{"id":120218,"date":"2025-06-21T11:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/120218\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T11:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:10:12","slug":"it-was-an-ugly-6-1-loss-for-the-cincinnati-reds-against-the-lou-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/120218\/","title":{"rendered":"It was an ugly 6-1 loss for the Cincinnati Reds against The Lou on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Then came an 11 on an ugly scale of 1 to 10.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals, donning City Connect uniforms calling the team \u201cThe Lou,\u201d scored five runs on two soft singles, three walks, a hit batsman and an error.<\/p>\n

It led to a 6-1 defeat for the Reds in the opener of an important three-games series against their much-despised National League Central brethren.<\/p>\n

The gory details:<\/p>\n

Reds starter Brady Singer held the Cardinals to a 1-0 lead through six innings and turned matters over to the usually reliable bullpen.<\/p>\n

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With one out, Scott Barlow walked light-hitting catcher Pedro Pages (.221) on a full count. Then he hit light-hitting No. 9 hitter Victor Scott II.<\/p>\n

Left-hander Taylor Rogers replaced Barlow to face left-handed Brendan Donovan. He walked him to fill the bases.<\/p>\n

Then he gave up a soft single up the middle to Masyn Winn for a run and a 2-0 lead. He struck out Alec Burleson for the second out.<\/p>\n

But he walked Nolan Ryan, forcing in a run and it was 3-0. Tony Santillan replaced Rogers and the first batter, Thomas Saggese, hit a easy ground ball to third base.<\/p>\n

Gavin Lux fielded it cleanly and threw the ball into the dirt for an error that permitted two more to score. Lars Nootbar singled home another run and it was 6-0.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAh, man, hit by pitch, walks, Lux likes to throw on the run and just didn\u2019t get it there,\u201d said Reds manager Tito Francona, dissecting the disaster. \u201cThat hurt.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood teams who feel good about themselves when you give them extra opportunities, extra chances, it is rare when it doesn\u2019t hurt you.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pain was excruciating, especially when it comes when the Reds haven\u2019t won a season series in their park since 2003.<\/p>\n

And the Reds knew it would be a difficult assignment because they were facing St. Louis starter Andre Pallante.<\/p>\n

Against most teams, he is a step or two below ordinary. And he entered the game 4-3 with a 4.83 earned run average this season.<\/p>\n

But when he sees the Reds, he sees red. He held the Reds to no runs and two hits over six innings and was the winner.<\/p>\n

So he is 6-2 with a 2.01 ERA against the Reds for his seven career starts and 10 relief appearances.<\/p>\n

He put extra-tight handcuffs on a team that was averaging close to six runs while winning 10 of its last 12 games. He had the Reds flattening the infield grass with 10 ground ball outs.<\/p>\n

He retired the first eight Reds until Matt McLain extended his hitting streak to eight games with a two-out third-inning single.<\/p>\n

Elly De La Cruz was on first with one out in the fourth when it was 1-0. He strayed too far off the base and catcher Pedro Pages picked him off.<\/p>\n

The only other uprising against Pallante came in the top of the seventh when it was still 1-0. De La Cruz broke an 0 for 12 skid with a ground ball single.<\/p>\n

But Tyler Stephenson swung at the first pitch and grounded into a 5-4-3 double play.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis cutter was really good, getting past our barrels the first time through the order,\u201d said Francona, describing Pallante\u2019s dominance. \u201cThen he sped us up with his off-speed stuff.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was really good and has had a ton of success keeping hitters on the ground,\u201d he told reporters at the game. \u201cWe tried to get some balls in the air, but he was beating us with that cutter.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Brady Singer faced the Cardinals in Cincinnati on May 1, he held them to one run and two hits over six innings and lost 1-0.<\/p>\n

And it looked as if he might lose another 1-0 game to them … until the ugly seventh.<\/p>\n

He pitched around heavy traffic. He gave up a two-out double in the first that he stranded. St. Louis put their leadoff batter on bases in the second, third and fourth, but only one scored.<\/p>\n

That was in the third when he hit Victor Scott II to open the inning. Brendan Donovan forced him at second, but Masyn Winn doubled Donovan to third and he scored on Gorman\u2019s sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n

Singer retired the last nine batters he faced but all he got was his record dropped to 7-5.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a little shaky the first few innings, but then I threw more strikes,\u201d said Singer. \u201cIt was definitely a battle. It was pretty hot (88 degrees), but i just had to put my head down and go out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Francona piled praise on Singer.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoy, he battled,\u201d he said. \u201cSix innings and there was some traffic but he only gave up one. A lot of nights we\u2019re saying, \u2018Hey, that was a great job, way to go.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The Reds received some bad news before the game concerning Saturday\u2019s scheduled starter, Wade Miley. An MRI revealed that the 38-year-old left-hander has a tear in his flexor that most likely will end his career.<\/p>\n

So who starts?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all right,\u201d said Francona. \u201cIt will be a bullpen game. Brent Suter will start.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Then came an 11 on an ugly scale of 1 to 10. The Cardinals, donning City Connect uniforms…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[537,5,21602,535,50,4259,2044,6095,4,1082,3892,21603,536,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-120218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-reds","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-bengals-football","11":"tag-cincinnati","12":"tag-cincinnati-reds","13":"tag-cincinnatireds","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-mens-sports","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-pro-sports","19":"tag-professional-football","20":"tag-reds","21":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114721051619123199","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}