Unique perspective of the Cincinnati Reds from the UK
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was nothing any of us could have imagined. Like all of you, my 2020 panned out very differently to how I expected. January 2020 Subscribed to The Athletic – easily the best £ 25.00 I spent all year. It seems like the most reliable source for baseball news and …
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In my humble opinion. If you are looking for an MLB team to support, even as your second-choice team, then it should be the Cincinnati Reds. Here are a few nuggets to chew … (1) History: Cincinnati Reds are baseball’s first professional team. Founded in 1869. That’s older than every single Premier League football team. …
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Surely there cannot be a more obvious choice in the whole of baseball. Joseph Daniel Votto is not only the best first baseman the Reds have had this decade, he’s arguably been the best hitter in the whole game over the last 10 years not named Mike Trout. Let’s take a look … Home runs: …
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So the 2019 season is at an end. The Reds finished 75-87, although our Pythagorean record suggested the 701 runs scored and 711 runs conceded should have equated to a 80-82 win-loss record. It was still sub-.500 whatever way you cut it. Here is the season in eight stats: Home record: 41 – 40 Away …
Winning the series over the Cubs was very impressive. Especially as Chicago is pushing for the postseason, and really, the Reds have little to play for. Scoring a total of just nine runs over the course of the three-game series was less impressive. However, eight different players crossed home plate. I can’t decide if this …
2-1 series vs. Diamondbacks Reds hadn’t won a series since the end of August. And that was against the Marlins (no offence), and no offense was the trouble in this series. On Saturday, Reds became the first team in the modern era (that’s around 100 years) to have lost while only allowing one base runner. …
Four games in two days, and it wasn’t pretty to watch. The Cardinals showed a level of tenacity that is missing from Cincinnati at the moment. Now that the dust has settled, I can look at it with more discerningly. We won one, lost one and blew two ninth inning leads. That’s a whisper away …
Oh come on! That is a magnificent title for the first post on this new site for the Cincinnati Reds in the UK. I’m not going to say it was “only” the Marlins, but it was certainly relieving to get a series win. 3-1 in Miami (and the one was courtesy of a walkoff homer …
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