6/9/06 Reds vs. Cubs Game Thread

[GOREDSGO32]

Since no one has made it, I will ... It's about to start shortly. Welcome back Junior, and hopefully Womack won't burn us like he did last game. :help:

[GOREDSGO32]

CUBS

Womack
Pierre
Walker
Ramirez
Jones
Cedeno
Bynum
Blanco
Maddux

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REDS

SS - Lopez
2B - Phillips
CF - Junior
3B - Aurilia
1B - Hatteburgh
LF - Dunn
RF - Kearns
C - Valentine
P - Ramirez

[GOREDSGO32]

According to Marty, crowd still piling in. May be a good crowd there tonight.

[TeamCasey]

Sorry Go. I didn't see this one. We may have done it at the same time.

Everyone use this one. :)

[Tornon]

Bucky Dent in control the whole game as Narron is at his daughter's gradutation

[Tornon]

Womack takes a ball and we are underway

[GOREDSGO32]

Wow .. 7:15 start .. thought it was 7:05 .. lets get it on. First pitch.

[Gallen5862]

Has game started yet? Will it be on WGN?

[Tornon]

Womack pops to Lopez, 1 out

[GOREDSGO32]

Womack popup. Glad we dodged that bullet.

[billy117]

Womack robbed of a hit on a shot to Lopez.

[Tornon]

Game not on WGN :(

[boognish]

No WGN coverage.

[Tornon]

Pierre grounds to Phillips, 2 out

[GOREDSGO32]

2 Outs.

[GOREDSGO32]

1,2,3

[Tornon]

Walker pops to Phillips on the first pitch, no score middle of 1

[Gallen5862]

They should show game on WGN.:(

[jesusfan]

Quick EZ inning for EZ-E!!

[Tornon]

Lopez Ks swinging, 1 out

[Tornon]

Phillips lines one right back to Maddux, 2 out

[Tornon]

Griffey grounds one into the teeth of the shift, no score after 1

[GOREDSGO32]

End of 1st ... fast inning.

[Tornon]

Ramirez bounces to Aurilia, 1 out

[naynay]

The game's on FSN..............WGN announcers suck anyways.

[captainmorgan07]

aurilla throws out ramirez one out

[Tornon]

Jones grounds a single up the middle

[captainmorgan07]

jones with a basehit

[Tornon]

Cedeno fists one to Aurilia and Rich cannot make the play, basehit

[captainmorgan07]

aurilla with heck of an effort on a dieng slow roller

[Tornon]

Bynum pops the first pitch to Dunn, 2 out

[Tornon]

Blanco doubles two runs in off the LF wall, 2-0 Cubs. Blanco to third on the throw

[captainmorgan07]

double for blanco 2 runs score

[KYRed]

Man, 2nd time recently that we've given up a hit to beer league quality Blanco for RBI's!

It's killing me, that scrub has 3 of 5 hits on the SEASON against the Reds.

[GOREDSGO32]

A .089 batter hits a 2 run double .. WTF.

[Tornon]

Maddux Ks swinging, 2-0 Cubs middle of 2

[captainmorgan07]

maddux strikes out come on guys we need a run or two

[KoryMac5]

Marty had a nice discussion with Lancaster about the possibility of Wayne K making some moves

[Coffeybro]

Nice showing tonight Standing room only according to Grande.

[captainmorgan07]

aurilla called out on strikes

[KYRed]

Blanco has hit safely in 3 of 3 games against the Reds. He's hit safely in 2 of 14 other games this season.

Let's hope the Blanco/Maddux hex is broken because everyone's been rocking Maddux the last 5 weeks except us as well.

Let's make it 9 in a row!

[Tornon]

Aurilia Ks looking, 1 out

[jesusfan]

Maddux has alot of movement on his pitches tonight...

[Tornon]

Hatteberg grounds to second, 2 out

[Tornon]

Dunn.. GONE!! The other way!! 2-1 Cubs

[captainmorgan07]

dunn goes yard

[KYRed]

Dunn sends it out for a solo shot!

[jesusfan]

HR DUNN!!!! :dunn:

[Hap]

Dunn looked very good going the other way.

[KoryMac5]

Marty continues his love hate relationship with Dunn on that homerun call

[Tornon]

Kearns flies to the warning track in right, 2-1 Cubs after 2

[captainmorgan07]

kearns flies out to jones

[Tornon]

Womack Ks swinging, 1 out

[captainmorgan07]

the only mistake he's made so far was that pitch to blanco

[GOREDSGO32]

Steve Stewart reports a sellout. Man can't lose to these cellar dwellars in a packed out.

[Tornon]

Pierre flies to Dunn, 2 out

[captainmorgan07]

steve says a replay shows cedeno was out on the nice play by aurilla

[Tornon]

After battling hard, Walker finally flies to Kearns, 2-1 Cubs middle of 3

[jesusfan]

1-2-3 inning for Elizardo.... 2-1, Valentin, Ramirez, Lopez due up!

[captainmorgan07]

45 pitches threw 3 for ez

[jesusfan]

that's a 15 pitch per inning avg.... I'd be more than happy with him getting 7 innings in with 105 pitches....

[Tornon]

Valentin lines one off Maddux's leg but it goes to Womack, 1 out

[jesusfan]

That had to hurt that old man!

[captainmorgan07]

ouch that hurts valentin groudns off maddux to womack to walker one out

[Tornon]

Ramirez flies to center on the first pitch, 2 out

[Tornon]

Lopez grounds to second, 2-1 Cubs after 3

[jesusfan]

Lopez GO to Womack.... end of 3, 2-1 Cubs

[captainmorgan07]

lopez grounds out to womack end of the 3rd

[GOREDSGO32]

I really hope this isn't another one of those Maddux BS games. The old man can't hit 85 anymore ... if he holds us to 1 run and we lose on account of a hit from a .089 batter .. ugh ...

[THNDRacket]

Valentin's groundout in the 2nd would have been fielded easily by the SS, no matter what Grande said.

Also, the play at first with Cedeno in the second was a bad call, he was out.

Nice shot by Dunn on the HR. Yes, I just finished dinner, that's why I'm a little behind.

And it would be nice to see Lopez run down to first once in a while.

Ramirez curveball looks very good tonight.

[Tornon]

Ramirez doubles to center

[GOREDSGO32]

2B hit .. great ...

[captainmorgan07]

ramirez doubles

[jesusfan]

1B off Phillips... 1st and 3rd, no outs... We need a DP right here badly...

[captainmorgan07]

rocket shot to bp by jones no play

[Tornon]

Jones lines one on hop to Phillips but Phillips cannot gather it in to get an our, first and third none out

[Tornon]

Cedeno pops to Lopez, 1 out

[captainmorgan07]

aight need a dp here

[jesusfan]

Ok... A pop-up is great too!!! Now for the DP, my bet is on Jones moving...

[THNDRacket]

Answer to the AFLAC trivia question is Christy Matthewson.

[jesusfan]

Ok, Big Strikeout right here EZ!

[Tornon]

Bynum walks on the 3-2 pitch after fouling a couple off

[GOREDSGO32]

Sigh ... Blanco up to kill us again .. bases loaded.

[captainmorgan07]

he walks bynum

[jesusfan]

Bases Jacked with Baby Bears! The .109 Hitting Blanco up, I'm calling DP!

[Tornon]

Blanco lines one to Kearns, Ramirez able to score. 3-1 Cubs

[GOREDSGO32]

Tag .. another run ... Blanco with 3 RBI's ... WTF????

[jesusfan]

SAC. Fly to Kearns makes it 3-1 Cub's...

[captainmorgan07]

blanco with the old sac fly 3-1 cubs

[KYRed]

4 of 6 Blanco ribbies against Cincy now. :thumbdown

[Tornon]

Maddux Ks swinging, 3-1 Cubs middle of 4

[GOREDSGO32]

Damage control ... hold em to 1 run ... need some baserunners now for a change. Maddux seems to always do this crap to us though, I'm not feeling good about this game.

[jesusfan]

Okay... 3-1, no biggie.... Phillips, JR, Aurilia Due up....

[jesusfan]

Phillips robbed of another hit, this time by Aramis...

[GAC]

chat is open :thumbup:

[Tornon]

Phillips grounds hard to third and after fiddling around with the ball, he gets thrown out. 1 out

[jesusfan]

by the way... Blanco had 3 RBI coming into tonight's game... He has doubled that total, at 6 now...

[captainmorgan07]

bp out on a heck of a play by ramirez

[jesusfan]

Maybe tonight will be the night Dunn carries us on his back!

[Tornon]

Griffey lines out to right, 2 out

[Tornon]

Aurilia grounds to short, 3-1 Cubs after 4

[jesusfan]

Weak Grounder to short... Easy 1-2-3 inning for Maddux... 3-1 Cubs going to the 5th

[Tornon]

Womack flies to Kearns on the first pitch, 1 out

[jesusfan]

Very Pitch efficient AB right there!

[jesusfan]

Valentin! YOU HAVE TIME TO GLOVE THAT BALL!!!

[Tornon]

Pierre bunts in front of the plate and Valentin has it squirt out of his hand, E2

[jesusfan]

Pierre is going to try to get his 20th SB right here

[Tornon]

Walker flies to center, 2 out

[jesusfan]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Ramirez wins this battle... lol

[Tornon]

Pierre steals second and goes to third on a bad throw by Javy

[jesusfan]

DO NOT groove one here!

[Tornon]

Ramirez grounds to Lopez, 3-1 Cubs middle of 5

[jesusfan]

Hatte, Dunn, Kearns up! Rally time!

[Tornon]

Hatteberg.. GONE!! 3-2 Cubs

[jesusfan]

Hatte crushes his 4th HR of the year... 3-2 Cubs

[jesusfan]

C'mon Dunn, tie this one up!

[Tornon]

Dunn grounds right into the teeth of the shift, 1 out

[jesusfan]

Let's Go Kearns!

[jesusfan]

Well... 2 hits, 2 HR's on the night for the Red's...

[Tornon]

Kearns grounds to second, 2 out

[jesusfan]

Kearns GO to Womack... Valentin up...

[Tornon]

Valentin flies to left, 3-2 Cubs after 5

[jesusfan]

Well... with the pitcher due up next inning, im guessing this is it for Elizardo...

[jesusfan]

By the way, Brewers 3, St.Louis 0 in the 2nd...

[Tornon]

Jones grounds to second, 1 out

[Tornon]

Cedeno grounds one through the hole on the left

[jesusfan]

Cedeno with a 1B into left....

[jesusfan]

I'm guessing Dusty has something going on right here..

[Tornon]

Bynum flies to Griffey, 2 out

[jesusfan]

Bynum with a Deep fly Out to Griff, runner on 1st with DANGEROUS Blanco!!! lol

[GOREDSGO32]

I'm guessing Dusty has something going on right here..

The American Dream is there? Did someone say ready for bidness?

[jesusfan]

Typically solid Elizardo outing tonight: 6 IP, 6 Hits, 3 ER, 3 SO....

[Tornon]

Cedeno thrown out trying to take second, 3-2 Cubs middle of 6

[Tornon]

Olmedo in to pinch hit

[jesusfan]

Rey Rey to Pinch-hit, saving Freel for later....

[Tornon]

Olmedo doubles to deep center

[jesusfan]

Olmedo with a PH double!! I really like this kid's approach... SHOWCASE MAYBE!

[Tornon]

Lopez singles into right, Olmedo had to hold up so he doesn't score

[jesusfan]

Lopez with a Single.... Ray on 3rd, Felo on 1st... BP up!

[jesusfan]

Lopez off and running maybe??

[GOREDSGO32]

Two on, none out, time to kick em in the nads.

[jesusfan]

Come on BP lets give Elizardo the win!

[Tornon]

Phillips lines one to right, Olmedo can't score. 1 out

[GOREDSGO32]

That hasn't worked since Abner Doubleday was a baby .. classic Marty line.

Damnit Olmedo ... you could have scored.

[jesusfan]

BP has crushed 3 balls tonight with nothing to show...

Let's go JR!

[Tornon]

Cubs going to the bullpen

[GOREDSGO32]

Maddux done for the night. BS stallnig tactics. They should grant us a base and give us a run. The Chicago Scrubs at their finest.

[Tornon]

Scott Eyre coming in to pitch
Matt Murton comes in to play left on the double switch

[jesusfan]

Mil- 6 Stl- 0

[jesusfan]

C'mon Griff... NO DP here please....

[Tornon]

Lopez thrown out stealing 2nd base, 2 out

[jesusfan]

That is freakin horrible!!!

[GOREDSGO32]

OMG ... WTF???????????????

More stupid mistakes. I swear this team is the king of them.

[KYRedsFan]

What the heck. Two TERRIBLE base running gaffs this inning are killing us.

[jesusfan]

Good Call Bucky!

[captainmorgan07]

that's why they call him bucky fing dent

[KYRedsFan]

The Reds are getting beat by Henry friggin Blano right now.

[Tornon]

On the 10th pitch of the at bat, Griffey finally draws a walk

[GOREDSGO32]

Ball 4 ... wow .. we better get a hit here.

[captainmorgan07]

come on ra we need u here

[KYRedsFan]

Very very nice ab by Jr. Man, coulda been bases jacked, 1 out, instead.....

[jesusfan]

Let's Go Nature Boy!

[KYRedsFan]

Time to shut up all the fans in blue at GABP. Let's do this.

[jesusfan]

Be My Hero Richie!

[jesusfan]

Well.... That inning sucked!

[KYRedsFan]

Dagger inning there.

[Tornon]

Aurilia with a check swing bloop that is caught by Womack, 3-2 Cubs after 6

[GOREDSGO32]

2 on, none out ... can't score. What a joke.

[KYRed]

1st & 3rd with no outs and we don't score? Horrible!

[TeamBoone]

I don't think it was wise of Felipe (or whomever) to steal with a guy on third and one out. I didn't like it.

[KYRedsFan]

All right, whose bullpen is better tonight? We're shooting ourselves in the foot all night, so if we can hold them, you'd think eventually we'll put a big inning together, of if nothing else 1 run HR them to death.

[GOREDSGO32]

Do we lead the league in players LOB? I bet we gotta be close.

[Tornon]

Chris Hammond in to pitch

[Tornon]

Blanco grounds one that Aurilia dives for & knocks down but does not have a play.. single

[KYRedsFan]

Okay, serious. Blanco is getting all star votes after this game. He's terrible

[KYRed]

Ridiculous, we make Blanco look like Ichiro.

[jesusfan]

single for Blanco... shew... he's killing us!

[jesusfan]

I dont know why, but Murton scares me....

[Tornon]

Murton flies to Griffey, 1 out

[Tornon]

Womack bloops one over Phillips' head

[jesusfan]

Womack with a 1B, Pierre up...

[jesusfan]

Does anyone else besides me think Womack is better than Mccracken...??

[jesusfan]

WOW... That was a strike!

[Tornon]

Pierre grounds to second, they get the out at second but Lopez makes a bad throw to first so no double play. 2 out

[KYRedsFan]

Giving them extra outs, and throwing ours in the can. Walker so dangerous here.

[jesusfan]

Let's go, we need this one right here Hammond!

[Tornon]

Walker lines a hit to center, 4-2 Cubs

[GOREDSGO32]

Great job ... we aren't going to win this game.

[jesusfan]

There is that extra out we gave them...

[MartyFan]

Great job ... we aren't going to win this game.

That's the spirit...:thumbup:

[jesusfan]

Aramis vs Hammond makes me tremble!

[Tornon]

Flyball to right, Kearns cannot find the ball.. slips down and the ball drops. 2 runs score, 6-2 Cubs

[captainmorgan07]

just not our nite

[GOREDSGO32]

::turns off game::

This team makes more unforced errors that anyonme in the league. Nothing ticks me off when a team can't do the simple, basic things in baseball. Imagine if our defense was even halfway decent. We would be up like 6 games on St Louis.

[KYRed]

Game is far from over but man have we just given it to them so far tonight.

P.S. I just typed that first sentence BEFORE Kearns blew it and effectively ended the game by making it 6-2. Hopefully he didn't seriously hurt himself on such a bad play!

[TeamBoone]

The game isn't over yet.

I hope Kearns is ok after that knee starts to swell after the game.

[BUTLER REDSFAN]

these guys were crying last nite for a sold out stadium--and this is the show they are putting on??

[Tornon]

Jones Ks swinging, 6-2 Cubs middle of 7

[jesusfan]

Strikeout for Out #3... Hatt, Dunn, Kearns up...

[captainmorgan07]

not over yet

[Tornon]

Just win the game and all these miscues will not matter

[BUTLER REDSFAN]

it seems as though about once every 10 games or so-lopez has a game where he simply cant get his head out of his butt--the attempted stolen base earlier and now once again he cant complete a throw to first

[jesusfan]

9 out's left... 4 runs are very attainable..

[captainmorgan07]

9 out's left... 4 runs are very attainable..
especially the funk the cubs bullpens been in

[KYRed]

I'd rather a team beat us solidly and in legit fashion than have a game where the Reds have literally 5-7 errors or plays that are basically the equivalent of errors. We got the latter tonight.

Anyone else notice that the majority of our "horrid" games this year against Central teams are against the Cubs? We own the Cards and Stros but this is far from the first time this year we look like the Bad News Bears against Chicago.

[Tornon]

Hatteberg flies to left, 1 out

[jesusfan]

We need baserunners!

[Tornon]

Dunn takes a walk

[jesusfan]

There's one... C'mon Kearnsy!

[captainmorgan07]

eyre losing control here

[jesusfan]

No stupid swings AK...

[Tornon]

Kearns grounds a single into right

[jesusfan]

base-hit AK, Valentin up... 2 on...

[captainmorgan07]

come on javy

[Tornon]

Eric Milton in to pinch run for Kearns

[jesusfan]

I'm afraid AK is hurt.... Please No!

[captainmorgan07]

uh oh wats up with kearns milton in to run

[Tornon]

Valentin singles into right, Dunn scores.. Milton to third. 6-3 Cubs

[KYRed]

Clutch hitting by Javy!

[jesusfan]

Javy lines a single into Right... 6-3 Cubs, Freel up... c'mon 3 run bomb right here...!

[captainmorgan07]

there u go javy

[Tornon]

Freel in to pinch hit
Cubs going to the bullpen

[Tornon]

Looks like Bobby Howry coming in to pitch

[BUTLER REDSFAN]

we've been fairly lucky as far as the injury bug--now encarnacion on the dl--kearns leaving early...

[GOREDSGO32]

What??? Kearns didn't even get an error? What a crock.

[Tornon]

Freel looking very bad on the fastball, Ks swinging. 2 out

[GOREDSGO32]

Strikeout ...

[captainmorgan07]

come on freel

[captainmorgan07]

dang it come on felo make up for ur baserunning blunder

[jesusfan]

Need ya here Lopey... Make up for the baserunning mistake...

[jesusfan]

Wow... DEJA VU on those posts....

[KYRed]

What??? Kearns didn't even get an error? What a crock.

I noticed that and agree. Complete snowjob towards anyone who missed the inning but checks the box score to place 3 earned on Hammond.

[BUTLER REDSFAN]

lopez could make up for his night of poo-poo by jacking a 3 run hr

[captainmorgan07]

3-2 pitch coming

[Tornon]

On a 3-2 pitch, Lopez singles up the middle.. Valentin to third. 6-4 Cubs

[jesusfan]

base-hit Lopez... 6-4 Cubs.... C'mon BP...

[GOREDSGO32]

Basehit! Yah ...

Need a couple more hits or a 3 run Johnson.

[captainmorgan07]

yes come on bp

[Tornon]

Phillips pops to first in foul territory, 6-4 Cubs after 7

[GOREDSGO32]

Wow .. popup .. sheesh ... now the Kearns play is the difference in the game ... wow.

[jesusfan]

BP with a Pop out to Walker... 6-4 bottom of 7,...

[captainmorgan07]

man shoulda took that pitch to far inside

[jesusfan]

Chip, Chip, Chip...

[captainmorgan07]

Chip, Chip, Chip...
exactly the cubs pen has been terrible lately the more we chip the faster the cub tree will fall down

[Tornon]

Rick White into pitch

[captainmorgan07]

Rick White into pitch
oh crap

[Tornon]

Cedeno Ks swinging, 1 out

[captainmorgan07]

Cedeno Ks swinging, 1 out
holy crap strieks soembody out

[Tornon]

Howry bloops a single to left

[jesusfan]

1B for Howry... wow!