Reds Expos game 2

• mhs95_06

  Dusty took Bruce out because Dusty can't stand to have a poor bunter up in late inning situations. Cost him yesterday when Bruce was up with two on and no out and he couldn't bunt in a bunting situation and Bruce ended up making an unproductive out when a productive out was needed in the worst way! Simon just got bilked by the umpire of called strike 3 on a full count that would have ended the inning!
• Midstate01

  

  mhs95_06;1143983 wrote:Dusty took Bruce out because Dusty can't stand to have a poor bunter up in late inning situations. Cost him yesterday when Bruce was up with two on and no out and he couldn't bunt in a bunting situation and Bruce ended up making an unproductive out when a productive out was needed in the worst way! Simon just got bilked by the umpire of called strike 3 on a full count that would have ended the inning!

  
  You're an idiot of you think Bruce should be bunting. Sorry. And regardless that's no reason to take him out in the 10 inning a day later.
• Midstate01

  

  Unreal. Gotta do better cozart
• mhs95_06

  Midstate01;1143988 wrote:You're an idiot of you think Bruce should be bunting. Sorry. And regardless that's no reason to take him out in the 10 inning a day later.

  I'm not an idiot, just trying to postulate what idiosyncrasy Dusty's mind came up with to justify that move!
• mhs95_06

  Midstate01;1143990 wrote:Unreal. Gotta do better cozart

  Yes, "stellar" pinch hitting appearance! At least our middle infield defense is better now!
• mhs95_06

  Lead-off double and the runner dies at 2nd!
• brutus161

  

  Fuck you Drew Stubbs! I fucking hate you!
• Midstate01

  

  This team fucking blows at the plate.
• mhs95_06

  Bronson - star of the game. Rest of the team - pathetic! Except for Votto, who can't do it all, and Wash not letting him beat them with 3 walks. Still 1/2 with them pitching around him!
• mhs95_06

  Beginning of the end - lead-off walk to the fastest guy on the team!
• Midstate01

  

  Dusty is always more worried about tomorrow then today with the bullpen.
• mhs95_06

  Hanigan with a great throw to 2B, but Simon just too slow to the plate for him to have a chance to throw him out!
• mhs95_06

  Great play by Cozart to pick off the runner, but a badly botched rundown play by the Reds to let the batter get not one more, but two more bases than he should have gotten with a properly executed run down play. How far removed are they from spring training when they allegedly sharpen up on those type plays?
• sportswizuhrd

  mhs95_06;1144008 wrote:Great play by Cozart to pick off the runner, but a badly botched rundown play by the Reds to let the batter get not one more, but two more bases than he should have gotten with a properly executed run down play. How far removed are they from spring training when they allegedly sharpen up on those type plays?

  Agreed. Rolen should have tagged him out.
  
  Simon gets out of the jam though.
• dave

  Damn, this thing is still going
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  The Nats pitching is for real this year. Damn, they are deep.
• dave

  Can someone explain what happened here? Did Dusty really use his 2nd best hitter to bunt when he had Harris up there already?
  

  - R. Ludwick doubled to left

  - Z. Cozart hit for W. Harris

  - Z. Cozart popped bunt out to catcher

• Midstate01

  

  Good thinking Phillips.... God the approach at the plate is just fucking stupid!!
• Midstate01

  

  dave;1144020 wrote:Can someone explain what happened here? Did Dusty really use his 2nd best hitter to bunt when he had Harris up there already?
  

  - R. Ludwick doubled to left

  - Z. Cozart hit for W. Harris

  - Z. Cozart popped bunt out to catcher

  
  Yep
• Midstate01

  

  That's nowhere near a strike!!!
• mhs95_06

  So now Marshall has to go at least 2 innings, if things work perfectly, for the Reds to win! Unless Dusty uses pitchers who are "unavailable". That's what you get when you:
  
  1) knock a deep fly ball over the fence for a tie game
  2) don't use "stretched out" Chapman for more than 9 pitches
  3) have an offensive abortion not being able to score after a lead-off double
  
  Do you think Dusty is hoping they lose it in Marshall's first inning so they don't have to use any more pitching that will mess them up even more for the future?
• SportsAndLady

  

  uck teh rdesds
• mhs95_06

  Dusty out managed again, among other problems!
• dave

  This team is a mess. Too much talent.
• Azubuike24

  

  It will fly under the radar but yet again, Dusty's management of the pitching staff loses.
  
  Oh, and the hitting also lost it.
  
  Must-win game, 5 outs to go...Chapman + Marshall = win.
  
  The rest they say...is history.