Royals @ Reds: Game 3

• osu45804

  

  Lineup:
  
  Cabrera SS
  Cairo 3B
  Votto 1B
  Gomes LF
  Bruce RF
  Hernandez C
  Stubbs CF
  Janish 2B
  LeCure P
  
  
  Rolen & Phillips w/ the day off, Hopefully we can jump out to a early lead again but not blow it again this time!
• jordo212000

  

  Subbing again in bulk. SMH
• dave

  LeCure is either due for a really good game where he goes deep or a really bad game.
  
  Is this game not in HD?
• osu45804

  

  Down 1-0 Bottom of the 1st
• osu45804

  

  Orlando singles, steals second & wild throw gets him to 3rd... Ground out by Cairo scores Cabrera followed by a HR from Votto 2-1 Reds
• mhs95_06

  I haven't seen the replay yet, but I think Greinke has a point that the ball he hit was off his foot and the umps didn't call it foul, and it stood for the 3rd out in the 4th.
• osu45804

  

  Reds have been retired in 11 straight plate appearances
• osu45804

  

  Billy Butler 2 out 2-Run HR gives KC the 3-2 lead
• wildcats20

  

  Greinke has only thrown 55 pitches through 5....
  
  LeCure has thrown 108 through 6....
• Ironman92

  

  gotta have good plate approaches
  
  Phillips is out for he's still having those cramps in his legs...had em for a while now.
  
  Look for Rolen and Phillips to make some pinch hit appearances in a few innings
• mhs95_06

  Need electronic balls and strikes as Gomes whole AB was changed by a bad call on the 1-1 pitch, a low outside slider the ump called a strike, which should have made it 2-1 instead of the 1-2 it was called and put Gomes at the mercy of another low and even further outside slider that he went around on, only becasue the other one had been called strike 2. Completely unfair to Gomes!
• mhs95_06

  Good effort by Janish on the flare right over his head. He put his glove out where he thought it might be, but it fell about a yard to the left of the glove.
• mhs95_06

  In an unusual development, Herrera comes into the game with a baserunner to face a left and actually gets his first pitch curveball over for a strike. Unfortunately, the 2nd pitch was similar and laced into LF for a double by DeJesus which now puts the onus of Del Rosario to get the 3rd out with runners on 2nd and 3rd.
• osu45804

  

  Honest to god, Who the HELL is Billy Butler? .... 5-2 KC
• jordo212000

  

  osu45804;388507 wrote:Honest to god, Who the HELL is Billy Butler? .... 5-2 KC

  
  He's a pretty good player.
  
  Unfortunately the Reds bullpen consists of a lot of not very good players.
• mhs95_06

  Del Rosario gives up a double to RF to Butler to make it a 5-2 KC lead. Batters are really tough when they take the outside pitches to the opposite field like they did against Herrera and Del Rosario, just like the Reds line-up is very touigh when Phillips, Gomes, and Bruce are doing that along with the others who generally do it like Votto, Rolen, Hernandez.
• mhs95_06

  Stubbs has a lot of very poor ABs, why don't we see Heisey more?
• Ironman92

  

  He's also been solid since moving to the 7 hole and has driven in a lot of big runs
• osu45804

  

  Losing 2 of 3 at home to the 3rd worst team in the AL record wise is unacceptable
• osu45804

  

  Masset w/ a 2 out Solo HR to DeJesus ... PATHETIC 7-2
• Ironman92

  

  Well the Reds did a game better this year versus the Royals
  
  It's baseball...anyone can beat anyone in a series. You gotta play well to win more often than not.
  
  
  Grienke was what 1-8?.....he also has a Cy Young award....Nick Massett does not
• osu45804

  

  Well I did get 2 HR's from Votto in my Fantasy League, that's a plus I can take from this game I guess
  
  LeCure 6 2/3's Innings 120 pitches
  
  Grienke 9 Innings 105 pitches and only 28 balls
• mhs95_06

  Bullpen gets the last 7 outs of the game, but the score goes from a 3-2 deficit to a 7-2 deficit with each of the 3 relievers being charged with a run allowed, not to mention the inherited runner(on first with already two outs) that they also allowed to score and charged to LeCure.
• jordo212000

  

  Ironman92;388522 wrote:He's also been solid since moving to the 7 hole and has driven in a lot of big runs

  
  Agreed. Short-sighted folk point to his batting avg as a reason why Stubbs should be taken out. However, they forget that about a month ago he was hitting about .190. That tells you how well he has been hitting the ball since then. His avg is up to around .240. Those critical of Stubbs ignore his solid OBP and his knack for knocking in runs. Plus he plays a nice CF.
  
  With that being said, he did look bad today, but so did a lot of other guys. Grienke will do that to you
• mhs95_06

  Ironman92;388522 wrote:He's also been solid since moving to the 7 hole and has driven in a lot of big runs

  
  Yes, that is true. It seems like that squirrel occasionaly finding the acorn. He looks bad most of the time, but occasionally he gets a big hit. I wish he would mis-hit it more often instead of striking out, becasue when he hits one that takes at least three bounces on the ground he almost always is safe at first. You'd hope he would bunt more and get more adept at it, but the poor effort at that on the suicide squeeze last night showed his poor bunting accumen. And trying to go to the opposite field could help him also.