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Originally Posted by cumberlandreds
I believe they are 4-5 or 3-6 against the Pirates. They have 9 more games left. Six at home and three in Pittsburgh. One series at home is in August and the other two series are in September.
For whatever reason Pittsburgh just has the Reds number. It's going on two seasons now. You see this in sports all the time where one team just has the others number. If the Reds can't beat them later this season regularly it could costs them a playoff spot.
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Clearly Pittsburgh has had the upper hand these past two seasons. It's a funny thing. I always recollect the Padres giving the Reds absolute fits during the 1970's, the club's best era thus far. Thanks to B-R.com, I found the head to head against them. While we had a winning record against them in the 70's, it was only 47-43 (.522). We had two losing seasons against them (8-10 in both '70 and '72; World Series seasons) and played .500 with them in 1978. They actually had a five game winning streak against us in 1972 and we matched that in 1976. Oddly, 25% of all the games were shut outs, with 36% of our wins against them blanking them. There's your "fun with numbers" tidbit today!
http://www.baseball-reference.com/ga...m=1970&to=1979
BTW, our overall record for the decade was 683-443, a .607 clip.