Just glad we got in. Hope they can suprise me

Were 6 games back of the Mets with 21 games to play….if they can do that they can win 2 out of 3 versus anyone 

I didn’t know all three games would be in LA. Lame.

So it begins.

justincredible wrote:

So it begins.

Settle down Beavis

This isn’t a Halladay game….the Reds will adjust here in a few

20 seconds later….our worst hitter smokes a double

That's not great.

Well…at least we swing early in the count on Snell and got him out of the game late and only down 8

10-5….bases jacked and Stephenson had 2 murdable pitches that he missed…then Francona lets Hayes bat? You have to PH for Hayes there in the 8th inning

Go oppo damnit 

The dodgers aren’t giving you a cream puff 

The gap is gigantic

The last several years watching the playoffs and watching the ALCS and NLCS series and then the WS….I just remember thinking how so far away the Reds are from those levels.

Nothing different here….Reds were on level 5 and the big guys on level 14, now Reds are level 7

Ironman92 wrote:

The last several years watching the playoffs and watching the ALCS and NLCS series and then the WS….I just remember thinking how so far away the Reds are from those levels.

Nothing different here….Reds were on level 5 and the big guys on level 14, now Reds are level 7

Yeah, some things that were done last night kind of blew my mind a little bit. Like, if you were planning to pitch Lodolo at some point, why not start him instead of Littell. I don't think he gave up any homers last night, but I'd be wary of starting a home run prone pitcher against a team that hit five the previous night just on general principles. Also: Nick Martinez in a high-leverage situation in a win-or-go-home game? Bad idea from the start. Dude's at best an average-ish bottom end starter or long reliever; not a guy I'd trust to handle Playoff Dodgers for a couple innings when the team needs shutout innings. 

Sad thing is, with how the other three series have been a lot of pitching duels, their run totals of 5 and 4 would have carried them through any of those, but poor pitching results just were murder. Got down so big both times that the Dodgers' suspect bullpen was only a factor in the series for about a couple batters last night (when Sheehan was on the mound and the Reds got a couple runs and had the tying run at the plate). But that's the difference between the "14" and "7". Dodgers just did a better job of taking advantage of their chances...that inning where you got nothing out of bases loaded and no one out was just a killer.