Same thing is happening on Time Warner. Lovely. Shockingly, the Reds get the first two on, then, you guessed it, get ZERO runs. Excellent work again, boys. This is starting to get frustrating.
Its awful watching the Reds in the batters box this weekend, they look clueless and overmatched. Almost like they “expect” to make an out. over 20 men left on base in the first two games and now they are making Gorzy look like the second coming of Steve Carlton. You know its bad when Baker has his number 2 hitter sacrificing down by two. Left handed pitching just owns this team because we have no one that has a clue on how to hit them. Watch, the Pirates will do the smart thing and finish off this game with nothing but their 3 lefties out of the pen and the Reds wont score a single run.
wow. the wheels just came off of this one. cueto certainly hasn’t looked great today, but he deserved better than this. couple of the balls this inning should have been played.
well. a missed double play followed up by a 3-run homer. That about sums up the Reds trip to Pitt. I’m gonna check out early. But I definitely won’t be watching golf.
Dusty needs to decide on his starting line-up and stick with it. You don’t get out of a slump with revolving line-ups especially when Juan Castro is in the line-up. Plus he yanks Votto from teh line-up just when the kid is starting to hit.
If I’m going up against the Reds, I’d call LH starters up from AA if I had to just to get to face the pathetic RH lineup Dusty runs out there against lefties. Seriously, just call the game in, it’s less painful to watch.
I am officially throwing my hat into the arena for the manager’s position when Dusty gets the boot. I coached my son’s Little League team for seven years and seriously think I could do a better job. The line-up he sent out there today was a joke. How long are we going to run Edwin’s sorry excuse of a bat out there? When Alex gets back to the field there is NO excuse not to have Keppinger as our starting third baseman. Also Votto is our future at first base and the future is now. Let him play everyday.
Dusty needs to realize his left handed bats could do no worse than the right handed bats he inserts into the line-up. Stop platooning and play the best hitters period.
BuccoMike a.k.a pirates7@hotmail.com
April 13th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Reds played horrid this weekend. But the bad part about it the Buccos gift wrapped game 1 and 2 with their follies in the field but the Reds barely over .100 avg with risp and 2 outs killed them.
I agee Jim. Dusty needs to stick with his starting lineup. The lineup against lefthanders is very weak. I can’t imagine Patterson, Dunn, Votto or Hatteberg wouldn’t have done a better job than what he ran out there.
April 13th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Freel CF
Hopper LF
Griffey Jr. RF
Phillips 2B
Keppinger 1B
Encarnacion 3B
Castro SS
Bako C
Cueto P
April 13th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Of course that lineup will probably score 15 runs or something, but it’s one of the worst lineups I’ve seen this year.
No Dunn, interestingly.
April 13th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Pitt:
McLouth CF
Rivas 2B
Bay LF
Doumit C
Nady RF
Mienthkshgfhiwer 1B
Bautista 3B
Bixler SS
Gorzelanny P
April 13th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
any word on the weather there?
April 13th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Nothing yet. Anyone listening to Marty?
April 13th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Hope we get 15 runs today. The offense has been stagnant. Maybe by putting the worst players in the lineup, Dusty will shake things up.
Heck, at least the bases won’t be clogged.
April 13th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
It is raining but Marty says all systems are go
April 13th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
LOL, after the break, now they are covering the field.
April 13th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
how the double reverse. now we’re going to play ball
April 13th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
come on Marty, now the umps say play ball……….Marty just finished talking about how bad the weather outlook is. :oops:
April 13th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
holy cow, now the umps say cover it up……..I’m going back to bed!
April 13th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
starting pitchers are still warming up? this is gonna be a crazy day!
April 13th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
1:45 est. start time
April 13th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
I went to the Bats game two days ago and I think their lineup was more potent than this one. Good Lord…
April 13th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
The game is available in HD, and it’s showing up on the FSN Cincy channel on DirecTV (638-1)…
…but the pillars are showing on the sides! What’s going on?
April 13th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Good job by Hopper to break up the double play there.
April 13th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
phillips, dang it! you have to be kidding me! man this is a tired story.
April 13th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Same thing is happening on Time Warner. Lovely. Shockingly, the Reds get the first two on, then, you guessed it, get ZERO runs. Excellent work again, boys. This is starting to get frustrating.
April 13th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
I’m having the same problem, renbutler. I just switched over to the Pittsburgh HD broadcast because of it.
At least I am not suffering through George Grande now.
April 13th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
1 inning.
2 more runners left on base.
Same old story.
April 13th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
At least we have Johnny Cueto on our side.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
not that it really matters, but how do you bat castro ahead of bako?
April 13th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
They’re both pretty bad, but at least Bako has been decent early this year. Castro is just awful.
But you’re right, it probably doesn’t really matter.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Cueto looks like he has a pretty good swing.
And he works a walk there. Nice AB.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Man, Freel refuses to take a pitch. Swinging at everything, and fouling most of them off.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Then Freel grounds into a double play, wasting the leadoff walk to the pitcher.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
the reds have nothing on the pirates.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Cueto thought he had strike 3 on McLouth to end the inning. It was called a ball and Cueto lost focus. Gave up another run with 2 outs.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Well that was a quick worthless inning.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
and now the pirates announcers are making fun of phillips because he didn’t hit that ball out in a “real ballpark.”
i can’t believe how humiliating this is.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
It is unbelievable that the Reds have struggled against such mediocre pitching.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I hope Phillips hits an absolute moon shot the next time up to shut up that kind of talk.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Speaking of announcers, the Columbus Dispatch had this article on the Reds crew.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Its awful watching the Reds in the batters box this weekend, they look clueless and overmatched. Almost like they “expect” to make an out. over 20 men left on base in the first two games and now they are making Gorzy look like the second coming of Steve Carlton. You know its bad when Baker has his number 2 hitter sacrificing down by two. Left handed pitching just owns this team because we have no one that has a clue on how to hit them. Watch, the Pirates will do the smart thing and finish off this game with nothing but their 3 lefties out of the pen and the Reds wont score a single run.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
That was a good story. I love the Reds radio broadcast and TV broadcast when Grande is not on it
April 13th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
well. Will it be the same old story?
April 13th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
how many times can EdE come up with the bases loaded in on series? this is crazy, he needs this hit.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Add another 3 runners left on base to the total
April 13th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I thought he was our clutch hitter? The pirates own us.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
This is a complete and utter embarrassment.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
That’s all for me. I’m going to watch The Masters.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
wow. the wheels just came off of this one. cueto certainly hasn’t looked great today, but he deserved better than this. couple of the balls this inning should have been played.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
How many pitches has Cueto thrown?
April 13th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
I agree, Al.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Wow. We’re not good.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
A complete waste of a weekend.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
well. a missed double play followed up by a 3-run homer. That about sums up the Reds trip to Pitt. I’m gonna check out early. But I definitely won’t be watching golf.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
What’s the answer, Dusty? You’re the big name manager so you should have big name answers.
April 13th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Going back to the comments by the Pirates announcers. I compared the dimensions of their “real” ballpark versus GABP.
LF GABP 328 PNC 325
LF PA GABP 379 PNC 389
CF GABP 404 PNC 399
RF PA GABP 370 PNC 375
RF GABP 325 PNC 320
There are some height difference as well. Not a lot of differences. GABP is a physics project awaiting some enterprising science student.
April 13th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
I’m waiting to wake up from this terrible, weekend long nightmare! Good thing I’ll be at Wrigley field watching the Reds in two days!
April 13th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Dusty needs to decide on his starting line-up and stick with it. You don’t get out of a slump with revolving line-ups especially when Juan Castro is in the line-up. Plus he yanks Votto from teh line-up just when the kid is starting to hit.
April 13th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
If I’m going up against the Reds, I’d call LH starters up from AA if I had to just to get to face the pathetic RH lineup Dusty runs out there against lefties. Seriously, just call the game in, it’s less painful to watch.
April 13th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
I wish it would have rained it out!
April 13th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
I am officially throwing my hat into the arena for the manager’s position when Dusty gets the boot. I coached my son’s Little League team for seven years and seriously think I could do a better job. The line-up he sent out there today was a joke. How long are we going to run Edwin’s sorry excuse of a bat out there? When Alex gets back to the field there is NO excuse not to have Keppinger as our starting third baseman. Also Votto is our future at first base and the future is now. Let him play everyday.
April 13th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Dusty needs to realize his left handed bats could do no worse than the right handed bats he inserts into the line-up. Stop platooning and play the best hitters period.
April 13th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Reds played horrid this weekend. But the bad part about it the Buccos gift wrapped game 1 and 2 with their follies in the field but the Reds barely over .100 avg with risp and 2 outs killed them.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:25 am
I agee Jim. Dusty needs to stick with his starting lineup. The lineup against lefthanders is very weak. I can’t imagine Patterson, Dunn, Votto or Hatteberg wouldn’t have done a better job than what he ran out there.