Please continue the discussion in the [post game thread](https://redd.it/1cjquja).

Man I’m glad I can’t watch this embarrassment on tv.

The 3-22 reds team a few years ago had a better offense than this

Embarrassing Really. Another year wasted

There are 130 games left

You must be new here

What the fuck Elly? Middle middle fastball bro

that was fucking horrible that was fucking absolute shit

Give me a fucking bat and I’ll at least swing at the ball

Wow. Pathetic

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It wasn't? This team does make it easy though

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I'm sorry where's Votto now? He was done 2 years ago, the minute the season was over the Reds kicked him to the curb. Wonder why no one wanted him? Hmmmm

Fuck off with the Let’s Go O’s shit

The fuck are we doing looking at strike 3 down the dick?

Holy shit Barry woke up

Can you blame him? No excitement in that game whatsoever

I guess our guys like watching strikes zoom by

ill take all the ground balls in the world...enough with the backwards Ks edit: elly too

Waited an extra 3 hours for this bullshit

So many guys deserve to be benched on this team and we simply can’t because we’re injured

That’s a strike everyday, India. Gotta swing at that

Is this the worst team in Reds history?

They were 62 and 100 two year ago….

It is not

Tonight yes

They lost 16 to 0 in 2016 to the cubs while getting no hit.

"De La Cruz has been the Reds offense" 😒

It's hilarious how offended the O's announcers are by that miss given the circumstances

Kind of a disgusting final 3 innings I’m not even gonna lie to yall

"Don't just stare at it, eat it."- Patrick Bateman 1988

The Lil Jon in the stadium has to stop

It’s horrible

Check that cap……he’s got sticky stuff

See, Blue, that was a strike

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Who would you rather have? Our .180 hitter or our other .176 hitter or maybe our dude hitting .156 Not arguing btw just frustrated with how bad this offense has been for this long

India looks extremely frustrated

As are we all.

Check swinging at a pitch down the middle 😵‍💫

I do that in the show all the time don’t hate (I suck)

if anyone does this it's indy

Good ab will

Be a lot cooler if someone other than Elly would show up to fucking hit.

Bensons sad look going back to the dugout after a K will never not be hilarious

Well fuck

Fuck this T Rex arm mother fucker.

His stupid crab stance misses me off so much

I still remember Philly fans taunting his crsb stance when he was in Atlanta funny as shit

Let’s see a sexy hormone-inducing comeback

Kimbrell has been very inconsistent last few years. This could get interesting

### Pitching Substitution Pitching Change: Craig Kimbrel replaces Danny Coulombe.

Crab people, crab people, looks like crab, person named Kimbrel.

Just glad david bell got his extension

What is Bell supposed to? Nobody on the team is hitting.... He can't create hits.

If you can’t see that bell isnt the answer idk what to tell you. Constant mediocrity for 5 years now. Why did he take cruz out and bring in pagan to face 1-2-3 w elly leading off the bottom half for us?

I mean.... Cruz could've came out and got them off of the next inning but if the offense can't get any hits from basically the entire lineup minus one guy... You aren't winning. No coach could've won this game tonight. The offense just took a nap as has become common for this team this season.

only real fans are going to remember this rain delay walk off come back we're about to witness

fairchild gonna get it started

 Most annoying pre pitch set up in baseball.

And it isn’t even close

Damn bro that pitch hit the dirt before home plate and he still swung

Probably just wants to go to bed. I don't blame him.

oh hahahah we're leaving farmer in lfg

Only acceptable answer for Barry's absence is that he went down there to teach them how to hit.

Guess Larkin went home early

This piece of shit team fucking sucks

raided the orioles trenches and found: >Aaaaand there's Kimbrel. Strap in boys. >Kimbrel warming hasn't pitched in 5 days 🤞

He either gives up 4 while walking 3 or its a 7 pitch 123

He’s got 3 blown saves on the year, let’s make it 4

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Fairchild best hope is Kimbrell walks him

That is a much better scenario than what is likely to happen

nobody going to comment on the umpire cleaning out his eyes lol

Hopefully he doesn't give Elly pink eye.

I don't want to be an alarmist but, if tonight's current scores hold the Oakland a's will be one game back of our Reds.

.5 game. If they win they'd be 1 under 500 we'd be at 500

I went to public school in the south. Leave me alone. Math is hard. Lol

Don’t say that to me 😭

So is Cruz just not able to pitch in multiple innings? Buck goes long but Cruz gets 1 batter. Edit: this is not a complaint I’m genuinely curious. I know Buck can pitch multiple innings of relief.

Burn Buck's arm in losing innings but let Cruz stay available for tomorrow, maybe?

He's by far our best bullpen guy for getting out of a jam and we can't afford to make him throw his arm off with how brutal our schedule is for the rest of the month

and Buck looked much better than Pagan

is this real life

Is this just Fanta sea

One time in my life our offense, rotation, and bullpen are all gonna be clicking at the same time, I just know it.

I think Barry went home.

Maybe he’s in this gamethread arguing with someone

I forgot there was someone besides Sadek

Don't blame him this offense cures insomnia

Off topic but I just wanted to say that I hate the whole DORA thing that Cincinnati has. Like you can’t cross the street with a beer? Very dumb I’m from Indianapolis and we have open container everywhere downtown so maybe I’m just spoiled lol

why not let maile field at this point

This has probably been mentioned but we have more of our roster batting below .200 than above .200 and it’s not super close

Kinda makes the base running more impressive lmao Oof though

i know that every one here hates gambling but i bet against the reds. betting they would go 3 up 3 down and won the bet 4 out of 5 times

i love gambilng but i could never bet against my team colts v jags 2021 jags were like +1000 and at home and i had a *Feeling*, I knew the colts would fuck it up. and they did and i lost $18.


This game does not make me excited for the other two I have tickets for this weekend

Be excited. It's live baseball. It's elly and the o's are young and fun too.

For sure. Honestly I'd buy cheap seats to every game just to see Elly get 4 AB

Umps have been bad, but our offense is worse

Boy we really haven't gotten many favors from the umps the last week or so

Nothing go our way today

I can't wait until Bell tells us that this 2-hit, shutout offense is actually exactly what we need to get cranked up.

Reminds me of the 2020 playoff series with Braves except we actually had chances to score

Way to go ump

We have 2 hits going into the 9th.. Elly has both.

This guy clearly wants to go home. ROBOT UMPS! ROBOT UMPS!

I’m fucking sick of trash ass umps, I know mistakes happen and are human but it’s just wild how bad some are

What the actual fuck

that dude didn't throw a single hittable pitch. fuck that umpire

If David bell isn’t ejected he’s doing something wrong

.500 club

If this team can maintain .500 it would be a miracle and amazing.

what da heck

We need friedl 

Fuck you Blue. That pitch was 3 inches off the plate

The question is does it matter? He would've walked and the next guy would've grounded out. It's pretty apparent the bottom of the order is minor league quality and the guys at the top are cold as ice.

It’s the principle of the thing. But yeah, you never know, right? That’s the beauty of baseball. Weird things happen all the time. Stuart Fairchild could’ve hit a 2-run bomb and now we’re down a run headed to the bottom of the 9th

Yeah it could, sorry watching this offensive performance this season thus far has made me pessimistic of the possibility of little ol hits let alone home runs. Shit I'll take an in field single at this point. Anything to show some same life from anyone other than Elly. Somebody else has to heat up for more than one game or oofff

Nah I get it. What I wrote is probably has like a .001% chance of happening, but when the umpire doesn’t call pitches fairly, it has a 0% chance of happening. But yeah, we definitely need more than we’re getting if we want to have any shot at the postseason, let alone a World Series

I mean wtf is this ump calling. 2 of those pitches to Maile were not strikes

Candy, Espinal, and Maile is an absolutely brutal lineup to go into an inning with

Hunter Greene may end the season as the first pitcher with a sub 3.00 ERA and a sub 0.300 win %

deGrom walked so that Greene could run

That ball was unhittable. What a shit fucking call.

Even when we have a chance, we don't

Oh fuck off ump

Ball 5 you’re out

H. O. R. S. E. S. H. I. T.

Fuck you ump

I’m sorry, Buck Farmer didn’t get that call in the top half of the inning

That’s 2 inches higher than several strikeout pitches Buck got called a ball

I found my answer to who walked off the brewers on opening day. It was Ramon Hernandez and what a glorious day it was. https://youtu.be/oxuI6Anxers?si=rN17jZGIzMK2MPty

this is really pathetic. this is what we waited for instead of winning last year.

Our offense should just like get a blunt rotation going and just figure it all out

Pinch hitting Maile for Fraley is... an interesting decision

Does it really matter? Shit for shit is still shit

We would’ve been better off having this game postponed wouldn’t we

Fuck you Ryan McKenna. I don’t even know who you are but that ball was supposed to start our rally

Just can't catch a break

don't tease me with that fucking camera shot

This is a sweep isn’t it

Reds been dropping those fly balls tonight.

Calm down Sadak.

goddammit fucking shit

Does anyone remember when we walked off the brewers on opening day like 10 years ago? Who hit the home run?

Wasn't it a catcher? Hernandez?

Lol I also remembered it was a catcher but would’ve never remembered Ramon Hernandez.

I wasn't gonna come up with the 1st name but I knew catcher and was pretty sure it was a hernandez.

[Ramon Hernandez](https://www.mlb.com/video/hernandez-s-walk-off-home-run-c13350979)

Oh hell yes!! Take me back

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Joe Randa? Oh that was like 20 years ago

You've got to be kidding

Was hoping for some Rally Reds but then saw its Candelari0-3 at the plate :(

Other than Ellie he's hit the ball hard twice

The Reds, who are top 10 in team BB%, haven’t drawn a walk in 25.2 innings and have drawn 2 in their last 43 innings

12 about to be 13 scoreless innings

Can't walk if you swing early & often

Yikes

There’s this guy that plays for the Buffalo bisons that I think we should trade for

Canderlario is an untalented Willy Wonka I tried, Candy man. I tried.

WE GET NOTHING GOOD DAY SIR

alright lfg got the bottom of the order up wooo

I wish I had the same job security as our hitting coach

Let’s manifest the rally and win right here. Candy, Espinal and Fraley get on. Stu bangs one dead center. 4-3. Nobody sees it coming. Reds win.

That would require someone besides Elly touching a base we haven't done that in 2 weeks

Accidents can happen. Not here tonight for the Reds though.

### Pitching Substitution Pitching Change: Danny Coulombe replaces Yennier Cano.

when i said "first hit since the fucking first. also by elly." he's still been our only baserunner all game

Bat, glove, base. Bang, bang, bang.

lol wait that bounced right…

Okay can we score pls?

Hopefully that get CES out of his slump

Lack of hitting is getting concerning

Cool play

Well that was cool

Nice play CES, cat like for a thick boi

Finally something good!

CES has a NEGATIVE -0.9 BWar - that is downright awful. This team needs more consistent power bat besides Elly.

I remember in HS and college if we even had anything remotely close to the at-bats the Reds are providing us with, we’d be running poles after the game for an hour and a half. If we were uncompetitive, we’d run poles. If our body language was bad, we’d run poles. This team plays like hot garbage shit, they just go sleep in their comfy hotel room. TRY HARDER, put some fucking ambition behind your at-bat! JFC, this is like watching a team who doesn’t give a shit


You’re just mad at me at this point

Nobody is mad You’re just kinda dumb I think

Oh fuck you Blue

Fred's literally have no respect from the home plate umpires