Game Thread: Reds at Giants — 2008.04.26
Sigh….
If you decide to watch the Reds tonight, feel free to discuss it here. I’ll be watching, but this team has lost 11 out of 14 and is showing no signs of coming out of this funk. Perhaps if Matt Belisle throws a no-hitter tonight, the Reds will have a chance of pulling out a 1-0 victory.
April 26th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
If I would have told you before the season started that after the first 24 games the Reds would have 3 starters with ERAs of 1.21 (1), 2.76, and 4.05 could you have imagined winning less than 40% of those games and being on a streak losing 11 out of 14?
those 3 are a combined 5-5
ugh
April 26th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
If there’s any game that the Reds should and must win, this is it.
Facing an offense that would be passable in AAA, Belisle ought to do well. Facing a pitcher . . . well, he just left in the first inning with an injury, so a big opportunity there as well.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
The Reds finally knocked an opposing pitcher out early!
April 26th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Ha! Good positive spin on that one, renbutler.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
If the Reds don’t win this one, I give up.
Well, not really, but….
April 26th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Please have an offensive explosion, Reds!
April 26th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
BP drives in Kepp and the Reds actually have a lead!
April 26th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
It feels like forever since the Reds manufactured a run with a single.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Defensive masterpiece.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Woo! That lead lasted all of two pitches.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
2 batters into the game, the game is tied. So much for the 1-0 victory hopes…
April 26th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Has Bellisle always worked this quickly or is this something new?
April 26th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Gameday just ID’d a Belisle curveball at 67mph with a 17″ break.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
There’s that curve again. That’s going to make somebody look foolish tonight.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
RBI by a relief pitcher.
It is not our year.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Thank you, Giants.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Tie game now, until Belisle blows it.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Heads up baserunning by Patterson, by the way.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Wow, that’s a really good play by Phillips to sneak around the tag at second base.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Oh please let the Reds win this game……
April 26th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Bako off on his throws tonight.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Bellisle 9-0 on the GB-FB ratio.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Reds with some luck falling their way.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
This is a wacky game already. Lots of good swings by the Reds, I’ll say that. 4-3, 1-run lead again.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Seems kind of funny to double-switch someone out of the game in the top of the 4th. But that’s what SF just did.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
This really has been a wacky game so far. Hope the Reds can hold on.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
The most encouraging thing about this game is that the Reds have scored in three of the four innings.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
EEEEEEE
April 26th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Man, is it really just the 4th inning?
April 26th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Is Bellisle being deceptive because it seems like the Giants this inning are swinging late?
April 26th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Bellisle really slowed down his pace that inning.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Edwin continues his tradition of getting an important hit in his next at-bat after making an error. RBI double makes it 5-3 Reds.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
So much for Bellisle being deceptive.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Each team has scored in 4 of their 5 innings at bat.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
SF radio team says that was the first ball hit into the water this year.
Bonds made us all take it for granted…PacBell (or whatever it’s called now - AT&T, maybe) is a tough park to hit for power in.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Tough night for our own Matt Klinker also. 4 IP 5 R 5 ER 2 HR…
April 26th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
I think George Grande worked that game when Thompson hit the “Shot heard round the world.”
April 26th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Bako is suddenly a hitter this year. Hot start. Get the run back, 6-4 now. Belisle out after 5 innings & 72 pitches.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Almost a quality start.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Klinker can get that bad start out of the way (really mostly the 2 homers, looks like), and go back to his winning efforts. With the 10 2/3 shutout innings to start the year, ERA is still only 3.07 .
April 26th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Griffey got away with one there.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
‘Got away with’? Did he go out of the baseline to take out the 2b?
April 26th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
This game is crazy. Runs in 5 of 6 innings now for each team.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
SF announcers saying that an ump in the LA game got hit in the neck by a Brad Penny fastball that the catcher missed. Down and not moving, an ambulance is coming in. Scary stuff.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
For two teams that haven’t been able to hit their way out of a paper bag.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
No he popped up at the bag and threw his elbow out at the guy.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Votto becoming the hit machine we expected.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
What sign is it when Berry grabs his crotch?
April 26th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Umps can be amazing.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Joe West even.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Another bizawkward slide avoids the tag.
GG was right–when was the last time the close plays all seemed to go the Reds way?
April 26th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
The 1970’s. Maybe.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
This game is an Instant Classic.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
The Giants are playing like the Reds usually do… This is much for fun for a Reds fan to watch!
April 26th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Wow, ten runs. That’s almost unbelievable.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Probably get shutout tomorrow.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
The Dodgers scored 10 runs in the first tonight. That includes 9 runs after having two outs and the bases empty.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
I sure hope this is the start of the offense getting on track.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:01 am
They are trying to kill Farney!
April 27th, 2008 at 12:02 am
When we have a ten or ore game winning streak I’ll believe the offense is on track.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:11 am
Awesome EE.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:16 am
Patterson is lame.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:26 am
Back-to-back doubles for the Giants in the bottom of the 9th…
April 27th, 2008 at 12:27 am
How much longer is Coffey with the Reds… Jeez.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:30 am
5 run lead, Coffey gives up double, double, walk… Absolutely pathetic.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:31 am
First save opportunity for FC in over two weeks. Unreal.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:32 am
10-8 now. Anyone still up watching this debacle?
April 27th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Coffey is worthless.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Coffey should be canned…….get it coffey can!!! HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
Cordero just hit 98, that’s awesome.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:35 am
K finishes it.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Coffey has to go.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Repeat to self: “A win is a win.”
April 27th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Hey, Dave. Coffey was creamed.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:37 am
At least they won. It wasn’t pretty, but they won…
April 27th, 2008 at 12:37 am
When Coffey gave up one of those doubles, Welsh went on about how if Coffey could have kept that pitch 4 inches lower, it wouldn’t have been so bad. Of course, that would probably be true of every pitch Coffey has thrown this year.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Send Coffey packing. We’ll see him latte.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:38 am
Coffey ain’t worth a hill of beans.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Let this be the beginning of a long Reds winning streak.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:42 am
Coffey makes me go to the bathroom.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Latte…beans…think of what we’ll lose if we send Todd Coffey back to AAA. We already lost Coutlangus, we just can’t afford to lose another source of constant puns… :mrgreen:
April 27th, 2008 at 12:56 am
Almost a four game.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:58 am
a four hour game.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:59 am
Namewise we still have Dick Pole and now Jocketty.
April 27th, 2008 at 2:20 am
Coffey almost Sanka potential win tonight.
April 27th, 2008 at 6:43 am
Dick Pole’s name is the joke - can’t do any more with that one. And Jocketty is boring upper-management that we won’t get to see on a regular basis. I’m going to go into withdrawal without Coffey.
April 27th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Coffey keeps me up at night.
April 27th, 2008 at 11:00 am
More contracts to eat, but please get rid of Coffey and Belisle. Enough is enough!
April 27th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Coffey, Belisle and Arroyo. Belisle is a AAAA pitcher, Arroyo needs to work on his command and Coffey is just awful.