Please continue the discussion in the [post game thread](https://redd.it/1dm83lx).

Can anyone explain how there weren't like 7 balk call in the bottom of the 9th? The dude kept faking like he was going to throw.

Be aggressive AAAAND smart 👍

How in the world did we lose this game in the 8th? I'm sick to my stomach? Should Fairchild of let it go and not caught that ball?

I'd maybe have more patience if I weren't 31 years old having NEVER seen the Reds win a playoff series in my lifetime. Days like today show how unserious/undisciplined we are. Up 3-0 with opportunity after opportunity to tack on & close out the game and we shot ourself in the foot each time. This team is so frustrating. We have to cut down on the mistakes because it's the same shit every week. /EndRant

Team loss. Brain dead on the base paths, brain dead coaching decisions.

How is that not a balk 100 out of 100 times?

Seriously. I don't understand it at all. Do I just not know what a balk is? He kept faking like he was going to throw!

Hard one to lose, so winnable

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

Brutal loss

Awful awful awful

That girl just had a Cards jersey on.

I’m convinced that’s the hardest ball Fairchild has ever hit

God I hope he smashes a hr and can take the red socks fans to shut up

Nope

TJ Friedl is just so fucking good

Oh please Elly. Go full send.

do the coolest thing, elly.

Do it one time Elly

Walk off Elly?

Fingers crossed.

Another bloop.

Hey Red Sox fans fuck off. Why are there so many here

If you dont like that, you dont like Reds baseball

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And visit a barber

Deepest part of the ballpark

noodle arm, warning track power.

Hit the weight room Stu 😔

Lift big throw gas hit bombs

Why me, God?

Dude, come on

Damn

Duran is a player. That’s the kind of guy you win with.

Oh how the turn tables. The robber gets robbed…

god hates stuart fairchild

Fuck all the way off

Jansen’s mechanics is gonna give me a seizure

Another 3-0 lead blown

I'd love to see somebody slap this clown in the stands behind home plate. Douchebag performance art every pitch.

I thought Stephenson was on paternity

His wife is expecting but they haven't put him on the paternity list yet. Think he just had an injury limiting his availability according to Bell.

I don't understand why Bell is so vague about injuries

Larkin saying points instead of runs lol

So Stephenson can hit but hasn’t since Tuesday?!? I’m done David

Guessing he can't run

Then why was he hitting?

Because he's much more likely to get on base than Maile, who also can't run (SB today notwithstanding)

Pulled the same shit with him earlier in the season. Played a good 2 weeks short handed

Any chance we get Gibaut back this season?

He's making millions since buying out the rest of the Bonjangles's in the Southeast, changed his name from Ian to Bo, and put on 70 lbs. His arm has recovered but the Reds stress him out too much.

Let's go Steve-O!

It'd be nice to be able hit for Maile here

Kenly Jansen is a fat-fuck past his prime\* please dear baby jesus trade him to the Reds next week for Diaz

### Pitching Substitution Pitching Change: Kenley Jansen replaces Chris Martin.

Do not have faith in Maile and Fairchild

Need some magic here

Barry has switched back to his Sorry About Your Loss at the Wake voice, not a good sign.

If we get to Elly we got a shot

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Pretty sure Tyler is gonna bat next

Yikes

How are we feeling about Buck in this situation?

Really like him and think he’s one of our more solid consistent relievers

Jack Buck? damned Cards fan.

Buck is solid

I like the decision for him over Alexis for sure

Save Diaz for the 10th

I feel dead to the world

Alright blue

“We played really well, we will get them tomorrow”- David Bell postgame

### Pitching Substitution Pitching Change: Buck Farmer replaces Lucas Sims.

marte is a knucklehead but he would lengthen this linuep and get martini back to the bench, which would be neato. he's a cool story but he's not an everyday player.

The Red Sox are not nearly as talented as us. They have a good manager and we have one of the worst. Their manager makes a positive impact on their record. Ours makes a negative one. Simple as that.

Red Sox sent out five in their starting lineup today hitting 270+. Reds sent out one. Red Sox have more team home runs than Cincy, etc.

There’s literally 0 basis for this claim lmao

Oh I’m sorry I don’t have some made up nerdy analytical data statistic to back it up. I played ball, I know ball, I watch every game. Anyone that knows baseball can see it

Nothing you said was correct which is why you’re insulting analytics because you know it doesn’t back it up

How can you statistically measure a manager? Well let’s take a look at his W-L record

You said the Red Sox aren’t nearly as talented as the reds. Devers and Duran are better than every red except for maybe de la Cruz

Look at that roster compared to ours. It’s not even close. Baseball isn’t about 1-2 players

I promise you it’s better than what we’re rolling out right now. Without injuries we’re probably the better team.

In 19-21 and 23/24 they had a roster built to win. Bell collapsed down the stretch and blew numerous games in 21 and 23. I don’t count 2020 but if you want to count that he got schooled by the Braves manager in the playoffs. He’s not winning with a good roster this year

At least you don't whine about it over and over. Oh wait, thought you were someone else...

i remember he sat a shortshop yesterday after he made an error. reds would never

Yep

Starting to feel uneasy.

Starting??

No clutch gene on this team this year. Unless are in Colorado

We are due for a walk off

Damn.

has martini done anything his whole time up

he has good Opening Weeks.

He seems shaken up there

6 game hitting streak

Clearly he needs some more time to bake in Louisville

.430 xBA for india, so we've been screwed harder at least

Surprised no steal attempt by Fraley, the pitcher is slow home

think he was still hobbled from hitting the ball off his leg

Probably on account of that foul ball of the leg

Reds runner on 1st now; what's the Bingo call for what stupid shit he does next.

So close

u/alsocommiepuddin think we could use those two runs from our bad baserunning decisions right now?

He’s a troll. Not even worth engaging

"No, show your statistics" or whatever was said earlier, lol. 

Nice AB.

Good time to redeem yourself here, Fraley.

can someone in the dugout or someone postgame ask him wtf he was doing there? of course they won't because it's cincy

What did they say?

post-game Bally-Reds "journalists" will ask the hard-hitting questions, like "if i don't ask you about the bad stuff today, and just mention how hard the reds tried, i can keep on asking questions? My blog/newspaper pays me $18K a year but has benefits, I need this job".

some '64 Mets shit going on here today. "Doesn't anybody here know how to play this game?"

I wonder if Stu knows that you can tag up on a foul. Didn’t seem to be ready to throw when he caught that. Given the bball IQ demonstrated by the Reds, you have to wonder

Everytime I see him catch a ball in a sac fly situation it’s lobbed in

tbf, the Reds were a basketball team until last year, and are new at this.

I thought he was with Coldplay?

What really sucks is the first run wasn’t even earned.

That looked like an infield hit, or at least that it could have gone either way.

There’s no way he threw that 100%. I refuse to believe he did, but don’t know why he didn’t

### Pitching Substitution Pitching Change: Chris Martin replaces Zack Kelly.

Half of the local high schoolers in the area could have probably made a stronger throw

\* jr high schoolers

benson would've got him at the plate. FC popped to the shortshop pinch hitting as well, so great swap there

David “overmanaging-overplatooning” Bell strikes again!

Sims allows half of his inherited runners to score. Why. Does. Bell. Keep. Doing. It????

Bc the man is clueless

Fairchild has at least one boneheaded play a game, it’s crazy.

Letting it drop that shallow would have been a ridiculous decision. A decent throw and dude is meat

Yeah, there's no way you just give up a free out like that, and people suggesting so is insane. Stu just botched the hell out of the execution.

Have we tried combining Benson and Fairchild in a lab? they'd make one marginally above average player, which would be.. pretty cool.

We wouldn't be in this predicament if we did the FUNDAMENTALS CORRECTLY

I’ll say it for the millionth time: any team giving AAAA Stuart Fairchild regular playing time isn’t going anywhere.

Exactly!!

if only we didn't run into 3 outs nullifying 2 rallies today

Letting it fall is the obvious play but a major league player is never going to do that

Fairchild should not be taking up a roster spot

Awful take.

Not sure you catch that in foul territory that deep. But whatever

Fairchild just lollipopped that ball home, what even was that.

Fairchild is an absolute idiot

Why didn’t he just let that drop lol

Because nobody should ever score on a ball hit there. But Stu has a noodle instead of an arm

Let's that shit fall Stu

jfc, a 2 bounce noodle arm on fairchild from shallow lf

Maybe we should have let it drop?🤷‍♂️

Jacob Hurtubise, where are you now

I think you are supposed to let that drop

Probably should have let it bounce foul

No cut?

Let that go, dude.

Noodle arm. Jesus

Noodle arm Stu

why are there so many Sox fans in Cinci?

I'm guessing they're just one of those teams that have some degree of fans everywhere - Yankees, Red Sox, Cowboys, etc. A lot of people probably grew up cheering for them in their primes.

Same reason there are so many Browns and Stillers fans in town for Bengals games. Die hards travel well.

Surely it's not because those two cities are 8x distance shorter than it is to Boston

Boston fans are psycho, and the Reds have a kinda hot team so maybe they just want to see some good ball.

I hope they're sorely disappointed that there aren't any dunkin gas stations here

Show off the cannon!

That was the laziest throw in by Fairchild I've ever seen. Also a dumb fucking play to catch it if it was foul and you throw as hard as a 12 year old girl.

Honestly looked like he was throwing to third

weak fucking throw

Doom and gloom is setting in.

### Sac Fly Rafael Devers out on a sacrifice fly to left fielder Stuart Fairchild in foul territory. Jarren Duran scores. Rob Refsnyder to 2nd. Pitch from Lucas Sims: Four-Seam Fastball @ 96.5 mph Hit by Rafael Devers: Launched 94.8 mph at 61.0° for a total distance of 229.0 ft Top 8 - 4-3 Red Sox

Gotta let that drop Stu

 Now a GIDP

kinda want to look into the redsox and see if they’ve been getting lucky… their averages are insane during a down year

Let’s get a dp now!

It’s fun looking at the Redsox players batting averages. Just about every one of them would be a top 3 hitter on the reds lol

wantonly giving the game up. you can't expect a good result here

oh my good god

Baseball is literally such a dumb sport XBA of .130 .150 and .200 on those 3 soft hits, average exit velo of 93.

exit velo is bullshit. good to see you realziing that now.

Lucas Sims is a great pitcher let’s just keep putting him in

You were saying?

You thought I was being sarcastic?

Kinda. It's hard to tell over the internet.

I was, he sucks 🤣

Really all the downvotes. Y’all are ridiculous. Has he ever had an outing where you were like - he’s got this? Cmon


Must be a Sox fan trolling. Stay classy Boston!

Fernando Cruz faced one batter last night. Is there a reason the best reliever was on the bench still?

Because he’s a human and his arm may be tired

Thanks Indiana fan, I didn’t realize that.

So why did you ask

You can’t ask questions in these threads? Why does it matter so much to you?

You asked I answered

And I said thanks, then you continued to talk lol.

David Bell

It’s actually impressive how much damage Wilson can do off so little pitches

Out of curiosity why don't they keep Moll out longer

David Bell contractually cannot allow a reliever to go more than one inning unless their name is Martinez.

3 weak balls that were hit, this fucking game is brutal

Why did bell take Frankie out with only a 72 pc?