Location:  Great American Ball Park on the steamy banks of the Ohio River     Time: 1:10 PM ET, 10:10 AM PT   Lineups: Cincinnati (hoping for a split on the homestand) Stubbs 8Renteria 6Votto 3Phillips 4Bruce 9Heisey 7Hernandez 2Frazier 5 Johnny Cueto, RHP (6-4, 1.88 ERA)   San Francisco (really, really looking forward to the cool Pacific breezes of home) Tba Barry Zito, LHP (3-3, 5.24 ERA)    Last Night’s Game:  YAYAYAYAYAY!!! Reds win... [More]

  Location:  Still Sweltering,  But Not so Oppressive, Heat of Great American Ball Park   Time:  7:10 PM ET, 4:10 PM PT       Lineups:   Cincinnati (were Arredondo and ER really the heroes last night?) Stubbs 8 Renteria 6 Votto 3 Philips 4 Cairo 5 Bruce 9 Heisey 7 Hanigan 2 Mike Leake, RHP (8-6, 4.04 ERA)   San Francisco (and stung by their own WS hero last night) Tba Madison Bumgarner, LHP, (6-9, 3.56 ERA)   Last Nig... [More]

Location:  Sweltering Heat of Great American Ball Park Time:  7:10 PM ET, 4:10 PM PT   Lineups: Cincinnati (do we really want to see their win-loss record?) Stubbs 8 Lewis 7 Votto 3 Phillips 4 Bruce 9 Cairo 5 Hernandez 2 Janish 6 Dontrelle Willis, RHP (0-1, 3.71 ERA)   San Francisco (probably wishing for some of those cool,  Pacific breezes)   Ryan Vogelsong, RHP (8-1, 2.10 ERA)   Yesterday’s Debacle: With the Reds’ offense sput... [More]

    Game Time:  12:35 pm     TV/Radio:  FS-O, MLBNetwork, MLB-TV, SNY, 700WLW     Lineups:   Cincinnati   Stubbs 8 Renteria 6 Votto 3 Phillips 4 Heisey 7 Bruce 9 Hernandez 2 Frazier 5 Homer Bailey 5-4, 3.67 ERA   New York   TBD Chris Capuano 8-10, 4.26 ERA     Dysfunctional is a good word for the Reds.   They still need more of a shakeup. Maybe the hitting coach needs to be replaced.  I don&r... [More]

    Game Time:  7:10 pm     TV/Radio:  FS-O, FSTN, MLB-TV, SNY, 700WLW     Lineups:   Cincinnati   Stubbs 8 Cairo 5 Votto 3 Phillips 4 Bruce 9 Heisey 7 Hanigan 2 Janish 6Arroyo 7-8, 5.56 ERA     New York   TBD Mike Pelfrey 5-9, 4.73 ERA       DEFENSE!  Let me make something clear.  Last night, Dusty Baker had nothing to do with the Reds losing.  The defense was atrocious as was N... [More]

  Game Time:  7:10 pm   TV/Radio:  FS-O, FSTN, MLB-TV, SNY, 700WLW   Lineups:   Cincinnati Stubbs CFRenteria SSVotto 1B Phillips 2B Bruce RF Cairo 3B Gomes LFHernandez CJohnny Cueto 6-3, 1.98 ERA New York TBD Jon Niese 9-8, 3.76 ERA     Dusty, Dusty, Dusty!  Mike Leake deserved to get the win last night as he was great.  Against the knuckler, I’m inclined to give the Reds offense a pass.  Sure they had some opportun... [More]

Game Time:  7:10 pm       TV/Radio:  FS-O, FSTN, MLB-TV, SNY, WLW     Lineups:   Cincinnati   Stubbs 8 Cairo 5 Bruce 9 Phillips 4 Lewis 7 Hernandez 2 Frazier 3 Janish 6Mike Leake 8-5, 4.11 ERA     New York   TBD R.A. Dickey 4-8, 3.80 ERA       STUBBS – A couple of weeks ago I asked a question on here that went something like this:  Has Drew Stubbs ever made a game winning play of some sort ... [More]

TV/Radio: TV: ESPN Sunday Night Baseaball National Game (also on ESPN3.com); Radio: WLW 700, XM Radio   Lineups: Cincinnati (1 in a row)  Drew Stubbs 8Edgar Renteria 6Joey Votto 3Brandon Phillips 4Jay Bruce 9Chris Heisey 7Miguel Cairo 5Ramon Hernandez 2Dontrelle Willis       Braves(wild card lock) Prado 5 Heyward 9 McCann 2 Uggla 4 Freeman 3 Gonzalez 6 Ramirez 7 McLouth 8 Beachy 1   Dontrelle Willis (0-1 3.37) LHP  v  Brandon Beachy (3-2 3.... [More]

Game Time: 4:10 in GABP, 3:10 in Ashland   Lineups: Atlanta (59-41 but at least they don't have Maddux, Glavine and Smoltz) TBA   Cincinnati (48-51 but at least they don't have Tomko, Larson and Reese) Stubbs 8 Cozart 6 Votto 3 Phillips 4 Lewis 9 Gomes 7 Frazier 5 Hanigan 2 Bailey 1   Leading Off: This is supposed to be fun. And back in the day, it was.   When I was a kid, I didn't care if the Reds won or lost. Part of that was because I was a kid and thin... [More]

  Gametime: 7:05 PM ET at GABP   Lineups Cincinnati (48-50 ) Heisey 9 Cozart 6 Votto 3 Phillips 4 Lewis 7 Stubbs 8 Cairo 5 Hanigan 2 Arroyo 1   Atlanta (58-41)     Jurrjens -1   Well, the power has gone here twice, lost my starter both times, so it will be even less than expected.   Things don’t look good for our Reds this evening. No Rolen, no Bruce,  Bronson Vs. Jurrjens. Maybe this is just the scenario we need for an unexpect... [More]