REDS MAY GAME THREAD

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(05-21-2022, 12:50 PM)kevin Wrote: With Votto back, the Reds had no run support.  Castillo pitched good enough to win.  The Reds had not lost a series in 14 days withy Votto out.  Now they bring back Votto and bench Moran.  Plus Bell changes the entire winning line-up around.  Bell changes the lead-off hitter and the whole line-up.  Bell puts some guy named Taylor Motter wearing uniform number 94 at third base, uses The Moose as a DH and benches Moran.  So not only does red hot Moran lose his job to Votto, but also to Taylor Motter, whoever he is.  

So with Bell changing the line-up and benching Moran, the lineup that has been winning for 2 weeks is gone.  This line-up is all set to lose a series for the first time in 2 weeks.  The team has been winning, but The Reds and Bell don't want this team to win.  So they have taken the line-up that was winning the last 14 days, and thrown it out.  Back to the Votto line-up that lost all of April.  Back to Bell experiments such as Taylor Motter, the Bell experiments that lost almost every game in April.  

So the Reds had not lost a series in 14 days, and now that is over.  That is over because Bell and the Reds would rather lose.  They took the team that has been winning the last 2 weeks, and just blew it up.   The problem is that the Reds are still not back to 10 games under .500 and would have needed to win this series and a few more just to get to 10 games under .500 and start moving in on 5 games under .500 area.  So the Reds stink thanks to the awful April.  They were starting to do better in May, but Bell is going back to the April type line-ups.  

As hot as Moran has been, nobody in their right mind would bench him, especially to get some dude named Taylor Motter in the line-up.  It is why the Reds will LOSE their first series in 14 days, and fall back into losing as they did in April.   Nobody in their right mind would bench Moran as hot as he has been, or move Friedl way down in the line-up.  BELL took a winning line-up and just blew it up, and BELL is determined to play his April type line-ups that lost every series in April. 

Yes, Castillo pitched well enough to win, and you don't beat an American League East team as good as Toronto by losing games in which a Castillo pitched good enough to win.  When you play Toronto, or The Yankees, or Red Sox, or Rays, or Orioles, losing well pitched games, you can forget about winning the series. THE REDS WILL NOT BEAT TORONTO NOW.  Not with BELL throwing out the line-up that was winning.  

Jim Day and these Reds announcers can say how wonderful all the BELL moves are, but I see BELL sinking the Reds back into the April type losing very fast.  The Reds are 11 and 27.  16 games under .500 and that STINKS.  The Moran line-up had not lost a series in 14 days and was at least moving up to a more respectable record.   The Reds and Bell don't want that.  They seem to want The Reds to hit 20 games under .500 so at seasons end they will be around 40 games under .500 or worse.  It's as if this team is Tanking on purpose and trying to see how many games they can lose.   I say this is not the NFL, and the #1 Draft Pick is NOT worth it in Baseball as much as NFL. 

So the Reds came upon Moran who became one of the hottest hitters in baseball, and his hot bat turned the awful Reds into a team that did not lose a series in 2 weeks.  So what did Bell and The Reds do with one of the hottest players in baseball who helped get the Reds back to winning ?   They benched him first chance they got.  Not just to play Votto, but also to play some dude named Taylor Motter.  REMEMBER THIS DATE IN THE REDS SEASON.  The Reds benched one of the hottest hitters in baseball.  I fail to see how a team 15 games under .500 can bench one of the hottest hitters in baseball who has kept them from losing for 2 weeks, but that is indeed what the Reds did.  THE REDS ARE DETERMINED THEY DON'T WANT TO WIN.  Anybody who helps them WIN will get benched or traded or sent back to the minors.

Losing the first game of the Toronto series.  Castillo pitched well enough to win.  The Reds will not come back and win this series and they will lose their first series in over 2 weeks. Of course they will, because BELL is benching players like Moran, and going back to the Losing Line-Ups of April.

You have to remember per the link i posted above that Drury and Almora Jr. could not go into Canada since they are unvaccinated and Canadian law forbidding it so lineup changes were inevitable. Didn't have much of a choice.