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Didn't take 'em long to get right back where they were just a few days ago! Nice sweep and the Cards couldn't handle the Cubs again. Strange in baseball how some teams just give other teams, better teams sometimes, fits. The Reds can't seem to beat the Cards this season, but the Cards have trouble with the Cubs and the Astros!Originally Posted by gman5431
Hope the Brewers come in with a mind to spoil the fun for St Louis and we get a good start to things out west!
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Exactly. Great series against the Fish. Did everything we didnt do against STL. Even beat Josh Johson around who came in leading the league with an ERA under 2. I think i heard the 10 hits he gave up were a career high. Homer comes back yesterday and throws 6 shutout innings. Things are looking good but this west coast swing still worries me. Id live with 5-4. Need to make hay against AZ who is a terrible team even if they are at home.
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Florida - sweep. AZ - sweep. Now things get interesting with LA (where they have lost 12 straight games) and SF who is in the midst of the race. Let's see what these boys show us.
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I've got a good feeling about the trip to LA - this is a team that can overcome a lot of bad vibes (look at the response to the STL losses) and we're going to miss the Dogers best pitcher, Lilly, these three games. I think they've got a great chance to take this series and possibly sweep a third straight before moving on to the Giants.
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Well, the Reds ran into a buzzsaw in SF - where'd the starting pitching go? I really thought these would be fairly close games given the Giants' lack of offense, but they just pounded the Reds all three games. Thankfully the bats woke up in the 3rd game of the series and the boys proved their resiliency and came back to win after blowing a big lead.
Still, it was a great road trip. They go 6-3 out west and the Cards don't make up any ground during the trip. Don't expect the Nationals to help us out the way the Pirates did, but one can hope! What a last game of the series for Votto - he's moved to 2nd in HR and RBI and has a great chance at the Triple Crown now! He might be one of the most dangerous hitters with two strikes on him I've ever seen.
Hopefully a day off and a weekend with the Cubs will get the pitching back on track and we can try to build up a bigger lead before next weekend.
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Hot damn, eight games up and about to go into St. Louis rolling hot while the Cardinals are floundering. Great opportunity for the Reds to step up and show the world they're capable of beating a team above .500 and knock a rival OUT of playoff contention.
Chapman might be the ultimate weapon (A-bomb as a nickname, anyone?) and his stuff is simply amazing. Not only do the Reds look like champions of the Central already, they've got a shot to get home field through the playoffs!
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8 games up is great. They are on fire and hitting on all cylinders. Chapman has obviously brought a lot of attention to the team and a whole load of excitement. I'm still cautious about the STL series, but i am also convinced they cannot hit, so even if we do get swept we are 5 up on a team that has trouble getting more then 5 hits in a game. I feel good.
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if the whitesox dont make the play offs im going for the reds - if they win they will have a world series championship in 5 different decades, well these are the ones i recall off hand 1919,1940,1975,1976,1990,2010?
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Good game today! Wood looked like a surgeon working on a patient. He was just fabulous in what was certainly the biggest game of his career thus far and he hit a home run as well. He did all of this under the glare of the spotlight with this being FOX's Game of the Week. The lead is back to 8 games now!!!
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Tough loss to lose the series in St Louis today. Homer pitched a pretty good game, just one bad pitch to Holiday. Carpenter had it going today, that's for sure. He just always pitches really well against the Reds!
Still, two close losses and one beat down victory - positive things. A couple of runs here and there and the Reds could have come out of there with a sweep. Hope they respond as they have the rest of the season and get some back against the Rockies.
A friend of mine said that if they play just .500 the rest of the way, they'll win the Central. Cards would need to be almost perfect to catch up.
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I was okay with one win in STL. That's all we needed. Blew 4-0 lead in Denver yesterday, lead is down to 6 games. Hopefully they can steady the ship tonite.
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That series in Colorado was brutal! The bats can't seem to get working for more than a couple of innings and then the runs dry up. I thought they'd turned the corner in that last game with an early lead and Wood pitching pretty decently but the Rockies kept coming back.
Got back on the winning track last night but it took extras. I honestly don't blame Cordero, he hadn't pitched in five days and just looked out of sync. He should have had an inning of work at least while in Denver, that might have helped. They came back and won it, though, and the Cards lost to Atlanta so the lead is back to six.
Some thoughts:
Joey Votto looks like he's pressing at the plate. He's trying too hard to get that big hit every time up and just is not in any kind of groove right now. Maholm just froze him a couple of times on call third strikes that Votto didn't even attempt a swing at. I dunno if it's the closeness of the race, the pressure of being the #1 guy on the team, that SI cover and all the MVP talk, or maybe something else, but he's not playing like he was earlier.
On a more positive note, I'm enjoying Gomes' improved defense in left. He won't win a gold glove anytime soon, but he's been getting to a lot of balls and making plays that he didn't get earlier in the season.
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Ok. Let's try this again. The last time I posted in this thread, my point was taken with a ???. I would like to wish the Cincinnati Reds the best for their upcoming games against their National League opponents. If any band of thrill-seeking kids playing with a Ouija board are looking to hex the team, then I double hex those rascals with my own 100% leather, triple-notched bible belt.
If any of those well-worn references still don't ring a bell, well, I'd have to say that's not all that you're missing.
Anyway, I'm welcoming myself to this thread, as I will be posting here when the Reds make it to the post-season. I'm just a bandwagon fan, so I'll be in and out in a flash. No worries.
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The Reds were very fortunate to win one game out of this three game series with the Pirates. The starting pitching was the only bright spot. The offense and bullpen was bad. Cordero has blown up in two of the past three games. We need to get everything together to make a strong post season run.
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They took two out of the three (two in extra innings, losing today). Three really solid outings from the starting pitching lost out of the bullpen, who'd been pretty steady for a while. Dusty needs a quicker hook with Cordero sometimes, I think. Last time he had a couple of bad outings in a row, Coco turned it on and was really good for eight or nine straight saves. Some more runs would have made things easier as well. Offense looks tired right now. Hopefully Bruce comes back and gets hot again quickly.
Glad to see some good starts, though.
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Magic Number = 4.
Booom!
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