Braves @ Reds - Game 1

• swamisez

  

  Strangely, I figured Prado would single up the middle if they put Uggla on anyway. Letting Gonzales get on was the killer.
• SportsAndLady

  

  justincredible;838465 wrote:Ghey

  
  Sorry man...I really wanted to go, just not in the budget
• mhs95_06

  mhs95_06;838475 wrote:Looks like Masset is going to take his chances with Prado instead of Uggla.

  
  That's what Brantley thought he was thinking, but he thought that was a mistake as Prado is "locked in"! Then he says they came out and told Masset you better try to get Uggla out instead. Then the 2 run HR!
• justincredible

  

  This was a scheduled loss anyway. They won their last game.
• se-alum

  

  dave;838481 wrote:what kind of scouting report do these coaches have?

  
  Lol...the Reds don't use scouting reports...that's been painfully obvious this year.
• Jughead

  

  Ball game! Reds already had their inning that they scored more than one run. Recent history has told us that there will not be another multi-run inning as the bats tend to go away.
• swamisez

  

  Reds and Bengals are sharing scouting departments it seems.
• dave

  haha, Gomes is going to bat instead of Ramon, Bruce, Edgar, Leake, etc
• mhs95_06

  swamisez;838484 wrote:Letting Gonzales get on was the killer.

  
  That along with the Stubbs wrist play and the butchering of the home half of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th innings when the lead-off batter got on! I still can't get over calling that suicide squeeze on a 3-2 count when you've got one of your few hitters that have a clue and is proficient in getting runs in from 3rd with less than two out, and don't let him do his job! If they walk him, you just hit and run from 1st with Hanigan and you get a run on an infield grounder and still clear the pitcher, and that should be worst case.
• se-alum

  

  dave;838492 wrote:haha, Gomes is going to bat instead of Ramon, Bruce, Edgar, Leake, etc

  
  Dontrelle....
• swamisez

  

  mhs95_06;838495 wrote:That along with the Stubbs wrist play and the butchering of the home half of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th innings when the lead-off batter got on! I still can't get over calling that suicide squeeze on a 3-2 count when you've got one of your few hitters that have a clue and is proficient in getting runs in from 3rd with less than two out, and don't let him do his job! If they walk him, you just hit and run from 1st with Hanigan and you get a run on an infield grounder and still clear the pitcher, and that should be worst case.

  
  Agree, lewis not moving runner to 3rd with 0 outs, and failure to get the run in the 3rd (would have had game 3-1 Reds). Little things this team does not do well. Its the bigs, the margin is too thin not to execute.
• dave

  Stubbs goes 1-4, 3K hit a homer, cost a homer
  
  That will improve his WAR but he didn't help the team
• se-alum

  

  You just have to laugh at a Jonny Gomes AB.
• dave

  se-alum;838497 wrote:Dontrelle....

  
  shit I forgot about him, that's probably the best option of em all.
• swamisez

  

  Braves announcer, "Bull Rides last longer than that Gomes at bat."
• mhs95_06

  Kimbrel throws a perfect pitch for strike 3 to Stubbs, but with Stubbs you don't need a perfect one!
• Midstate01

  

  swamisez;838502 wrote:Braves announcer, "Bull Rides last longer than that Gomes at bat."

  
  And they wanna trade for him. Stoooopid
• Jughead

  

  LOL, the Indian chant by some of the Braves fans in attendance.
• mhs95_06

  Gomes helpless! But Hanigan at least makes a bid!
• karen lotz

  

  Midstate01;838504 wrote:And they wanna trade for him. Stoooopid

  
  I will pray tonight that doesn't happen. Although to be fair he'd be brought in to face LHP. Braves are worst in MLB in that category.
• karen lotz

  

  Jughead;838505 wrote:LOL, the Indian chant by some of the Braves fans in attendance.

  
  Happens everywhere they go.
• mhs95_06

  swamisez;838498 wrote:Agree, lewis not moving runner to 3rd with 0 outs, and failure to get the run in the 3rd (would have had game 3-1 Reds). Little things this team does not do well. Its the bigs, the margin is too thin not to execute.

  
  Reds stole two bases on the P & C to put runners on 2nd with none out twice, only to have Stubbs and Lewis fail to move them to 3rd. And also when Heisey led off the 3rd with HBP, Cozart lets HRs in his two previous ABs in GABP go to his head and is also tainted by other team members bad examples of plate approaches, and tries to hit a 400' 2 run HR, but instead ruins the inning with a 5-4-3 DP! Once the Braves tied it 4-4 it was their big advantage with their great bullpen, even though they were on the wrong side strategically by being the visiting team.