Loading ...The Reds take to the road for the remainder of the season’s first half, and tonight will be game one in Philadelphia. The defending world champs will send Cole Hamels to the mound; Hamels hasn’t pitched particularly well recently, but he always seems to toss a gem against our beloved Redlegs.
For the Reds will be Johnny Cueto, who will attempt to show Phillies manager Charlie Manuel that Cueto was deserving of a spot on the NL All-Star squad. Manuel is the manager of the NL team in next week’s All-Star Game, and of course, Cueto was not selected for his first ASG.
I would’ve loved to see Cueto pitching in the game, just as I enjoyed Edinson Volquez’s first selection last year. I’m hopeful, however, that both of those guys will be wearing Cincinnati uniforms in many All-Star games to come.
Discuss the game here….
WT flies out. It could not be predicted.
Votto singles with no one on in front of him. It could not be predicted.
Can you imagine the NL All-Star roster if Dusty were the manager?
Who would play CF and bat lead-off? Taveras or Patterson
Who would play CF and bat lead-off? Taveras or Patterson
If Dusty were the NL All-Star manager
I guess Manuel is thinking he made the right choice.
Y-City, I think the answer to your question is obvious: whichever one was playing poorer at that moment in time cause Dusty ain’t no front runner.
Cueto, don’t you know, TOS? Maybe he wants to show how exciting he could have made the All Star game.
Oh no, that Adam Adkins dude was right: Trade Cueto now for whatever we can get!!!!
Wow turned upside down is Mom, which is who Cueto needs right now.
Yep, the wheels have officially fallen off. Maybe next season. Bet Cueto’s back is hurting.
WOW he’s making Arroyo look decent
what the hell happened? ugh. it just does not pay get your hopes up with this team.
Back to back embarrassing performances from the Reds. Great start to the toughest stretch of the season.
What was his ERA for tonight?
91.00
Ummmm…I was tossing a football around with the kids and figured I might miss the first inning.
So I come in and turn on the television for THIS?
Cueto to Arroyo: “Anything you can do, I can do better.”
Willy Taveras will lead the comeback effort charge.
That’s 3 outa last 4 starts JC has benn roughed up…The Reds might not score 10 runs in the series.
I’m done, this is pathetic. This pitching staff is a shell of what it used to be.
Looks like tonight is going to be movie night for us!
Nice to see Herrera being a team player. He threw a little kerosene on the fire because he didn’t want Cueto to feel bad. What a great teammate.
YAY 10-1!!!
1 down, 9 to go.
The comeback is on.
All Jonny Gomes does when he gets a chance is HIT.
does anyone know how to find team runs scored per inning?
i feel like the reds must be losing the first inning by 200 runs at this point.
our top of the order is abysmal, and our starters seem to cough up runs like it’s going out of style in the first.
To bad him and Votto are the only ones that actually hit.
Who is this Gomes?
Our best pitchers right now are Owings and Bailey(and that’s off 1 start) This is sad
Jimmy that presumes the Phillies are done scoring.
Wow, 10 runs in the first inning! That is beyond bad.
Plus, the Cubs bring back Ramirez and a couple other guys.
My head and even my heart is starting to tell me our season is over. There’s just not enough on this team to overcome the Brewers, Cards, and Cubs. Those aren’t great teams, but they are better on paper then us, and it’s starting to show a bit more on the field too.
They need something out of the realm to happen like Jay Bruce to start hitting like everyone has projected him to hit, or for a trade for an infielder who just comes over to the Reds and is great.
Pretty soon, I’m afraid it’ll be teams looking at the Reds and wondering who could benefit their team.
Right now, I would say Arthur Rhodes could be very valuable for a contender.
The only good thing that would come out of a Reds collapse is that we will see all the youngsters that will be playing in the future anyway such as Frazier, Heisey, and others.
Phillies might hit 50 runs tonight.
Brantley sounds like he’s campaigning to be the pitching coach. He keeps saying that the Reds pitchers aren’t getting any better this year – they are getting worse. “No way that a pitcher like Cueto should have four bad starts in a row.” He didn’t mention the coaching, but I wonder what other conclusion could be drawn?
Dang you David for piercing my bubble. Maybe 1 down, 99 to go would have been more accurate.
gomes doesn’t even have very bad splits right now. he does seem to be out hitting just about everyone in the outfield.
Steve, The hitting coach and mark berry should be looked at.
Brantley needs to chill. The pitching will be fine (except for Arroyo possibly). I didn’t use to be the biggest Dick Pole fan but he has won me over. Offense is still the biggest concern and I’m convinced that Ted Williams would suck if Brook Jacoby was his hitting coach.
Mark Berry should go. Mistakes happen but he makes too many.
I heard Brantley too. I can’t say I’m asking for Dick Pole’s head (on a pole, of course), but I don’t understand why he didn’t head to the mound before 4 runs were in.
Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of the d.r. herrera experiment? not to be too pessimistic, but i’ve always felt like this kid was pitching on borrowed time.
Actually, when Brantley is talking about pitching, it’s almost the only time I feel like he knows what he’s talking about.
They did a little feature with him about Homer’s splitter last week that was quite informative. Of course, he should know a little about that subject.
Cueto’s ERA tonight jumped from 2.69 to 3.45. Anyone still think he should be an All-Star?
I agree, Chad. When Brantley is talking technical stuff, he’s quite good. He just tends to get bogged down in Marty’s negativity, and just spouts cliches when hitting is the subject.
Good news… Darnell McPatterson has gone 3-3 and is nearing .300 at AAA
So… since there is nothing to talk about with regard to the game… The Reds will be 3.5 games out. Is this the game that makes everybody come together, or is this the game that makes it all fall apart?
How is that not an error? This is an absolute disaster.
no one has stopped the phillies from scoring yet tonight. and the reds have 2 hits.
this is about as demoralizing a game as i can remember. and these kinds of gamesseem to be happening more and more. i can’t tell you how happy i would be if dusty baker and this coaching staff got fired.
What do you mean by brings everybody together?
Umm…I think the game 4 games ago where Poo-jols hit the GS was the game where the wheels fell off.
This game is the one where the car is skidding on its frame and sparks are flying since it has no wheels.
Maybe they’ll prioritize signing a RH outfield bat with some pop this offseason…ha.
16-1 Phillies. I’m starting to think the Reds may not win this one.
Uh, I just turned on the TV. 16-0…Mistake, right?
Yep. We’ve got 1.
Let me guess…now they will have to put Cueto on the dl for no some bogus injury.
A friend from philly just sent me a text saying “down by the sports complex not at game but from the sounds of the roars and fireworks it must be bad,sorry” lol that was when it was 12-1
They are probably rubbing up Janish with IcyHot as we speak.
Now they are debating the mercy rule. How bad is that?
Welch just said this is the worst game our pitchers have thrown since these two guys teamed up: Wilson and Belisle. This is bad.
Now Welch is talking about the mercy rule and running “Transformers” on the scoreboard.
since they haven’t put anyone on the dl for real injuries, i’d say… no, they’re not going to dl the starter with the lowest era on the team.
but seriously, what does it take to get management to shake this team up? whatever they’re doing now clearly isn’t working, and it isn’t working in a BIG way.
someone needs to get sent down, or loose a job, or something.
Edwin with the two out bloop. Here we come!
We just need 15 bloops and a blast.
al: I don’t think management sees this season as the season to do it…that’ll be next year…kind of like last year :poke:
I think it will always be next year because I don’t believe ownership will ever be willing to spend some money.
Can we just skip to the Redleg Recap? I think we can gather that there are no positives to speak of in this game.
Now we are having technical difficulties. I think that started when the umpire yelled “Play ball.”
Seriously, Cueto didn’t look like he could get loose and when he was on the bench afterward he was tugging at and stretching his shoulder. Hopefully he didn’t strain something when he pitched 5 innings compensating for a tweaked back in last start that flared up tonight.
Hopefully it just was just one of those nights.
I hope you are right Mark. But the way things have been going I wouldn’t at all be shocked, tomorrow, that we find out it is something that will put him out a couple of starts (which ofcourse will turn out to be 4).
A couple of weeks into this season the pitching looked so good and we had some people really performing. I thought for sure that this would be an 83 win season. But now I don’t see how we do that.
Submitted for group discussion: What do you think the over/under for wins will be??
I will say 78.
That’s pathetic, Jay Bruce. Simply pathetic.
This team looks like a bunch of little leaguers.
76
Another generous scoring decision.
I just hope they have the sense to take him out before he gets a more serious injury. I’d rather have him out a while for now than for an entire year for a worse injury. These things don’t just happen all the sudden. Besides at this point Maloney and Bailey are better than Cueto and Arroyo…and then there’s Manuel in the pen
i just hope that everyone is getting this crap out of their systems tonight. fortunately in baseball, run differential doesn’t count for anything, so we can only lose this game once. might as well let them score 200 runs, it’s the same at this point.
cueto is the obvious story, but not one pitcher has come in and gotten guys out.
that ‘catch’ was the answer to the following question: Can this thing get any worse?
this has to be one of the worst beatings the reds have ever recieved. r.cast loves the history of the team, maybe the fact that his team is taking semi-historic beat downs on a near nightly basis will kick something into gear.
This Fisher fella seems to be getting guys out. He can go 3 or 4 innings, right?
Baker’s telling his guys: “It’s just like football. Score a quick TD, we’ll recover the onside kick, and go for the 2-pt conversion after the 2nd touchdown.”
I’d love to see platoons gone on a regular basis for the rest of July and see what happens (not batting order, just outlining the starting
1 – pitcher
2 – Hanigan
3 – Votto
4 – Phillips
5 – Encarnacion
6 – Hairston
7 – Gomes
8 – Dickerson
9 – Bruce
Obviously not 10 or 16 runs a night, but if the pitching can return to form, I think that is the best 8 the Reds can offer right now.
Lineup, IMO
Dickerson
Hanigan
Votto
Gomes
Phillips
Encarnacion
Bruce
Hairston
pitcher
I hope Harang has a 7 or 8 inning game in him tomorrow night.
Are we having fun yet?
Harang had better have a long outing. The bullpen may not survive until the All Star break.
i’d say that’s about right, though i don’t really mind the platoon of gomes and nix. right now gomes is going alright, but historically, he’s had pretty bad splits. but yeah, that’s pretty close.
now if only dusty could see that…
See that tattoo on Homer’s forearm? Never noticed that before. Thom is going to have an aneurysm.
lol Yanish is warming up
Good move Dusty<<<<<< did I just say that, Yanish coming in to pitch!
Janish has more appearance on the mound than at SS>
Time to put on your rally caps!
15 runs is nothing for this team to makeup!
he also hits like most pitchers!
At this point in the game, isn’t like rec softball…the hitters are obliged to take cuts just to get the game over with and not supposed to take walks.
ump not cutting him any slack!
Do you feel good about yourself Werth?
22-1. Yeah.
According to ESPN, Janish now has an ERA of 47.25.
I agree SFR. Those were all close pitches. Just call strikes. Batters shouldn’t be taking the close ones either. Swing the effing bat
I spoke too soon. 74.25
According to ESPN, Janish now has an ERA of 47.25.
And it’s still better than Majewski’s
I just got done playing a softball double header. I check my phone for the Reds score and it’s 22-1. WTF!!!!
74.25
And it’s still better than Majewski’s
Phillies anoucers concered about Yanish’s pitch count!!!!
GregD – HA! That’s hilarious.
What’s the Reds record for most runs scored in an inning?
This game is going to hurt the run differential.
I hope my beloved Reds don’t have the same dreadful attitude as some of you commenters. This game is not over, never say die. If only Ryan Freel were still alive.
stupid umps