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

• Azubuike24

  

  I feel magic from Stubbs.
  
  The meeting on the mound between McCann and Wagner.
  
  Avoid a FB to Stubbs because he COULD hit it 450 feet.
  
  Most likely a K though. That's what Stubbs does best.
• karen lotz

  

  Walk off here.....
• Azubuike24

  

  Does Stubbs get a fastball on 3-2?
• Azubuike24

  

  He won't hit a FB out.
  
  Only chance Stubbs ties it is if Wagner hangs a slider.
• justincredible

  

  This is crap.
• karen lotz

  

  Whew. Wagner needs to get his shit together soon.
• mhs95_06

  One fastball 3-2 to Stubbs to set-up the 6th slider of the AB for the final out! Great competetive game to watch, but unfortunately it didn't go the Reds way!
• karen lotz

  

  I agree it was a great game. Easy to see why these two teams are leading their divisions.
• mhs95_06

  karen lotz;437272 wrote: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.

  
  Did they both show the whole ball outside the whole box like it needs to be to be properly called a ball?
• The Enforcer

  Cordero is a Bum
  
  Jocketty better go get a closer tomorrow or this team wont make it to October.
• karen lotz

  

  mhs95_06;437287 wrote:Did they both show the whole ball outside the whole box like it needs to be to be properly called a ball?

  
  
  Yes. The 0-1 was closer but it was still outside the box. Like I said, I've seen pitches more off the plate than each of them called strikes. Could have gone either way.
• Rotinaj

  

  Stubbs needs to gtfo right meow!!!!!!
• swamisez

  

  hang that one on Dingle baker. Not pinch hitting for Bruce in the 8th. 1 out, lefty lefty matchup, winning run at 3rd. Sack up and make the switch. Then to top it off, he defensive switches Bruce in the next inning for Heisey, who should have pinch hit for Bruce anyway.
  
  After seeing that blunder I wonder how Dusty has a job still.
  
  He then lets Cordero run out for a 6 inning outing. WTF? Does Dusty have any clue about what is likely going to happen. Walk walk blooper. Ball game.
  
  This one was on you Dusty. Don't blame Cordero, he pitched well enough. He proved many times over he isnt good in more than just save situations, yet Dusty ran him out anyway.
• dave

  swamisez;437347 wrote:hang that one on Dingle baker. Not pinch hitting for Bruce in the 8th. 1 out, lefty lefty matchup, winning run at 3rd. Sack up and make the switch. Then to top it off, he defensive switches Bruce in the next inning for Heisey, who should have pinch hit for Bruce anyway.
  
  After seeing that blunder I wonder how Dusty has a job still.
  
  He then lets Cordero run out for a 6 inning outing. WTF? Does Dusty have any clue about what is likely going to happen. Walk walk blooper. Ball game.
  
  This one was on you Dusty. Don't blame Cordero, he pitched well enough. He proved many times over he isnt good in more than just save situations, yet Dusty ran him out anyway.

  
  agreed on all counts
• killdeer

  

  swamisez;437347 wrote:................After seeing that blunder I wonder how Dusty has a job still..................

  
  sadly, I have shook my head and said that same thing for a couple of years.
• Jughead

  

  swamisez;437347 wrote:Don't blame Cordero, he pitched well enough. He proved many times over he isnt good in more than just save situations, yet Dusty ran him out anyway.

  I'll blame whoever I feel like. He has been nothing short of god awful this year, yet he is somehow a professional closer.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Rotinaj;437292 wrote:Stubbs needs to gtfo right meow!!!!!!

  
  Agreed. Stubbs sucks, and I love the guy. The muther fucker sucks.
• CinciX12

  

  Stubbs is a waste of fucking existence.
  
  And putting Cordero in in the 10th was like a death wish. Baker continues to make bad decisions and he is solely to fault at Cordero running out there. Its not likely Cordero called up the dugout and begged.
• Ironman92

  

  It was a playoff atmosphere all-around....except for the Reds manager.
  
  Orlando Cabrera at 2-0 in the 9th with 2 outs that pitch from a good angle in my shallow OF seats looked too high...nothing like that had been called all game...the 2-1 pitch (which woulod've been 3-0 looked good enough....but 3-1 and 2-2 are quite different.....then the ump follows Cabrera towards SS after the AB/Inning....next half ump doesn't call pitches on Braves and Cabrera is fire hot at SS kicking dirt everywhere and throwing arms up in disgust.
  
  Heyward is a beast.....I was yelling, no no when Rolen tagged on the ball to RF kinda down the line and medium deep and that ball went about 300 feet in about 1 1/2 seconds and beat Rolen by a mile but was offline enough.....there aren't any arms better than that...no way
  
  Scott Rolen tried bunting with no one on in the 10th......no one thought of that....he's the best team player ever....he just gets it
  
  Votto is so locked in