Reds vs. Astros - Game 1

• mhs95_06

  Then Cairo fails to advance Stubbs on his out!
• wildcats20

  

  There ya go Joseph.
• wildcats20

  

  And Brandon delivers!
• dave

  ok ok
• wildcats20

  

  Brucey needs to rip one again.
• mhs95_06

  Votto knocks Stubbs in and puts himself in scoring position, and Brandon looks bad early in the AB then puts a blooper in a good spot for an RBI!
• dave

  BP is really hot. He's almost putting up the same numbers as Cano, even with the pitcher and janish/ER batting ahead of him most of the year.
• Ironman92

  

  What was the great play by Stubbs. The throw was very good but from shallow CF and 275 lb 35 year old Carlos Lee running.....
  
  This is the big leagues....that play has to be made.
• stroups

  

  Carlos Lee might be the biggest turd in all of MLB. I feel bad for Astro fans because that guy is seriously terrible.
• wildcats20

  

  Ironman92;848823 wrote:What was the great play by Stubbs. The throw was very good but from shallow CF and 275 lb 35 year old Carlos Lee running.....
  
  This is the big leagues....that play has to be made.

  
  Thank you.
• Ironman92

  

  Humberto came into this game like 2/17 off of Arroyo....he is killing us.
• se-alum

  

  How about BP stops trying to steal bases, he has become terrible at it.
• dave

  stroups;848824 wrote:Carlos Lee might be the biggest turd in all of MLB. I feel bad for Astro fans because that guy is seriously terrible.

  He's better than Griffey was here
• Ironman92

  

  When Phillips drops one of those doing that shit I'm going off on here instant classic style.
• mhs95_06

  Ironman92;848823 wrote:What was the great play by Stubbs. The throw was very good but from shallow CF and 275 lb 35 year old Carlos Lee running.....
  
  This is the big leagues....that play has to be made.

  
  I was impressed with how quickly Stubbs picked up the ball, was in throwing position, and threw a strike to Cairo, avoiding hitting the runner who he was pretty much on line with. Was a lot like the Bruce throwing out Keppinger play, which I thought was a much better calculated risk by the runner than this one, mostly because of how many outs there were at the time.
• mhs95_06

  se-alum;848828 wrote:How about BP stops trying to steal bases, he has become terrible at it.

  
  I agree in principle, but think that was the right play in that situation.
• mhs95_06

  If Alonso gets to face Norris again it will be a bad omen for the Reds chances to win.
• mhs95_06

  Just inches away from converting 60/1 odds!
• dave

  Volquez: 7 IP, 5 H, 2 R (both solo homers), 6K, 2 BB, HBP, 111 pitches, 69 strikes
• Ironman92

  

  mhs95_06;848840 wrote:I was impressed with how quickly Stubbs picked up the ball, was in throwing position, and threw a strike to Cairo, avoiding hitting the runner who he was pretty much on line with. Was a lot like the Bruce throwing out Keppinger play, which I thought was a much better calculated risk by the runner than this one, mostly because of how many outs there were at the time.

  
  Stretching a little.....that throw was not nearly as good as Bruce's to get Keppinger. Bruce threw a cannon shot to get Kepp by mere inches and COMPLETELY in the line of Kepp running....Stubbs threw the ball when Carlos Glacier Lee was still 35 feet from 3rd....threw him out by 12 feet...not nearly the high pressure throw.
• mhs95_06

  mhs95_06;848853 wrote:Just inches away from converting 60/1 odds!

  
  Well maybe it was a yard!
• se-alum

  

  mhs95_06;848840 wrote:I was impressed with how quickly Stubbs picked up the ball, was in throwing position, and threw a strike to Cairo, avoiding hitting the runner who he was pretty much on line with. Was a lot like the Bruce throwing out Keppinger play, which I thought was a much better calculated risk by the runner than this one, mostly because of how many outs there were at the time.

  
  You're easily impressed.
• dave

  wow that was a strange bounce, have to score from first there.
• Ironman92

  

  Lol.....I described Janish at 60/1 odds perfectly on vbookie!
  
  Inches from about 15,000 vbucks
• mhs95_06

  se-alum;848861 wrote:You're easily impressed.

  
  Maybe even a smaller thing that impressed me was on the triple Stubbs was running down as it was rolling to the wall in RCF, I noticed Stubbs running toward a point 6-8 feet to the left of where the ball was going to hit, and sure enough the ball bounced directly to that spot to the left that Stubbs was running to. Didn't save any bases, but it impressed me!