D Backs @ Reds - Game 1

• wildcats20

  

  Once again, a Reds SP gave up something in the first. A homer to Ryan Roberts.
  
  Reds got it back though in the 2nd with a sac fly from Janish, scoring Gomes.
• wildcats20

  

  And of course Kelly Johnson just blasts one to dead CF and it's 2-1 D Backs.
• wildcats20

  

  Stubbsy!!
• SportsAndLady

  

  Stubbs almost hit one out his first AB, must be seeing the ball well tonight.
• wildcats20

  

  And BP with a double to right.
• mhs95_06

  Votto not able to get even a productive out.
• justincredible

  

  mhs95_06;745322 wrote:Votto not able to get even a productive out.

  
  He sucks. Trade him.
• wildcats20

  

  And Rolen picks Joey up with a run scoring double to right. 3-2 Red Legs
• wildcats20

  

  Basically a swinging bunt for Jay.
  
  
  
  And Gomes has Guns n Roses as his walk up music. Nice.
• mhs95_06

  Rolen's ball to RF finds the grass - glad this one did rather than the 1st inning one! 3-2 Reds.
• mhs95_06

  Ump giving strikes on pitches off the plate away to Gomes!
• mhs95_06

  mhs95_06;745332 wrote:Ump giving strikes on pitches off the plate away to Gomes!

  
  Ump doing the same thing for LeCure to Drew, calls a strike on the first pitch even further out than to Gomes. However Galarraga takes advantage and throws 3 out there aaand gets the K, while Sam goes elsewhere, down the middle on the 3rd pitch and Drew gets a hit.
• mhs95_06

  It's a struggle, but LeCure escapes the 4th without giving up a run to preserve, for now, the 1 run lead.
• wildcats20

  

  LeCure fields his position REALLY well on that play. Nice.
• wildcats20

  

  Pretty sure that hit off the little row of concrete just on the HR side of the yellow pad, should be a HR.
• mhs95_06

  In the 5th the Reds great defense is able to knock the lead runner off twice, but it is all for naught as there is no defense for a HR over the wall! Well maybe great defense may have turned that 2nd one that Bruce missed into an out instead of a HR.
• wildcats20

  

  And they keep it at a triple, kind of surprising to me.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Gotta catch that Bruce, come on
  
  Rough start to the season for him.
• charliehustle14

  Freakin Roberts has 4 HR on the year, 3 vs the Reds.
• mhs95_06

  A swat play by LeCure for the 3rd out saves the runner from 3rd scoring. 4-3 AZ.
• charliehustle14

  Phillips chased a terrible pitch to hit into the double play. Man the Reds are scuffling. Complete night and day difference compared to the way the offense was rolling to start the season.
• mhs95_06

  Ump didn't give any, in fact took some away, from the outside corner in favor of Stubbs on the 3-2 pitch to lead-off the 5th with a BB! But BP promptly hits into a DP, and Galarraga is out of the inning on just 9 pitches, just 3 more after the 6 for the BB!
• mhs95_06

  Young hits the "cripple" way over the CF wall to lead-off the 6th.
• se-alum

  

  Even when the Reds pitchers are getting outs, they are working way too hard to get 'em.
• wildcats20

  

  FWIW...
  
  The Reds were 4 games back at this point last year. I'm so sick of hearing all of the "world ending" shit everywhere.