Reds vs Stinkin Padres Fri 29 Jul

[OnBaseMachine]

Edwin Encarnacion-First 40 TPA

.297/.350/.514

[paintmered]

Edwin Encarnacion-First 40 TPA

.297/.350/.514

[flyer85]

Since the Reds hit their low point of 33-52, they are 12-6 since then. Simply a good streak among a bad team much like when the 2004 Reds went 17-5 in May. They all have them, except for the historically bad teams.

whenever the Reds get a little bit of pitching they are dangerous

[WVRedsFan]

Reds win?

Did he just say first winning month since May of last year?

Wow they have sucked.

A lot led to this. The DFA's of Graves and Jiminez which ultimately led to the Randa trade and EdE coming on. The acquisitions of Shackelford and Standridge who have pitched well. Griffey got hot and Harang and Claussen continue to show improvement. Lopez has been red hot.

Folks, with some improvements in pitching and without the certain dramatics of Graves in the closer role, this team has, if not mediocre, been pretty good the last 45 days. It gives one optimism for the future iF adequate moves are made in the off season. Those moves do not include trading Dunn, Griffey or Kearns.

[gm]

Reds = best young left side IF in beisbol?

(Met's 3b isn't too shabby)

[Big Klu]

Tom Browning is the only one who ever pitched in a major-league game after this kind of injury, making two starts for the Royals in 1995.

Oops, my mistake. Dave Dravecky also came back from it to pitch two games for the Giants in 1989, when he broke it again.

OK, I looked this up. We were right, and wrong about Dravecky. As someone mentioned, he missed most of 1988 after being diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his left arm. In the second game of his comeback in 1989, he snapped his left arm while pitching. He then broke it again during the Giants' NLCS victory celebration.

[Scrap Irony]

What has Kearns done to deserve special merit?

[WVRedsFan]

OK, I looked this up. We were right, and wrong about Dravecky. As someone mentioned, he missed most of 1988 after being diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his left arm. In the second game of his comeback in 1989, he snapped his left arm while pitching. He then broke it again during the Giants' NLCS victory celebration.

And I can remember Dravecky coming back in his first game against the Reds and just dominating us only to do damage to his arm in the next game.

[WVRedsFan]

What has Kearns done to deserve special merit?

Point well taken, but his statistics since being brought back are quite good and they will get better.

[Walkerforpres]

Saunders tried to make it back with the O's in ST of this year. Rotoworld has a blurb in March about him reporting to AA Bowie, but I can't find any stats for him whatsoever in that league.

[Big Klu]

And I can remember Dravecky coming back in his first game against the Reds and just dominating us only to do damage to his arm in the next game.

Dravecky eventually had his left arm amputated in 1991.

[creek14]

I'm now 1 - 2 when starting game threads. 1 - 0 when starting game threads on Reds Live. Wooohooo.

Speaking of Adam (okay, so no one was), I had a dream last night that I was speaking to some high school graduating class (hey, beats me??) and so was Adam. I was talking to him before we spoke and he told he had just bought a farm in Finland.

And I wasn't even drinking last night before I went to bed.

[flyer85]

he had just bought a farm in Finland.

maybe the fishing is good there :all_cohol

[BCubb2003]

maybe the fishing is good there :all_cohol

Go Icebreakers!

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