I haven't been paying attention to baseball. Apparently the Marlins are good. Reds lose, 7-6.

by Brendanukkah on Apr 30, 2011 12:09 AM EDT in Game Recaps

Joe Nuxhall Memorial Honorary Star of the Game

Jeremy Hermida. The low-risk, apparently-no-reward signing of the offseason had a decent game against his former team, hitting a three run home run. Honorable mentions go to Jay Bruce and Jordan Smith.

Key Plays

In case you'd forgotten that the Reds are terrible in the first inning, Travis Wood did his best to remind you. Emilio Bonifacio tripled to lead off the game, and All-Star Omar Infante hit a sacrifice fly to bring him the last 90 feet. Hanley Ramirez doubled, and Gaby Sanchez walked. After a pop out, John Buck hit his first home run since Opening Day. It wasn't over, as Wes Helms singled and Scott Cousins walked. Then Javier Vazquez singled to bring around Helms. Marlins lead, 5-0.
Jay Bruce showed that the second spot in the batting order is agreeing with him by homering in the bottom of the first. Marlins lead, 5-1.
Wood got through the second and third innings fairly easily, but couldn't make it out of the fourth. He gave up a second hit to Javier Vazquez and Emilio Bonifacio doubled to put two runners in scoring position. Omar Infante lined out and Carlos Fisher came in in relief. The first batter of the 2011 season he face, Hanley Ramirez, singled to center and drove in two runs. Marlins lead, 7-1.
Once again, the Reds answered right away. In the bottom of the fourth, Jay Bruce and Joey Votto walked, and one out later Jeremy Hermida got his first hit as a Red - a three run homer to right field. That's right, the Hitless Wonder was batting fifth. Marlins lead, 7-4.
The Reds attempted a furious comeback in the ninth inning. With one out, Ramon Hernandez and Paul Janish hit back to back doubles off of Leo Nunez. Pinch hitter Chris Heisey struck out, but Drew Stubbs singled and Janish scored the second run of the inning. Stubbs then stole second base, but Jay Bruce struck out looking to end the game. Marlins win, 7-6.

via www.fangraphs.com

Other Notes

The Marlins are undefeated on Fridays.
Travis Wood has given up 8 hits in each of his last three starts.
The Marlins' record of 16-8 is a club record through 24 games.

Final - 4.29.2011	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Florida Marlins	5	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	7	11	0
Cincinnati Reds	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	2	6	7	0
WP: Javier Vazquez (2 - 2) SV: Leo Nunez (8) LP: Travis Wood (1 - 3)

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lol

"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."

by crolfer on Apr 30, 2011 12:13 AM EDT reply actions

According to fangraphs, the Reds never stood a chance

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by jch24 on Apr 30, 2011 12:17 AM EDT reply actions

5 first inning runs will do that

by Howie Feltersnatch on Apr 30, 2011 12:39 AM EDT up reply actions

you gotta be kidding me with Jay Bruce!

I'm going to start my own Reds blog with blackjack and hookers, in fact forget the blog.

by justin007000 on Apr 30, 2011 12:23 AM EDT reply actions

common

Hard Jay walked, hit a home run, and scored twice.

No one else did better. Hermida just happened to have some ducks on the pond when he hit his homer.

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by BubbaFan on Apr 30, 2011 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions

if hard jay catches that lead off "triple"

the first inning may have gone very differently. By fucking that play up, he did far more harm than he made up for on the other side.

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by justin007000 on Apr 30, 2011 12:33 AM EDT up reply actions

I wonder

Maybe the triple is what threw Wood off.

OTOH, it was one play at the very beginning of the game. The team should have been able to overcome it. And it wasn’t scored an error.

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by BubbaFan on Apr 30, 2011 12:38 AM EDT up reply actions

Errors aren't given for bad routes

which is one of the reasons errors aren’t a great stat, they don’t tell the whole story. In order to get an error on a play like the ball has to touch his glove; which it didn’t.

Wood struggled in the first, didn’t have everything working yet, and giving away outs is terrible behind a struggling young pitcher, especially considering how much damage came with two outs. Wood didn’t have his good stuff in the first, but Bruce made the situation much worse.

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by justin007000 on Apr 30, 2011 12:42 AM EDT up reply actions

Yeah

Wood’s breaking stuff just wasn’t working today. He couldn’t finish hitters off at all.

"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."

by crolfer on Apr 30, 2011 12:51 AM EDT up reply actions

Wood was better in the second

but if Bruce catches the ball on the lead off hitter, and everything else happens the same (which is a bit of a leap) Wood gets out of the first with no damage, and maybe he settles down in the second.

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by justin007000 on Apr 30, 2011 12:53 AM EDT up reply actions

Giving away outs is always bad, but when you

have “pitch to contact” staff, you have to keep it to near zero. (See Leake, Wood, Arroyo)

Fisher, btw, got the ground ball he was asked for. Unfortunately, it snuck past Phillips.

xFLIP

by supergrover on Apr 30, 2011 8:06 AM EDT up reply actions

It was also 1-0 with one out and nobody on one batter later

Not defending Jay, but it’s hardly the reason that Wood sucked last night.

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by Slyde on Apr 30, 2011 8:53 AM EDT up reply actions

i think it rattled wood

that’s on wood for letting it get to him, but i definitely think bruce’s play was the cause of it

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by 'tHan on Apr 30, 2011 10:07 AM EDT up reply actions

BTW, than.

I’ve rebooted my computer again and while it is SSS, the clock seems to be OK now.
I had really believed I had rebooted it after the power outage (of about an hour) yesterday, but the actual restart was not what I did.

So we shall see. Again, thanks for helping me understand the problem.

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by johnu1 on Apr 30, 2011 11:18 AM EDT up reply actions

I extend this TYVM to BF as well.

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by johnu1 on Apr 30, 2011 11:22 AM EDT up reply actions

Wood was just a victim of BABIP

it was mostly luck

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by obc2 on Apr 30, 2011 11:03 AM EDT up reply actions

Luck and skill combine to make us baseball fans.

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by johnu1 on Apr 30, 2011 11:16 AM EDT up reply actions

Not last night he wasn't

That has been the case in a couple of his starts this year, but he was getting hit hard last night. And your boy tHom was giving me shit about it the entire game because I defended Wood before the game started.

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by Slyde on Apr 30, 2011 1:12 PM EDT up reply actions

Next time just tell him that the game's going in the shitter.

I’d love to see how he reacts to that.

"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."

by crolfer on Apr 30, 2011 1:19 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

That would be hysterical

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by jch24 on Apr 30, 2011 4:00 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm pretty sure thats what he expects from every reds game

judging from his tone while broadcasting

by pack_fan on Apr 30, 2011 6:03 PM EDT up reply actions

tell tHom he can blow madville

see what he says to that.

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by justin007000 on Apr 30, 2011 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions

Agree'd ...

Any ball that was hit that hard would handcuff an outfielder, esp. at that time of day with it not being dark yet.

Wood just gave up too many hard-hit balls. If he can’t recover from one defensive miscue, he isn’t an MLB rotation pitcher.

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by johnu1 on Apr 30, 2011 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions

teh Fay

thinks Wood may have punched his ticket to Louisville.

"I was missing spots," Wood said. "They put up five on me early. We battled back and made it close. There’s no excuse for me giving up five in the first and not going deep in the ballgame."

By the way, the Reds are 2-7 at home since their 5-0 start.

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by BubbaFan on Apr 30, 2011 12:23 AM EDT reply actions

so do I, sadly

xFLIP

by supergrover on Apr 30, 2011 8:07 AM EDT up reply actions

Missing spots?

He threw half a dozen pitches in the dirt in the first inning. Those were big spots.

by MatthewH on Apr 30, 2011 12:29 AM EDT reply actions

did Bruce misplay the triple in the first inning ?

hard to judge from where I was sitting

Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Apr 30, 2011 12:30 AM EDT reply actions

I didn't see it

But everyone said he did. No error, but he took a bad route to the ball.

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by BubbaFan on Apr 30, 2011 12:32 AM EDT up reply actions

yep

he ran at it like he could catch it, it sailed over his glove, and to the wall. At the most it should have been a single, but really should an out.

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by justin007000 on Apr 30, 2011 12:34 AM EDT up reply actions

Unclear to me why, but the MLB highlights

thinks Infante’s sac fly is a keeper but the leadoff triple is not.

There was no real bad defense played in this game.
Some baseballs were hit very hard, however.

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by johnu1 on Apr 30, 2011 9:11 AM EDT up reply actions

Definitely didn't have a good jump on the ball

It was a hard hit ball, so I’m not sure if “misplayed” is the correct term, but it’s definitely a play he’s made before.

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by Slyde on Apr 30, 2011 8:54 AM EDT up reply actions

Definitely

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by Slyde on Apr 30, 2011 8:55 AM EDT up reply actions

/Rain Man'd

Still not a candidate.

by Gray on Apr 30, 2011 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Why is this awesome?

by Gapper on Apr 30, 2011 12:36 AM EDT reply actions

Does Jonny Gomes

really lead this team in HR and RBIs?

also, congrats on your first hit Hermida.

by Howie Feltersnatch on Apr 30, 2011 12:38 AM EDT reply actions

This game seemed like it sucked. Glad I missed it.

Some reasons for optimism:

The team has scored 20 more runs than they’ve allowed, and their pythag record is 15-11. Last year they had been way outscored at this point. It’s frustrating when a team’s record is worse than it should be, but that’s a good sign.

Cueto and Bailey coming back will help a lot. So should Fred Lewis. And hopefully Rolen (or at least END). This team needs some help hitting righties.

Billy Hamilton: Snax
Devin Mesoraco: Snacks

by nycredsfan on Apr 30, 2011 12:59 AM EDT reply actions

No joke.

Vazquez was absolutely mowing through the right handers. Lefties hit fairly well against him tonight.

"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."

by crolfer on Apr 30, 2011 1:03 AM EDT up reply actions

Somebody here last week posted

-MBP, I think, that the Reds are undefeated on Saturday.

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by johnu1 on Apr 30, 2011 9:12 AM EDT reply actions

Yep, 4-0

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by Slyde on Apr 30, 2011 9:36 AM EDT up reply actions

That should enable them to overcome Josh Johnson

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by Slyde on Apr 30, 2011 9:37 AM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, that and some good pitching of our own for a change

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by johnu1 on Apr 30, 2011 9:47 AM EDT up reply actions

Its true. I was going to post that again as a reason for optimism.

Got any good Loony Tunes to post today John?

Let a man come in and do the Popcorn.

by -ManBearPig on Apr 30, 2011 12:29 PM EDT up reply actions

Not unless there's a rain delay, -MBP

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by johnu1 on Apr 30, 2011 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions

I do have a picture I could post but ...

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by johnu1 on Apr 30, 2011 1:07 PM EDT up reply actions

Way off topic, but ...

.. just scanning the wire today and saw that incredible video of the Tuscaloosa tornado.
Holy Batman, Robin.

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by johnu1 on Apr 30, 2011 9:38 AM EDT reply actions

here tis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ohIVzIZLuQ

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by johnu1 on Apr 30, 2011 9:40 AM EDT up reply actions

it was a beast, no doubt

not the most impressive i’ve seen but the others didn’t plow through densely populated areas either

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by joshuar9476 on Apr 30, 2011 9:59 AM EDT up reply actions

I guess what impressed me about this was ...

… the obvious fear from the folks in the car who realized they might have tempted fate a bit too much.

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by johnu1 on Apr 30, 2011 11:00 AM EDT up reply actions

Did you see this...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/04/29/us/before-after-satellite-images-showing-tornado-destruction.html

The video was taken in the parking lot of the mall (shaped like an X) – specifically at the base of the white, lower left leg of the X.

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by guayzimi on Apr 30, 2011 11:11 AM EDT up reply actions

These are amazing, the way we can map stuff now.

BF had shown us the ones from the tsunami in Japan that were equally as amazing.
Nature makes the rules, no doubt about that.

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by johnu1 on Apr 30, 2011 11:15 AM EDT up reply actions

Tuscaloosa

is where Andyfan’s living now. He’s the hitting coach for his alma mater, the Alabama Crimson Tide.

The campus was not seriously damaged, but some students were killed.

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by BubbaFan on Apr 30, 2011 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions

Storms of this density and magnitude ...

… the reports were that despite the abundant warnings, there was just no place to hide.
That, coupled with an understandable curiosity about watching it happen. Then realizing that was maybe not a good idea.

But the Dixie Alley explanation makes this an even more painful event because … there isn’t much they can do to avoid it.

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by johnu1 on Apr 30, 2011 11:03 AM EDT up reply actions

well

The Gray Lady has an article about Andy Phillips. Their Yankees beat writer called him up to ask him how he and his weathered the tornadoes. Andyfan says his family and his players are all fine, but some of his players lost everything.

And contrary to the wire services reports, he says the Alabama campus was “devastated.”

"There’s almost a milewide path the tornado went through," Phillips said over the phone. "They said you could literally stand a mile and a half away from the Coliseum, where there used to be homes and buildings in between, and now there’s nothing."

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by BubbaFan on Apr 30, 2011 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions

Kinda gives pause to the notion that something is "only a mile from here."

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by johnu1 on Apr 30, 2011 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions

That game was a bit of a heart breaker

also I was wrong about Jordan Smith being worthless, he appears ti be slightly worthful.

We’re kicking Josh J’s keister tonight, he is due for a failure!

by Red_Poodle on Apr 30, 2011 10:55 AM EDT reply actions

British weddings are so different.

I had no idea there was a customary blow job in front of a minor portion…
The hell?

"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."

by crolfer on Apr 30, 2011 12:28 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

Wow... so, something really weird happened with the advertising.

Has anyone noticed the Burpee gardening ads? So, I’m in the middle of a project for Environmental Horticulture and that’s one of the websites we’re using. I didn’t notice it was being advertised on this site until like 2 minutes ago. The really weird part is that the picture is of Swiss Chard- the rhubarb cultivar. I know that because that’s the exact page I’m looking at right now. They have thousands of pictures of plants on that site and the one they chose to use for the ad just happens to be the one I have open when I first notice the ad. That’s just freaky.

"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."

by crolfer on Apr 30, 2011 12:55 PM EDT reply actions