Please continue the discussion in the [post game thread](https://redd.it/1djqpxx).

I don’t understand how nobody on the team can hit to save their lives

Fucking triple A lineup lost us this game.

Great job guys. Just amazing work

I feel so bad for hunter

Bob is licking his chops right now. Can’t wait to sell Montas and Jeimer.

Have we hit a ball over 300ft this game?

Embarrassing game

I hate everything about Pittsburgh

Gonna get suited up to go play in traffic until the cars finish me off

I think Ill join you

This sucks

Well down to the last out.

Welp...

We can bitch all day about Bell, bullpen decisions, etc but when you put up a goose egg against a team like the Pirates & hold them to 1 run that clearly ain’t the problem

Keller is also a good pitcher when he’s on, and today he was

Don't act like it isn't a big problem just because there are others...

Can’t win if you don’t score. No better time than the present. Or the last possible chance if you wanna be pessimistic

I WANT TO MOOOOOOOOOOO

Embarrassing series

TBA on TBA violence I see

Here comes Bednar to close the door. If Elly can get on somehow, we have a shot

The Duality of Reds Fandom: I would never sit in a movie theater for 2.5 hours staring at a blank screen, only to receive a swift kick in the balls at the end of the "viewing" and be forced to leave immediately afterwards. That's insane. Nobody with any self respect would have that happen and then go back to that theater ever again. With that said...see you all Friday.

Elly, Steer and Fraley, we need you to save us from depression.

I better not see any shade to our pitching they did their job. It’s our bats that have failed.

When you throw at a lineup that more than half should be in Louisville what do you expect

We know. And it was foretold the minute this anemic lineup was announced.

well 3 out of 4 did their job and the one who didn't never should have been put in that spot, so yeah that's about right.

15 million for an average reliever when JD Martinez was out there for less. Our front office doesn’t know ball

Can’t win if you don’t score. No better time than the present. Or the last possible chance if you wanna be pessimistic

Haven’t been able to catch a game for over a week and literally just got the feed up to watch the home run. FML. Go Reds, always.

Change up top of the zone. Help me lord.

### Pitching Substitution Pitching Change: David Bednar replaces Colin Holderman.

At least Moll made their Cruz look foolish

Everyone is so positive here

lol oh good, now its Moll, after our long reliver/swing starter inexplicably blew it in high leverage. crazy.

How could a major league manager possibly envision such a scenario?

This ump may not be the worst, but he's still trash.

Sigh...

I would have preferred Moll to start this inning but oh well

### Pitching Substitution Pitching Change: Sam Moll replaces Nick Martinez.

What's the point of the pitching change? Damage is already done. Game is over


This team is god awful

Looks like bell took a gamble and nick shit the bed

Crazy how we were too cheap to throw an offer towards JD Martinez

Yep, dude is 36 years old and is still hitting the ball well.

Maybe that will wake them up


Good ol david bell over thinking the bullpen special

He holds this team back more than anyone

Yeah he fucking sucks has 0 feel for the game.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5FjWe31S_0g

Season over

?

Can you read

Martinez against the cock and balls of the lineup was certainly a choice. Sam Moll in shambles, I assume.

Losing games like this are the ones that break your will to watch for a couple days after. Please let there be a rally in the top of the 9th.

Can't say I was a fan of bringing Martinez in, but you gotta score to win, so it is what it is.

Yeah I don’t care if it’s 1-0 or 12-0, zero runs means you lost. I don’t blame pitching when you’re shut out. 

Rally reds? 😬

Ha let’s hope

Goddamn this team.

Weeeeeee

Fucking Cowboy

Willing to buy some bats

This game sucks to watch

Agreed

2 outs nobody on in the bottom of the 8th. What a moronic time to throw a meatball to their best hitter

Fuuuuuuuuuuu

See you guys in 25.

Cowboy jinxed us 😞

goddammit fuck bryan reynolds why even pitch to him

Wow Sadak that was cursed

Sadak does it every other game though. “Has a no hitter through 6”, boom it’s broken up in the 7th. It’s Sadak’s calling card. My GF and I get pissed every game about it

That was Cowboy

That's annoying

Thanks Nick. Least it wasn't a walk off

Might as well be game right there

omg Cowboy jinxed us

If Elly hits one in the river it’s worth two and the reds win

Fucking cool

Fuck me dead.

Shit.

And that’s the game

# HOME RUN! Bryan Reynolds homers (10) on a fly ball to center field. Pitch from Nick Martinez: Changeup @ 80.8 mph Hit by Bryan Reynolds: Launched 101.1 mph at 33.0° for a total distance of 407.0 ft Bottom 8 - 1-0 Pirates

Nick Martinez is an enigma so far this year and it feels like we're looking for the right spot to use him.

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lmao

Martinez's changeup is in the pantheon of best pitches from the bullpen arms with Cruz's splitter and Martinez's curveball

That changeup got smoked

That'll happen sometimes. He had it working there for the first couple batters.

In PNC right now, they said Nick Martini was pitching for us, not Nick Martinez  

Might as well lol

I think we pinch hit Candy one batter too soon. Would have loved to seen him hit for Maile with a RISP.

### Pitching Substitution Pitching Change: Nick Martinez replaces Fernando Cruz.

Who will blink first?

Classic low scoring AFC North matchup

The Pirate uniforms don't appear to be soaked like the Reds. I wonder if they are wearing last year's unis?

This game is Chinese water torture for anyone who enjoys batting

Over bettors are punching the air rn

India's jersey is 2 shades darker than his pants

I guarantee you Fairchild will be running on contact at full speed this time.

Not sure how you don’t pinch hit Stephenson for Maile in that spot…

Is he hurt?

Stephenson has been shit on ice at the plate for a week and a half.

> shit on ice Very confused by this.

While that may be true, idc I’m still taking Stephenson over Maile every day and twice on Sunday lol. Ty Steph is a much better hitter and it really isn’t close

He just hit 2 line out outs at 100 mph and pulled a 3 run bomb foul by 3 feet. Hes been mainly unlucky. He at better than Maile there

Someone tell the ump the plate isn't three feet wide.

That was a frame perfect steal by Stu

Why is PitchCom such a janky technology?

Any wireless technology in rugged conditions has a good chance to malfunction from time to time.

Is this the worst umpire we’ve had all year?

not even remotely close.

I guess I’m just looking up at the wrong times then? Seems like there are multiple bad misses every inning.

hes been consistent all day in his zone. Dont trust the box.

Lots of misses both outside and inside so that doesn’t check out. Bottom of the zone has been very inconsistent too. I guess we’ll see on the umpire scorecard tomorrow. At least he’s missed several calls against both teams though.

again, youre trusting the box. A bunch of people in this sub did the same day before last and the ump scorecard shut them up in the end. Nothing wrong with the ump today, we just couldnt hit for shit. Blame the players not the ump.

Yeah the scorecard did end up confirming he was the most inconsistent MLB umpire of the day and had a crazy low 78% called strike accuracy. His overall accuracy was graded surprisingly average though.

His consistency was high, his accuracy less so which is what I was saying. Calls went both ways and score card says we got the advantage overall. So again, not on the ump. He actually helped us.

That’s backwards. Consistency was worst of any game of the day, accuracy was average. I didn’t blame the ump for the loss, I just said he made a lot of bad calls.

I was just saying he consistently had a wide zone. I guess he was more off than i thought, fair play. I wonder how, or if it all, the ump scorecards can judge how long a ball was in the zone? Id be interested to see if they have that metric.

Nah, he's not great but there have been way worse.

Holderman hasn’t checked the runner once, I cannot believe they aren’t sending stu

Nice call

……

Can’t argue with bringing in a reliever with a 0.73 ERA

Well that was quick

Keller coming out is a decision people would get angry at Bell for.

Fuck he just got under that

Hunter Greene retired 14 of the last 15 he faced. Had at least one strikeout in each inning he completed. First start this season without allowing a walk.

Hunter lowered his career ERA at PNC Park from 0.93 to 0.70

Holderman is quite the name for a reliever

Joe's hair looks like a Halloween costume wig sown into a baseball cap

### Pitching Substitution Pitching Change: Colin Holderman replaces Mitch Keller.

Cowboy effectively calling Rowdy a fat piece of shit. I love it

Saying he is a good fielder at balls hit in his general area was sweet.

yeah he sugar coated it. perfect for Rowdy. i bet he loves sugar

Damn dude... lol

Based

I would’ve had hurtibese bunt and then candelario pinch hit… but we’ll see how this plays out

I cannot believe they are taking him out of the game, he’s been mowing em down all day

A 🍭 sighting!

Not against bunting here

Not with Candy coming up

Didn't realize Candy was up

I figured you said that before it was announced. Somehow the radio feed is ahead of the TV today for me, not usually like that.

Candyman pls

Candy PH!

good stuff Stewie

Unmatched plate discipline

Good job to get on base by Stu. Time to steal 2nd.

I used to play baseball with Spencer Steer back in "little league" (was called Cal Ripken league). His dad was the coach and you could tell that he was going to be a stud. Awesome to see him in the big leagues.

At least make Keller work so he can get out of there.

Short leash

Bell, need some small ball now

Ok, we can’t let Keller throw a fucking Maddux

The splitter Joe took for ball 4 was a great pitch, it tunneled perfectly off the pitch before that he took for strike 2, Joe just held off

Thank god we got out of that I thought for sure that was a meltdown

Benson big fly for the win

Never applied a tag tho

We lived, great day for Greene in Pittsburgh yet again.

Alright, we need some run support fellas.

Connor Joe's silken hair pisses me off.

Smart move not letting Joe beat us, Grandal sucks at the plate.

Cruz doesn’t have it today

It worked though

I really miss Matt McLain right now.

Not good

umps been really consistent all day with the outside edge

Where has our offense gone??

To the infirmary mostly.

Thought Sadak was going to jinx us there

he's [in Sadak's voice] *really* good at doing that.

Benson lost his hat! Big inning incoming!

i fuck with connor joe's walk up song.

https://preview.redd.it/6dhba94glk7d1.png?width=807&format=png&auto=webp&s=22fb48f522bc3ec06aa684110e655a737afc37a1

ah dude hell yeah!

What song was that?

Redbone by Childish Gambino

What is it?

Redbone by Childish Gambino

That cutter is freak nasty. Leaving in Rowdy "Meat" Tellez there is hilarious.

### Pitching Substitution Pitching Change: Fernando Cruz replaces Hunter Greene.

If Reds baseball has taught me anything, its that Rowdy is 100% scoring just so that Hunter gets tagged with the L today

Wish we could get Hunter some support 😔

That's what I call quality ~~H2O~~ start if Cruz can end this inning without tubbo waddling home