Reds Postcast: Cincinnati Reds SHUTOUT By St. Louis Cardinals; Offensive BRUTAL Performance

Reds Postcast: Cincinnati Reds SHUTOUT By St. Louis Cardinals; Offensive BRUTAL Performance

[Music] This is the Reds post, your instant game reaction for the Cincinnati Reds, part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. [Music] Good evening, Reds fans, and welcome to another edition of the Lockdown Reds post brought by Lockdown Reds and the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. I’m Tim Daniel. I am a lifelong Cincinnati Reds fan. I’ve been podcasting about this team for 5 years at publications such as Late Night Reds and the Riverfront. And I want to thank you all for spending some time with us today as we discuss a very annoying loss for the CE Reds to the St. Louis Cardinals three to nothing at Butch Stadium. If you’re just checking us out for the first time, welcome. We are so glad to have you. Please be sure to hit that notification button. So although I have just what 11 games left throughout the whole offseason you’ll get Jeff and Steve Monday through Friday unlocked on Reds. Today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel right now new customers can bet just $5 and if your bet wins you’ll get $300 in bonus bets to use across the app. Download the app today. Well on today’s show the Reds are shut out again. Andrew Abbott couldn’t get to the fifth inning but at least the bullpen did their thing and they were at least solid today. So, we had to give somebody some sort of credit, I guess. And of course, I’m going to hear from you all, our everydayers, with your comments, your thoughts, and everything else in between. Let’s get started. This is what you’ll be talking about. And with a whimper, the Cincinnati Red’s game, I mean, Cincinnati Red’s opportunity is gone. Three hits tonight as a team. Can you imagine fighting for your postseason life, trying to do everything, you know, you’re you’re scratching and clawing, you’re hanging on very little. Mathematically, you’re in it. But we all know in reality that that is not the case. Three hits, three walks. The same theme each and every week that we’ve had throughout the whole season. Not being able to hit in situational hitting. It’s honestly amazing that we are at this point in the year and we are having the same conversation we had in April, in May, in June of they can’t hit with scoring position. They can’t get the big hit that they always need. How many games have I come in here and been like, you know, guys, they were just one big hit away. Maybe tonight they probably weren’t one big hit away. St. Lewis was I mean Mike McCreio was really good so I you know I like to give him credit but the fact that they had six base runners tonight and couldn’t do a damn thing with him is astonishing. The fact that we’ve had this conversation how many times this year? I tried to I didn’t have time for the show start to count how many times the Reds got shut out this year. Um the answer is a lot. I don’t have an exact amount, but um yeah, a lot is the right way to put it. So, let’s see. There’s obviously the three in April. Yeah, I don’t have time to count it all up, but you guys get the gist of what I’m saying. Um it’s happened too many darn times for this baseball team, for a team that’s like like we’ve all kind of declared them declared them done, but mathematics say they’re still in it at least until next week. um to just not be able to put anything together in situations like this. It’s honestly astonishing to me how much they look overmatched, how often they look overmatched. And don’t me wrong, there’s a lot to it. You know, I know everyone wants to say fire Chris, fire Chris Vala, and I’m not necessarily going to go here and like, you know, be the the grand marshal of the Chris Valica parade, but at some point you need good hitters. Do I like his concept? Do I like his ideas all the time? No. No, I don’t. I think his like anti-home run thing that he said earlier in the year was not a good look. But I also don’t seem to understand this idea of like everything’s his fault. Everything’s Tito’s fault. Those guys haven’t been great. I’m not going to sit here and act like they have. But at some point, things got to fall on the players. It’s not one thing that they’ve gotten shut out so many times. It’s one-run losses. It’s this whole thing where they just find a way to kind of not be able to get anything to happen. So, it’s these times, you know, 01 like Michael says right here, Reds follow a game where they score 10 plus runs by scoring 01 and two early. The run differential is very high. Not shown by their record. Bingo. You always know if they have a big game like they had the other day that they had last night, they scored what 11 runs. They had this huge like they scored a lot of runs last three innings. Um, it’s just it’s it’s unbelievable at this point. And their whole idea to save the season, to just bring this glimmer of hope back was to move LA de la Cruz to the seven spot. Um, sure, let’s just roll with that. I don’t know. There’s so many people to just kind of blame for where they’re at at this point. And it’s so frustrating because tonight was not the example, but we’re having these conversations where we have these nights. How many times we had these nights, guys, where we come on here, I turn the mic on, I’m like do my whole jokey spiel just to hide my pain of how bad the baseball team really is. And we’re like, man, but they pitch so well. Start didn’t pitch very well tonight. We’ll get to that in the next segment. But they just always found a way. And you know, you knew it too, right? Will Benson gets two, gets the hit, there’s two on, no out, double play. And you get to the situation where, you know, you literally got from the three splits of the the lineup, there was one hit in the top to third of the lineup, the middle third, and the bottom third. Gavin Lux, Will Benson, Ellie de la Cruz. And it’s uh yeah, it’s, you know, it’s a talent issue. There’s certainly a talent issue there and it’s something that’s got to be fixed. We can’t do this conversation again next year. We’re getting to like I don’t even know if I want my daughter to be a Reds fan because I don’t know if I want her to be as annoyed as I am on a night basis. I want her to enjoy her life. Now, that’s not to go say I want her to go be a Cardinals fan or a Pirates fan by any means, but I don’t know if I want to put her through this every night. It’s just not fun. My fun is talking to you guys and you guys make me feel better about all this. So, I appreciate all of that. You know who I didn’t appreciate tonight was Andrew Rabbit. 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But, thank you all as always for spending some time with me here on the Reds Post. It’s so fun to have you guys here because you make my day every day, no matter how the Reds are playing. If you are just checking me out for the first time, thank you so much. Welcome. I’m so sorry you’re catching on when the season is all but over, both literally and theoretically. But you will have Jeff and Steve Monday through Friday on Locked on Reds. I’m sure they’ll have me come hang out here and there. Uh hopefully all the time. Jeff, Steve, I know you’re listening. Uh but I want to be here as much as I possibly can because I want to be here for the good or the bad of the offseason. So, let’s get to the turning point in tonight’s game. Time to reveal where the game was won or lost. It’s the turning point. Turning point in tonight’s game would simply be Thomas Sexy hitting just his second home run of the season, putting them up two nothing in the bottom of the third. How can you be down three nothing and honestly in the third inning and feel like you’re toast? Is that sad? You feel like you can’t your team like when they fall down three nothing can’t put a rally together. Andrew Abbott tonight. I don’t use this ter word often. I don’t like to use this word often. He was not very good. He was kind of pathetic tonight if we’re going to be honest. And I know he got into the fifth inning and that’s nice, but he and I know he has seven strikeouts tonight and he didn’t walk anybody, but dude, they need the the starts that they’ve gotten three of these last four games from Green Lola and Abbott are unacceptable. They’re simply unacceptable. You can’t have all three guys turn in days like this when you are hanging on for everything you got. These are three guys that we said are uh you know ace material, right? And I still stand by it. I still think they are. Specifically Abbott and Green. I think Ledo has it in him, but obviously we know what his issue is is uh not saying on the mound, but the fact that all three guys turned in stinkers the second what the second to last week of the season. This is a team that they need their starting pitching to be the thing that carries them, right? Like we’ve had the conversation on here if they somehow snuck in the playoffs, no one will want to play them. They know they can outscore them, but they know that there’s very few teams that can pitch with them. Tonight just kind of was just one of these games where they needed so much more from him and he let everybody he’ll let them down. I shouldn’t say let everybody down. Um, and Michael says it here. I think Abbott’s just tired now. Sure, I get it. I do. I can’t imagine for a position player playing 162 days a year and being a p starting pitcher having to literally throw 100 miles an hour every fifth day and having your bullpen in the middle of the week and then having your scout what you have got to do and all that stuff. I’m sure that is taxing. By the way, Chase Burn’s going to pitch again. What was the point? Just thought about that. But Abbott frustrating and I’m not blaming him. Obviously, when you’re down three nothing, your team should still find a way to be able to be in a game and they weren’t. So, that’s not his fault, but I thought he held his own. Not really. He definitely needed to be better and the Reds need to be better. And I feel like I’m going to be saying that a lot these next few weeks. But whatever. At least the bullpen did their job tonight. And we’re going to talk about that said bullpen and more after this. There we go. All right. 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I think Michael Blackman could be locked on player of the game. I think William Wright, you all are the locked on player of the game because you guys showed up tonight more than the Reds did. All right, so the bullpen at least did their job. It’s not their fault that the starting pitching wasn’t on par. It’s not their fault that their hitters couldn’t do anything. But the bullpen tonight did clear up four and a third of shut out ball, giving up no hits and just one walk, but somehow only having two strikeouts. Kind of fascinating. So Scott Barlo comes out, does an inning and a third. Zack Maxwell does an inning and then Bred Sudter does an inning. Um I can’t do math. That’s three and a third. Reds have got me so mad I can’t even do numbers. Um, but there’s one thing that’s been bad Thursday. We’ve kind of constantly had a lot of bullpen conversations, but tonight they were at least solid. It’s just unfortunate didn’t mean anything because the team couldn’t get everything going. So, with that in mind, I think it’s fair to say we can put a bow on this one where the Reds are losers to the St. Louis Cardinals three to nothing. The Cardinals have three runs on eight hits, no errors. The Reds have zero runs on three hits and zero airish. Your winning pitcher tonight is Michael McGrevy. He is now seven and three. Andrew Abbott is your loser. He is now nine and seven. And picking up his fifth save of the season is Riley O’Brien. And now we go to a chance to clinch this series tomorrow as Brady Singer will take the hill for the Reds. He is 13-10 with a 394 and he’ll go against Andre Palante who is 6 and14 with a 534 erra. First pitch is at 115 for the Reds come home for the lengthy home stand and this and their and their games at GBP. Everyone, thank you so much for spending some time with me tonight. It’s been real. It’s been fun, but the Reds are not real fun. I’m Tim Daniel. I will see you all tomorrow. Be sure to tune in for Jeff and Steve Unlocked on Reds as well. Take it easy, everybody.

The Cincinnati Reds fell 3-0 to the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night at Busch Stadium. Andrew Abbott struggled, lasting only 4 2/3 innings while allowing the Cardinals to set the tone early. Offensively, the Reds were overmatched, managing just three hits and three walks in a quiet effort at the plate. Cincinnati will now look to bounce back and secure the series in Wednesday’s rubber match.

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