Reds pass the Cards! Holy sweep! First in the NL in fielding average now. Still it's far too early to get carried away but there's still more to come from the Reds I think with Volquez due to come back in June/July and Chapman learning his trade in the minors. Hopefully BROOOOOOCE will flower as well this year.

From that we had four errors last night including two botched double players in the bottom of the ninth to blow a 9-3 lead (seven runs for the Braves in the ninth including a walk off grand slam), hence the reason why I didn't want to curse the Reds by getting excited. This must be how it feels to be a Warrington fan.

Are the reds going to win something then? In the past year Warrington have been more succesful than Saints? We get Granderson back next week, we may call up Horacio from the minors to cover for Jorge. You know the injuries are piling up when Ramiro Pena is playing right field.

Big red machine?

They were rl76-76rl. Last time they won was 1990. I went over there working on exchange during the summer of 1992 and went to Cincinnati first for a couple of weeks. Caught L7, Babes In Toyland and my first ever baseball game. Fell in love with the game in those two weeks because it was everywhere and when I went down to Myrtle Beach to get a job I couldn't stop watching the baseball and quickly developed a passion for the Reds. Sounds silly but I think most of know what that feels like in a sporting context.

Anyhow, as you know, us Brits can be very loyal when it comes to supporting our teams and I ended up getting off with this bird from Florence, SC, whilst in Myrtle Beach. She invited me to go with her mates to celebrate a 21st birthday. The girl's parents had hired us a chevy type van with a driver and had paid for all of us to go to Atlanta for the weekend to watch the Braves against the Phillies. At the time the Braves had come through to be the main team in the then NL West so I instantly hated them which meant when we went to the game I couldn't cheer for the Braves. The girl I was with couldn't understand that and it led to a very frosty remainder of the Labor Day weekend lol. I was supposed to stay at her's for a couple of days before I went off to New York before returning home, however my loyalty to the Reds had destroyed what was going on between us and her old man drove me 60 miles to drop me back off in Myrtle Beach right away instead. It was incredibly awkward the night when we got back to her folks house. Instead of the romantic sleeping together I was put on the sofa bed and left to watch the TV whilst they all went off to bed lol.

Loyalty to my team was worth more to me than poontang even after having seen only four or five Reds game in the flesh. I am legend

3 losses on the bounce for us for only the 2nd time this season. Lousy pitching to blame for all 3. We're knocking ball out of the park like there's no tomorrow. In fact, since he returned 5 games ago, Edwin Encarnacion has had 5 hits in 15 ABs, all homers. How barmy is that?

Marcum up today so hopefully we can snap this losing streak. Wonder if EE can add to his HR tally?

Hoping that the Jays can make the most of their 3 game home stand against Baltimore because after that they're going to rack up a lot of losses in June. I'm not being pessimistic, just realistic. Here's what we face in June...

Rays @ home
Yankees @ home
Rays away
Rockies away
Padres away
Giants @ home
Phillies @ home - but actually away
Indians away

Given our inability to beat the Rays or win on the road at interleague, I don't see many wins in the month of June. In fact, I think the players will be so dejected by the time they get to Cleveland, they'll struggle to win there too.

I could be wrong, but I think come end of June we'll be fighting it out with Baltimore for the bottom spot in the AL East. So I will be glad that we had such a good April/May and hope for much needed sweep against the O's this weekend.

Dear god Matt Garza's beard is horrendous

Top quality run we are on (Red Sox); sweeping the rays IN THE JUICE BOX

2 games out of 2nd place now playing the Tigers.

Ours is okay
3 at home to Oakland
3 on the road to to Baltimore
4 on the road at Cleveland
3 at home to Philly
3 at home to Arizona
3 at home to the Dodgers
3 on the road to Colorado
3 on the road to San Fran

Isn't too bad. How bad is yours?

Weve got Cleveland, Toronto, Astros.

Potential early season breaker for us with a trip to St Louis on the cards after this weekend. Amazing start by the Reds. I watched last night's game and it looked like the team with the worst record in the NL playing the team with the second best in the MLB. A real chance of a winning record and tbh I'd be very disappointed if we didn't manage that from here the way we are playing. Our consistency has been excellent. Even in games we've lost we've competed in most of them so I expect the team would be looking for a wild card spot after this start.

You are not wrong. Got to see it up close last night at the Rogers Centre. Yikes!

Great start to a tough month as we hung on for the win last night. Morrow pitched one of his best games so far for the Jays and it's certainly looking to me that we got the better end of that deal. Speaking of great deals, word is that we only paid $75k to the Giants for Fred Lewis. Bargain of the season!!

We're now in June and have yet to implode.

It's Tallet going for us tonight against Niemenn, who is 5-0 on the season. Odds are not exactly in our favour in that match-up. Especially when you consider that Tallet has been rushed back from the DL and in his last rehab outting in AAA gave up 8 runs in 1 1/3 innings before getting yanked from the game.

Got to comment on the perfect game from Halladay. All I can say is, us Jays fans already knew he was perfect, now everybody else does too.

Keeping up with us this year spooky.Leading the majors in homers. A-Rod went deep yesterday. Were muddling through despite injuries.