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SS Gunnar Henderson L C Adley Rutschman S DH Ryan O'Hearn L 1B Ryan Mountcastle R RF Anthony Santander S CF Cedric Mullins L 3B Jordan Westburg R LF Heston Kjerstad L 2B Jorge Mateo R DH Jonathan India R SS Elly De La Cruz S LF Spencer Steer R C Tyler Stephenson R 1B Christian Encarnacion-Strand R 3B Jeimer Candelario S 2B Santiago Espinal R RF Jake Fraley L CF Stuart Fairchild R Orioles Bench Colton Cowser (L) Jorge Mateo (R) James McCann (R) Ramon Urias (R)

Orioles Bullpen Available Yennier Cano (R) 1.1 IP, 13p Monday; 1.0 IP, 19p Sunday Albert Suarez (R) 4.0 IP, 83 p Sunday Probably Available Cionel Perez (L) 1.0 IP, 13p yesterday; 1.0 IP, 13p Monday Maybe Available Danny Coulombe (L) 0.2 IP, 18p yesterday; 1.0 IP, 12p Monday; 0.2 IP, 9p Sunday Craig Kimbrel (R) 0.0 IP, 14p Sunday -- has been nursing sore back Jacob Webb (R) 1.1 IP, 13p yesterday; 1.1 IP, 15p Monday; 0.1 IP, 4p Sunday Probably Not Available Keegan Akin (L) 1.1 IP, 21p yesterday; 0.2 IP, 10P Tuesday Mike Baumann (R) 2.0 IP, 24p Wednesday

You know who was a real terrible underachiever? Yordano Ventura. Won 38 career games, that guy had the talent to win 150 to 200.

Some interesting gametimes. Tonight's game is 6:10. All the other Reds Friday night home games are 6:40. Sunday's game is 4:10. Most of the other Reds Sunday home games are 1:40 (there's also a 1:10 and a 12:10, but no other late afternoon games).

The NL Central has been a bit of a trouble spot for us lately. We are 8-13 against that division since the start of last year, losing 6 of 7 series (the one exception being Pittsburgh at Camden Yards last May when Cedric hit for the cycle and Wells pitched a gem). Weather could be a bit of an issue with a chance of rain Friday evening (though less than during the day there) and again Sunday afternoon. Will be weird seeing a Reds team without Joey Votto on it. Last year he didn't play for the Reds was 2006. Chris Ray was the Orioles closer that year; Jeff Conine was the starting LF.

Who did the scorer give the W too? I'd vote Webb.

Baumann threw 24 pitches and pitched 2 innings last night. Doubt he was ever available. He didn't use Kimbrel. I don't know if Suarez and/or Wells is out in the bullpen yet, though I expect they will be soon. If they weren't, then Hyde used all available relievers except Kimbrel.

Cionel in the 9th?

Jon Ogden's in the Hall of Fame. Or did you just mean baseball players?

Webb continues to OWN the middle of the Yankee order.

Ahh... Yankee hitting coach ejected.

What is the "On Field Delay"?

Well, there is a difference of opinion between you and the Orioles. They believe in managing based on getting guys in against guys they are statistically more likely to hit. You obviously believe in playing guys that are hot for extremely brief periods of time. So you are probably not going to like a lot of the decisions they make.

Maybe, but if the lead stays 5 or expands maybe we try to get by with lesser guys in the 8th/9th? Cionel probably pitches.

It would be so awesome to get 3 more shutout innings from the bullpen and hold the Yankees to 2 runs or less in 4 straight games.