Dr. Bailey or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the complete game shutout. Reds win 5-0

McAlister just tweeted that Dorn is out 4-6 weeks… what happened?

I heard the game on the Big One at work today and I must say Kelch is too good..and Marty actually is paying attention to the game and even got excited several times. although more and more I’d like just to hear Kelch and Welsh and screw dem other dudes.

How about our #5 guy …. shutout – 4 hits and swings a mean bat too.
Only thing missing today was Laynce but there was no place for him to play.

Astros and Cardinals tied at 1 in the fourth inning.

when was the last time the Reds had back-to-back complete game shut outs?

Why wasn’t Salvador Dali cast as the Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz?

Do any of you happen to have a link or website for the lineup creator where you input your starting nine’s OBP and Slugging and it gives you the best lineups?

I’ve used it before, but can’t seem to find it.

Thanks in advance

it’s 9-1 now. Maybe the Cards will come to town in a major funk!

With the Giants and the Nats.

WOW! That was amazing.

Cueto’s performance was essentially better than Braden’s.
Homer’s performance was better than Cueto’s.
I guess the perfect game just isn’t worth much these days if a Reds pitcher doesn’t do it.

Yeah, I can live with that one.
Eat your heart out, Larsen.

He’s going to say why on BBTN at midnight.

I’d like to have a shot at shutting them out.

And Lohse said he might be tipping pitches. He added:

“That’s not the reason why I’m giving up hits and stuff, or not the sole reason,” he said. “But it doesn’t help if there is something out there that guys are picking up on. It’s kind of been an ongoing thing. I’m not going to blame poor outings on tipping. It’s a matter of executing pitches. But it doesn’t help if there’s that possibility, that the guys are onto something.”

Why do those Cardinals guys always come up with excuses? That has to start somewhere in that organization. They are always explaining away any failure. I remember Ryan saying he let Gomes’ hit get through because of the rain or something. It is as though they go in with the presumption that they could never fail at anything, hitting, defense or pitching without some kind of outside factor. That is really annoying. It’s not failure if someone gets a legitimate hit—sometimes it happens. And the Cards aren’t perfect. Lohse didn’t have to tip a pitch to Berkman to give up a home run. The guy can hit home runs and maybe Lohse isn’t a great pitcher. It doesn’t always have to be some story about tipping pitches, improperly prepared balls or the rain.

Sorry for the mostly off-topic rant, but I’m, just getting increasingly annoyed by the Cardinals and they are coming to town.

This is a thing. He has a website and everything.

.. and he was pounding hard for the Reds. The host and Reynolds were calling him a homer, of course. Casey said he picked the Reds to win the division from day one and now that the starters have figured it out, he’s sure of it. i don’t wholeheartedly agree, but it was nice to see him go off on a tangent for our team.

I’ll give some credit to our pitchers for a well pitched series, but I think a lot of that has to do with the aggressiveness of the Pirates hitters. I was looking at yesterdays game and two Pirates took 11 pitches at 6 at bats. Jason Jaramillo took 5 of those in 3 at bats and three of the five pitches made for a strikeout. Steven Pearce took 6, 5 for strikes and had one of the four hits.

I am thinking that the Cardinals hitters are going to be taking a few more pitches. I will give the Reds pitchers for getting it over the plate and challenging folks, but it was the Pirates and why would you be fearful to pitch to them?

I might have been scooped on all of these, but I’d hate for any of these goodies to go by without RR scrutiny…

They did not like at all how Johnny Cueto walked around the bases following Heisey’s homer in game 2, at one point turning around to tell Chris to slow down. Bob felt Johnny was showing the Pirates up.

He also thought that there was no excuse for Jay Bruce not sliding into second…

He also hated how Brandon Phillips scuffle-walked home when he was knocked in on an extra-base hit.

He also had spoken to Homer Bailey before the game, and Bailey apparently said that throwing 120 pitches in a start for his arm “is nothing. I come in the next day, and it’s like I didn’t even throw.” He also said that Bailey tends to throw harder later in games, and Homer doesn’t know why. Homer has tried throwing more before he comes in to start the first, but that it doesn’t work for him.