Cincinnati Reds blogging

Anytime Eric Milton goes five and gives up 3 earned, the Reds have to win, simply because it won't happen that often. Instead...

I've heard the Reds get a lead off triple and strand the runner.

I've heard the Reds load the bases twice in one inning, once on a hit from the pitcher, and score only one run. (I think in the last ten times I've heard the Reds load the bases, they've scored two runs total.)

I just heard Eric Milton get his second hit, a two out single with runners on first and second, and D'Angelo Jimenez gets throw out at the plate, no slide.

Wonder no more why the Reds are only 14-25. I heard they are hitting around .200 with runners in scoring position, and that the last seven quality starts (6 innings, 3 runs or less) they gotten have all been losses.

I can't explain how bad they are so far this year. And as far as I can tell, there's little hope for improvement.

*UPDATE* And as I post, the Reds give up two more runs on another error by Jimenez. Perfect.

*UPDATE* The Reds should release Danny Graves. That's all there is too it. He certainly isn't helping the club anymore.

*UPDATE* Even the NY Times gets a dig in:

Wearing red increases the chance of victory in sports, say British researchers who clearly do not follow the Cincinnati Reds.

"Across a range of sports, we find that wearing red is consistently associated with a higher probability of winning," wrote Dr. Russell Hill and Dr. Robert Barton, researchers in evolutionary anthropology at the University of Durham, in a paper that will appear on Thursday in the journal Nature.

And of course, the Reds have scored three in the ninth to start their comback.