8/26/18 Reds in Chicagoland (Sunday)

[texasdave]

Good news: MLB is showing all the games free today.
Bad news: The Reds are starting Homer Bailey.

Hamilton - 8
Peraza - 6
Gennett - 4
Suarez - 5
Schebler - 9
Ervin - 7
Barnhart - 3
Casali - 2
Bailey - 1

The Reds will attempt to rake against Kyle Hendricks.

[JaxRed]

I'm not proud of this........... but I'm hoping Bailey gets hit early and often. I realize he is almost 100% sure to be on the team and at least our #5 starter next year, but there is no reason to pitch him again this year.

Sorry....

[Ironman92]

We have seen the shift defense...but after watching Peraza for the past two months I often wonder why teams don’t play a bloop defense against Peraza. Peraza has been very successful at the hit the OF just can’t quite get to....and they usually aren’t on the line. I can’t think of but 2 or 3 times where his batted ball would be out of reach of an OF and beat them for a double....the ones out of reach he hits go over the fence (not many of those either)....but he’s had many many many hits in bloop range. Also, moving in the OF even more often gets a player to try to do something a bit out of their comfort zone...just like trying to beat the shift

[Tom Servo]

Stupid little nubber single by Murphy to start the day for the Cubs, probably a bad sign of things to come.

[Ironman92]

Scooter’s swing is so long and slow right now. He needs a day off and to shorten things up.

[JaxRed]

Reports coming in on a mass shooting in my town... Jax.

[Tom Servo]

Now a long Baez AB gets a groundout in the hole but Peraza's throw pulls Scooter off the bag.

Two Cubs batters in and I'm thinking I don't wanna watch this.

[Ironman92]

Now a long Baez AB gets a groundout in the hole but Peraza's throw pulls Scooter off the bag.

Two Cubs batters in and I'm thinking I don't wanna watch this.

I think Scooter held...made himself 6’2 lol

[Ironman92]

Damn....needed a camera on ground to really tell

[PuffyPig]

At a time when Bailey can use all the good luck he can get, he get's nothing but bad luck.

[PuffyPig]

I don't think I've ever seen Billy fall down like that before LOL. Are the Cubs using Voo Doo Dolls again?

[Big Klu]

At a time when Bailey can use all the good luck he can get, he get's nothing but bad luck.

Gloom, despair, and agony on me.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZAAKPJEq1Ew/hqdefault.jpg

[Rolando]

Another awful inning for homer what a joke

[Ironman92]

Heyward mashed that ball...Billy took a step in then blew a tire....at best the initial movement on that is a freeze to momentarily read but doing that and Billy still doesn’t get to that ball.

Homer is not having good luck but Billy slipping there just looked to he unlucky, but it was moot in my opinion

[mbgrayson]

The Reds played the field like the Bad New Bears in the 1st. There were at least two missed outs, and maybe three if you count Billy falling down. Homer is not good, but that innings was mostly bad fielding.

['69]

Homer spotting pitches well until that hanger to Murphy

[Ironman92]

Pitch #47 by Homer was his first pitch that was a swing and miss

[Ironman92]

Cubs are stacked. That Bote dude can mash.

[Ironman92]

That’s maybe the fastest I’ve ever seen a ball get to a CF

[Crumbley]

There’s one key thing about Homer Bailey that people are missing: he’s actually good somehow

[RedTeamGo!]

Homer is so clearly toast. Reds keep trotting him out there.

['69]

There’s one key thing about Homer Bailey that people are missing: he’s actually good somehow

:laugh:

['69]

Haven't been Homer's biggest fan but today I was hoping he would begin to turn the corner.

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At least we saw Cy Hamels and now Hendricks.

[Ironman92]

Cubs have their big lead and in Sunday afternoon fashion are swinging early and often to get this over with.

[Crumbley]

Chris Welsh pulling a masterful troll job by tricking Thom into acknowledging parody Twitter accounts on air

[JaxRed]

Please, please tell me we won't see Hernandez, Hughes or Iglesias in this blow out....

[CincyDave]

Marty and Jeff are almost as disinterested in this game as the Reds players. Can't blame any of them.

[Tom Servo]

Please, please tell me we won't see Hernandez, Hughes or Iglesias in this blow out....
Sure glad the Reds let two straight trade deadlines pass where they didn't trade a highly-in-demand Iglesias.

[Big Klu]

Dartmouth?

He couldn't even spell "Yale"!

[BluegrassRedleg]

Sure glad the Reds let two straight trade deadlines pass where they didn't trade a highly-in-demand Iglesias.

Dude. Who would be saving all these games if they traded Iggy?!?11?!

[Big Klu]

The daily double...

Balk followed by a HR.

[CincyDave]

Stephenson is utterly useless as a baseball player (not saying he's a terrible human being).

[Baseballdad37]

I give up on our young pitchers until we find a person who has a plan to develop them!

[BluegrassRedleg]

This is a rare occasion where I actually empathized with Thom's rant.

[Baseballdad37]

Please, please tell me we won't see Hernandez, Hughes or Iglesias in this blow out....

What a waste having those 3 in our bullpen!!

[Red Raindog]

Stupid little nubber single by Murphy to start the day for the Cubs, probably a bad sign of things to come.

aren't you the smart one--- :evil:

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Marty and Jeff are almost as disinterested in this game as the Reds players. Can't blame any of them.

I'm so uninterested I didn't bother to tune into it

[CincyDave]

I'm so uninterested I didn't bother to tune into it

Not missing anything.

[Tom Servo]

Let's not let the pitiful pitching distract from the fact that the offense the whole game has been two Barnhart singles and a Gennett walk. And the horrible defense, this entire series, to boot.

What a clownshow.

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Good inning from Reed though, put my man in the rotation.

[Alabama]

Let's not let the pitiful pitching distract from the fact that the offense the whole game has been two Barnhart singles and a Gennett walk. And the horrible defense, this entire series, to boot.

What a clownshow.

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Good inning from Reed though, put my man in the rotation.

It’s that moment the FO was speaking of. Hard not to get caught up in it! Woo hoo
So glad no major moves were made to this team that’s lost 90 4 years in a row. Would’ve hated to see a shakeup.

[RiverRat13]

Let's not let the pitiful pitching distract from the fact that the offense the whole game has been two Barnhart singles and a Gennett walk. And the horrible defense, this entire series, to boot.

What a clownshow.

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Good inning from Reed though, put my man in the rotation.

Offense went in the tank once Winker and Schebler hit the DL. I'm not saying those two are magical keys, but that seemed to be the timing.

[Kinsm]

On the bright side, Bailey's 2018 ERA went down today. Dropping from 6.21 to 6.17.

[WVRedsFan]

I haven't watched this weekend. You can blame Homer (who will be a starter as long as he has that contract), but truth is, one run would have cost them the game. Truth is, the lack of Votto in the lineup hurts tremendously along with a healthy Schebler, and Duvall driving in runs (I know that's not going to be popular). Batting Barnhardt so high in the order and depending on Billy making great making great plays is really foolhardy. On the pitching front, only Matt Harvey (a proven starter even if flawed) and Disco could be counted on to not dig a hole the emasculated offense couldn't overcome the 3, 4, 5 run deficits. And even they failed. I don't know the answer, but trotting out these starters, which could were merely "suspects" instead of prospects, ain't working. More of the same after how many years? If they rehire Riggleman, it's going to be worse than you can imagine.

[Maldez]

Homer is so clearly toast. Reds keep trotting him out there.

I guess when you're paying a guy $21,000,000 a year, you want to be very, very sure you've squeezed everything out of him you can before tossing to the scrap heap.