the majors.
I had high hopes for Dumatrait, but I’m afraid I was looking through rose-colored glasses. His peripheral numbers in AAA weren’t great, but I was hoping.
He’s been pretty bad so far in his major league career. I still think he can be a #5 starter in the majors, but it’s not looking good now.
Bobby Livingston pinch-hitting for Dumatrait? That’s a LaRussa-esque move.
DA, if Brantley said that, he’s an unmitigated idiot. Just a complete fool.
Now Mackanin is having fun. Livingston pinch-hits for Dumatrait.
Wish we were having fun….
NASCAR night? Sweet.
Gosling is in.
Jimmy James! Welcome. Too bad you picked tonight to check in, but “if medicine tasted good I’d be pouring cough syrup on my pancakes.”
Hopefully these beatings are teaching Dumatrait something about how not to pitch.
FWIW, I like the Conine deal…two seemingly decent A prospects for a guy that’s going to retire at the end of the year.
Davey Concepcion jersey retirement coming up soon. Very nice. I was always a big fan of Davey.
Yeah, nothing wrong with the Conine deal at all.
Thanks, DA. Haven’t been able to swing by lately as much as I’d like.
If I may quote my good friend, the Great Sir Lord Bill of McNeal:
“Twinkle, Twinkle Kenneth Starr… special Whitewater Prosecu-TARR.”
Good inning by Gosling.
Man, Keppinger keeps raking. That’s a double.
He’s Chris Stynes reincarnated.
For a guy pitching with a seven-run lead, Hudson doesn’t look very good at all. If he stays in the game long enough, the Reds could have a chance to get back in this game. Maybe.
Reds coming back ever so slowly. Bring up Votto and restore Matty Buhlile to the squad.
I dont like that Texeria guy:(
Keppinger currently at .380…
I hear lots of comparisons to Stynes…how about Kevin Seitzer?
Can you believe the Cardinals are in a position to win the division? What a pathetic NL Central.
Thom is praising the IL player of the week, Joey Votto. We hear you, Thom.
And Chris wonders why the Reds haven’t already called him up. We’re wondering the same thing!
Last year, probably in late May, I guaranteed my friend the NL central would win the wildcard. What a fool I was.
How many bad starts does a prospect get before you try someone else?
Keppinger is 3-3, and has scored all 3 Cincinnati runs. What has gotten into this guy?
Majewski Time!!!
Maybe Keppinger is just stronger.
I hope they stick Majewski out there for a few innings. Maybe he can get his head on straight.
Majewski looks like he has a little swagger going on out there.
Effective LH pitcher in for the Braves.
Anyone think that Dumatrait gets another start?
He probably gets at least one more start for lack of an alternative.
Wish they could have gone with Majewski another inning so he could have lowered his ERA below 10.
Is the 1.2 innings his longest as a Red?
Eddie would have to be lights out for the Reds to retain him for next year.
Wow. Actually, 1⅔ innings is Majewski’s longest outing as a Cincinnati Red.
and Eddie certainly isn’t lights out tonight!
“Eddie Guardado, not fooling anybody,” sez Marty.
Eddie really needs to hang it up soon.
He just does not have it anymore.
Could it be that the Reds actually threw at a batter?
Yikes. Guardado is doing terribly.
And now the Reds get warned after a HBP? Bull.
I’d like to see Livingston dust A. Jones off in his 1st AB tomorrow night. Smug .214 hitting jerk.
Everyday Eddie is not looking good at all. That is a sad way to have the twilight happen.
Broken Shoulder down to 10.32
Majewski was fairly impressive especially coming in with runners at 2nd and 3rd and one out.
Break out the champagne!!! Ellison with a hit!!!
Hamilton with a run producing 2 bagger bringing up Keppinger. Let’s have some fun!!!
Here comes the Hopper Lumber Company!
There goes the Hopper Lumber Company!
Let’s make this look like a football game with a three run blast, BP!!
I don’t know if anyone will look at this so late, but I have to ask…do all reds fans hate the braves as much as my family? hope so. I almost hate them as much as the AL.
also…who said earlier that Dumatrait may get another start for lack of an alternative? I think there’s no doubt about it Belisle should be up here instead of him. He might not have been that good but Dumatrait has got to have some kind of disability.
Both beat writers are under the impression that multiple pitching moves are going to happen today. MacKanin implied moves were coming and that he was going to talk to Krivsky after the game.
Last time that happened (MacKanin telling the press he was going to ask Wayne to make a move) Coutlangus was demoted while Majewski and Guardado were promoted.
Be careful what you wish for!
do all reds fans hate the braves as much as my family? hope so. —Kevin
I am one hundred percent on board with that. I hate the Braves, and my family does too. Glavine, Maddux, and Smoltz are respectable people, but most everyone else – Andruw Jones, Terry Pendleton, Bobby Cox, John Rocker, and most of all the vile, dumb-as-a-box-of-rocks Chipper Jones – I absolutely cannot stand.
do all reds fans hate the braves as much as my family? hope so. —Kevin
My family does!
do all reds fans hate the braves as much as my family? hope so. —Kevin
Yes.
I think my dislike for them started when their weren’t so many Reds games televised and I was forced to watch them on TBS with their announcers. I used to like Don “Black and Decker” Sutton until then. I always kept screaming at the TV “YOU NEVER PLAYED FOR THE BRAVES, IDIOT!!” Then, of course, their was Ted and Jane, acting soooo politically correct by refusing to do the ‘tomahawk chop’ because it might offend Native American groups, but still playing the war drum music over the loud speakers and selling millions of those stupid foam tomahawks so everyone else in Atlanta could do it while you made mad money. When Cleveland played Atlanta in the series I was rooting for a comet to hit the stadium.
Atlanta is the only NL team that I consistently root against every interleague or post season game.
Don’t care for the Mets or Cubs either in the NL. Don’t like the Yankees for White Sox in the AL. I’m sure it’s the overexposure, outbid everyone, poor announcer thing with them as well. But I’d still root for them against the Braves.
When Cleveland played Atlanta in the series I was rooting for a comet to hit the stadium. — preach
I can’t stop laughing.
And good point about the TBS connection, the few Braves-Reds games each year were just about the only Cincinnati games televised in my area, and their announcers . . . my mother used to call them ‘the dead people’, partially because of their lack of inflection, and partially because dead silence would have made for a better broadcast.