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By Thaq Diesel 

The Reds are heading home after a lackluster road trip which yielded two wins but featured some slumping bats and error-prone defense.  The pitching is still good to great, but Cincinnati is starting to show cracks in the armor.  Little things like giving up six unearned runs in an inning like they did Friday to the Diamondbacks need to stop.  Perhaps they can pull it together.  I picture Jerry Narron making the team field balls all day Monday.  Narron standing at the plate with a bat, screaming “AGAIN!” like my 6th grade little league coach or the Asian guy in that Bud light commercial. 

• I maintain that the inside-the-park home run (or even attempting one) is one of the most exciting plays in baseball.  Felipe Lopez had the speed to pull one off Saturday.
• Can the Reds continue to make up for their fielding mistakes with their power and run production? 
• Cincinnati has had eight errors in the past five games.
• The Reds lead (or are in last place, if you think of it that way) MLB in errors with 32, though they just committed one fourth of them this past week.
• The Reds are 9th in strikeouts, middle of the pack in ERA and have given up the fifth best number of walks (just 92).  So much for a crappy pitching staff.
• Austin Kearns is hitting the ball really well.  He took El Duque out of the yard to left Sunday, one pitch after hitting a rocket over the fence just foul.  I can’t remember ever seeing that before (”Hmm, that guy just hit that fastball hard.  Maybe I can throw another fastball by him…”)

“I was surprised to see that the Reds only have eight stolen bases and have been caught stealing five times. So much for small ball.”

What do you mean by this? The Reds are second in the Majors in SBs. Lopez has 10 himself, Freel 8, and Phillips has like 4 now.

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Posted by Daedalus on May 8th, 2006 at 11:38 pm

My bad; I sorted the stats wrong on MLB.com on a late-night post. Thanks for sorting me out. - Thaq

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Posted by Thaq Diesel on May 10th, 2006 at 10:58 am

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