Anyone read these "5 things about today's game" every day from John Fay? Love reading these after the game. I'll start posting them on here from time to time.
–A 3-1 win Sunday gave the Reds their first 3-game sweep of the Mets in New York since 2001. The Reds at 38-27 are a season high 11 games over .500 and continue to lead the NL Central by 4 games.–Did Brandon Phillips really do that? Yes he did. The between-the-legs flip to Zack Cozart to start a 4-6-3 double play happened so quickly, many had to watch TV replays to see if Phillips had thrown the ball through his legs or behind his back. Reds fans will recall that Phillips did another through-the-legs flip last year, to first base.
Phillips, asked to rate Sunday’s play, smiled and said:
“Honestly I haven’t seen it. I don’t know what it looks like on TV, but just how it felt, I’d probably give it an 8 ½. A lot of people just said it looks like it was effortless. The thing is, though, I practice on stuff like that during batting practice.”
– The Mets rocked a good Tampa Bay staff for 29 runs in a three-game sweep. In come the Reds, hold the Mets to five runs in three games. The Amazin’s, as some call them here in NY, are suddenly hitting like the famously un-Amazin’ 1962 Mets.
“That’s baseball,” Reds manager Dusty Baker said. “That’s something you can’t figure out. But they say good pitching beats good hitting, and we had very good pitching this weekend.”
–The Reds started a man hitting .156 (Miguel Cairo), a man hitting .108 (Willie Harris) and a man making his third career start in center field (Wilson Valdez). Valdez tied Sunday’s game with an RBI single in the fifth inning and continues to make the plays defensively. Cairo and Harris each went hitless but each stole a base. And the Reds just keep winning.
–George Herman “Joey” Votto was 3-for-4 and walked once (intentionally), and is now hitting .366. ESPN’s Jayson Stark calls Votto the human Astounding Fact and compares Votto to Babe Ruth, noting that Votto entered the weekend on pace for 201 hits and 136 walks. Stark reports that the only other man with that many walks in a 200-hit season is Ruth, who did it three times.
Ironman92;1202313 wrote:Kudos on the quick edit! Got me!
Sweep!!! And did it with a TERRIBLE lineup today!
wildcats20;1202328 wrote:There is literally no other way for BP to make that play.
The Reds are good at baseball.