Pirates at Reds, game 3

• mhs95_06

  Arroyo in trouble to start with a walk. Then he had a full count on the 2nd batter and had thrown 12 pitches. In three pitches he was out of the inning clean, with the key being turning a 1-6-3 double play with the runner moving on the 13th pitch.
• Rotinaj

  

  Cairo blowsssss
• stroups

  

  Cairo in the 2 hole............. that is just mind boggling
• stroups

  

  are you kidding me Bruce, that ball almost bounced in front of you
• Rotinaj

  

  Atta boy brucey, K on a pitch in the dirt w runners on 2nd and 3rd.
• mhs95_06

  Rolen with a poor result with an infield pop-up with one out and runners at 2nd and 3rd. Then Bruce strikes out on a breaking ball in the dirt to end the threat. So both pitchers get away with walking the lead-off hitter. At least the Pirates hit a shot back at the pitcher, while the Reds could only muster two Ks and a pop-up, getting a BB in between!
• Rotinaj

  

  Whyyyyy send hanigan w Phillips up next????
• mhs95_06

  Rotinaj wrote: Whyyyyy send hanigan w Phillips up next????

  I'd say the chances of Hanigan scoring on that were better than what I'd say was about a 1/3 chance of him scoring if he held 3rd with BP coming to bat!
• mhs95_06

  Stubbs get snookered and picked off stealing 3rd on the reverse pivot move by the pitcher, and just after Hanigan gets a hit that would have scored him, but I still agree with the strategy of the his attempt to steal 3rd with one out.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Didn't even realize Bronson hadn't given up a hit yet haha
• mhs95_06

  I'm glad Bruce didn't break his wrist trying to catch that ball Jones hit into RF off his shoe-tops.
• mhs95_06

  Cabrera lucked out on that call of out of the baseline on a play he really got no one on. What is the difference between that and what you see all the time at the plate with the runner sliding way out from the base, but yet close enough he can reach out and touch the base?
• mhs95_06

  Cabrera knocked in another run with a sac fly. I'll bet in RBIs without getting a hit, he has more than double any other Red, with those and infield grounders.
• mhs95_06

  Pitcher pops up with the bases loaded to end the 5th inning in Arroyo's favor. So far it looks like the difference in the game is the out of the baseline gift out call.
• SportsAndLady

  

  How the fuck did Cairo hit a homerun?
• dubnine

  not sure...i about shit myself when i heard the tv in the background
• Rotinaj

  

  Cairo about shit himself after the dinger.
• Mooney44Cards

  

  Turns out Cairo is more than just a warm body to stick in the field.
  
  Stubbs has cost the Reds 2 runs the last 2 games. Forget his average, he needs to work on fundamentals at AAA.
• mhs95_06

  Reds have 4 hits from the bottom three in the order and two from Votto's late replacement. The other five in the order have no hits!
• SportsAndLady

  

  Cabrera=MVP
• wildcats20

  

  Typical BP in the field..
• mhs95_06

  Phillips used every step on his ladder to snag that liner from Milledge!
• wildcats20

  

  I could watch him play 2nd all day, every day.
  
  IMO a top 3 defensive 2B in the league.
• mhs95_06

  Dusty departs from conventional by replacing Arroyo with righty Masset to face lefty Walker when lefty Herrera was also warming in the pen! Masset promptly gives up a hit to the lefty and walks McCutcheon! Then he brings Herrera in to face Jones with the bases loaded!
• charliehustle14

  Nick Masset's ass should be on the first bus to Louisville. He's so bad that he should actually probably just go north to Dayton because I'm not sure he could get any AAA hitters out, either.