3-10-21 Reds vs Royals 3:05PM

[Ron Madden]

Today's game will be televised on Fox Sports Ohio

Reds
1. Nick Senzel (R) CF
2. Jesse Winker (L) LF
3. Tucker Barnhart (L) DH
4. Kyle Farmer (R) SS
5. Tyler Naquin (L) RF
6. Tyler Stephenson (R) C
7. Jonathan India (R) 2B
8. Max Schrock (L) 3B
9. Scott Heineman (R) 1B
P Michael Lorenzen (R)

Royals
1. Jarrod Dyson (L) RF
2. Andrew Benintendi (L) LF
3. Adalberto Mondesi (S) SS
4. Jorge Soler (R) DH
5. Michael A. Taylor (R) CF
6. Ryan O'Hearn (L) 1B
7. Hanser Alberto (R) 3B
8. Sebastian Rivero (R) C
9. Nicky Lopez (L) 2B
P Brad Keller (R)

[757690]

2nd day in a row Votto is out of the lineup. I wonder if he’s injured?

[Bourgeois Zee]

2nd day in a row Votto is out of the lineup. I wonder if he’s injured?

Put on the DL with no injury designation.

Almost assuredly Covid.

[757690]

Put on the DL with no injury designation.

Almost assuredly Covid.

Yep. Via Nightengale Twitter:


Joey Votto was placed on the IL without an injury designation last season. He missed 1 day after reporting COVID-19 symptoms.

[NebraskaRed]

Double for Winker but nothing else happening in the top of the first.

[757690]

Top of the first:

Senzel - 8
Winker - 2B
Tucker - 8
Farmer - 8

[JaxRed]

Winks double was an oppo bloop. A BABIP special. Not much patience shown by guys in 1st.

[757690]

Nice bounce back for Lorenzen

K
K
9 (line out)

[JaxRed]

Hoping Lorenzen is more serious this time out. He K's the first hitter swinging on off speed pitch. Does the same to Benintendi. Third guy lines to Naquin. Almost caught up.

[JaxRed]

Naquin goes down swinging. Stephenson K's looking. Pitch was on the edge. India lines a single to RF. Schrock lines am opposite field single. Schrock coming out of game with some kind of injury. Heineman down swinging.

[757690]

2nd Inning

Naquin K
TySteve K
India 1B
Shrock 1B, India to 2B (Schrock departs due to injury, Blandino PR update coming)
Heineman K

[RedTeamGo!]

Lorenzen: welcome to the bullpen

His fastball at 94 is verrrrrrry hittable

[JaxRed]

I almost wonder if Schrock felt nauseous. He didn't seem to complain about anything in particular.

Soler just hit a BLAST against Lorenzen. It was prodigious.

He gives up ground ball single thru the shift. Farmer dove and came up empty. Farmer normally gets that.

Next guy lines single to LF. 2 on one out.

[BUTLER REDSFAN]

mephisto gives up a moon shot to soler

[757690]

Royals 2nd inning:

Solar crushes a HR to LF
M. Taylor 9
O’Hearn 1B
Alberto 1B (hard hit to Farmer at SS who should have had it, imo)

[Mitri]

Royals getting a lot of barrels on Lorenzen

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Royals 2nd inning:

Solar crushes a HR to LF
M. Taylor 9
O’Hearn 1B
Alberto 1B (hard hit to Farmer at SS who should have had it, imo)

Garcia woulda had that last hit.

[JaxRed]

A double for the next guy. Winker played that very poorly. Probably should have been caught.

[757690]

Lorenzen is getting hit hard, but his defense isn’t helping any.

[Mitri]

Farmer is not a SS. Winker is not a LF.

[JaxRed]

Last guy K's on off speed pitch. Still throwing a lot of off speed. I hope he goes another inning.

[757690]

Lorenzen settles down

Lopez 1-3
Dyson K

Royals up 3-0 after 2

[RedTeamGo!]

Lorenzen is getting hit hard, but his defense isn’t helping any.

All I care about is how hard his fastball is getting hit. Dude’s not a viable starter throwing 94 mph, sorry folks.

[Tom Servo]

Lorenzen, bullpen or whatever.

[Mitri]

Lorenzen, bullpen or whatever.

Lorenzen should be in the late inning 'pen crew. Last rotation spot can be a battle between Miley, De Leon, Hoffman, maybe Cionel.

[Mitri]

Tucker wearing 15 lb. ankle weights?

[JaxRed]

Barnhart walks and Farmer hits double to the wall to score him. Naquin grounds out to end inning.

[757690]

Reds 3rd inning

Senzel 5-3
Winker 6 (PO) It actually was at 2B, but the Royals had the shift on)
Tucker BB
Farmer 2B RBI
Naquin 4-3

Royals 3-1

[Mitri]

That was a good-looking cut by Farmer.

[NebraskaRed]

MLB TV keeps airing that footage of Thom doing that weird lip thing while yelling ARISTEDES AQUINO and I cannot stress how glad I am that he's gone.

[757690]

Royals 3rd inning

Beinintendi - 7

Lorenzen taken out for Edgar Garcia

[Mitri]

MLB TV keeps airing that footage of Thom doing that weird lip thing while yelling ARISTEDES AQUINO and I cannot stress how glad I am that he's gone.

Liking Sadak so far. Great pipes, seems to be pretty knowledgable.

[757690]

Rest of Royals 3rd Inning

Mondesi - 4-3
Soler - BB (taken out of the game for a PR)
M Taylor K

[Mitri]

Nice inning by Garcia. Another sleeper for bullpen innings.

[757690]

If anyone is interested, here is the box score for the B game today:

Aquino HR, Greene and Richardson got hit

17036

[Mitri]

Once Ty Steve gets his MLB pitch recognition down he is going to be a dangerous hitter.

[JaxRed]

Stevenson hits opposite field single. India just misses one and flies to CF. Blandino walks. Pitching change.

[membengal]

Lorenzen, bullpen or whatever.

Hope someone asks him if these innings counted or not.

[757690]

Reds 4th inning

TySteve 1B
India 8
Blandino BB

Keller taken out for Jake Newberry

[JaxRed]

Announcers discussing the splitting time arrangement with Barnhart/Stevenson. They talk righty/lefty and defense. But don't acknowledge the elephant in the room. Hitting.

Right now Stevenson .300 Barnhart .182

[757690]

Rest of Reds 4th inning

Heineman - 8 (TySteve to 3B)
Senzel 6-3

Royals 3-1

[JaxRed]

Doolittle gives up smash homer to CF to first batter. Nice tackle by the rope on a middle age guy retrieving the ball.

Then he walks the next guy.

And then another homer. A line drive to LF.

[NebraskaRed]

Man, Doolittle...

[ochoa30]

This is sad on all accounts

[JaxRed]

Can anyone say what was on Doolittle's belt in the back? You could see it when he walked back to mound after ground out. It was a little square.

[JaxRed]

Another walk by Doolittle.

Another walk by Doolittle.

A solid single up the middle and the Reds roll the inning.

[ochoa30]

Spring or not this teams overall performance has been rough. Losing hope they’ll even be competitive this year.

[JaxRed]

Accounting trick. When they rolled the inning, they credited him for a complete inning which improved his ERA to 31.00.

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Winker flies to warning track.

[JaxRed]

I'm not too concerned about Lorenzen. Winker should have caught that ball so his outing should have been 3 1/3 innings and 1 run.

Doolittle has a different feel to me. Has a 'I'm done, stick a fork in me" vibe. Hope I'm wrong. On the other hand Reds have a ton of depth for bullpen.

[JaxRed]

Reds go quietly 1-2-3. Winker, Barhart. Farmer.

[Kc61]

Spring or not this teams overall performance has been rough. Losing hope they’ll even be competitive this year.

I don’t love the losses, but still would preach patience on the individuals. Not saying they’ll all come through, but some just take awhile to be ready. Or, as with Doolittle, coming back from injury and rust may take awhile.

These are exhibitions with heavy use of players slated for the minors. I’d give it a couple of weeks.

[KeefeCato]

I'm not too concerned about Lorenzen. Winker should have caught that ball so his outing should have been 3 1/3 innings and 1 run.

Doolittle has a different feel to me. Has a 'I'm done, stick a fork in me" vibe. Hope I'm wrong. On the other hand Reds have a ton of depth for bullpen.

Yes Doolittle looks all but done to me as well. Probably be placed on IL soon. Doubt he throws many if any innings this season.

[JaxRed]

Cionel Perez in and K's first hitter. And K's 2nd hitter. Anf then K's third hitter. Last one might have been a generous call.

[JaxRed]

Sadak advises speeding and then challenging the radar reading in court.

[ochoa30]

I don’t love the losses, but still would preach patience on the individuals. Not saying they’ll all come through, but some just take awhile to be ready. Or, as with Doolittle, coming back from injury and rust may take awhile.

These are exhibitions with heavy use of players slated for the minors. Give it a couple of weeks.

To me it’s just the complete lack of team hitting and scoring runs. Even the pirates have put up some big games. Reds struggling to score more then 3 runs a game in Arizona is alarming considering what we saw last year.

[Coopdaddy67]

Spring or not this teams overall performance has been rough. Losing hope they’ll even be competitive this year.

The DH being entirely off the table now absolutely kills this team too.

[WrongVerb]

Sadak advises speeding and then challenging the radar reading in court.

I'm liking this guy.

[NebraskaRed]

And then some not-so-suitable criticism of Lorenzen

[JaxRed]

Naquin grounds out sharply.

Interview with Jim Day; How can anyone not like Geno?

Stevenson must have been fooled because he watches perfect pitch for strike 3.

India hits hard line drive but SS leaps up and grabs it.

[Kingspoint]

If anyone is interested, here is the box score for the B game today:

Aquino HR, Greene and Richardson got hit

17036

0 Walks and 10 K's in five inning by the Offense. Absolutely disgusting.

[Kc61]

To me it’s just the complete lack of team hitting and scoring runs. Even the pirates have put up some big games. Reds struggling to score more then 3 runs a game in Arizona is alarming considering what we saw last year.

Today’s 3-4-5 hitters are Barnhart, Farmer, and Naquin.

Not exactly murderer’s row.

It’s natural for all of us to form conclusions, but these games are warmups, and tryouts for the fringe or young guys.

Hopefully in a week or so Reds will start to play semi-regular lineups and we’ll get a truer picture, good or bad.

My enjoyment of these games is watching the young players, whom I don’t see much.

[Kingspoint]

Once Ty Steve gets his MLB pitch recognition down he is going to be a dangerous hitter.

Once he sees the National League pitchers in real plate appearances two times through, he's going to be a dangerous hitter surpassing the .850 OPS mark, in other words, during his second 500 Plate Appearances in the majors.


Seeing major league pitching and recognizing doesn't help much until you've seen it from each individual pitcher as all of them are different and unique. I think he can already hit Major League pitching if it was coming from a machine. But, coming from a different pitcher each time out, it's never the same pitch.

[Kingspoint]

Man, Doolittle...

Living up to his name.

[JaxRed]

Per Nightengale

It was a right calf injury for Max Schrock. #Reds

[Kingspoint]

Per Nightengale

It was a right calf injury for Max Schrock. #Reds

Darn. That can keep him our for the rest of Spring Training.

[JaxRed]

"Kings" De Leon having trouble throwing strikes. Walks two guys. And some of this strikes are guys chasing balls. But he strikes out 3 in the inning.

[JaxRed]

Blandino K's on change up. Heineman grounds sharply to SS and Garcia K's looking and continues 0 for 2021

[757690]

I’ve seen too many veteran pitchers struggle at the beginning of spring training who are fine by the end to worry to much about Doolittle.

He added a new pitch this off season, a curveball, so that may be the issue. He may have to abandon it.

[JaxRed]

De Leon K's two (including Soler) but walks a guy and gives up grounder to second, but because of shift no one was there.

He K's the last guy swinging on a ball out of the zone.

ERA down to 3.86. I still hope he gets an option so he can learn to pound the zone. But if not he's still in line for job.

[JaxRed]

Aquino hitting for Winker. He homered in a B game earlier today. In "real" games he hasn't hit the ball with authority and has .182 average.

He lines opposite field ball and (barely) stretches it to double. Maybe his best stroke of the season.

And then he TOOTBLAN's on grounder by Robinson.

They gave Robby a hit. Thought it would be a FC.

Smith K's (he's shown me nothing)

Gruillon homers. That's his 2nd

Friedl pops out to end the inning. He's done nothing to impress people this spring.

[JaxRed]

De Leon working his third inning. 46 pitches now. K's his 7th hitter on 3-2 pitch

And then K's his 8th on 2-2 pitch.

And then gives up bit homer.

Titanic struggle for ball on the berm and I think the Reds fan wrestled it from the Royals fan.

And then another homer.

Wind is really blowing out

[marcshoe]

I almost wonder if Schrock felt nauseous. He didn't seem to complain about anything in particular.

Soler just hit a BLAST against Lorenzen. It was prodigious.

He gives up ground ball single thru the shift. Farmer dove and came up empty. Farmer normally gets that.

Next guy lines single to LF. 2 on one out.

He had garlic for lunch, then tried to play in a day game,

[Ron Madden]

Charlie Goldsmith
@CharlieG__
Eight strikeouts for José De León in three innings.

He got strikeouts on fastballs, breaking balls and off-speed pitches. He got strikeouts swinging and strikeouts looking.

He allowed two straight homers at the end with two outs, but he had a great start to the outing.

[mth123]

Lorenzen is getting hit hard, but his defense isn’t helping any.

It's teh way this team is built. We'll see a lot of that this year.

[DocRed]

Another walk by Doolittle.

Another walk by Doolittle.

A solid single up the middle and the Reds roll the inning.
He's awful

[MoneyInTheBank]

Doolittle has never really been good in Spring Training but WOOF, it's bad this year

[cumberlandreds]

Per Nightengale

It was a right calf injury for Max Schrock. #Reds

Everytime I see this name,Max Schrock I think of Max Schrek, the original movie Dracula. Has Schrock actually appeared in any day games? :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schreck

[mth123]

Everytime I see this name,Max Schrock I think of Max Schrek, the original movie Dracula. Has Schrock actually appeared in any day games? :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schreck

So if we say "he sucks" that could mean something completely different than we might think.