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Reds Tidbits (2008 season)

lets hope this works:

Through the first 16 innings of this series the Reds have had 18 hits, 3 Pirate errors and scored exactly 3 goddamn runs leaving 21 men on base in the process of all this futility.
 
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Jaxbuck;1138550; said:
lets hope this works:

Through the first 16 innings of this series the Reds have had 18 hits, 3 Pirate errors and scored exactly 3 goddamn runs leaving 21 men on base in the process of all this futility.

This is just fucking sick

another leadoff runner that we don't get across

18 innings
20 hits and 3 errors
23 LOB
3 fucking runs
 
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Sad thing about that game is that Arroyo pitched well, though he did labor through a couple of innings. He had one mistake to Mencaskjhsd4eiawvicz on the double that he gave up, but the two runs in the second are on Votto.
 
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The pitching overall has been nothing short of excellent. For as bad as the offense has been, the Reds have been in every game. If any of the other incarnations of the Reds from the past decade got off to this miserable of a start with the sticks, they'd be looking at a 3-9 record instead of 6-6.
 
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jlb1705;1138626; said:
The pitching overall has been nothing short of excellent. For as bad as the offense has been, the Reds have been in every game. If any of the other incarnations of the Reds from the past decade got off to this miserable of a start with the sticks, they'd be looking at a 3-9 record instead of 6-6.
Amen. Tied w/ Minnesota for the 4th best staff in the majors behind Arizona, St. Louis, and Kansas City in Runs Allowed if you adjust some of the other teams that have only played 10 or 11 against Cincinnati's 12 games thus far.

The bats have got to heat up sometime.

Base running has been the real killer, though. The Reds have been masterful at running themselves out of innings and giving away outs. Freel, Patterson, and Hopper have all made outs at either 2nd or 3rd with 0 or 1 outs in just the last three games. Killer. I can live with Griffey or Dunn or Valentin being gunned down because they're sloths, but not the speed guys.

Patterson runs with his head up and turned to watch the play instead of looking straight ahead and sprinting. That's a huge pet peeve for me.
 
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once again good pitching, but failure to score runs...

Votto has been swinging the bat well the past couple games...

The big problem in the lineup is 4,5,6 IMO with Phillips, Dunn, and EE...If those guys can up their slugging percentage this team could win 5 or 6 in a row...
 
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crazybuckfan40;1138651; said:
once again good pitching, but failure to score runs...

Votto has been swinging the bat well the past couple games...

The big problem in the lineup is 4,5,6 IMO with Phillips, Dunn, and EE...If those guys can up their slugging percentage this team could win 5 or 6 in a row...


as much love as he gets from Cincy fans BP shouldn't be a #4 hitter, #5 still gets pitched around because no one has any fear of #6.

I like your line up from the other day.

I'd go
Kepp SS
Dunn LF
JR RF
BP 2B
CP CF
EE 3B
Votto 1B
catcher
pitcher

Thats pretty much L/R/L except for Dunn and JR but those first 4 hitters are all protection on top of protection for each other.


So when Gonzalez comes back, does he go to SS, Keppinger over to 3B, and EE to Louisville?

As bad a start as EE is off to I still don't think the lineup is any better with AG in it instead of him. This should be an easy "no f'ing way" but EE has been sucking so bad I actually had to think about it.
 
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