Brandon Phillips

Let’s recap today’s titanic struggle… FINAL Cincinnati Reds 2 Atlanta Braves 1 WP: Chapman (4-0, 0-0 ERA) LP: Martinez (2-1, 4.56 ERA) Boxscore Video Highlights PitchFX for Bronson Arroyo POSITIVES • The Reds have won the first t...

Our buddy David Schoenfield over at the SweetSpot blog has a post up about the fact that the Reds are breathing down the neck of the Cardinals. It’s a good read. This particular portion made my head hurt, though: The four solo shots do highligh...

Let’s recap tonight’s titanic struggle…. FINAL Atlanta 3 Cincinnati 4 W: M. Latos (3-2) L: B. Beachy (5-2) S: A. Chapman (2) BOX SCORE POSITIVES –Hey, there’s the Mat Latos we were hoping to see this year. Latos went 7 s...

Maybe it is all starting to come together. Last night, Mike Leake. Tonight Mat Latos and Brandon Phillips. But the performances from Latos and Phillips should be of no surprise. As they say, they were due. Latos is slowly finding his groove and BP lo...

Over at CBS Sports, Danny Knobler has an interesting piece on Aroldis Chapman: The Reds paid $225 million to keep Joey Votto, and $72.5 million to keep Brandon Phillips. They’re willing to spend money. Even so . . . What exactly is this team do...

Let’s recap today’s titanic struggle…. FINAL New York Mets 9 Cincinnati Reds 4 W: B. Parnell (1-0) L: L. Ondrusek (3-1) Box Score POSITIVES –Joey Votto can hit a baseball. Two hits today, including a home run. He’s now h...

The 30 days have seen the Cincinnati Reds creep closer to the division leading St. Louis Cardinals out of shear  grit and determination.  It has not always been pretty but they have had their moments.  On April 18 the Reds were 5 games out of firs...

Joey Votto and Brandon Phillips make their first trip to New York this season to face David Wright and the Mets for a short, two-game set. New York is coming off a split with the Milwaukee Brewers, with their season record standing at 20-16 before t...

Let’s recap today’s titanic struggle… FINAL Cincinnati Reds 3 Atlanta Braves  1 WP: Ondrusek (3-0, 0.00 ERA) LP: Venters (2-2, 3.29 ERA) S: Marshall (6) BOXSCORE VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS POSITIVES • The Reds start off a tough road trip...

1. I’d move Aroldis Chapman to the starting rotation and send Mike Leake to AAA. Chapman will eventually be a starting pitcher (right?) and now seems like the appropriate time to make the move. While Chapman has been very valuable in the pen, h...

Let’s recap tonight’s titanic struggle…. FINAL Washington 7 Cincinnati 3 W: G. Gonzalez (4-1) L: M. Leake (0-5) BOX SCORE POSITIVES –Jay Bruce continued his hot hitting with a 2-4 night, including a double, an RBI, and a run s...

Let’s recap today’s titanic struggle…. FINAL Cincinnati Reds 2 Milwaukee Brewers 1 W: A. Chapman (1-2) L: J. Axford (0-2) S: L. Ondrusek (1) Box Score POSITIVES –Johnny Cueto. He now has an ERA of 1.12. Chew on that for a bit.