8/13 Gamethread vs Beer Makers

[SirFelixCat]

Cincinnati Reds

Felipe Lopez SS
Ryan Freel 2B
Ken Griffey Jr. CF
Adam Dunn LF
Sean Casey 1B
Austin Kearns RF
Javier Valentin C
Rich Aurilia 3B
Ramon Ortiz P


Milwaukee Brewers

Rickie Weeks 2B
J.J. Hardy SS
Lyle Overbay 1B
Carlos Lee LF
Geoff Jenkins RF
Bill Hall 3B
Damian Miller C
Chris Magruder CF
Tomo Ohka P

How great is it to see Narron get it right and have Rich in the 8 slot??? :thumbup:

[SirFelixCat]

I mean, really, you can't argue with that lineup. You just can't...well, save for the starting pitcher :p:

[captainmorgan07]

i like the lineup freel's quad must be feeling good i've had quad injurie's before and sometimes take alil longer to heel than u think

[Caveat Emperor]

I mean, really, you can't argue with that lineup. You just can't...well, save for the starting pitcher :p:

Except for Rich "If I Whine Enough Maybe I'll Play More" Aurillia being anywhere.

Play the kid every day. And, if not him, play Ray Olmedo (who might actually be with this ballclub next year, as opposed to Rich).

[PickOff]

Can we just rejoice again at the removal of Casey from the 3 hole?

:clap: :jump: :rockband: :beerme: :thumbup:

[flyer85]

RA batting right where he should

[SirFelixCat]

Not that I am owner of this gamethread or anything of the like, but I do have 1 VERY BIG request: Can we keep the indepth discussion of players and anything else non-game related out of here?

After my DVR dying last night, I had to come in here to "watch" the game. The first few innings were great and then, BOOM, no more game thread. It was entirely about the merits of Austin Kearns. Hey, I'm all for the discussion. But we have 2 boards that work for that. The gamethreads are for following and cheering on/bemoaning the game. Can we please keep this in mind?

[TeamCasey]

Huge thunderstorm brewing ....... do I roll the dice and stay online?

Mother nature ..... such a darned inconvenience.

[KronoRed]

SC, 100 dollar rebate for new directvTivos right now..makes em free :D

and EE should be playing

That is all :D

[TeamCasey]

Not that I am owner of this gamethread or anything of the like, but I do have 1 VERY BIG request: Can we keep the indepth discussion of players and anything else non-game related out of here?

Whoops! Guess I shouldn't have mentioned the impending doom of a T-storm. ;)

Just kidding. I hear what your saying. I always appreciate the play-by-play when I can't see the game. :)

[SirFelixCat]

SC, 100 dollar rebate for new directvTivos right now..makes em free :D

and EE should be playing

That is all :D

Sadly, I had to get rid of Direct TV until we get our house :cry: Cox in the mean time...it's fixed now though.

I can not wait for tonight's game...moreso than normal. Not sure why, but I am. Feeling very good about the game tonight. Oh, and my Cowboys are on TV after the game ends as well. Happy guy :D

[SirFelixCat]

Whoops! Guess I shouldn't have mentioned the impending doom of a T-storm. ;)

Just kidding. I hear what your saying. I always appreciate the play-by-play when I can't see the game. :)

har har :p:

I'm not trying to gripe, but when I miss the game, I know I LOVE coming home and "watching" it thru the gamethread. If you look at last night's game, it goes from up a run in the 6th, I think, to "great job Weathers getting those K's with the basesloaded!" :confused: :confused: :confused:

Just trying to be considerate for all concerned is all. Am I alone here wanting to be able to follow the game in the game thread?

[traderumor]

SC, 100 dollar rebate for new directvTivos right now..makes em free :D

and EE should be playing

That is all :DRich is 0 for 3 against Ohka. He owns him, makes perfect sense to sit EE :rolleyes:

[traderumor]

Did I mention he struck out all three times against Ohka?

[traderumor]

Trying to catch up with Krono here.

That was just this year. Rich is 2 for 15 lifetime against Ohka. Jerry is clearly playing a hunch.

[OnBaseMachine]

What was the point of calling EE up if he is only going to play 4 or 5 games a week?

You don't see Bobby Cox benching Jeff Francoeur and Kelly Johnson twice a week. Rickie Weeks doesn't sit twice a week.

The Reds don't know how to handle young players. We have to bench our young guys so that crybaby can get his way.

[KronoRed]

Saturday night special lineup? ;)

[SirFelixCat]

Trying to catch up with Krono here.

That was just this year. Rich is 2 for 15 lifetime against Ohka. Jerry is clearly playing a hunch.

Hey, I agree that I want EdE in there, BUT if Rich is gonna play, at least he has him batting 8th. Maybe there is something more than what we know? Did EdE tweak something (I wouldn't know, nothing mentioned in the gamethread :p: ). Just sayin' ;)

[KronoRed]

Then put Freel at 3rd and Ray at 2nd.

Really..I don't want RA playing anymore, play the kids.

[TeamCasey]

har har :p:

I'm not trying to gripe, but when I miss the game, I know I LOVE coming home and "watching" it thru the gamethread. If you look at last night's game, it goes from up a run in the 6th, I think, to "great job Weathers getting those K's with the basesloaded!" :confused: :confused: :confused:

Just trying to be considerate for all concerned is all. Am I alone here wanting to be able to follow the game in the game thread?

Nope. I always wish folks would drop in an inning and score occasionally, so I know where in the game the action is occuring.

[Joseph]

I mean, really, you can't argue with that lineup. You just can't...well, save for the starting pitcher :p:

It's been much worse no question, but here's what we should see 9/10 games the rest of the season: [or at least 4/5]

Ryan Freel 2B
Felipe Lopez SS
Ken Griffey Jr. CF
Adam Dunn LF
Austin Kearns RF
Sean Casey 1B
Jason LaRue C
Edwin Encarnacion 3B
Starter P

[Unassisted]

Not that I am owner of this gamethread or anything of the like, but I do have 1 VERY BIG request: Can we keep the indepth discussion of players and anything else non-game related out of here?
I was in chat last night. There was plenty of score and inning traffic there. I didn't see any of the chatters in the game thread when I checked it later. Personally, chat hogs so many resources on my system it works better when I don't look at the board in a separate window.

[Gainesville Red]

Looks like Lopez used his days off to get some new cleats. They're pretty sweet looking.

[OnBaseMachine]

Felipe grounded out. He hasn't homered since July 22.

[OnBaseMachine]

Freel lined out.

Griffey grounded out.

9 pitch inning for Ohka.

[Gainesville Red]

Thought that one was gone off the bat. Whew.

[Tornon]

Weeks barely misses one & flies to left.. Hardy Ks none on, 2 out

[Tornon]

Overbay grounds out.. 1-2-3 for RAMON!!

[OnBaseMachine]

Weeks works a full count before flying out to Dunn, 1 away.
Hardy strikesout swinging on a 2-2 delivery, 2 down.
Overbay ahead 3-1, grounds out to Freel.

Scoreless after one.

[Tornon]

Dunn gets sawed off & gets it through for a single to right

[OnBaseMachine]

Dunn singles on a 2-1 pitch, extends his hitting streak to five games. He has two homeruns vs Ohka in 10 atbats, FYI.

Casey struckout looking.

[Tornon]

Casey Ks looking

[Tornon]

Austin Ks on three pitches

[Aronchis]

WilyMo Kearns.

[OnBaseMachine]

Kearns k's.

Kearns bashing begins in 3...2...1... ;)

[Tornon]

Dunn moves to 2nd on wild pitch, 2-2 to valentin

[Cedric]

Kearns k's.

Kearns bashing begins in 3...2...1... ;)

Yeah he is so hated around here.

[Tornon]

Javy Ks, 0-0 middle of the 2nd

[Tornon]

Lee grounds out to FeLo on the first pitch

[Tornon]

Ortiz just hit 93 & 94 on back to back pitches to jenkins.. seems to have a little extra tonight

[Tornon]

But jenkins walks on 4 pitches

[Tornon]

And what is the first thing Ortiz tries to do? He throws over to first..

[Tornon]

Hall flies to right.. 2 out

[KronoRed]

Yeah he is so hated around here.

Reds fans have to hate someone..some sort of rule I think ;)

[Tornon]

Miller dribbles one to third and RA makes a great barehanded play. 0-0 after 2

[Gallen5862]

storms in area just got on. What is the score and inning?

[OnBaseMachine]

storms in area just got on. What is the score and inning?

Scoreless after 2.

[Tornon]

No score after 2

[Tornon]

Leadoff single to left for RA

[Tornon]

Ortiz pops up his bunt to Overbay

[Tornon]

FeLo lines a single to left, 1st & 2nd 1 out

[Tornon]

Freel bloops a single to right, but RA thrown out at the plate. The other runners move up

[flyer85]

man RA is slow

[Gainesville Red]

I'm gonna add Aurilia to the Casey/Valentin Race that I've been waiting for all year.

[Aronchis]

3rd base coach is dumber than rocks. Aurilia has alot of speed eh?

[GAC]

Aurilia just can't get a break at Miller Park! :lol:

Chats open!

[OnBaseMachine]

With Griffey and Dunn looming on deck, why even send him?

[Tornon]

Griffey grounds out to weeks.. 0-0 middle of 3

[flyer85]

why even try to score him with Dunn and Jr coming up. That is just stupid.

[SteelSD]

Rich Aurilia is so slow that he froze cbs.sportsline gamecenter.

[RBA]

Watching the play at the plate, NO WAY DID THE CATCHER TAG RICH AURILIA.

[Tornon]

Magruder grounds out to casey, 1 out

[Tornon]

Ohka bounces back to ortiz, 2 out

[GAC]

OK! Why'd everyone leave chat? I bathed today! :p:

[Tornon]

Weeks Ks, 0-0 after 3

[Gainesville Red]

OK! Why'd everyone leave chat? I bathed today! :p:

Couch was calling my name. Hell of a night last night, looking at the computer screen's kind of making me dizzy.

[GAC]

1-2-3 inning for Ramon

Dunn to lead off

[OnBaseMachine]

Clemens has a perfect game though four.

[TeamCasey]

OK! Why'd everyone leave chat? I bathed today! :p:

I wandered in. Everyone was snoozin'.

[GAC]

Couch was calling my name. Hell of a night last night, looking at the computer screen's kind of making me dizzy.

Understandable. I just got back with the family from finishing up kid's school clothes shopping... IT SUCKED! :lol:

Rented the last two episodes of Deadwood to watch - so not sure how long I may last.

[GAC]

I wandered in. Everyone was snoozin'.

I was out in the garage getting a frosted mug outa the frig! :beerme:

[Tornon]

Adam bloops one to shallow left center but Hardy gets it, 1 out

[Tornon]

Casey drives one to left, Lee almost makes a sliding catch but Casey ends up with a double

[TeamCasey]

That's O.K., I think I'm going to multitask the ballgame with "Any Given Sunday".

[GAC]

Case dbls (should have been an error on Lee IMO). ;)

[Tornon]

Kearns flies to center on the first pitch

[Tornon]

Valentin grounds to 2nd, 0-0 middle of 4

[Tornon]

Hardy flies to pretty deep center, but Griffey's got it.. 1 out

[Tornon]

Overbay bounces back to Ramon on the first pitch.. 2 out

[Tornon]

Lee pops to Freel in shallow RF, 0-0 after 4

[Tornon]

Aurilia leads off the 5th with a single, Hopefully Ramon can get this one down

[SirFelixCat]

Tornon, even though I am actually able to watch this game, I appreciate the pbp. Good stuff. Thanks.


AND ORTIZ, GET THE DAMN BUNT DOWN, FOR THE LOVE OF GAWD!!!

[Tornon]

Again, Ortiz pops up the bunt to Overbay

[oneupper]

Why bunt? Aurilia can't score from 2nd on a single anyway.

[Gainesville Red]

C'mon, Haven't we already seen that?

[captainmorgan07]

rich singles to start the inning

[SteelSD]

Ok. Ramon Ortiz is easily the worst bunter I've ever seen. It's not even close.

[Tornon]

Lopez grounds into a 6-4-3 Casey

[captainmorgan07]

ortiz pops up his bunt 1 out

[Tornon]

Tornon, even though I am actually able to watch this game, I appreciate the pbp. Good stuff. Thanks.


No problem :cool:

[Tornon]

Apparently Ortiz has decided to focus on executing one aspect of his game wrong every start. Last time it was the pickoff throws, this time it is poping up the bunts to 1B

[jesusfan]

There Goes the NO NO!

[Tornon]

Jenkins lines a hit to RF, and thus ends Ramon's bid for a no-no

[SirFelixCat]

no-no is broken up in the 5th with a single to RF by Jenkins

[OnBaseMachine]

There goes the no-hitter.

[Tornon]

Hall drills one over Kearns' head for a 2B, 2nd & 3rd nobody out

[Falls City Beer]

Ramon's just happy to have ever strung 4 scoreless innings together in his career.

Baby steps.

[jesusfan]

did that look catchable to anyone else but me??

[jesusfan]

Good job.. cmon 2 more

[captainmorgan07]

why didn't jenkins score on that play it was deep enough

[Tornon]

Miller bounces right back to Ortiz.. runners hold & 1 out

[flyer85]

walk Magruder

[Tornon]

magruder bounces to first, everyone moves up. 1-0 Brewers

[Tornon]

Ohka Ks swinging, 1-0 Brewers after 5

[KronoRed]

We could use some runs team

[Tornon]

Freel grounds out to Weeks, 1 out

[Tornon]

Griffey flies out to left, 2 out

[Falls City Beer]

Bowden was so smart to trade Ohka for Spivey.

[jesusfan]

broken bat liner to left for dunn...

[Tornon]

Dunn gets sawed off again, but gets it into left center for a base hit

[Tornon]

Casey bounces to 1B, 1-0 Brewers in the middle of 6

[KronoRed]

Dunn gets sawed off again, but gets it into left center for a base hit

Casey like

[Tornon]

Weeks walks

[Tornon]

Ortiz's pickoff throws seem to be on target so far

[Tornon]

Weeks caught stealing on the pitchout on the hit & run

[Tornon]

Hardy pops out to RA on the next pitch

[Tornon]

Overbay lines out to Dunn, 1-0 Brewers after 6

[CTA513]

Weeks caught stealing on the pitchout on the hit & run

1st time he was caught stealing this year.

:thumbup:

[Tornon]

T-Storms in the area, so I could be knocked off at anytime. Just a heads up

[Tornon]

AK just misses one and flies out to deep left center

[Tornon]

Javy lines one into left center for a basehit

[OnBaseMachine]

What the heck are you doing Rich?

[Tornon]

He was trying to use his lightning quick speed & get a bunt basehit

[Tornon]

RA walks after working the count.. Cruz in to pinch hit for Ortiz. 1st & 2nd, 1 out

[RBA]

Ph! Jacob Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz z

[RBA]

Misplayed!

[Tornon]

Cruz lines one to CF that magruder played into a single, bases loaded for FeLo & the Brewers go to the pen

[RBA]

L O A D E D

[Tornon]

Lopez hits a sac fly to CF, 1-1 game

[Tornon]

Freel lines ones down the RF line, 2 runs score!!! 3-1 REDS

[RBA]

BASE HIT!!!!! 3-1 REDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SCORED A TRIPLE!!!

[Playadlc]

My goodness, this team is on a roll right now.

What a huge hit by Freel!

[Tornon]

Griffey Ks, 3-1 Reds middle of 7

[TOBTTReds]

I really hope we can hold on, Ortiz deserves this one for sure.

[Falls City Beer]

BASE HIT!!!!! 3-1 REDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SCORED A TRIPLE!!!

AWESOME

[FlyingPig]

are we havin fun yet?

:jump:

[Tornon]

Belisle in to pitch for Cincinnati

[lucky bugle boy]

Can't watch or listen to the game tonight...is Ortiz' pitch count up, or is there another reason they PH for him?

[KoryMac5]

Nice job to ortiz tonight pitching. 2 starts in a row for Ramon.

[Tornon]

Lee grounds to Freel, 1 out

[Tornon]

Ortiz was only at 80 pitches, they were just trying to tie up the game (which was successful)

[Tornon]

Jenkins Ks looking on an awesome curveball

[Tornon]

Hall pops up to Casey. 1-2-3 7th inning, 3-1 Reds after 7

[Reds1]

Man, what is up with our pitching. We are smokin! I love it. Cubs losing too so we are getting closer to 3rd place. SWEET!

[CTA513]

Belsile had some good stuff that inning.

:)

[flyer85]

Jenkins Ks looking on an awesome curveballit was a hanger that caught the top end of the strike zone on the outside corner

[Gainesville Red]

Another good inning. I can't believe how much I hated watching this team everynight a couple of months ago.

[Tornon]

Dunn shatters another bat & grounds out to short(who was playing up the middle)

[Tornon]

Casey lines a single to left

[WVRedsFan]

Why bunt? Aurilia can't score from 2nd on a single anyway.

It's some sort of rule that old timers play by...honest.

[Tornon]

Kearns lines a single the other way. 1st & 2nd, 1 out

[lucky bugle boy]

Ortiz was only at 80 pitches, they were just trying to tie up the game (which was successful)

Thanks; I figured that must be it.

[Tornon]

EdE coming up to pinch hit for Valentin

[Tornon]

Launched down the LF line! Casey scores, runners at 2nd & 3rd with 1 out. 4-1 Reds

[Gainesville Red]

Good times, Good times.

[Tornon]

RA being intentionally walked

[NJReds]

Every move Narron makes these days seems to work.

[Tornon]

LaRue to pinch hit for Belisle

[Tornon]

Brewers go to the bullpen.. Rick Helling coming in

[Falls City Beer]

This offense kicks arse.

[KoryMac5]

Narron has set roles for his players and knows how to use them.

[OnBaseMachine]

I'm calling it here. LaRue will hit a Grand Slam.

Or not.

[WVRedsFan]

They showed a graphic on the Milwaukee feed on Extra Innings that shows that since Vern Ruhle took over as pitching coach, the Reds ERA has dropped by 0.6. That's pretty significant.

BA is up as is runs. Good job for the Jerry and Vern show.

This is much fun!!

[Tornon]

6-4-3 Double play.. 4-1 Reds middle of 8

[NJReds]

Clemens w/another great outing tonight...8 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 8 K. (Season ERA is 1.32 :eek: )

Lidge comes in the 9th and gives up a HR to Jack Wilson...currently 1-0 Pirates.

[Tornon]

Standridge in to pitch for Cincinnati

[Tornon]

Miller grounds out to FeLo, 1 out

[Tornon]

Magruder Ks on a breaking ball in the dirt, 2 out

[Walkerforpres]

Man. Standridge has been super impressive this year, for as much fun as I poked at him earlier in the year. Just lights out, and where is it coming from????
Is this the same guy that had a 5+ ERA in AAA this year?

[Tornon]

Helms, in on the double switch in the top of the inning, pops out to Griffey. 4-1 Reds after 8

[KoryMac5]

His ERA is like 0.56 who would have thought that when we picked him up. Good pick up!

[CTA513]

Man. Standridge has been super impressive this year, for as much fun as I poked at him earlier in the year. Just lights out, and where is it coming from????
Is this the same guy that had a 5+ ERA in AAA this year?

He was a starting pitcher before coming to the Reds. One of the scouts said he would be better out of the pen, they gave it a shot and its been working out.

They just said before he has the Reds longest scoreless streak this year.

:beerme:

[Tornon]

FeLo flies to left, 1 out

[Tornon]

Freel flies to center, 2 out

[Tornon]

Griffey chops one in front of the mound, pitcher throws him out. 4-1 Reds middle of 9, weathers coming in

[Big Klu]

Man. Standridge has been super impressive this year, for as much fun as I poked at him earlier in the year. Just lights out, and where is it coming from????
Is this the same guy that had a 5+ ERA in AAA this year?

He sucks, or at least that's what the experts keep telling me. Personally, I like any pitcher who doesn't give up runs. :)

[Tornon]

Weeks bounces out to RA on the first pitch, 1 out

[Tornon]

With tonights appearance, Weathers is now officially a Red next year.
Hardy grounds out to RA, 2 out

[Big Klu]

Officer Tackleberry isn't messing around!

[OnBaseMachine]

Ten consecutive road wins for the Reds.

[Tornon]

Overbay Ks swinging, and this one belongs to the reds!!

[Walkerforpres]

He sucks, or at least that's what the experts keep telling me. Personally, I like any pitcher who doesn't give up runs. :)

0-5, 6.38 ERA, 1.71 WHIP in 67 innings in his MLB career.

3.85 ERA, 1.38 WHIP in 912 IP in his Minor League career.

And he'll be 27 this year. Just doesn't match up in my small little head.

[howyoufreelin]

David Weathers is sweet.

[RBA]

FSN NORTH Player of the Game: Ramon Ortiz

[Matt700wlw]

Who are these guys?

[captainmorgan07]

wat an outing for ortiz didn' thtink he had it in him only givin up 2 hits good job by the bullpen also 3 innings of no hit shutout ball

[SirFelixCat]

I can not wait for tonight's game...moreso than normal. Not sure why, but I am. Feeling very good about the game tonight. Oh, and my Cowboys are on TV after the game ends as well. Happy guy :D


:thumbup: :beerme: :thumbup:

[redsrule2500]

10 Straight on the Road! :)

Great win!

[NavyRedsFan]

Who are these guys?

They sure aren't Miley's or Gullet's REDS!!!

But they're OUR REDS!

10 in a row on the poad, The Big Road Machine!!

[Aronchis]

The Reds are doing better because they are beating on the average-below average teams like they were supposed to do all year. Remember that Edskin 19 game period in the spring when we went 10-9 against these types of teams? Now we are going 15-4. About time.

[KronoRed]

Who are these guys?

Kinda like the bengals, win late games then give false hope for next season ;)

[REDREAD]

nice to get another win :)

[Gallen5862]

"This one belongs to the Reds."

[TeamCasey]

Good luck tomorrow, SC!

[Johnny Vander m]

Kinda like the bengals, win late games then give false hope for next season ;)

Negative, negative and negative, why can't you be happy with a win?

[KronoRed]

I am happy with the wins, but I'm not going to declare this team is great and we're playoff bound ;)

[Johnny Vander m]

I am happy with the wins, but I'm not going to declare this team is great and we're playoff bound ;)

Didn't say that, but with the nucleus of this team with Narron, the bullpen and starting rotation coming around and winning, esp' on the road looks good for next year. We have the hitting, and Vern looks like has turned the pitching around, how many "Q" starts now in a row, seven? So why are so many so negative? Hell, sometimes I think if the Reds won 160 games someone on this board would ***** we should have won 162. Example, don't play RA, bat this person third or fifth etc. Frankly I get sick of all the negative posts. Sorry for my rant, I could go on and on but won't.

[KronoRed]

We have the hitting but this is the same pitching that tanked in the first half, no pitching coach on earth can make them into a playoff caliber rotation, IMO we are still 3 GOOD starters away from being ready for next year.

I love that we're winning, but I don't think we've turned a corner yet.

[SirFelixCat]

Good luck tomorrow, SC!

Thanks....anxious, nervous, yet excited about it :thumbup: