Man, this afternoon’s game was ugly. Eric Milton was knocked around early, and the Brewers scored in the first seven innings. In all, the Reds gave up five homeruns and they used eight different pitchers. Rookie Chris Booker was shelled again and his ERA is now 63.00 as he’s give up seven earned runs in one inning of work.

Yesterday was the lone bright spot of the series. The Reds actually got some pitching and Aaron Harang had a very nice start (including seven strikeouts). The Reds tied the game 1-1 in the seventh and then Javier Valentin drove in the walk off run in the bottom of the tenth.

The Reds ended up losing Monday (it was 1-1 when I posted) and all the Reds got was that solo homer by Adam Dunn. The Brewers busted the game open in the eighth with two runs then wrapped things up with three more in the ninth. This was Chris Bookers debut and he didn’t look sharp.

Ken Griffey, Jr. is out for the year so once again he’ll have a season where he’s missed a substantial amount of time to injury. It also makes the fact that we didn’t deal him seem a little more, well, dumb. I’m a huge Griffey fan, but even I could see how trading him would possibly help us build for the future.

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