……at least in one of their games. The Reds dropped two of three to the Phillies. What does that mean??? Absolutely nothing. This Reds fan is bummed out that the season is drawing to a close, but with some tight division and wild card races, this could be an absolutely exciting week of baseball.

Just not if your team is the Reds.

Friday’s game was absolutely ugly. Up 10-6, the Reds had yet another late inning meltdown as the Phillies scored five runs in the top of the ninth to win the game. David Weathers was shelled and was basically left out there to win or lose the game. Guess what, he lost. The Reds had four homers, one of which was Austin Kearns’ sixteenth dinger of the season.

That game was depressing, so lets talk about yesterday’s game. The Reds had it all. Good pitching (Eric Milton gave up only five hits and one through seven innings and the pen did their job) and some timely hitting. Adam Dunn homered for the 38th time this season. He’s at 97 RBIs, so three more and he’ll have his second consecutive season with 100 RBIs, runs and walks. Not too shabby for the future hall of famer.

Today, the Phillies got to the Reds early, and before the Reds could even score a run, the Phillies had enough to walk away with the win. Edwin Encarnacion hit a solo homer and Adam Dunn went two for four to push his average to a nice, even .250. Kind of fitting for the Reds to lose their final home game of the season.

The Reds travel to Milwaukee for four in a meaningless series before traveling to St. Louis to play their AAA team as they rest up for the playoffs. I’m going to predict we win five of seven in our final week to end the season on winning note.

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