"In our sundown perambulations of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball. Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms, the game of ball is glorious"
-Walt Whitman
Wait, isn't that the same club? Or did they turn into a different team on this homestand?
Listen, it's obvious they are struggling right now. But they have some key guys banged up or in a slump (which happens from time to time in a 162-game season). They know they are in the playoffs, it's important to get some of these guys healthy. They will be fine. Keep in mind they gained a couple games in the standings on this homestand...
"In our sundown perambulations of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball. Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms, the game of ball is glorious"
-Walt Whitman
Always favor the larger sample size over the smaller.
Even teams that lead the league in scoring runs doesn't score runs all the time. Becuase half of scoring runs is as much randomness or distribution of hits as anything else. We outhit the Diamonfbacks today, they just distrubuted their hits better.
Maloney and Burton were very impressive the last two days.
This always happens. In other (the last 10) years it was the Reds beating the division leaders. Nothing to lose. The Reds are 6-9 in September and batting about .250. With the series coming up, they could tank further or get hot. Gomes has wakened up his bat and Stubbs is seeing the ball well. Once we get Phillips back to close to 100% and Votto our of his funk, we'll be OK. The pitching has been adequate. I'm still confident they're going to surprise a lot of folks in the playoffs.
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-Beano Cook
4-3 on the current 10 game stretch. Meanwhile, our closest competitor is 1-5 going into tonight's game. Give folks a few wins and they turn into Ohio State football fans, expecting every win to be a blow out and a loss to be their fault.
"Rounding 3rd and heading for home, good night everybody"
I was at the game today, and some of the comments on here I have to question. When did Votto cost the Reds two runs? When he led off the inning with a double, Bruce's liner to right was only a foot or so away from the 1st baseman. He had to hesitate to make sure it wasn't caught. Did a TV replay show something more than what I saw? And when was the 2nd run?
I was there too and you've described it as it actually happened. Unfortunate.
We hit some balls well, but three (or so) of the four hardest hit balls went to the wall (or nearly so) and were caught. The hardest hit ball was hit by Jay Bruce and I'm surprised their first baseman still has a hand. And, of course, Gomes was doubled up, one of those types of plays little league players cry about because the didn't do anything wrong and yet a bad outcome came about.
We're going to lose some like this. It was a disappointing game, particular being in attendance, but it happens. And, as others have noted, even the worst teams at times still score more runs and win and their pitchers will shut someone down. Kudos.
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Don't really know where to post this but here goes.
I'm pretty sure the Reds will win the Central Division.
I know that once the playoffs start anything can happen.
I can understand that some fans are worried heading down the stretch.
I can't understand the need of some of the most optimistic fans to consistently chastise and put down those Reds fans among us who are truly concerned with the quality of baseball the Reds have played for the last month or so.
Let's all try to enjoy this ride together, we are all Reds Fans here.
"Rounding 3rd and heading for home, good night everybody"
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Code:Stretch R PG Avg OR PG ERA W-L Homestand, April 5 to 11 22 3.7 0.23 27 4.5 4.33 3-4 Road Trip, April 12 to 18 31 4.4 0.223 42 6 6.06 8-5 Homestand, April 20 to 25 34 5.7 0.272 47 7.8 7.67 11-8 Road Trip, April 27 to May 2 22 3.7 0.233 22 3.7 3.63 13-12 Homestand, May 3 to 9 38 6.3 0.297 30 5 4.58 16-15 Road Trip, May 10 to 12 16 5.3 0.302 1 0.3 0.33 19-15 Homestand, May 14 to 18 25 5 0.298 16 3.2 3.2 23-16 Road Trip, May 19 to 23 29 5.8 0.294 27 5.4 5.02 25-19 Homestand, May 24 to 30 47 6.7 0.343 19 2.7 2.53 30-21 Road Trip, May 31 to June 6 26 4.3 0.289 33 5.5 5.19 33-24 Homestand, June 7 to 17 46 4.6 0.285 55 5.5 5.38 37-30 Road Trip, June 18 to 23 14 2.3 0.218 13 2.2 2.25 40-33 Homestand, June 25 to 30 36 6 0.29 27 4.5 4.42 44-35 Road Trip, July 1 to 11 51 4.6 0.252 33 3 2.67 49-41 Homestand, July 16 to 22 32 4.6 0.251 28 4 4 53-44 Road Trip, July 23 to 28 37 6.2 0.304 17 2.8 2.94 57-46 Homestand, July 30 to August 1 11 3.7 0.233 9 3 2.25 59-47 Road Trip, August 2 to 8 37 6.2 0.29 18 3 1.7 64-48 Homestand, August 9 to 15 22 3.7 0.229 27 4.5 4 67-51 Road Trip, August 17 to 25 58 6.4 0.287 63 7 7 73-54 Homestand, August 27 to September 1 35 5.8 0.303 18 3 2.62 78-55 Road Trip, September 3 to 9 25 3.6 0.259 37 5.3 5.21 79-61 Homestand, September 10 to 16 26 3.7 0.252 23 3.3 3.09 83-64
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