Reds (Singer) vs Cubs (Rea): 5/6/26, 6:40pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Extra inning win against the red-hot Red Redleggings McReddensteins.

Man, it's amazing how Colin Rea just keeps on Colin Rea-ing. He was pretty terrible until his age-32 season, after which he continues to be a great flex man.

	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	TOT
Ryan Rolison	25	0	0	14	18	57
Phil Maton	11	0	25	4	0	40
Javier Assad	0	0	0	0	17	17
Jacob Webb	36	0	0	0	17	53
Hoby Milner	0	0	15	12	0	27
Daniel Palencia	0	0	0	0	15	15
Corbin Martin	0	0	26	0	0	26
Ben Brown	0	24	0	25	0	49

[Brian707]

Who gets the walk off hit tonight?

PCA?

[bukie]

The "red-hot" Reds have lost 5 straight.

[Derwood]

6 minutes ago, bukie said:

The "red-hot" Reds have lost 5 straight.

That said, we played the Phillies at the right time, because they've now won 8 of 10

[Bertz]

The bullpen is not in bad shape today per se, but it's not in great shape.  Today would be a really good day to just boatrace the Reds and let Corbin Martin eat two innings.

Luckily Brady Singer sucks so the conditions are ripe.

[Derwood]

The Reds?

[Soul]

Yeah the Reds Reddit is pretty much us when the Cubs are sucking.  You could literally do a search and replace Reds -> Cubs and it’s one of our game threads.

[Neuby]

Martins roster spot in Jeopardy with CJ Edwards in town.

[Tryptamine]

Lock up the series today so tomorrow is nothing but a bonus game. 

[chibears55]

Cubs Rotation has turned into Cabrera,  Imanaga,  and pray for offense 😅

[mk49]

11 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

Cubs Rotation has turned into Cabrera,  Imanaga,  and pray for offense 😅

It's more like Shota and pray for offense.  Cabrera has been fine, but not great.  We need super Jamo, like he was in the 2nd half of last year.

This situation really sucks.

Edited 3 hours ago by mk49

[Derwood]

Rea has been perfectly cromulant

[JHBulls]

Hey, we haven’t seen that old horsefeathers in the pink cap in a long time. 

[Papa Cub]

wtf 

[chibears55]

Rea gonna get clobbered today isnt he

🙄🙄

[BKHoo]

Rea looks terrible. We may need a lot of runs today. 

[Geographyhater8888]

Ballesteros went from 2 hits/game to 2 hits/week.

[BKHoo]

Ian!!!!!

[mk49]

Happer is a cool guy!

[SparkMark1]

Happer!

[BKHoo]

2 minutes ago, Geographyhater8888 said:

Ballesteros went from 2 hits/game to 2 hits/week.

Some regression was expected.   It did not have to be that fast but his OPS is still > 900. 

[chibears55]

Has Suzuki requested a challenge yet?

He seems to just not want to ask when it close

[Jason Ross]

1 hour ago, mk49 said:

It's more like Shota and pray for offense.  Cabrera has been fine, but not great.  We need super Jamo, like he was in the 2nd half of last year.

This situation really sucks.

Cabrera has a 3.27 ERA and a 3.85 xFIP. That's an xFIP around Joe Ryan, George Kirby and Freddy Peralta. He's been pretty good and the K% is trending in the right direction. 

[mk49]

1 minute ago, chibears55 said:

Has Suzuki requested a challenge yet?

He seems to just not want to ask when it close

He has.  I think he thought it was too early, and nobody on base.

[mk49]

8 minutes ago, Jason Ross said:

Cabrera has a 3.27 ERA and a 3.85 xFIP. That's an xFIP around Joe Ryan, George Kirby and Freddy Peralta. He's been pretty good and the K% is trending in the right direction. 

But, his xERA is 4.20 (which is worse than Jamo), and in his last 5 starts, his ERA is around 4.50.  Yes, K% is getting better.  I just don't have much confidence in him, just yet.  Oh, his walk rate has been improving, too.

Edited 2 hours ago by mk49