Reds August 2025 Thread

[Timanky12]

(Yesterday, 05:16 PM)cinci4life Wrote: They better have Steer bunting Friedl to 3rd.

Then what, we will probably strike out the next 2 batters

[cinci4life]

(Yesterday, 05:16 PM)Timanky12 Wrote: Then what, we will probably strike out the next 2 batters

And win it like that!!!!!!!!!!

[Timanky12]

A miracle has just happened

[Goalpost]

The unsweepable Reds

[Timanky12]

(Yesterday, 05:21 PM)Goalpost Wrote: The unsweepable Reds

Losing 2 out of 3 is nothing to brag about

[Timanky12]

They should have swept the Brewers, instead of winning only 1 game

[cinci4life]

(Yesterday, 05:21 PM)Timanky12 Wrote: A miracle has just happened

Not really. They were 6-0 in the final game facing a sweep and now 7-0.

[Timanky12]

(Yesterday, 05:23 PM)cinci4life Wrote: Not really. They were 6-0 in the final game facing a sweep and now 7-0.

I’m talking about getting a runner in from 3rd with less than 2 outs

[cinci4life]

Now they head to the west coast without the day off travel day. Schedule makers messed that up.

[CJD]

A very frustrating series where we found every way possible to lose games. They should have won at least 2 of those 3 games (and probably should have won all 3).

It's nice that, for the first time in the series, they found a way to win today.

Let's hope it builds into something sustainable over the West Coast trip that we're now going to suffer through (I hate baseball that doesn't start until 10pm).

[Forever Spinning Vinyl]

(Yesterday, 05:23 PM)Timanky12 Wrote: They should have swept the Brewers, instead of winning only 1 game

You are correct.

It's a long season, nobody cares about the champions of August of any season that I can recall.

I still have faith in Tito and his sheepherder style of managing that he's getting them ready for the later part of the season. As bad and almost comical as it's been, they're still learning. It's not realistic for the entire organization to suddenly know how to play basic fundamentally sound baseball just because Francona was hired. I'm not sure that he knew how little the players knew, but they are figuring it out. They answered eight runs with eight runs. They lost that game vs Atlanta, but they know that they can come back. They recently went toe to toe with Philadelphia, winning the series 2-1 and should have swept them. They should have swept the Brewers and they know it.

The amazing part of their streak of not being swept is that this team still hasn't gotten hot, yet. Almost every team has a good two weeks or so where they look almost unbeatable. If and when the Reds get on one of those runs, they'll be in the playoffs. It does happen in the late part of the season. It happened to Arizona a couple of years ago, it happened to the Mets last year.

Before the All-Star break(97 games for some stupid reason) the Reds had two 4 game winning streaks and three 5 game winning streaks. Since the All-Star break(28 games-37 to go)only one 4 game winning streak. They're due for a good run of playing solid baseball and maybe the error by the Brewers in the 9th will begin a stretch of some luck finally going their way.

[Timanky12]

(Yesterday, 06:29 PM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: You are correct.

It's a long season, nobody cares about the champions of August of any season that I can recall.

I still have faith in Tito and his sheepherder style of managing that he's getting them ready for the later part of the season. As bad and almost comical as it's been, they're still learning. It's not realistic for the entire organization to suddenly know how to play basic fundamentally sound baseball just because Francona was hired. I'm not sure that he knew how little the players knew, but they are figuring it out. They answered eight runs with eight runs. They lost that game vs Atlanta, but they know that they can come back. They recently went toe to toe with Philadelphia, winning the series 2-1 and should have swept them. They should have swept the Brewers and they know it.

The amazing part of their streak of not being swept is that this team still hasn't gotten hot, yet. Almost every team has a good two weeks or so where they look almost unbeatable. If and when the Reds get on one of those runs, they'll be in the playoffs. It does happen in the late part of the season. It happened to Arizona a couple of years ago, it happened to the Mets last year.

Before the All-Star break(97 games for some stupid reason) the Reds had two 4 game winning streaks and three 5 game winning streaks. Since the All-Star break(28 games-37 to go)only one 4 game winning streak. They're due for a good run of playing solid baseball and maybe the error by the Brewers in the 9th will begin a stretch of some luck finally going their way.

We can only hope the steak comes sooner than later. I bet the Reds have given away 10 to 15 games they should have won. But they still, haven’t learned that lesson.

[Timanky12]

(Yesterday, 05:31 PM)cinci4life Wrote: Now they head to the west coast without the day off travel day. Schedule makers messed that up.

At least they have 30 hours until the next game

[Forever Spinning Vinyl]

Francona when asked about Abbott after two stellar outings vs two first place teams
"He's been doing it all year. This kid . . . he's what you're looking for. That was the one thing, last night, we were leaving, kind of in a bad mood and I was like, 'Alright. Abbott's gonna pitch.' I'm looking for something to kind of pick your spirts up and that'll do it.

[cinci4life]

(Yesterday, 06:38 PM)Timanky12 Wrote: At least they have 30 hours until the next game

Not the point. There always (well almost always) is a day off for a team making that lengthy of a trip. If you look at the schedule this week both teams are off Thursday and the Angels stay home for their next series after the Reds while the Reds go a short distance to Arizona. How is the off day not tomorrow? Makes more sense.

[Timanky12]

(Yesterday, 07:05 PM)cinci4life Wrote: Not the point. There always (well almost always) is a day off for a team making that lengthy of a trip. If you look at the schedule this week both teams are off Thursday and the Angels stay home for their next series after the Reds while the Reds go a short distance to Arizona. How is the off day not tomorrow? Makes more sense.

Could have been worse, could have been a Sunday night game

[Forever Spinning Vinyl]

[SladeX]

Not sure what to make of this team
If you told me before last week we would have gone 3-3 against those teams, I would have been ok with it.
OTOH it feels like a huge opportunity lost. Can we not hold a ***** lead?
Then again, the team doesn’t seem nearly as intimidated by the Brewers, and put up a helluva fight.
Still in the hunt for last wildcard.

[*ochocincos*]

1.5 games back with 37 games to go.

Other than the Reds, all the other teams chasing the WC are 5.5+ games out.
With so few games left, I think they are pretty much out of the running at this point.
That's a lot of ground to try to catch up in such a short amount of time.

Winning the series against LAA and ARZ will be important for this West Coast trip, as then it's @LAD and then in Cincy for STL, TOR, and NYM.
While maybe not the toughest stretch they'll have this year because of LAA, ARZ, and STL, all teams have 60+ wins and half of this 3-week stretch is against teams currently holding a playoff spot.
Gotta come out with a winning record to keep in contention.