Great start for the Redlegs..

Ram Fan04 · 07-16-2010, 09:40 PM

Great way to start the second half of the season! And how about that bullpen. Rhodes was nasty in the 8th! Great American sure was rocking tonight!

**Scotty doesn't know** · 07-17-2010, 01:33 AM

Beat me to the punch my friend!! Yea sounded like a fantastic game to have gone to!! All of the world series stuff going on and a close Reds win!! Cant ask for anything better than that!! I think me and the fiance are going to try to go up and see a game next week!! Cant wait to see them again!!

Grand Slam · 07-17-2010, 04:20 AM

Nice showing...Hated to see Bruce's homer get robbed

**Mr. Pike Central** · 07-17-2010, 01:59 PM

Big Daddy Rhodes was masterful!

**Scotty doesn't know** · 07-18-2010, 12:35 AM

Rhodes is indeed the man and win continue to be the man!!

**Amun-Ra** · 07-18-2010, 07:36 PM

Well it was a great start. Now the Reds have lost their lead in the central and are a half game back of the Cardinals.

**Scotty doesn't know** · 07-18-2010, 08:58 PM

Thats what happens when you have Horrid situational hitting. Score 0 runs on 8 hits whereas the previous day they score 8 runs on 5 hits. Our offense will just not stay consistent for us to get a comfortable lead in this division.... ugh.

**BCF4L** · 07-19-2010, 08:44 AM

Jay Bruce needs to be benched. Dude couldn't hit a fat bull in the *** with a bass fiddle.

**Stardust** · 07-19-2010, 10:14 AM

BCF4L Wrote:Jay Bruce needs to be benched. Dude couldn't hit a fat bull in the *** with a bass fiddle.

He's playing because of his defense, which is outstanding.

**BCF4L** · 07-19-2010, 11:30 AM

Stardust Wrote:He's playing because of his defense, which is outstanding.

I do agree there. But the problem is, their defense is just fine. Heck, stick Heisey in right, Stubbs in center, and Gomes in left. Heisey is batting .282 right now, which is better than Bruce. The Reds have lost 1-0 in 3 of their last 5 games. I realize Bruce didn't play yesterday, so he isn't the only culprit, but the Reds left 14 runners on base yesterday. How do you have that many base runners without scoring a single run? They're not getting productive at bats.

**Stardust** · 07-19-2010, 12:13 PM

BCF4L Wrote:I do agree there. But the problem is, their defense is just fine. Heck, stick Heisey in right, Stubbs in center, and Gomes in left. Heisey is batting .282 right now, which is better than Bruce. The Reds have lost 1-0 in 3 of their last 5 games. I realize Bruce didn't play yesterday, so he isn't the only culprit, but the Reds left 14 runners on base yesterday. How do you have that many base runners without scoring a single run? They're not getting productive at bats.

Which is key and I do agree. Though I love what Bruce does for this team defensively, when you are not producing as a team, time to start putting sticks in the line-up. Heisey is not an equal to Bruce with the glove and arm, but his bat more than makes up for it.

**Scotty doesn't know** · 07-19-2010, 01:19 PM

Stardust Wrote:Which is key and I do agree. Though I love what Bruce does for this team defensively, when you are not producing as a team, time to start putting sticks in the line-up. Heisey is not an equal to Bruce with the glove and arm, but his bat more than makes up for it.

You could probably make the same argument for Stubbs who is batting .244 but has been hitting well as of late. But I do not think that Dusty will make a decision like that for those guys. I think that Heisey has shown so much from his hitting ability and well need that right now with a power bat like Bruce struggling mightily. I would say that we have to have production and good situational hitting from everyone but even Heisey was a victim of that yesterday failing to make contact with the ball in a key situation the 9th. The team is just wildly inconsistent in their hitting and scoring going one day with an offensive explosion and then the next failing to score a run. They have to pick it up if we are going to make it into the post season.