place!

This was a game that good teams win, what with the rookie pitching against our ace (can I say that?). Just have to stop my hopes from getting up, lest they be crushed in a few weeks or months.

The only cloud on the horizon for SD is the return of the rangeless, batless wonder at SS. Since Cherry Hudson Jr. was inserted in the lineup, he’s had 13 hits in 32 ABs. His average has skyrocketed 103 points, his OBP’s climbed 97 points, and he’s OPSing nearly 200 points higher. He’s flashed the leather many times out at short. In short, he’s on fire.

Meanwhile, A-Gon also has 13 hits…On the entire season. Please Dusty, winning is too much fun. Let this lineup play as is until someone figures out how to cool down the 2009 Cincinnati Reds.

I fell asleep before I could write: “All you need to know: FIRST PLACE, BITCHES!”

But at least you got my phrasing.

that AGon is in the lineup tomorrow. I wouldn’t mind Cherry spelling Rosales, or playing in LF against lefties. But since all three games in SD are against righties, it’s going to be interesting to see what Dusty does.

Who’d have thought that we’d be worrying about getting Nix and Hairston enough playing time?

Well, let’s just hope Arroyo drinks plenty of Emergen-C between Tijuana tonight and his start on Sunday.

i really have nothing to say but GO REDS!

It was Cincinnati’s first sweep in Arizona since 1999. Gerardo Parra homered in his first major league at-bat, the 100th player to do so. Brandon Phillips had 8 RBI in the series. The Reds were 7-17 with RISP last night. Pretty nice!

"Our guys are starting to hit and hitting’s contagious," manager Dusty Baker said. "Guys are rooting for each other. When a guy’s at the plate, guys are like `Hey man, get you some.’ That’s what I like."

I was a pretty big detractor for the first month, but he’s really impressing me over the last couple weeks. The things that he’s doing at first base filling in for Votto have been phenomenal, and his bat has come around. He’s even thrown out a respectable 36% of basestealers.

I went back and looked at the thread when we traded for him to try and gauge the mood of Red Reporter then vs. now. We seemed to be surprisingly in favor of it, or at least ambivalent. No one out and out hated the trade. Given that I’m currently loving Hernandez, it was funny to read the comments from the two Baltimore fans who stopped by to decry his defense and overall worth as a person. It really seems like Ramon wasn’t trying in Baltimore, as reported the other day, because of how dysfunctional it was. Well it seems like he’s trying here, and that’s fixed an enormous hole at catcher. That’s no small reason for our success this year.

who saw “E. Volquez” pitching when bleary eyed and freaked the hell out, could I?

That was ****ing embarrassing.