Cincinnati Reds start strong, face recent series
MLB transfer deadline: Who are the buyers this season?
Bob Nightengale and Steve Gardner talk about who the big buyers are in the MLB transfer market this season and which players they are considering.
Sport in Seriousness
ST. LOUIS — When the Cincinnati Reds won their first game of the series with a landslide victory over the Cardinals on Thursday, a wag in the Cincinnati press box said it was the death knell for the Reds for the remaining four games at Busch Stadium.
NO?
It was the fourth time in the last five series that the Reds had a strong performance and won in the opening game, only to follow it up with a loss each time on the way to losing the series.
“We’ve done that in the last four series,” said powerful batsman Jonathan India. “If you win the first game comfortably, things don’t go so well in the next one. We have to go full throttle here.”
Don’t look now, but there they are again.
Seriously, don’t look. You wouldn’t find any runs anyway, as the Reds suffered a 1-0 loss on Friday after an 11-run score.
“Yeah, it sucks,” said India, who nevertheless reached base three times on Friday and had two of the Reds’ four hits. “It’s not a good feeling. We always do the same thing.”
“But we still have two,” said India, who has gone 11-for-17 (.647) with four walks and seven doubles in five games since replacing the injured TJ Friedl at the top of the order. “We can still win a series. We have to find a way.”
For the Reds, this would be the seventh consecutive series without a win (in between they split two games with Cleveland).
“We take the same approach every day,” manager David Bell said of the confusing pattern of late. “It will correct itself. It will even out and more.”
Death of Tamayo Perry: Surf legend and star of “Pirates of the Caribbean” dies at the age of 49 in shark attack
Given the growing threat from China, Taiwanese war games are designed to simulate combat as closely as possible
How to watch the series finale on the Roku Channel
About The Author
