3-4-21 - Reds Vs Royals - Spring Training

[757690]

Winker LF
Votto 1B
Suárez 3B
Moustakas 2B
Barnhart C
Blandino SS
Naquin CF
Garcia DH
Payton RF

Sonny Gray will make his first start of the spring. Winker is in the lineup. SS Rotation continues with Blandino today. GO STANFORD BASEBALL

[klw]

Nice to see the speed at the top of the lineup. No station to station today!

[Ron Madden]

Bobby Nightengale
@nightengalejr
Shogo Akiyama is back in #Reds camp. He missed 7 days while tending to a personal matter, not COVID related.

[JaxRed]

We won't see him, but Ashcraft pitching today. Interested to see how he does. Never pitched higher than Rookie ball.

[JaxRed]

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[goreds2]

8:05 pm EST
6:05 pm MST
Radio: WLW 700

[Umkubas]

SS Rotation continues with Blandino today.


GO STANFORD CARDINAL BASEBALL

[Ron Madden]

Sonny Gray sits the side down in order in the 1st.

[Ron Madden]

Winker lines out to LF, Votto draws a BB, Geno lines a single to LF, runners at 1st and 2nd. Moose bounces a single up the middle, Votto scores Geno to 3rd. Barnhart k's, Blandino grounds out.



Charlie Goldsmith @CharlieG__
This is the first time we’ve seen Winker, Votto, Suarez and Moustakas in the lineup together.
All four of them got on base and/or made hard contact.

[Ron Madden]

Reds 1
KC 1
After 1 inning

[Ron Madden]

Naquin grounds out.
Garcia reaches on an E5
Payton grounds into a fielders choice goes to 2nd an E6
Winker walks
Votto K's

Reds 1
KC 1,
after 2 innings

[757690]

Blandino has had two plays at SS so far, and handled them both fine. Only on the radio, so I have no idea how difficult they were

[Ron Madden]

Noe Ramirez sits'em down 1-2-3

[757690]

Nice bounce back inning from Noe

[Ron Madden]

Geno singles to CF (he's 2 for 2)

[Ron Madden]

Barnhart doubles over the CFers head Geno scores

[Ron Madden]

Blandino drives Barnhart home with a single

Naquin K's

[Ron Madden]

Reds 3
KC 1
at the end of 3 innings

[Kingspoint]

Winker lines out to LF, Votto draws a BB, Geno lines a single to LF, runners at 1st and 2nd. Moose bounces a single up the middle, Votto scores Geno to 3rd. Barnhart k's, Blandino grounds out.

Boo! Stanford Cardinals baseball.

[Ron Madden]

Nice play by Moose!



Charlie Goldsmith @CharlieG__

Mike Moustakas just turned in the Reds best defensive play of the spring, covering about 15 feet, making a sliding grab of the ground ball and making the throw to first for the out.

[Ron Madden]

Reds 3
KC 2
After 4 innings

[Ron Madden]

Nice play Blandino on a 3-6 DP

[757690]

Pics from tonight’s game:

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[Ron Madden]

Reds 3
KC 2
at the end of 5 innings

[Kc61]

Blandino has had two plays at SS so far, and handled them both fine. Only on the radio, so I have no idea how difficult they were

Never understood why Blandino was at Prasco or on taxi squad all last season.

Not that he’s a world beater, but always seemed good enough for utility.

Maybe he’ll get a shot this season.

[Ron Madden]

Charlie Goldsmith @CharlieG__
Jesse Winker: “This team is fun. We’re going to be fun to watch."

Winker on facing lefties: “I want those at bats… That’s my job as a hitter."

[Ron Madden]

Charlie Goldsmith
@CharlieG__
Blandino plays a nice first base.

He just fielded a tough grounder on the first base line, touched first and made the throw to second for the tag-out double play.

[757690]

It must be humid at Goodyear tonight, as it is about to get sticky.

Brandon Finnigan in to pitch.

[goreds2]

Have not kept up with every inning this spring but looks like the Reds are scoring more runs via small ball? (RBI singles etc.)

[M2]

It must be humid at Goodyear tonight, as it is about to get sticky.

Brandon Finnigan in to pitch.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKJ60B_Twoo

[757690]

Crazy inning for Finnigan:

K’s the first batter
Easy 5-3 for the second batter
Error on 1B Crook
Bloop single that doesn’t even leave the infield
Bunt single that Finnigan throws away
K’s the last batter

1 IP
2 H
0 BB
2 K
1 R (unearned)

[Ron Madden]

Finnegan was cruising with 2 outs and Narcisco Crook dropped an easy pop up at 1B should a been third out.

Reds 3
KC 3

[Ron Madden]

Crazy inning for Finnigan:

K’s the first batter
Easy 5-3 for the second batter
Error on 1B Crook
Bloop single that doesn’t even leave the infield
Bunt single that Finnigan throws away
K’s the last batter

1 IP
2 H
0 BB
2 K
1 R (unearned)

KC only scored 1 run that inning

[Ron Madden]

C. Trent Rosecrans
@ctrent
Brandon Finnegan's last pitch of the inning was 95

[Ron Madden]

Bobby Witt Jr circles the bases on an E7

[Ron Madden]

Reds down 5-3 with 3 errors the last 2 errors cost 3 runs

[Ron Madden]

KC 5
Reds 3
Final Score

[JaxRed]

Bobby Witt Jr circles the bases on an E7

Saw the replay on that. Hard to tell what exactly happened on the Robinson boot out in LF, but they had the runner at home except that AlfRod had a terrible throw over the catcher's head, which my have been caused by the crappy way he got in position for the relay.

[JaxRed]

Dauri Moreta faced 3 batters and got 3 swinging strikeouts. In his last year pitching 2019 Moreta was at Daytona and had 2.35 ERA. 57 Innings, 46 hits, 64 K's.

Ashcraft never got in.

[Ron Madden]

Charlie Goldsmith @CharlieG__
Bell on Alex Blandino: “We already know he’s a good player… He continues to do what he’s asked and doing everything he can to get playing time."

David Bell on Brandon Finnegan: “As far as the way he pitched, he stayed with it and kept competing and didn’t change a thing."

[Ron Madden]

Charlie Goldsmith @CharlieG__

It was another really impressive night for minor league pitchers, especially Gutierrez, Finnegan, Santillan and Moreta.

Eight strikeouts and no earned runs from that group of pitchers.

Brandon Finnegan’s velocity was up to 95, but what stood out to me was that he made batters lose balance on four swing-and-misses.

[Umkubas]

Blandino has had two plays at SS so far, and handled them.

Go Stanford Cardinal Baseball

[Umkubas]

Blandino drives Barnhart home with a single

Go Stanford Cardinal Baseball

[Umkubas]

Never understood why Blandino was at Prasco or on taxi squad all last season.

Not that he’s a world beater, but always seemed good enough for utility.

Maybe he’ll get a shot this season.

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