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Wow, what a game. Had 12 dollar tickets, section 530. It was pretty chilly tonight. The wind was like ice, it was just so damn cold!! I took my camera, but its not good enought to take good pictures from that distance.
About the game now, Claussen didn't look that good at all. He thrown a ton of pitches in the dirt. Which is better than tossing them right over the plate for an easy home run. He threw a lot of pitches and seemed to get lucky and barely make it out of an inning. His final line was 6 IP and 2 runs, but it took him almost 100 pitches to get there.
After the first inning Livan really settled down, he went 8 innings allowing just 3 runs. But he threw 130 pitches!! And instead of pinch hitting for him they let him bunt and then pulled him the next inning.
Well I was upset for having to see Luis Lopez play at 2B, and still upset at the part of 13 pitchers on the roster. And what really made me mad was Miley sending Ryan Freel to steal 2nd twice. Doesn't he know that Brian Schnieder has a gun for an arm? That he threw out around 50% of would be base stealers last year? Well you would think so. But Freel went twice and was 0-2.
I was upset to see Ryan Wagner come in so early. And was afraid that he may be hurt. It was a rocket down to Casey and he knocked it down and away from him. He grabbed it and tossed it back. Wagner pulled up and the trainers watched he toss a few pitches. Then when they headed away the stadium music started playing. I don't know the song but it was quite hilarious.
*A deep voice talking slowly* "He is a man. He is a man, a man"
Wags was OK, but it seems Casey jammed his shoulder. Then with some shifting around, Bergolla ended up at 2B. Luis went to 3B, Freel to LF and Dunn to 1B. Jacub Cruz pinch hit, so the bench was very thin. An injured 3B, and a backup catcher.
Well at the end of the game, well what we thought was the end, I headed down to some open outfield seats. There is where Weathers blew the game.
Well it was still cold, and it started to very lightly rain. Inning after inning it went 1-2-3 and went by quickly. Finally there was the 2nd, 7th inning stretch. From the 36,000+ that was their at the beginning of the game, just a few thousand remained. Just an inning or 2 before Joe Randa pinched hit to leadoff the inning. I turned and said, "We shouldn't be using our last position player when he isn't really needed."
Well in the 14th, Kearns just blasted a ball that was caught by Wilkerson just inches from going out of the park. Then LaRue sliced a ball into the gap for a single. Luis Lopez hit a liner into right field and former Red Jose Guillen just missed the shoestring catch. With Lopez at 2nd, and LaRue at 3rd the pitcher was due up.
"Told you, now we don't have anyone to hit."
Randy Keisler steps up and swing at a pitch off the plate. The infield is in. A soft ground just rolls past the SS and into short center field. Imagine that, after all the pinch hitters we used, its a pitcher in his first Reds game that wins the game.
Marvelous performance by Keisler, that 1st inning he pitched was remarkable. Strike after strike after strike. Then the base hit and RBI to seal the deal.
So too wrap it up, I was their and most of you weren't.And the Reds finally won a series and won 2 games in a row. And the Reds are 2/2 when I attend a game.
Well count on a sweep, I am heading back tomorrow. 25 rows back, just behind the Reds dugout.
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