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

[JHBulls]

Reds have dropped 5 in a row to go to 20-16.
 

This has been a strange division this year. 

[chibears55]

1 minute ago, JHBulls said:

Reds have dropped 5 in a row to go to 20-16.
 

This has been a strange division this year. 

April into May has always been weird with with the records to start season, where youll see some good teams playing bad and some bad teams playing good, eventually it all falls into place.

 

[SparkMark1]

Nice job getting out of that

[chibears55]

Great job by Rea getting out of that jam

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Colin Rea is the guy if he was pitching against the Cubs I'd be furious they couldn't score against him

[mk49]

Mo needs his yellow shoes.😁

[chibears55]

When do we start seeing Bregman hit for power ?

5 doubles and 1 homer since he hit the 2 homers the 3rd game of season 

[Geographyhater8888]

This ump has been bad.

[mk49]

5 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

When do we start seeing Bregman hit for power ?

5 doubles and 1 homer since he hit the 2 homers the 3rd game of season 

Very soon.😁

[mk49]

Love the spin move by Dansby.

[JHBulls]

Good thing for the Reds that De La Cruz didn’t try to throw the baseball to the catcher. It could have ended up just about anywhere. 

[mk49]

Seiya!  And, Happ can run.

Edited 1 hour ago by mk49

[PeanutPunch33]

EXTEND SEIYA 

[BKHoo]

Break. This. Open. 

[Jason Ross]

38 minutes ago, mk49 said:

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.

Even if we want to choose his xERA, an xERA of 4.20 is better than league average for SPs. Your original quote was that we would have to "pray for offense" outside of Shota and yet even by that metric, Cabrera has been a tick above league average. He's above league average in FIP (4.02 compared to 4.18) and xFIP (3.85 compared to 4.12) as well. There's plenty of space between "slightly better than league average" in most spots and "pray for offense", no?

He hasn't been a bang-on ace, but you're acting like the Cubs aren't getting production from him or that the only way they'll win with him is if you have to pray for runs. And there are some real signs of positivity there too. All of a sudden the ground ball rate is jumping up and the K's are too over his last 3 starts.

He's done enough to be trusted. Just not enough to be trusted as like "bang on ace" status.

[BKHoo]

Geeez Kelly.  Get the ball in the air.  That was weak.  

[Tryptamine]

How can you hit a ball that soft and still get doubled up? Kelly is incredibly slow.

[chibears55]

Damn Swanson,  give Pete a chance to steal a base there

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

1 minute ago, Tryptamine said:

How can you hit a ball that soft and still get doubled up? Kelly is incredibly slow.

yeah, If you wanna nitpick our lineup, we have some incredibly slow dudes. Bally, Bregman, Kelly, Amaya, Busch

[Rex Buckingham]

Can't send Rea out again, so let's gst some runs here and help the pen 

[chibears55]

I know we're just 36 games in but at age 32, i just hope they didn't get the start of Bregman declining years for the next 5 years.

[Tryptamine]

Well bringing Rea out for the 6th isn't exactly going well.

[Derwood]

Sending Rea back out (at nearly 90 pitches) was a mistake

[chibears55]

Counsell seems to push the SP limit in most of these games trying to get an extra inning out of them when they reach the high 80s- 90s pitches.

 

[Tryptamine]

He's obviously gassed, but keep letting him pitch.