Well, the Reds finished the season on a losing note by getting swept by the Cardinals. What was kind of typical for the season was that pitching failed us as the Cardinals scored at least seven (and as many as twelve) runs in each of the three games.

One good thing came out of today’s game as future Hall of Famer Adam Dunn hit a milestone. With his homerun today, he’s finished with at least 40 homers and 100 runs, walks and RBIs in each of the past two seasons. He also had his second straight season with an OPS over .900 and he’s the real shining star on the Reds offense. He actually topped last year’s OBP to boot (.389 vs .388) and he struck out 29 less times.

Back in early May, I took part in a Red’s blogger chat. It was the second of three (we haven’t had one since June) but at the end, and with a month and a week of the season in the books, we all took a stab at predicting the Reds final record and their team ERA. You can go check it out by clicking here. Or you can click here, whichever.

Not too bad. I’m off by only one win (I guess I was a bit pessimistic) and if you add in the six earned runs and eight innings to the numbers on Yahoo that haven’t been updated yet, I’m coming up with an ERA of 5.18. Again, I was a little on the high side, but pretty close (my prediction was 5.24 if you’re too lazy to check).

Playoff time. I’m going to be doing my playoff predictions here soon (tomorrow). It looked like we might have some one game playoffs, but everything got squared away. Playoffs start Tuesday. And don’t forget the 1975 Reds will start their post season this week.

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