Alex Gonzalez gets his good game out of the way. Reds lose 4-2.
by Brendanukkah on Aug 3, 2009 11:05 PM EDT
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Joe Nuxhall Memorial Honorary Player of the Game
Alex Gonzalez. Sea Bass has taken a lot of shit, but today he showed some quality. He entered the game as a defensive replacement but went 2-2 with a home run and a double, driving in both Cincinnati runs.
Key Plays
- Most of the damage came in the second inning. With one out, Aaron Harang hit Milton Bradley, then gave up a single to Alfonso Soriano. Mike Fontenot then homered to center field.
- Harang then proceeded to shut down the Cubs, finishing the game with 10 strikeouts. However, he was doing so well that Dusty let him start the eighth inning even though he was well over 100 pitches. Rather predictably, he walked Kosuke Fukudome, then gave up a run-scoring double to Derrek Lee. David Weathers came in in relief, but loaded the bases before getting the final two outs. He exchanged some words with home plate umpire Paul Emmel on his way back to the dugout and was ejected.
- Alex Gonzalez, who came in with Weathers as a double switch, homered, to the disbelief of most. The Reds showed more signs of life when Adam Rosales singled and Joey Votto was hit by a pitch. Brandon Phillips came up, representing the tying run, but grounded into a double play to end the threat and the inning.
- The Reds tried to rally in the ninth. Laynce Nix began the inning with a walk, and Ryan Hanigan singled to get him to second. With two outs, Alex Gonzalez was at the plate again. In an 11 pitch battle with Carlos Marmol, Gonzalez laced a double to left field, scoring Nix. Despite having Drew Sutton, who had two hits yesterday, or perhaps Scott Rolen on the bench, Dusty elected to let Willy Taveras try to extend the game. Taveras promptly grounded out.
via FanGraphs
Other Notes
- The Reds have lost seven in a row, their longest losing streak this year, and the longest since a seven game losing streak from Sept. 22-29, 2007.
- The Cubs are 13-5 since the All-Star break, the best such record in the majors.
- Harang hasn't won in his last thirteen starts and has the most losses in the majors. Is he frustrated? "It just didn't go my way," Harang said. "What can you do? I go out and give us a chance to win. We can't seem to muster anything early on." Seems like.
- This was Gonzalez's first two-hit game since June 11 against the Nationals.
- Willy Taveras batted with two outs in the ninth. This year, he has a .392 OPS with two outs, and a .530 OPS in ninth innings (he only hits worse in the second and fourth innings).
- Joey Votto came up three times with two outs and the bases empty.
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Without going back to look it up
I believe it was .000 in extras.
by Brendanukkah on Aug 3, 2009 11:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Picture yourself in one of these...
"It seems like we're not hitting because we're not getting hits." - Dusty being Dusty
Next call-in show we do
Picture Slyde in one of those – and taking it off!
by Brendanukkah on Aug 3, 2009 11:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Speaking of
When’s that going to be?
"We, as for me all seasons you are affected peculiarly in the edge of my seat and are happy concerning the fact that the Adam Dunn fan has been mixed up exactly." - Reynard-san
by BK on Aug 3, 2009 11:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Tomorrow night?
Post-game. Does that work for y’all?
"It seems like we're not hitting because we're not getting hits." - Dusty being Dusty
Should be fine for me
How about some potential callers? We need more than 2 this time.
"We, as for me all seasons you are affected peculiarly in the edge of my seat and are happy concerning the fact that the Adam Dunn fan has been mixed up exactly." - Reynard-san
by BK on Aug 3, 2009 11:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, I doubt I'm doing anything
“Who sucks more, Reds or Cubs fans?”
“Good question, good question.”
by Brendanukkah on Aug 3, 2009 11:38 PM EDT up reply actions
I think it should be a good time
It’ll be a “we just lost 8 in a row” show, or a slumpbuster show. This situation is win-win (win).
"We, as for me all seasons you are affected peculiarly in the edge of my seat and are happy concerning the fact that the Adam Dunn fan has been mixed up exactly." - Reynard-san
by BK on Aug 3, 2009 11:47 PM EDT up reply actions
I'll call in
and stutter awkwardly with a noticeably uneven breathing pattern. Picture the black in the wheelchair from Malcolm in the Middle – only white and standing.
"Taco fillings!"
by Lucky Pierre on Aug 4, 2009 12:02 AM EDT up reply actions
black kid**
man, that sounded racist as hell. (his name was Stevie, by the way)
"Taco fillings!"
by Lucky Pierre on Aug 4, 2009 12:09 AM EDT up reply actions
That's fine
As long as you remember you’re talking to a bunch of guys who live in their mother’s basements, you should be fine.
"We, as for me all seasons you are affected peculiarly in the edge of my seat and are happy concerning the fact that the Adam Dunn fan has been mixed up exactly." - Reynard-san
by BK on Aug 4, 2009 12:34 AM EDT up reply actions
I will be sans kids, be warned
"I'm going to become rich and famous after I invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet"
Change of plans
I forgot that my mother-in-law is staying with me tonight. So, tonight doesn’t work. I can do Wednesday or Thursday.
"It seems like we're not hitting because we're not getting hits." - Dusty being Dusty
I'm planning on going to a show on Wednesday
Anybody seen Los Campesinos! live before? I’m expecting big things.
Nah, I'll be wearing this one
"It seems like we're not hitting because we're not getting hits." - Dusty being Dusty
by Slyde on Aug 3, 2009 11:35 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
That's my favorite one, I think
"We, as for me all seasons you are affected peculiarly in the edge of my seat and are happy concerning the fact that the Adam Dunn fan has been mixed up exactly." - Reynard-san
by BK on Aug 3, 2009 11:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Lol I'd totally buy that shirt...
"If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third." --Tommy Lasorda(on catcher Mide Scioscia)
I would buy that shirt
Make it happen!
"Tigers love pepper...they hate cinnamon.
by cesarhernandez on Aug 3, 2009 11:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Honestly
If there is enough interest, I’ll set up a store on Zazzle and sell them at cost.
"It seems like we're not hitting because we're not getting hits." - Dusty being Dusty
I'm not big on the layout
But I have yet to put forth anything worthwhile so I should probably keep my whore mouth shut.
"I'm going to become rich and famous after I invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet"
Where are you getting these 'preview' shots
if they aren’t already on Zazzle?
I’m mostly curious as to where they found a model so ghastly pale.
He sits alone...Reds are not home.
it's on zazzle
but I haven’t made the shirts available. I was just checking to see how they looked on the shirts. Like jch, I think they need a bit of redesign, but the idea is there.
"It seems like we're not hitting because we're not getting hits." - Dusty being Dusty
that shirt looks like garbage
and i hope he sues you for using his likeness
Made from 100% Recycled Awesome,
I hope he does too
Because I bet being sued by Votto is like the best thing ever.
"It seems like we're not hitting because we're not getting hits." - Dusty being Dusty
by Slyde on Aug 4, 2009 9:12 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
The Weathers ejection
has to be one of the oddest things I’ve seen in a while. What in the world with that. Think the umps are trigger happy against us? I just read his cmments after teh game and he couldn’t figure it either.
Tomorrow is another day. We’ll see how things go. Hopefully Rolen will be back in. Fay didn’t have many details, but itsounds like he had a headache, but no concussion. What terrible luck.
Umps these days are trigger happy by nature
See Hernandez, Angel.
"I'm going to become rich and famous after I invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet"
Also
God as my witness I will have you and Justin mobile posting simultaneously from a game in the near future, and the the intarwebz will be divided by zero.
"I'm going to become rich and famous after I invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet"
eye witness report
went down to the game with my girlfriend. Hate being surrounded by cubs fans. They are incredibly obnixous. It didn’t change the game but I don’t understand why Dusty sent Harang out for the 8th.
Got a speeding ticket in Arlington on I-75 by a real prick cop on my way home. He clocked me at 69, 70, and 71 and of course he wrote on the ticket that I was going 71. I was also traveling with the traffic. I was not moving faster than the cars around me. My last ticket was on a country road where I was the only car, so I was stupid, but if I were moving slower I would have been in danger.
Bloop
I'm debating whether to go on Wednesday.
It would break my longstanding policy of not attending Cubs fans, simply because the aggravation from those I’ve attended has taken years off my life. Rich Hard-on is pitching, though, which might draw me down there.
He sits alone...Reds are not home.
Awesome quote Dusty
“When you play good baseball, it increases your chances of winning.”
"It seems like we're not hitting because we're not getting hits." - Dusty being Dusty
He's a gentleman and a scholar
Isn't there a slanket somewhere you should be filling with your farts?
by nycredsfan on Aug 4, 2009 8:54 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
"Now here's a guy that when he's getting hits, his on-base percentage goes higher!"
“BOOM!”
by Brendanukkah on Aug 4, 2009 9:57 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
"The key to winning is scoring more runs than the other team!"
"If it wasn't this, it'd be something else."
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