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Johnny Cueto is back on the mound, and I’m sure Marty Brennaman will be frustrated with him once again. I’m optimistic about tonight’s start for the young guy.
For the Dodgers — and I may have read the probable starters incorrectly — but I think Barbara Billingsley is the starting pitcher.
Or maybe it’s this guy. Either way, discuss it here.
In case of haven’t heard:
Leading off and playing CF – Coorrrrey Patterson!!!
Corey Patterson cf
Jolbert Cabrera ss
Jay Bruce rf
Brandon Phillips 2b
Adam Dunn lf
Edwin Encarnacion 3b
Joey Votto 1b
Paul Bako c
Johnny Cueto p
For the Dodgers:
Juan Pierrer lf
Blake DeWitt 3b
Jeff Kent 2b
Russell Martin c
James Loney 1b
Matt Kemp cf
Andre Ethier rf
Angel Berrota ss
Chad Billingsley rhp
Patterson and Cabrera hitting first and second. That is officially the worst top of the order in all of baseball.
If there is a rational brain cell within Dusty Baker’s head then we must assume that this season was just a “test”. A test to see about next year because they can’t possibly think that having someone at .192 batting lead off will help win a game!! I am pleased at putting Bruce at 3rd, where belongs. We’ll just call it “2008, Dusty’s Exhibition Year.”
No Griffey in the lineup on the night they are honoring him? Anyone heard why?
According to John Fay Junior’s sick.
I thought Patterson was supposed to be fast?
man, outterson is unbelievable. he actually gets a hit and then gets thrown out stealing! got to love that speed at the top of the lineup.
So much for Outersons speed Dusty….pathetic
At least Cueto is looking relatively sharp early. Hope he can keep it up.
I didn’t realize that Mariano Duncan was the 1B coach for LA.
The following Dayton Dragons are representing the Eastern Division in tonight’s Midwest League All Star Game.
Player AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS OBP SLG OPS
Brandon Waring .262 65 237 36 62 13 0 12 41 20 86 1 0 .332 .468 .800
Denis Phipps .249 60 225 27 56 15 1 6 33 14 52 0 5 .297 .404 .701
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H R ER HR BB SO GO/AO AVG
Luis Montano 6 5 5.02 13 13 0 66.1 73 45 37 7 14 50 0.97 .269
Jeff Jeffords 2 2 3.82 22 0 2 35.1 34 15 15 2 15 40 1.90 .256
Joseph Krebs 5 2 2.45 24 0 5 36.2 36 11 10 3 13 31 1.31 .257
Pretty amazing that Phipps and Montano made an all star team with those numbers.
They must have been hurting for all-stars in the Midwest League.
The Billings Mustangs open their season later tonight.
Well, I’m back at my daughter’s game following the game on my phone. Tournament finals tonight…winner take all!
I see Outterson got a hit…that guarantees him another week leading off.
Good luck, Kurt!
At what point do you hold Brook Jacoby accountable for not coaching or for bad coaching?…for anything? Is there anyone in this line-up making adjustments? Or just same old, same old at the plate. Where’s the hitting instruction? Dick Pole is worthless too.
Has his “coaching” helped anybody?
Thanks!
8 strikeouts for Billingsley in the 4th…painfully sad. Can we DFA the whole team?
On a good note my daughter’s team is up 11-2.
Good to see Pete Mackanin in the stands tonight.
Make that 14-2.
Nothing sums up the Ken Griffey era in Cincinnati better than him sitting out the game because he is sick on Ken Griffey Jr. night. Pathetic.
I really like Cueto. He has such a live arm. Harang, Volquez and Cueto are a hell of a start to a great rotation.
If Walt Jocketty blows the team hope I hope he starts with George Grande. He is just brutal. Seriously, I can’t take him anymore. I pray every night that either Thom B. is doing the game or it is the opponents crew.
Keppinger and Hopper can’t get here quick enough.
By the way, a really good pitching coach just became available last night. I like Rick Peterson. The Reds could do worse.
Is Mackanin scouting for the Yanks?
It’s over. She got her first two trophies. League and tournament champion.
Two questions Jim…the if the Reds don’t score tonight they will have been shut out 7 times. 1) What is the record for a team being shutout in a season by June 17th?
2) Of the 6 shutouts this year, how many has Corey Outterson started in?
and here he comes!!
Boy, Chris Welsh is just hammering Dusty over his Patterson-love.
Get’em Chris, way to rip Dusty for not subing out Outerson!
Chris Welsh gets it
and there he goes!!!
Why didn’t Dusty PH for Outerson? Of that’s right, he’s fast.
That’s f@cking ridiculous. Just ridiculous. I really try to be even-handed about Dusty Baker, but that’s the sort of s@it that makes you pull your hair out.
Sweet, we need a public voice for the Outterson-Baker scam
Welsh did everything but curse in the booth, that was great.
That’s it, Dusty should be fired. When Chris Welsh is calling you out it you gotta go. Welsh is one of the really nice guys and rarely if ever criticizes anybody and he was pissed off at that non-move. Was anybody listening to Marty B.? I wish there was a beat writer in this town (miss C. Trent) that would call Dusty out. Hell, Grande was trying to make excuses for him.
Everyone knew what was going to happen.
Has Marty ever said anything about Patterson? Or Weathers? I know he loves to hammer the good players.
This is a close game…why not the normal Stormy Weathers/Mike Lincoln combo…Dusty’s already screwed it up with the lineup!!
Marty has been critical of Patterson. I know he’s said he’s never seen a player swing at the first pitch so much. Thom and the cowboy are criticizing the move to leave him in, too, right now. It’s so obvious how terrible he is, it’s hard *not* to criticize Outterson.
Why can everyone see it except Dusty?
You know what they say “Love is Blind” and his love for Sorry Outterson is no different.
I think Marty is on the golf course this series, isn’t he?
Marty hammers Patterson all the time. Marty, Brantley, Thom and Welsh are the only ones that say anything. The beat writers in this town are a joke. Where are the columnist?
From John Fay today:
Jeff Keppinger went 2-for-5 with a home run in Louisville’s 10-9 win over Rochester today. Norris Hopper was 1-for-5. Keppinger DH’d after playing third last night. My guess is Keppinger joins the Reds for the Toronto series.
Conspicuously missing is any estimate of when Hopper comes back up… Does this mean Fay thinks that we may be stuck with Patterson while Hopper plays in Louisville? Maybe I’m just reading too much into it?
Chris-Yes, I forgot. Thom is doing the game. Have I mentioned how much I hate George Grande? How many bats could we get for Patterson and Grande? One?
Have you noticed that everyone disagrees about everything that happens with this club…except the whole Corey Patterson saga. It’s the one subject that unites us all as Reds fans.
Fay also posted a few minutes ago that he thinks Daryl Thompson will start on Saturday.
I think you are correct about Marty, Chris.
I actually feel for Patterson a little bit. He should be in L’Ville trying to see if he can fix himself enough to be a decent bench player for five more years. Instead, Baker’s ridiculous blind spot makes him suffer through this misery, along with everyone else who watches these games.
At this point, I want him to get as many ABs as possible, and continue to suck, so that Walt Jocketty takes him out of Dusty’s hands once and for all. Given this roster construction, Norris Hopper is by far the more appropriate player.
I’m going to Yankee Stadium on Friday night to see Volquez and Mussina. I’m looking forward to it.
Chad-I was thinking the same thing. I even like mhopp when he is complaining about Patterson
Thanks for that, BenL. Yesterday, I saw that both guys had “completed” their rehab assignments w/ Sarasota.
I know there’s a cap on how long you can be on rehab.
J Bruce is having some trouble.
Chad-That should be awesome. Yankee Stadium is the second best ballpark I’ve ever been too. I am going to be in Wrigley, my favorite, in July to see two Reds-Cubs games. Hopefully we are out of last place by then.
Yeah, I’m looking forward to Yankee Stadium. I’ve been there once before, but only got as far as Monument Park before the game was called on account of rain. Figured I’d better get back to the stadium before it closed.
We’re also going to Shea, but I’m less excited about that.
Pick out a winner, AD.
I love this. Grande is saying how Dunn “is good for 40 HR a year,” which you might take to be a perceptive comment about sample size and how things even out over a long season.
But he’s saying like, “so we’d better get one right this minute.”
Chad, do you still want that sack of ‘D’ batteries?
I hate George Grande
Some nasty pitches up there.
Good patience and base-clogging all around.
OK. You pick out a winner, Eddie.
Yes, Chris.
This is funny.
Jay Bruce: “There’s only one Ken Griffey.”
Ummmm…..
Injuries or no injuries, Brook Jacoby’s head needs to be on the chopping block.
How long is David Weathers under contract? 100 years?
George sounds a lot like Charlie Brown’s teacher – blah, blah, blah.
Hilarious, Chris.
I can’t believe that 8 players selected before Bruce in 2005 made their MLB debuts before Bruce. What an incredible draft.
WTF kind of play was that?
George Grande interrupts his discussion of prostrates to announcement some baseball but quickly talks prostrate again.
That draft is just crazy. It’s early and all, but yeah.
Instead of donating to prostrate research each time someone hits a homer (the opposition lately) I think they should donate each time the 3B coach grabs his groin when giving signs.
I have had it with these maple bats. Someone – fan, coach, or player – is going to get killed this season, I’m convinced of it.
I agree. It’s ridiculous. I’ve never seen bats splinter like this, and so often.
GABP has to be the lamest ballpark when it comes to in-game sound effects and music. You hear the same few lame-o bits every other inning:
1. “Every body clap your hands.”
2. Gwen Stefani “Woo Hoo”
3. “Day-O!”
4. “Noise” graphic
5. Clapping Mickey Mouse gloves
6. “Doink!” sound effect
7. Crashing window sound effect
Junior pinch hitting for Bako.
Votto is good.
Chris Welsh wants to be his boyfriend.
I think they should use teakwood bats.
Hope Junior doesn’t still have the runs.
“Oh, stewardess. I speak jive.”
Sorry, I just got here.
Welsh wants to have, like, a million of his babies.
Tie it, Ross.
Looking at that ‘05 draft. Reds took Travis Wood @ 60 (just promoted, and struggling at AA). Could’ve had Yunel Escobar (75), Kevin Slowey (73), or Micah Owings (83).
The Reds are hitting like Lumpy Rutherford.
I think Brandon Phillips is the Eddie Haskell of this team.
“Why of course, Mrs. Cleaver. I’d love to go to King’s Island.”
Don’t worry. Patterson is on deck.
“Winter Caravan? Of course.“
Celtics up by 12 with under 4:00 in the 2nd quarter.
HR Dave Ross (calling it).
I would root for the Celtics if they were from Dallas, Dubuque, or Delaware.
Why was he thinking curveball?
Brilliant, Chris. Simply brilliant.
See you all tomorrow. Good night.
By brilliant, I was referring to the Eddie Haskell stuff. That deserves it’s own post on the front page.
Patterson, you _ _ _ _!
Fill in the blanks.
Huh. He actually hit one hard.
Game over.
I would’ve put the spaces in front of “you”, Jim.
Thanks, Chad (97). There just seem to be two very different sides to that guy, and Jim’s Lumpy reference set me off.
We witnessed one of baseball true rarities tonight – Corey Patterson getting a hit.
The word you, not you personally Jim.
Wow. Lakers are getting destroyed.
Understood, RRMan and equally appropriate.
Celtics dominating everything in this game – rebounds, assists, turnovers, etc.
Let’s hope the Reds’ fortunes turn tomorrow night.