Reds vs Braves......HUGE Series Game 1

• karen lotz

  

  Alright, Chavez closes the door. Free baseball!
• justincredible

  

  karen lotz;437237 wrote:Not that I doubted you at all, but I looked up the splits. His average is 45 points higher on the road but he has more HR's and RBI at home. (SHOCKER)

  
  But they are not drastically higher. Three more HRs. Six more RBI.
  
  You make it seem like he is only having his monster year because he plays in GABP.
• jordo212000

  

  This umpire has been atrocious all night
• justincredible

  

  jordo212000;437240 wrote:This umpire has been atrocious all night

  
  Yah. I thought Cabrera was gonna hit him in the face.
• jordo212000

  

  I'll be glad when this series is over with. It's only been 1 game and karen lotz's unending sarcasm got played out about 2 hours ago. Usually sarcastic people who use irony to try and be funny are actually funny. Keyword, usually. smh
• mhs95_06

  The 1-2 pitch to Conrad was in the zone and should have been called strike 3 to spare us the heroics by Heisey. The 2-0 and 2-1 pitches to O. Cabrera were both correctly called strikes. So the ump only missed one pitch in those two ABs.
• dat dude

  justincredible;437239 wrote:But they are not drastically higher. Three more HRs. Six more RBI.
  
  You make it seem like he is only having his monster year because he plays in GABP.

  
  Agreed. And his SLG is higher on the road.
• karen lotz

  

  justincredible;437239 wrote:You make it seem like he is only having his monster year because he plays in GABP.

  
  
  Sarcasm not coming through on your end? I realize Votto is having a great year. He is far and away the leader for MVP at this point.
• jordo212000

  

  karen lotz;437247 wrote:Sarcasm not coming through on your end? I realize Votto is having a great year. He is far and away the leader for MVP at this point.

  
  He might not have caught it because you keep arguing with him. I guessed that you were being sarcastic because I didn't think anybody with a brain would have mocked Votto's HR. Going opposite field is nothing to sneeze at.
• mhs95_06

  Terrible call on the 1-1 pitch to Heyward!
• karen lotz

  

  Hopefully Prado didn't break his wrist there.
• osu45804

  

  FUCK the braves
• jordo212000

  

  I think it is time to send Stubbs down for a while. I've been a defender all season, but over the past 2 weeks he has looked baaad.
• karen lotz

  

  Looked like he dislocated/broke his pinky on right hand there. Shit.
• justincredible

  

  I hate Cordero.
• Jughead

  

  So when is Coco going to be sent down?
• mhs95_06

  mhs95_06;437251 wrote:Terrible call on the 1-1 pitch to Heyward!

  
  And because the ump won't call that strike up and in and in the zone, it doesn't keep Heyward from hanging out over the plate and getting his 3rd double of the game to left on outside pitches, this one likely for the game winning two RBI! We need electronic strike calls! Atrocious!
• karen lotz

  

  I think he made a pretty good pitch to Heyward there. He had to be close to 40 pitches didn't he? That's a lot for a closer.
• karen lotz

  

  mhs95_06;437259 wrote:And because the ump won't call that strike up and in and in the zone, it doesn't keep Heyward from hanging out over the plate and getting his 3rd double of the game to left on outside pitches, this one likely for the game winning two RBI! We need electrinic strike calls! Atrocious!

  
  
  I might be wrong here but didn't the fox trax thing or whatever show both the 1-0 and 1-1 to be outside of the zone? They were close for sure but you can't ask for the pitch low and outside to be a strike and the up and in one as well.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  osu45804;437254 wrote:FUCK the braves

  
  This
• mhs95_06

  That's twice Rolen has risked his hamstring for the team!
• karen lotz

  

  Seriously, Scott Rolen might be the best true baseball player I've ever seen. I'm talking about doing all of the little things fundamentally well. Takes the extra base, tags on short flys to right, that bunt was almost perfect, and he is money at 3rd.
• mhs95_06

  karen lotz;437261 wrote:I might be wrong here but didn't the fox trax thing or whatever show both the 1-0 and 1-1 to be outside of the zone? They were close for sure but you can't ask for the pitch low and outside to be a strike and the up and in one as well.

  
  I didn't see that, but the gameday one on the Reds website showed them to both to be in the strike zone. Surely you can ask for strikes to be called strikes!
• karen lotz

  

  Home plate umpire is clueless tonight. He looked to the 3rd base ump on the appeal of the swing with a right handed batter up. What a clown.
• karen lotz

  

  mhs95_06;437267 wrote:I didn't see that, but the gameday one on the Reds website showed them to both to be in the strike zone. Surely you can ask for strikes to be called strikes!

  
  I rewound my TV and they were both outside the zone. Both really close and could have been called strikes. I'm not complaining, Maddux and Glavine lived about 3 inches off the plate for almost 2 decades.