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Let’s recap tonight’s titanic struggle….
FINAL
Cincinnati 1
Washington 3
W: J. Zimmermann (8-10)
L: B. Arroyo (7-10)
S: D. Storen (33)
BOX SCORE
POSITIVES
–Ryan Hanigan went 4-4 with four singles. He had exactly half of the Reds’ hits tonight.
–Brandon Phillips reached base four times from the leadoff spot: 3-4 with a walk and Cincinnati’s lone RBI.
NEGATIVES
–One run on eight hits. That isn’t good. Especially when the lone run was unearned.
–Any chance Cincinnati had was destroyed by our old friend Jonny Gomes, who singled in two runs for Washington in the sixth. Gomes also made an excellent play on a ball hit by Joey Votto earlier in the game.
NOT-SO-RANDOM THOUGHTS
–Well, Cincinnati loses another series. It’s the fifth straight series loss on the road.
–For most of the night, Bronson Arroyo was pretty good. Unfortunately, he gave up the ghost in the sixth. Overall, his line was six innings, seven hits, three runs allowed.
–Off to Pittsburgh, against whom the Reds have played poorly this year. Ugh.
Sigh...
You forgot to mention Jay Bruce’s hot streak was short lived. Don’t worry I stood up and removed my hat when I said his name.
Technically I guess it was a quality start for Arroyo but all three runs were bad runs for a vet to allow. Solo homer to a guy low in the order on a 1-2 pitch (especially in that park) and then allowing 2 runs after being in a 2 out nobody on base position are the sort of things one expects from a youngster not the veteran supposed leader of the staff.
Does this team have any offense at all aside from Votto, BP, the catchers and in spurts RF? More to the point, from the get go for 2011, where was the offense expected to come from aside from 1B, 2B, and C????
@Sergeant2: Cut him.
Dave Sappelt so far seems to be a swing first ask questions later kind of hitter. Did he draw many walks in the minors?
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=sappel001dav
On the bright side, we finally found the one right hander that Gomes can hit! Take a bow Bronson.
Not related to this year’s Reds, but I thought that the trio of Charlton, Dibble, and Myers was one of the better relief trios I’ve seen, but this year’s trio of O’Flaherty, Venters, and Kimbrel for the Braves just blows them away.
I saw the 8th and 9th yesterday of the Braves/Giants game and was wondering about it, and then ESPN had an article about them and I looked up their stats…wow. Those three guys are unbelievable.
Paul Janish 0 for 3.
I’d be a little more concerned about the #2 through #6 hitters who didn’t produce as opposed to the #8 one.
Who is playing with turf toe…opps wait WHY DON’T WE HAVE A HEALTHY SS ON THE MAJOR LEAGUE ROSTER?
@earl: He doesn’t walk that much. Minor league BB% of 7.5%.
In all fairness, Rapuano basically set up all the Reds hitters the last 3 innings with the biggest strike zone I’ve seen in a long time. He was especially rough on Yonder, Ramon and BP in the 9th, but he called Stubbs and Sappelt out on very questionable calls earlier. Pretty hard to make a comeback when you have a ten guys on the field for the other team…
But hey we are okay just waiting for the team to get hot….