I've long hoped that fate would provide me with a chance encounter with Robinson and I could at least bare my soul for some closure. It's coming upon 40 years. My faith is waning.
Cincinnati Reds
11 July 2009
Robinson went on that season to lead Baltimore to another World Series victory over the Cincinnati Reds, and he was named Series MVP. I guess karma didn't exist back then.
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28 June 2009
Cleveland Indians vs. Cincinnati Reds
June 28, 2009 - Progressive Field, Cleveland, Ohio
David Huff vs. Micah Owings
Watching the Indians lately is liking going into something knowing in advance it’s going to give you a migraine but you continue with it anyway. With aspirin in hand, I’m ready to watch game three of the “Ohio Cup”. I haven’t heard of a worse cup since the Apple Cup between Washington and Washington State. Today is game one without Mark DeRosa, who was acquired from the Cubs in the off season for three pitchers, then later traded to the Cardinals for a pitcher and a player to be named later? Makes sense when pitching has been the weakest part of your club right?
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26 June 2009
Indians vs. Reds
Friday June 26, 2009
Progressive Field - Cleveland, Ohio
Jeremy Sowers vs. Aaron Harang
Interleague foes have led to interleague woes for the Tribe this year. Coming into tonight’s game vs. Cincinnati, the Indians are 4-11 vs. National League opponents. One good thing going into tonight, this Reds lineup doesn’t look the least intimidating on paper, minus Joey Votto, it’s nothing to write home about. Then again, neither is ours!
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22 May 2009
Indians @ Reds Recap Friday May 22, 2009
It looks like Grady read my preview earlier today as he hit a blast to right field in his first at-bat tonight. It’s hard to not type lead off the game. It’s like those first couple documents or checks you have to date on January 1st every new year. Here are some things that caught my “I” today:
It looks like Grady read my preview earlier today as he hit a blast to right field in his first at-bat tonight. It’s hard to not type lead off the game. It’s like those first couple documents or checks you have to date on January 1st every new year. Here are some things that caught my “I” today:
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Cleveland Indians @ Cincinnati Reds, Friday May 22, 2009
Reyes (1-1, 6.88) vs. Arroyo (5-3, 6.56)
Interleague play is back. I personally don’t have a problem with it. It’s lost it’s luster for sure, but I don’t mind the change of pace for a handful of series during the year. At the same time if they got rid of it tomorrow, it wouldn’t bother me either. One thing that I’ll never feel different about is that I don’t see the Reds as a rival to the Indians. I would prefer to play the Pirates every year if we must do this interleague thing. This year the Indians do play Pittsburgh, but it’s been the Reds who are the annual National League opponent. Plus, it gives Cleveland fans at least one opportunity to say one of our teams beat a Pittsburgh team. I wish that I could say I was being sarcastic.
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11 August 2008
Arizona has just traded for Adam Dunn, reports Baseball Digest Daily, bolstering their outfield to offset injuries to Eric Byrnes and Justin Upton, as well as to counteract the Dodgers' recent acquisition of Manny Ramirez. That Dunn passed through waivers is both an indication of his big salary for the year, as well as his undervalued status among GMs.
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15 July 2008
It’s the annual midpoint of the baseball season, and for the brief span that is the All-Star break, all eyes are upon the Bronx. As everyone is well aware of, this campaign is the last go around for the world’s most famous, largest, and most prominent ballpark, Yankee Stadium. It seems hard to believe, and even more sacrilegious that this living legend’s days are numbered. Built in 1923 and christened by the greatest ballplayer to ever live, Babe Ruth, the cathedral of baseball will never truly be replaced. Although the Bombers will move a block to Yankee Stadium’s heir, the Mecca of America’s Pastime will still live on in our hearts. Whether you’re a diehard Yankee fan, or Yankee-hater, you still can respect the history and awe that the stadium brings. So when the All-Stars take the field Tuesday night, sit back on your couch, crack open a cold one and soak up the history of Yankee Stadium, as its final chapter is unveiled to all of us.
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One of the All-Star Break traditions: Reassessing our predictions from the first half of the season. Some of mine have changed, some have stayed the same—and some were just damn wrong. Living in the West, I will take the contrarian position and roll from west to east in my choices.
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6 July 2008
Edinson Volquez SP – Cincinnati Reds
When the Reds received Volquez in the winter from Texas for Josh Hamilton, the Rangers looked as if they got a steal. But come to find out, this could go down as one of the fairest and best trades in recent history. While Hamilton has led the world in just about every offensive category at least at one point in the season over in Texas, the hard throwing righty Volquez is killing the National League with his deadly splitter that is causing an abundance of groundballs and whiffs. The addition of Volquez for the Reds has been monumental given the fact that his style of pitching is a perfect fit for the hitter-friendly Great American Ballpark. He leads the league with an ERA just over two, and could soon take the title of ace away from the veteran Aaron Harang who has struggled this year. Given the tough task of gaining recognition in the Queen City, a problem endured by Harang the past couple of years, a Cy Young might be too much to ask for, but an appearance in the All-Star game is just about a certainty for Edinson Volquez.
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23 June 2008
The Reds have gone into Yankee stadium and in three consecutive games, their starting pitchers have held the Bronx Bombers, who are just beginning to wake from their early season slumber, to three runs.
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19 June 2008
The Dodgers’ nine-game road trip was coming to an end, and the imminent sweep of the Cincinnati Reds would help ease the anguish of five straight defeats in the middle of the trip. The offense was putting up runs early and often, and for the third day in a row the starting pitcher had allowed just one run. It seemed the Dodgers were ready to put the 4-5 road trip behind them, and return to Chavez Ravine for the comforts of home and visits by the Indians, White Sox and Angels. The Dodgers had checked out of Cincinnati, and were ready to go home.
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18 June 2008
The best of all game plans, it would seem for the Dodgers these days, would be to play the Cincinnati Reds as much as possible. They followed their game plan to a tee today, posting a 6-1 over the Reds and improving the Dodgers’ record against Cincinnati to 6-1 on the season.
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17 June 2008
Yet nothing is as welcome to the Dodgers’ eyes as a series with the Cincinnati Reds. The Dodgers haven’t lost to the Reds at home since August 27, 2005, and overall are 19-5 against the Reds since the start of the 2005 season. Tuesday night was another addition to the win column, with the 3-1 Dodgers victory snapping a five-game losing skid and, incredibly, moving them a game closer to Arizona, which was routed 15-1 by Oakland.
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10 June 2008
To Junior, it must have felt like giving birth after a long and complex labor. Hitting his 600th home run last night was probably the most overpredicted and overdue statistical milepost in baseball history. We've been waiting for this to happen for at least ten years, ever since he put up back-to-back 56 homer seasons for Seattle in '97 and '98. When that season wrapped up, he had 350 career longballs at age 28, becoming the fastest player in history to hit that many, a feat he repeated when he cracked his 400th.
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14 May 2008
One of the talked-about items in two of my fave teams (Reds and Mariners) is the possible return of Griffey to the place where he got his start. Seattle's been scouting him, and there's a bit of a buzz, but it's not much more than idle talk at this point, but it's an interesting feel-good possibility that could help out both teams. Let's look at the pros and cons and possible stumbling blocks:
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11 May 2008
Two interesting things happened at the end of the Reds-Mets game today. Well, really it was only one thing, but it told me two interesting things. In the top of the ninth inning, trailing 8-3, the eighth spot of the Reds order was due up, and Dave Ross, who had entered the game as part of a double-switch in the bottom of the sixth inning, came to bat. He flied out to right, and Corey Patterson, who had entered in a double-switch in the bottom of the eighth inning, stepped up to the plate.
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8 May 2008
The Reds went all homer-happy over the Cubs last night, and Edinson Volquez twirled a gem on the mound, leading the Reds commentators and Steve Phillips on ESPN to go all gushy on them, proclaiming the future is now and they're gonna take the NL Central. Is this the case?
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19 March 2008
ow the Cubs pitching to fall into place, they certainly become the easy favorite in the division.
Cincinnati Reds
After Aaron Harang and Bronson Arroyo, do the Reds have anybody who can pitch?
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