2021 REDS thread

[davebucknut]

Winker is 3-3 tonight

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[ScarletHayes]

In National League action, the home standing LA Dodgers celebrated their 2020 championship and honored one of their fallen heroes.  The Dodgers received their World Series rings and honored legendary manager Tommy Lasorda.  His daughter spoke to the capacity crowd.  Walker Buehler then pitched 6 shutout innings, supported by a Justin Turner home run as the Dodgers defeated the Nationals 1-0.

What year did Lasorda take the helm in LA?

[Hightop77]

In National League action, the home standing LA Dodgers celebrated their 2020 championship and honored one of their fallen heroes.  The Dodgers received their World Series rings and honored legendary manager Tommy Lasorda.  His daughter spoke to the capacity crowd.  Walker Buehler then pitched 6 shutout innings, supported by a Justin Turner home run as the Dodgers defeated the Nationals 1-0.

What year did Lasorda take the helm in LA?

Edit: Tommy took over at the end of the 1976 season.

[davebucknut]

4-0 reds im the bottom of the 5th

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4-0 reds im the bottom of the 5th

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Details???

[ScarletHayes]

What year did Lasorda take the helm in LA?

Edit: Tommy took over at the end of the 1976 season.

So his first full year he takes them to the World Series?  Not a bad start.

[davebucknut]

4-0 reds im the bottom of the 5th

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Station to Station baseball mostly small ball with a booted ground ball error by the 2nd basemen to bring in a run and then castellanos singled in winker, but winker had a giddy up in his run home and I think they pulled him.

TJ anyone the reliever is nasty throwing 100 mph with wicked breaking stuff thats 88 and to make matters better he got an at bat and worked a walk.

This team is on fire

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[Hightop77]

What year did Lasorda take the helm in LA?

Edit: Tommy took over at the end of the 1976 season.

So his first full year he takes them to the World Series?  Not a bad start.

He took over a heckuva team with great pitching (Tommy John, Burt Hooten and Don Sutton) and the group of young players (Garvey, Cey, Russell, Lopes, Yeager, et al.) that had already been together 4 years was fully mature.  That group had a nice run.

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BOX
Great win in extra inning as Barnhart drove in winner.  Cam Bedrosian coughed up 3 runs.  He blows.  Garrett saved it

Reds with best record in mlb 6-1.   SWEET

[davebucknut]

BOX
Great win in extra inning as Barnhart drove in winner.  Cam Bedrosian coughed up 3 runs.  He blows.  Garrett saved it

Reds with best record in mlb 6-1.   SWEET

I went to bed and Az had just came back to tie it, I'm really glad they came back to win!

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After last nightâ€s thrilling 6-5 win in extra innings, the Cincinnati Reds take the field tonight currently holding the best record in baseball. It will be Jeff Hoffman vs. Riley Smith in the second game of this series against the Arizona Diamondbacks. The first pitch will be thrown at 8:10 EDT at Chase Field in Phoenix. You can watch on Bally Sports Ohio or listen to Tommy Thrall and the Cowboy, Jeff Brantley, on 700 WLW or streaming on the IHeartRadio app.

Stat of the Day
The Reds lead all of baseball in Barrel% through the first week of the season. They are most definitely crushing baseballs.


Starting Pitchers
REDS
Right-hander Jeff Hoffman pitched really well against the Cardinals in his Reds debut on Sunday, allowing only one run in five innings while striking out six and not walking a batter. If he pitches like that again tonight, I donâ€t think the Reds can make him the odd man out of the rotation when Sonny Gray comes back.

I think the key to Hoffman continuing to pitch well will be how often he throws his breaking pitches. If he can utilize those pitches the way he did on Sunday, he will continue to have success. Last year, Hoffman didnâ€t throw his slider at all. In 2019, he threw it only 12 times all season. On Sunday, he threw his slider 16 times, all to right-handed batters, and more often than his change-up and his curve ball. It resulted in a 60% whiff rate. And his slider isnâ€t even his best pitch. Hoffman historically gets a higher whiff rate and better results with his curve ball than any other pitch.

DIAMONDBACKS
Arizona counters with right-hander Riley Smith, a 24th round selection in the 2016 MLB draft. Like Widener last night, Smith made his major league debut in 2020. He had an excellent (shortened) rookie season, allowing only three runs while striking out 18 in 18.1 innings out of the bullpen. His first appearance of 2021 came last Saturday, pitching five innings out of the bullpen. He gave up two earned runs on five hits, but did not allow a home run and struck out four. Although Smith is not unfamiliar with starting games since he did that for the majority of his minor league career, tonight will be his first major league start.

Smith relies on four pitches: a sinker, a slider, a curve ball, and a change up. He throws the sinker about 61 percent of the time and will use his slider as his secondary pitch, usually about 20 percent of the time. In his one appearance of 2021, heâ€s thrown his curve ball 11 times and has a 100% whiff rate, according to Baseball Savant. Smith very rarely throws his change up, but has already thrown it five times this season, compared with four times in his 18.1 innings in 2020. As for velocity, he averages between 92 and 93 mph on his fastball and 83 mph on his slider.

Lineups
Cincinnati Reds
                                                                                             Arizona Diamondbacks
LF Tyler Naquin                                                                            CF Tim Locastro
RF Nick Castellanos                                                                       RF Kole Calhoun
1B Joey Votto                                                                               1B Christian Walker
SS Eugenio Suárez                                                                        LF David Peralta
3B Mike Moustakas                                                                       3B Asdrubal Cabrera
CF Nick Senzel                                                                             2B Eduardo Escobar
2B Jonathan India                                                                        SS Nick Ahmed
C Tucker Barnhart                                                                        C Stephen Vogt
P Jeff Hoffman                                                                             P Riley Smith
News and Notes
Jesse Winker out of the lineup, but available

Barrel % by team so far this season. #Reds crushing baseballs. pic.twitter.com/eQd2aaxEE8

— Daren Willman (@darenw) April 10, 2021

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Jesse Winker is out of the lineup after having cramps in both calves last night that led to his removal from the game. Manager David Bell said prior to the game that he would be available off of the bench tonight.

Sonny Gray is ready to return

Sonny Gray threw a simulated game in Arizona this afternoon and seems to be ready to return the the rotation this upcoming week. More details available here in our write up from this evening.

Final Thoughts
Obviously people who know me online know that I love baseball. They likely wouldnâ€t follow my Twitter account if I didnâ€t. However, people who know me in real life know I love baseball too. This week, Iâ€ve noticed more people make comments to me than usual about the Reds. Last night one of my housemates asked what I thought of the Reds so far this year. On Thursday at work, one of my coworkers made a statement, “The Reds are really playing well and winning right now.”

These are people who casually follow the sport of baseball, so they may have lost touch with the sport over the last couple of years. But Iâ€m here to tell you those casual fans are already paying attention. If the Reds keep winning, those fans will really come back, especially in this city. The Reds may lose the casual fanâ€s attention during bad seasons, but when the Reds are good, they always come back. This also only further cements my opinion that Cincinnati is forever a baseball city.

[ScarletHayes]

Not sure how that confirms it being a baseball city.  The way he described it it sounds like a front runner city.  

Apparently my fat fingers included a guy sticking out his tongue in the post heading.  Not sure even through an edit how to get rid of that.

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Not sure how that confirms it being a baseball city.  The way he described it it sounds like a front runner city.  

Apparently my fat fingers included a guy sticking out his tongue in the post heading.  Not sure even through an edit how to get rid of that.

Being the original team for MLB going back to 1869, with a very rich history and several World Titles.....   AND...probably the best team in baseball history with that 76 team, it's easy to say that Cincinnati is a baseball city.  Very easy.

[PtreeCornersBuckeye]

Not sure how that confirms it being a baseball city.  The way he described it it sounds like a front runner city.  

Apparently my fat fingers included a guy sticking out his tongue in the post heading.  Not sure even through an edit how to get rid of that.

Being the original team for MLB going back to 1869, with a very rich history and several World Titles.....   AND...probably the best team in baseball history with that 76 team, it's easy to say that Cincinnati is a baseball city.  Very easy.

Having spent 45 of my nearly 60 years in Cincinnati, I would say it's a baseball town.

[ScarletHayes]

Cincinnati is a baseball city.  I just didnâ€t think that reasoning made it so.  If anything that was classic front runner/bandwagon stuff