Reds vs. Cubs Game 2

[rockin500]

well, wood is supposed to be dominant against your lineup (12-3, 10-0 in cincy) but you guys beat him like a rented mule.

[CincyRedsFan30]

perez is human, dude. we beat him up pretty good on friday (too bad zambrano and bullpen couldnt shut down the pirates), so you guys should be able to score off perez since your lineup is better than ours by a pretty large margin. he hasnt been very good this year.

BTW, it looked like prior sneaked his leg in before the tag. close play, but i thought he got it in.

prior just looked filthy tonight, and bartosh closed it out pretty well. i'm NEVER comfortable only scoring 4 or 5 runs against you guys which is why im glad we scored 7.

I'm not sure the argument that the Reds should score more runs than the Cubs against Perez carries much water.

Here are the numbers through tonight:

Cubs: 73 runs scored
Reds: 55 runs scored

The Cubs have dominated on the offensive end thus far.

MLB ranks for the two teams(not including tonight):

Cubs: Tied for 11th (above average offensive team so far)
Reds: Tied for 21st(below average offensive team so far)

[redsrbetter]

Ya, you are right rockin. It is a different year and we have a newly shaped lineup on our hands. Good point! We have faced a lot of tough pitchers so far this year. Which could be why our numbers look so bad.

[missionhockey21]

Casey is (11-22) vs. Perez, BTW. I hope Griffey or Pena sits against Perez.

Yeah you're right. Dunn actually did pretty good versus Perez last year. Pena struggled hitting like .222 and Griffey had 0 hits and 5 K's in 10 AB's versus Perez.

[rockin500]

hmmmm strange. of course, we do have that 16 run abberation on opening day skewing those numbers a tad.

but still, i thought you guys were better offensively than that so far.

[CincyRedsFan30]

So far the Reds' lineup has been bad enough that it hasn't competed with the lineup of the D-Backs... who have scored 12 more runs through tonight.

Here was their lineup today(not in order):
Kata
Clayton
Clark
Glaus
Green
Hairston
Terrero
Snyder

Hopefully our lineup will start doing what that lineup has done thus far.

[CincyRedsFan30]

hmmmm strange. of course, we do have that 16 run abberation on opening day skewing those numbers a tad.

but still, i thought you guys were better offensively than that so far.

Yup. Except the statistics say otherwise.

Be careful, or you might get jumped on for posting something that wasn't true..... wait.... no.... you're not ME... so whether you posted something that wasn't true or something that had to do with an opinion issue ONLY, you won't get jumped on at all. Either way there is no issue in YOUR case.

[AdamDunn#44]

The Cards should have a better record that the Reds.

lets compare schedules to date:

Reds have faced:

Mets(Pedro Martinez, Tom Glavine)
Cards-(Mulder)
Astros-(Oswalt twice, Clemens, Pettitte)
Cubs-(Wood, Prior)

Cards:

Astros
Philly
Reds
Brewers
Pirates

We have faced much better pitching. I'm not saying we will finish ahead of the Cards, because I know we won't. I'm just saying the Cards should have a better record to this point because we have faced some of the best pitchers in the game.

and it doesn't get any better-Florida over the weekend(best pitching in MLB), Zambrano and the Cubs next week)

[CincyRedsFan30]

It seems like God is wanting the Reds to always face tough pitchers. We seemed to always get tough pitching last year... and we have so far this year.