Things looking up in Cincinnati
Finally, there is something to be a little positive about in Cincinnati. Here are but a few:
- The win assures the Reds of a winning month of July. No small feat. Our last winning month was May of 2004.
- We are winning road games in big ballparks, where we might be expected to have problems due to our HR-oriented offense being suited to our home field. Granted, the Dodgers and a poor team and the Padres have played poorly for months and are living on a fast start--still, earlier in the year we didn't even beat bad teams on the road.
- Jerry Narron has a winning record as manager.
- Luke Hudson is pitching a little better, though not there yet. His last two starts have not been awful.
- How about that Brian Shackelford, huh? He is pitching very well for us right now.
- We're not in last place.
- Adam Dunn is red freaking hot. The Enquirer notes in another ballpark he might have had more than two dingers. Here are his July numbers
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- 380
.614 .994 - Encarnacion had his first career dinger.
- DOB says he isn't making any sudden moves on deals. Aurilia is most likely to go, Jason LaRue could go (IMO, this would be an almost criminal example of selling high)
- Adam Dunn's a hell of a teammate, too. Check out what he did to get EE his first HR ball
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