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05-17-2012, 07:07 PM
NEW YORK â The Redsâ best two relievers werenât good at all Thursday.
Aroldis Chapman gave up a run and the lead in the seventh. Logan Ondrusek gave up five runs in the eighth.
The Reds blew a 4-0 lead, made two errors and failed take advantage of scoring chances in the sixth and seventh.
The Reds split the two-game series.
Starter Mat Latos is keeping the Reds in the game lately. The problem is Latos isnât going very deep in the game himself.http://cincinnati.com/blogs/reds/2012/05...2-after-5/
Aroldis Chapman gave up a run and the lead in the seventh. Logan Ondrusek gave up five runs in the eighth.
The Reds blew a 4-0 lead, made two errors and failed take advantage of scoring chances in the sixth and seventh.
The Reds split the two-game series.
Starter Mat Latos is keeping the Reds in the game lately. The problem is Latos isnât going very deep in the game himself.http://cincinnati.com/blogs/reds/2012/05...2-after-5/
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05-18-2012, 03:15 AM
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NEW YORK — Reliever Logan Ondrusek was talking about his performance, but he pretty much summed up the Reds day as well.
“It wasn’t pretty – that’s for sure,” Ondrusek said.
For sure. The Reds 9-4 loss to the New York Mets Thursday before a crowd 29,943 at Citi Field in the finale of the two-game series was probably the ugliest of the year.
The Reds blew a 4-0, made two errors and squander a couple of fat scoring chance in the sixth and seventh. And, oh yeah, Aroldis Chapman and Ordrusek gave up runs. That’s the first time that’s happened this year.
“We didn’t play well the last five innings,” Red manager Dusty Baker said.
The Reds had a hard time solving New York knuckleballer R.A. Dickey early. But Joey Votto crushed a 73 mph fastball in the fourth. It went off the facing of the upper deck in right for his sixth home run of the year.
The Reds added three in the fifth. That made it 4-0. The Reds didn’t know it then, but the offense was done for the day.
The Mets cut the lead in half in the fifth on Lucas Duda’s two-out, two-run double.
It looked like the Reds might blow it open in the sixth, instead they got none.
Votto led off with a single and Brandon Phillips doubled. But Votto tried to score on Jay Bruce’s foul pop behind first base. Second baseman Daniel Murphy turned his back to make the play. But he quickly recovered and threw Votto out by 10 feet.
“He thought he could make it,” Baker said. “(Murphy) was running away from him. But he turned and threw a one-hop strike to the plate. That was a big play. We were potentially about to blow that game open.
“It wasn’t a bad play by Joey. It was a good play on the second baseman.”
Latos didn’t retire a batter in the sixth. He walked Ike Davis is start the sixth and allowed a single to Ronny Cedeno.
J.J. Hoover came on the Reds. Nickeas tried to bunt the runners over. He reached when Frazier couldn’t pick up the ball. Pinch-hitter Mike Davis got Davis in with a sac fly. Hoover held it there.
“We’ve got to find a way to get through the sixth,” Baker said. “We need him to go farther. He just lost it there.”
With Chapman, Ondrusek and closer Sean Marshall all available, holding a one-run lead wasn’t out of the question.
But the Mets tied it against Chapman in the seventh. David Wright walked on 3-2 pitch to start the inning. Duda singled. Murphy followed with a flyball to shallow center. Drew Stubbs tried to make a sliding catch, but he had it go off his glove for an error, loading the bases.
“That’s a catch Drew usually makes,” Baker said. “It went off the side of his glove. That’s how the ball started dropping for them.”
Justin Turner got the run in with a sac fly to right.
Chapman escaped from there. The run, the first Chapman has allowed this year, was unearned.
Ondrusek, who like Chapman had not given up a run coming into the game, gave up five in the eighth.
Ondrusek struck out Torres to start the inning. Nieuwenhuis followed with a perfect down the third base line. Wright doubled to center -- on a pitch after a 2-2 pitch that Ondrusek thought was Strike 3 -- to break the tie.
“The whole game turned on one pitch in one at-bat,” he said. “I thought it was really close. It’s up to the umpire. That’s the way it goes sometimes. I needed to make a better pitch on the next one.”
Ondrusek got Duda to fly out. The Red intentionally walked Murphy. Justin Turner got in a run with bloop single to center.
Ronny Cedeno broke it open with three-run home run to left -- his first home run of the season.
The bunt and bloop were bad luck.
“But I’ve got to bear down and not give up five,” Ondrusek said
NEW YORK — Reliever Logan Ondrusek was talking about his performance, but he pretty much summed up the Reds day as well.
“It wasn’t pretty – that’s for sure,” Ondrusek said.
For sure. The Reds 9-4 loss to the New York Mets Thursday before a crowd 29,943 at Citi Field in the finale of the two-game series was probably the ugliest of the year.
The Reds blew a 4-0, made two errors and squander a couple of fat scoring chance in the sixth and seventh. And, oh yeah, Aroldis Chapman and Ordrusek gave up runs. That’s the first time that’s happened this year.
“We didn’t play well the last five innings,” Red manager Dusty Baker said.
The Reds had a hard time solving New York knuckleballer R.A. Dickey early. But Joey Votto crushed a 73 mph fastball in the fourth. It went off the facing of the upper deck in right for his sixth home run of the year.
The Reds added three in the fifth. That made it 4-0. The Reds didn’t know it then, but the offense was done for the day.
The Mets cut the lead in half in the fifth on Lucas Duda’s two-out, two-run double.
It looked like the Reds might blow it open in the sixth, instead they got none.
Votto led off with a single and Brandon Phillips doubled. But Votto tried to score on Jay Bruce’s foul pop behind first base. Second baseman Daniel Murphy turned his back to make the play. But he quickly recovered and threw Votto out by 10 feet.
“He thought he could make it,” Baker said. “(Murphy) was running away from him. But he turned and threw a one-hop strike to the plate. That was a big play. We were potentially about to blow that game open.
“It wasn’t a bad play by Joey. It was a good play on the second baseman.”
Latos didn’t retire a batter in the sixth. He walked Ike Davis is start the sixth and allowed a single to Ronny Cedeno.
J.J. Hoover came on the Reds. Nickeas tried to bunt the runners over. He reached when Frazier couldn’t pick up the ball. Pinch-hitter Mike Davis got Davis in with a sac fly. Hoover held it there.
“We’ve got to find a way to get through the sixth,” Baker said. “We need him to go farther. He just lost it there.”
With Chapman, Ondrusek and closer Sean Marshall all available, holding a one-run lead wasn’t out of the question.
But the Mets tied it against Chapman in the seventh. David Wright walked on 3-2 pitch to start the inning. Duda singled. Murphy followed with a flyball to shallow center. Drew Stubbs tried to make a sliding catch, but he had it go off his glove for an error, loading the bases.
“That’s a catch Drew usually makes,” Baker said. “It went off the side of his glove. That’s how the ball started dropping for them.”
Justin Turner got the run in with a sac fly to right.
Chapman escaped from there. The run, the first Chapman has allowed this year, was unearned.
Ondrusek, who like Chapman had not given up a run coming into the game, gave up five in the eighth.
Ondrusek struck out Torres to start the inning. Nieuwenhuis followed with a perfect down the third base line. Wright doubled to center -- on a pitch after a 2-2 pitch that Ondrusek thought was Strike 3 -- to break the tie.
“The whole game turned on one pitch in one at-bat,” he said. “I thought it was really close. It’s up to the umpire. That’s the way it goes sometimes. I needed to make a better pitch on the next one.”
Ondrusek got Duda to fly out. The Red intentionally walked Murphy. Justin Turner got in a run with bloop single to center.
Ronny Cedeno broke it open with three-run home run to left -- his first home run of the season.
The bunt and bloop were bad luck.
“But I’ve got to bear down and not give up five,” Ondrusek said
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Latos didn't pitch bad, he just had some trouble hitting his spots and resulted in a few walks and a elevated pitch count.
The bullpen, boy...they just flat bombed for the first time all season pretty much.
You could say this was perhaps the worst loss of the season, up 4-0...bullpen blows it...had several opportunities to score more runs.
Not good.
The bullpen, boy...they just flat bombed for the first time all season pretty much.
You could say this was perhaps the worst loss of the season, up 4-0...bullpen blows it...had several opportunities to score more runs.
Not good.
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