May 3, 2007
Reds Finishing Road Trip in Houston
By
Amanda
Posted at 8:15 pm
I'm starting late and I'll be ducking out to watch The Office, but I wanted to get a post up to say “Yay Griffey!”
C. Trent has the line-ups:
Your Cincinnati Reds
Ryan Freel CF
Brandon Phillips 2B
Ken Griffey Jr RF
Jeff Conine 1B
Alex Gonzalez SS
Adam Dunn LF
Edwin Encarnación 3B
David Ross C
Eric Milton P
Astros
Biggio 2b (.174)
Ensberg 3b (.545)
Berkman 1b (.000)
Lee lf (.167)
Lane rf (.000(
Pence cf n/a
Everett ss (.125)
Ausmus c (.320)
Rodriguez p
It’s never good to see the Astros come up with a couple runs in the first.
I mean three. And the bases are loaded with just one out. Milton isn’t going to last long, though I give at least some of the blame to Alex Gonzalez. Where’s that superlative defense he’s supposed to have?
Are we going up against Wandy tonight? That Wandy always has our number.
Ohhh, boy, here we go again. Gonna be one of those Milton nights. 🙁
FWIW, Current averages for Astros per AP:
Biggio .255
Ensberg .243
Berkman .264
Lee .276
Lane .227
Pence .294
Everett .212
Ausmus .297
Rodriguez .111
And the Astros now lead 4-1.
What’d I miss for The Office? Oh, the Astros have only scored one more. That’s good at least.
It’s disheartening for the Reds to be losing to this Astros team. They really are not very good.
You called it about Wandy, RHM, he struck out the side swinging in the fifth.
This team STILL strikes out way too much.
Amen to that.
All right! Ross makes contact and brings in Dunn. Yippee!
You know your team’s in an offensive funk when the guy they send to the plate as a pinch-hitter to represent the potential tying run in the seventh inning is batting .120
What is Wandy even short for? Wandrew? Wandrace? Wandrelle?
Let’s get Salmon in there, he’s about due to pick up his first major league win. 😉
They should have left Milton in to hit…what they need in his case is a pinch pitcher.
According to the Astros’ website, it’s his given name – Wandy Fulton Rodriguez
Might need a pinch-pitcher for Cofeey too by the look of things
Coffey. Sorry for the typos, I’m doing three things at once here.
Cool, 6-3 DP gets the Reds out of it.
Don’t worry about the typos, man. I hardly ever make fun of people’s typos. 😛
Come on, Freel. We need a baserunner!
And the guy with three first names is now in right field for the Astros. 😀
A walk will do. Keep it going Phillips.
Top of the eighth and the Reds behind but still within striking distance. Now is the time we expect our boys to do nothing in particular. Hope for turning over a new leaf?
Maybe so. Nice triple, Brandon!
Cool, they’re teeing off on Qualls, who is 0-2 against Cinci for his career and seems to be trying hard to make it 0-3. :laugh:
All right! Griffey brings in the tying run!
Thems the Reds I like–but don’t usually get–to see!
And now Griffey’s stealing bases? Have I slipped into an alternate dimension?
TIE ballgame!
Git that suckah!
“Yay Griffey!” – isn’t this where we came in?
That was Griffey’s first SB since April 18, 2004.
You know what this means?
Milton won’t get the loss! 😉
Not Gonzalez! What will we do without his bat??
Not that I’m complaining, but why is Qualls still pitching?
That’s a timely steal. Griffey had 1 in 2004, 1 in 2003, 1 in 2002, 2 in 2001, and 6 in 2000.
Maybe he’ll have a career year in steals for the Reds!
Actually, I’m worried right now because as things currently stand, Coffey is the winning pitcher. RHM, you seem to have karma figured out better than I do. Does this hold up or not?
:confused:
What makes Griffey even *think* to steal when he hasn’t done it in three years, and even then, hardly ever? Is Dunner giving him a hard time about his lack of SBs?
Coffey’s all sorts of good karma. Karma needs to make up for his geekiness.
I wonder if that steal has something to do with how Griffey and Dunn are always razzing each other about their home runs…because Dunn has, like, six steals this year. Maybe he razzed Griffey about that, so Ken went out and swiped a base?
Boo Stanton! Get somebody out!
That’s a good kind of razzing–so long as Griffey doesn’t get hurt.
C’mon Stanton. Don’t make us relegate you to pick-off duty!
Demmit Narron! Why did he take Coffey out?
We have the stupidest manager in baseball. :angry:
:O
How much do I hate the bullpen? So much.
Narron’s going to be missing some games for his daughter’s graduation. If the Reds win while he’s gone, I’m getting on the Bucky-Dent-for-Manager bandwagon.
I forgot it was the 8th inning. :rolleyes:
There was no reason for Coffey to have to come out. It would not have been his second time facing Everett, and he only threw 17 pitches.
Adam Everett’s career numbers vs. Coffey: 1-for-4 with 2K.
Attempting to figure out Jerry Narron’s thought processes concerning bullpen decisions leads to madness. There’s no rhyme or reason to it.
I’ll be watching with interest the games that Narron’s away to see how B. F. Dent manages the bullpen.
Final: Pittsburgh 4, Milwaukee 2.
I thought Freel had already struck out! Very nice to see him get a hit.
No outs with two on in the ninth. Can the offense overcome the bullpen’s and the manager’s failings?
Pittsburgh over Milwaukee. As unimpressed as I’ve been with the play from every single team in the NLC, I am impressed with how close to each other they seem to be.
Yeah, RHM, Zeldink, you guys are right. Maybe while Narron’s away they’ll get to see what the team can do when they don’t have their own manager cutting their throats in the late innings, and something will get done about it.
OK, here we go, three-run dinger by griffey to win it.
Ugh. I’m ill. Did I stay up until 11 for THAT?
Ugh. I guess not. Maybe some time soon the Reds won’t have to be playing against their own manager.
Yeah, I know. I can dream.
Nope, DP, and this one belongs to the Astros.
That’s one reason this business with Narron mishandling the bullpen is so frustrating to me, RHM. The way the division is the Reds could easily be in first place, despite not having hit for most of April. They just lost a game they should have won, and would have gained a game on the Brewers. 🙁
BTW, they changed the date for retiring Concepcion’s number so if anybody was going to get tickets for that game, double-check the date first.
That Eric Milton poll is liable to be valid through July.