After a nice little four game winning streak earlier the week, the Reds have now dropped two straight and that brings their season loss total to 81.  That means unless they finish the season with thirteen straight wins, they’re going to have their eighth straight losing season.  Yes, you have to go all the way back to 2000, which was Ken Griffey, Jr.’s debut season. We’re not quite  in Pirates territory yet, but we’re getting close to an entire decade of losing.  Mostly thanks to the Pirates, the Reds have never finished in dead last during that time and they’ve only lost 90 or more three times so they’ve never been downright awful, just less then mediocre.

Five hits were all the Reds managed and  they lost despite another solid start by Bronson Arroyo.  Drew Stubbs went two for three with a solo home run and Ryan Hannigan went yard with nobody on base.  JoeyVotto went two for four and he’s keeping his head above th .500 mark.  The Reds struck out eleven times, including three each by Branon Phillips and Juan Francisco.

Arroyo fell to 13-13 and he gave up three runs on six hits and a walk with six strikeout in eight innings.  Ramon Ramirez pitched a shutout ninth and through seven innings, he has an odd stat line.  He has an impressive 0.71 WHIP and a .091 batting average against, but one of the two hits he gave up was a home run and then in another game, he gave up two walks and both guys later scored on another pitcher.

Anyway, it was a 3-2 loss.  The finale is this afternoon and it’ll be Kip Wells against Sean West.

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