Reds at Cards, game 1

• mhs95_06

  Reds can lose the next 5 games and still have a winning record for August, but if they don't step up and win more games starting this week, they'll have the opportunity for one and out in the playoffs.
• thavoice

  mhs95_06;1491407 wrote:Reds can lose the next 5 games and still have a winning record for August, but if they don't step up and win more games starting this week, they'll have the opportunity for one and out in the playoffs.

  Too early to set the rotation up so Latos can pitch in that one game playoff, and then have Cingrani, Bailey and leak to throw the first three games of the next series?
• Rotinaj

  

  Reds lose. We'll be lucky to score 5 runs this series.
• Azubuike24

  

  Rotinaj;1491428 wrote:Reds lose. We'll be lucky to score 5 runs this series.

  Lose 2 of 3, outscore the opponent. Probably win like 9-2 in one game, then only score 3 combined the other 2 games. I'll bank on the big W coming tomorrow night.
• sportchampps

  I actually have a good feeling about this series. Reds win tonight 4-1.
• wildcats20

  

  Choo CF
  Frazier 3B
  Votto 1B
  BP 2B
  Bruce RF
  Ludwick LF
  Mesoraco C
  Cozart SS
  Leake P
• Ironman92

  

  If we don't win this game....
• Ironman92

  

  Frazier is 1/39 against the Cards???
• mhs95_06

  Lyons bamboozles the Reds 2 and 3 hitters! My thought when Choo walked to lead off was that this might be the most promising point of the whole game for the Reds. And so far it is. We'll see what happens from here.
• mhs95_06

  Ump blew the K call on Leake's 2-2 pitch to the lead-off hitter.
• wildcats20

  

  Ironman92;1491546 wrote:Frazier is 1/39 against the Cards???

  
  Not good?
• mhs95_06

  Leake robbed again by the 1-1 call to Molina.
• mhs95_06

  Cozart follows the missed DP with a gap shot triple to RCF, and a 2-0 lead. Oppo pays off! Can Leake get the "easy" RBI?
• mhs95_06

  mhs95_06;1491566 wrote:Cozart follows the missed DP with a gap shot triple to RCF, and a 2-0 lead. Oppo pays off! Can Leake get the "easy" RBI?

  No, but he draws a big walk, then Choo gets bamboozled, but Frazier does not this time and gets a big two RBI triple. Cards get burned trying to get more offense in the game by playing Descalso, and miss the DP to end the inning still scoreless, resulting in a 4-0 game.
• mhs95_06

  Leake with a nice 6 pitch inning in the 2nd.
• mhs95_06

  After Jay gets a hit to put one on in the 3rd, Leake robbed again by the ump on the 0-1 pitch, then he subsequently walked Jay ahead of the deflating 3 run HR.
• Midstate01

  

  The strike zone is COMPLETELY different for leake then it is for lyons
• mhs95_06

  Leake gets them 1,2,3 in the 4th, the same 3 batters as in the 2nd, this time on 11 pitches. But, next inning they start the same place in the order as they did in the inning they got 3 runs.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Just turned this one on..heard Holiday's HR was a bomb
• Rotinaj

  

  Reds lose 6-4.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Looking at the box score..this is a classic "score a ton of runs early, then don't score any" type of loss.
• Terry_Tate

  

  SportsAndLady;1491612 wrote:Looking at the box score..this is a classic "score a ton of runs early, then don't score any" type of loss.

  I was thinking the same thing. Up 4-0 early and I would still have put it above a 50% chance that the Reds lose.
  
  On perfect pace to lose 6-4.
• Ironman92

  

  The strike zone is as much homer as I've witnessed in a long long time.
• Rotinaj

  

  Damnit, why did we have to score!!! Ruined MY prediction!!
• mhs95_06

  Cozart with his 2nd gapper, this time a 2B to LCF, and his 3rd RBI, another big one, an add on run to boost the lead to two!