Big series starts tonight for the Reds at home to the Phillies before ten games on the road at the Cubs, Mets and Phillies. Definitely not the easiest lead in to the All-Star break. I'd be very happy if we could go .500 between now although we have the potential to do some damage with the Cubs who aren't invincible at home. The Mets on the other hand are 28-12 at home. Tough.

First time I've seen Doc and he's been hammering down the strikes but we've come from 3-0 down to lead 4-3 in the bottom of the eighth with three home runs shots. Come on!

Get in! Another come from behind win making it a series win.

UNLUCKY JAYS.

The Jays finally managed to win a tight game last night. It's been coming. The last two performances showed a lot of heart. They're certainly fighting for the win.

The last 3 games have been real see-saw games. Lots of lead changes, exciting plays, big homers, dodgy fielding. Very exciting stuff! On Sunday I saw the Jays throw out 3 Yankee players at home plate. I also witnessed an inside the park HR for the first time. Then last night Bautista gets and inside the parker, first for the Jays since 2003. It's not good for the old ticker but for anyone who says baseball is broring, I point you to the last 3 Jays games and say no freaking way!

Hoping to take another tonight against the Twins and build some momentum to sweep those pesky Red Sox. They've had a field day against us so far this season. They're missing a few players and just got swept by the Rays, but we seem to act as their bounce back opponents so not counting any chickens here.

BTW - Yankee Stadium is a nice looking ball park. I love that they had the calories of every food/drink item on display. Ball park food is ridiculously bad for you! The Yankee fans, whilst not overly friendly, were certainly not giving me any abuse, despite my rather vocal support of the opposition. I only got booed once

The Bleacher creatures.

I suspect had we won, I'd have been lucky to get out alive.

Not been a good series against the Rays for us (again)
Waaaay too many injuries in our roster right now and only really Lester firing in pitching.

4.5 games out of 1st and 2.5 out of 2nd isn't too bad.

Next up a series against the Jays

Not sure why that upsets you. We've been your bitches so far this season and last week we were swept in a 4 game series by Cleveland!



That said, we are back home and have found our bats again. We hit 10 homers in the 3 games against the Twins. 5 of them came in last night's game - all 5 were solo shots though. A lot of that is to do with the Twins pitchers. They throw strikes. We like pitchers that throw strikes because we swing A LOT.

Really don't know what to expect given the way the last 2 series against Boston have gone. Doesn't seem to matter that they come to us off the back of a bad run. They usually manage to turn it around against us. I shall be going to the middle game - Morrow vs Lackey. I am loving Brandon Morrow right now and am feeling like we robbed Seattle blind on this deal.

Would be really nice to go into the All Star break above 0.500

I hope you all voted Votto



Tough break last night as we dropped the first in extra innings at the Phillies. Three more to go. .500 off this road trip will do me. Talk of the Reds trading for Cliff Lee. Not sure who we'd let go in exchange but at $8m he's cheaper than Harang and Arroyo although Arroyo is excellent. With Volquez and Bailey to come back we might be strong in the second half if we can avoid injuries to our best position players.

Looks like Lee will be a Yankee - possibly by the end of the day. He's supposed to be pitching for the Mariners against the Yankees tonight. Funny how these things work out.



I think more Canadians voted Votto this year than they did for Lind last year.

Canadians are strange like that. We've been playing the Twins this week and had Morneau on Canadian TV asking us all to vote Votto!

Blown three sitters against the Phillies this weekend. All three dropped in extra innings after notching up nine in a row in extra on the road. Threw away a huge lead in the bottom of the ninth on Friday and rookie Travis Wood (in his third start) carried a perfect game into the ninth against Halliday and we still ended up losing in extra innings. Need to take today's final game to avoid a four game sweep.