Loading ...The Reds close out May with a titanic struggle vs. the Braves. Today’s game will be a FOX broadcast featuring…Josh Fogg and Jair Jurrjens? We all know about Fogg, so I suspect Reds fans are a little nervous. Maybe we’ll be pleasantly surprised and Fogg will celebrate his return to the rotation with a good outing. There’s always hope, Reds fans.
The Reds have won 14 and lost 12 thus far in May. A 15-12 record in the month sounds good, and it will hopefully be a spur to an even better record in coming months.
Discuss the game here….
Braves Lineup:
Escobar SS
Johnson 2B
Jones 3B
Teixeira 1B
McCann C
Francoeur RF
Norton LF
Blanco CF
Jurrjens P
Reds Lineup:
Hairston SS
Bruce CF
Griffey RF
Phillips 2B
Dunn LF
Encarnacion 3B
Votto 1B
Ross C
Fogg P
I think this is the best offensive lineup we can put out there, I know a lot of people don’t like seeing Hairston at short but we need to ride out his bat for as long as he keeps it up (1 hit and 2 more walks yesterday).
As weird as it might be to admit it…he’s doing exactly what we need our leadoff hitter to do, especially in front of Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuce.
Griffey shouldn’t be 3rd. That makes this not our best, but it’s a lot closer than it usually is.
STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP putting Griffey 3rd.
Big day today in our quest to get to 500
I don’t mind this lineup. The criticism of Junior’s lineup spot is certainly valid, however.
Griffey HAS been swinging the bat better lately, and Encarnacion surely will snap out of his cold spell soon. Then we will have a great lineup.
Re: Hairston leading off.
I’m not a huge fan of that idea, in the long term. In the short term, however, he has been everything we could have asked for.
Hairston can be a solid bench player, though his career stats aren’t good. What we need to do is ride out Hairston’s hot streak, then get Keppinger back in the lineup when ready.
Keppinger will hit better than Hairston over a full season, and his defense at short is likely better as well.
That said, can’t argue with the job that Hairston has been doing.
I was happy to see Fox has once again decided that people in Indianapolis would rather watch the dodgers vs. mets than reds/braves. This happened during the Cleveland series too. I am all for national exposure for the reds, but not when one of its target cities is not able to view the game.
Fogg escapes 1st inning danger.
BRUUUUUCE!!!!
Maybe Bruce is giving Junior some hitting tips!! 599!!!
599!!!!!
The BIG RED MACHINE is a’runnin’!!!
I would love to see this team just get stinkin’ hot!!!
Reds will likely need to do this every inning to win behind Fogg.
Why not pinch hit for Fogg?
I heard on the pre-game they are targeting Fogg for just 75 pitches today. He tossed 16 in the first, so I’m sure we’ll be seeing a lot of the bullpen today.
Chipper robs Fogg!
Who is the announcer along with Brennaman in the Fox booth?
Maybe FOX can do us a favor and NOT air any more Reds games? They actually REDUCE the coverage by doing that.
I’m glad I got to miss #599 in favor of the great Midwestern matchup of LA and NY.
Makes one wish for Bellisle.
And now Fogg gives up a two run homer in the top of the 12th.
We are going to have to score more than 3 runs if we expect to win this game with Fogg on the mound.
I agree dont hit griffey third haha
Jim, that’s Leo Mazzone in the booth with Thom.
I’ve never heard him announce before, and I think he’s pretty darn good.
renbutler: I got Mariners/Tigers. Equally thrilling.
I thought it was Mazzone but his voice isn’t what I had expected for him.
I’m very surprised we have Reds/Braves in southwest Virginia (less than four hours from Cincinnati). Probably because the station I’m watching is actually located in Tennessee, and there are a lot of Braves fans there.
It certainly is interesting to hear Mazzone’s thoughts on pitching.
Me either, Jim. Don’t know what I expected, but I was surprised.
Yeah, Mazzone is a genius when it comes to pitching, and he does a surprisingly good job of putting his thoughts into words.
Maybe the emergence of Jay Bruce can get those Tennessee Braves fans to “volunteer” to become Reds fans.
Hairston gets another hit and here comes The Legend.
Another hit for Bruce. This is just unreal.
And then some great baserunning by Bruce (and Hairston).
Bruce is simply taking what they are giving him.
They just brought out a special “600″ baseball for Junior’s at-bat.
Is the Special 600 baseball juiced?
I just know that Junior is going to hit 600 later in this game.
I know that because I have watched almost every game this year, but I will miss the end of this one because I have to go to my 6 year old daughter’s gymnastics recital. That’d be my luck.
Sac fly, 4-2 Reds.
Blanco almost misjudged that into a double.
The only thing that makes me feel better is that Jurrjens looks like Fogg on the mound today. And Atlanta’s bullpen is worse than ours.
Encarnacion knocks in Bruce. Excellent. 5-2 Reds.
Much improved baserunning. Is Bruce teaching the others how to play ball?
If Fogg can pitch 5 innings and give up no more than 3 runs, I’ll be satisfied.
Hopefully Fogg and just get to the back 3rd of the game with the lead.
Another leadoff hit against Fogg…a double. Fogg is terrible.
Okay, I’ll be happy with 5 innings and 4 runs or less out of Fogg…
If Fogg can pitch 5 innings and give up no more than 3 runs, I’ll be elated. I doubt it will happen.
There goes the lead. 3 run homer by Texeira, and Fogg has crapped away another lead.
Fogg sucks so bad, it’s unbelievable.
Fogg’s ERA is an even 10.00 now. Good work by this pathetic excuse of a pitcher.
What a complete waste of a million dollars.
Time for a new 5th starter!…cause Fogg isn’t even close
Anyone want to bet Fogg gets his walking papers after the game?
Fogg leads off the 3rd and gets an out. Wish he could get an out when he was on the mound.
How much $,$$$,$$$.00 has Bob had to eat this year? Its gonna be more! Bye Fogg
Maybe they call sell Fogg to that Korean team.
Fogg can get outs when he pitches, too.
he just likes to separate his outs between 2-3 hits/walks and occasionally homeruns.
Maybe they can sell Corey Patterson as well.
Who goes long in the bullpin now?
Now Fogg gives up a leadoff triple to the pitcher in the 4th. Geez.
Yep, it’s time for Homer Bailey. Ready or not he couldn’t be this bad. Heck, they didn’t think Jay Bruce was ready either. It’s time.
Can’t even get the pitcher out
Fogg pitches for the cycle as he has given us singles, doubles, triples, and homers.
Fogg is gone. Affeldt enters the game.
Fogg should never be allowed to pitch for the Reds again.
Will Homer be the 5th starter the next time through the rotation? Or maybe Matt Maloney, he has come on strong after a slow start, and he’d give us a lefty in the rotation.
I think Fogg finally seals his fate with todays outting
Fogg’s gotta go. You can’t expect to field a winning team when you KNOW your pitcher is going to give up 5 or more runs. I suspect that Maloney is the one called up, it seems the Reds front office thinks that Bailey needs a bit more time in AAA.
Does anyone know what the rattling noise is in the background of the game on Fox? It seems to happen every couple of minutes.
…and now it’s 6-5. This sucks.
3.1 IP, 6 earned runs for Fogg. He’s terrible.
Fogg has to go, but it sure would have been nice to see him pitch a few half decent games so we could have traded him for something.
It has to be either Bailey or Maloney since Pettyjohn must be even too lousy for the Koreans.
Chad: But those 6 earned runs “spread out” over 3.1 innings only raised his ERA by 0.53!
I’m not sure what Krivsky was thinking with Fogg. Yes, he had 10 wins last year, but he was 13th in the NL in runs support and got lit up all of the time. It’s shocking that Colorado kept him in the rotation. Even stranger, I heard a couple weeks ago that the Rockies may be interested in reaquiring Fogg.
Affeldt is now doing his best to make Fogg look good. Eesh. I think there’s yard work to be done…this is pathetic.
Ceeker, it’s sad that his ERA was so high already that it barely rose after this pathetic performance.
I can’t take any more of this. I’m off to my daughter’s gymnastics recital.
Affeldt hit 95 on the gun.
then followed it with a 80 mph pitch, which made McCann look real bad.
Jerrjens isn’t hitting his spots any better than earlier in the game but the Reds aren’t hitting the ball as solidly.
Good grief!!! Has him 0-2 then loses him to a walk.
Hello, Fox!!! There is a ball game going on. How about announcing it?
Yep, that’s our $3M middle reliever. Great stuff, has no idea where it’s going. Another stellar signing.
Come on, Affeldt, Even Fogg got Escobar out three times.
Affeldt is up to 43 pitches according to mlb.com
I can name 4 guys from the lookouts and the bats teams that could do as good or better for a lot less money. D. Thompson, Ben Juckich, Gary Majewski (yes he is doing much better), Danny Herera (he’s a 5′8″ lefty that has an ERA of 0.98). There is another guy but I can’t think of his name
Holy smokes, EE 2 for 3!!
Now would be as good a time as any for Jay Bruce’s first major league HR.
No way on Majewski. I’ve watched that horror show before.
We need this run here, c’mon EE
Weathers gives up a homer after the Thom and Leo sing his praises – “he’s put together a solid career blah blah blah”
They should have dealt Weathers at the trade deadline last season. Held onto him one season too many.
Having 12 or 13 free agents may not be all bad. Time to clean house. Most of them can go!
Nothing like fogg and weathers pitching in the same game.
Should have known with Fogg and Stormy pitchin’, the day wasn’t gonna be a sunny one!
I actually would call that an average Weathers outing. It’s safe to assume he’ll give up at least one run per appearance.
Weathers=Majewski. He is done.
He has given up six runs over his last eight innings.
Did everybody give up?
Looks like another nailbiter at the end for the Reds… 7-6, no outs, Dunn on first…
Tied it up!!
BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCE!
Is this kid livin’ the dream so far or what????
I am sure glad we kept this kid in AAA for the 1st two months of the season … NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Isn’t this great?!?!
How about that kid! Bruce is really something else. Bruce for President!
Corey, don’t make any plans to return anytime soon!
If this was a movie I would dismiss it as unrealistic. Unbelievable.
These extra inning games are going to give me a stroke! I sure enjoy watching these guys win again!
I’m going to the Phillies/Reds game on Tuesday…could they be over .500 after that game?
The June schedule is no picnic. If the Reds can repeat their 15-12 for May or even a little better, it’ll be something.
I love him.
#85 – the other name you’re looking for…”bat boy”?
Ceeker – I’ll be there too. I’ll be the one yelling “Bruuuuuuuuuuce”
#110 – That’s the point, Mike.
I really respect most of the opinions of the editors on this site. I don’t say much, just casually osfuckolf