If no one else will be the big elephant in the room, I will be.
Sure, tip your hat to Halladay for a stunning performance.
But how utterly disappointing and embarrassing it is for the Reds.
If no one else will be the big elephant in the room, I will be.
Sure, tip your hat to Halladay for a stunning performance.
But how utterly disappointing and embarrassing it is for the Reds.
Again, my hat is off to Halliday.
Not gonna lie, I don't think there is much any team in baseball could have done against Halladay tonight. The strike zone was very very pitcher friendly, but consistent for both teams. With a pitcher like Halladay on his game like he was tonight you might as well just pray.
Great game by Halladay, he deserved it, just wish it wasn't in a Philly uni.
"Today was the byproduct of us thinking we can come back from anything." - Joey Votto after blowing a 10-1 lead and holding on for the 12-11 win on 8/25/2010.
The upside for the Reds is that the loss shouldn't upset the delicate psyche of Volquez too much. This game was lost in the first inning.
/r/reds
It's difficult to lose a 5 game series in one game, but the Reds may have just accomplished that.
Halladay is awesome, an all-time great. But this was as big of a letdown as you could have as a fan. Ouch. Halladay is great, but there have been MANY greats to pitch in the post-season between 1956 and now....
I had no real hope entering this series (picked a Phillies sweep), but I didn't quite expect THAT
We have a young core that will most likely take this series on the chin from a far superior and experienced team...hopefully they learn from it, and come back next year ready to roll.
"I prefer books and movies where the conflict isn't of the extreme cannibal apocalypse variety I guess." Redsfaithful
My hat's been tipped. Guy was dominant.
Halladay is one of the best of our generation, but whether you're no-hit by an all-time great or a guy nobody's ever heard of, it's embarrassing and a little disheartening to open the first playoffs in 15 years like this.
The series isn't over by a long shot. 1 loss is 1 loss, no more, as long as the players focus on Oswalt now. What's done is done. Those players realize Halladay was simply untouchable. They will move on.
Votto for MVP
per johnfayman..
Cabrera: "He and the umpire pitched a no-hitter. He gave him every pitch. Basically, we had no chance"
Halladay did have an enormous strike zone tonight. He was dominant, but it's nice to see a player come out and say it. OCab went up a notch in my book.
Votto for MVP
I know I'm overreacting, but being totally uncompetitive in the first game sure does not set a good tone for the rest of the series.
You're supposed to hit good pitching if you get to the playoffs.
Maybe my reaction to this will be better down the road. Right now, I'm 27 different kinds of let down, embarrassed, mad, whatever. That sucked.
This.
The Reds have responded well to an adverse situation all season. They were swept by the Cardinals and people started to hand the central crown to the Redbirds, and the Reds reeled off 17 out of 21 wins to take control of first.
The Reds were swept by the Phillies in this same ballpark right before the all-star break, and everybody expected the wheels to come flying off. They didn't.
Friday will be do-or-die. If the Reds don't show up Friday, Philly will clinch no later than Tuesday when Halladay faces us again in Cincinnati.
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