Last night the Cincinnati Reds took until 1:30am ET to put the final stamp on an 11-inning win over San Diego. That win evened up the series between the two clubs. Cincinnati will look to topple the Padres again this afternoon and come away with a series win out on the west coast. This afternoon’s 1st pitch is scheduled for 4:10pm ET.
Starting Lineups
Cincinnati Reds | San Diego Padres |
| Matt McLain – SS | Fernando Tatis Jr. – 2B |
| JJ Bleday – LF | Jackson Merrill – CF |
| Sal Stewart – 3B | Manny Machado – 3B |
| Spencer Steer – 2B | Gavin Sheets – 1B |
| Nathaniel Lowe – 1B | Will Wagner – DH |
| Eugenio Suarez – DH | Samad Taylor – LF |
| Dane Myers – CF | Bryce Johnson – RF |
| Noelvi Marte – RF | Rodolfo Duran – C |
| P.J. Higgins – C | Sung-Mun Song – SS |
| Brady Singer – RHP | Michael King – RHP |
Starting Pitchers
| Pitcher | IP | ERA | WHIP | BB | K |
| Brady Singer | 55.0 | 5.89 | 1.69 | 19 | 42 |
| Michael King | 74.0 | 3.41 | 1.12 | 29 | 69 |
| Links: Brady Singer’s Stats | Michael King’s Stats | |||||
Brady Singer
It’s been a rough season for Singer to this point. He’s had a few solid starts this year, but he’s had some big time struggles quite often, too. Cincinnati last won a game he started on April 25th. His ERA since then has been 6.92 over six starts. The last time out was easily his best outing and he allowed one earned run in 4.0 innings that day.
When it comes to the splits there’s only one area where Singer is doing well and that’s walks. Neither lefties or righties are drawing walks against him at a high rate. Righties have a solid average and they are hitting for a ton of power against him while making lots of contact. Lefties are making less contact but still plenty of it, and they are hitting like prime Ted Williams without as many walks when facing him.
Splits
| Split | PA | H | 2B | 3B | HR | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG |
| RHH | 97 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 10 | .253 | .330 | .529 |
| LHH | 161 | 52 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 32 | .354 | .400 | .626 |
Pitch Usage
| 4-seam | 2-seam | Cutter | Slider | |
| Velo | 90.6 | 91.3 | 86.6 | 82.2 |
| Usage | 3% | 46% | 7% | 44% |
Michael King
After his start on May 18th, King had an ERA of 2.31. He had allowed just four home runs in 10 starts. In the three starts since then he’s also given up four home runs and has been charged with 13 earned runs in 15.2 innings while striking out just 10 batters.
Teams have been stacking left-handed hitters against King this season but it has not worked out for them. Lefties are hitting for a worse average, walking less often, and hitting for less power. Righties aren’t hitting for too much average, but they are walking often and hitting for more – but moderate – power.
Splits
| Split | PA | H | 2B | 3B | HR | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG |
| RHH | 111 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 28 | .234 | .351 | .394 |
| LHH | 185 | 32 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 41 | .193 | .266 | .313 |
Pitch Usage
| 4-seam | 2-seam | Slider | Change | |
| Velo | 94.0 | 92.7 | 82.3 | 86.1 |
| Usage | 19% | 29% | 25% | 27% |
When and Where
- Game time: 4:10pm ET
- Where: Petco Park
- Watch: Reds MLB Channel, Reds.tv (in-market), MLB.tv (out of market).
- Listen: 700 WLW AM (Cincinnati area)
- Forecast: 73°, partly cloudy, 5% chance of rain
News and Notes
Chase Petty up, Zach McCambley down
The Reds decided they needed to at least have some innings available out of the bullpen today if needed and called up starting pitcher Chase Petty to be in San Diego in case that situation arose. He’s taking the place in the bullpen of reliever Zach McCambley, who was optioned to Triple-A. You can read more about both guys here from our piece earlier today.
Division Standings
| Team | W | L | GB | Playoff Odds |
| Milwaukee | 41 | 24 | 0.0 | 94.0% |
| St. Louis | 36 | 28 | 4.5 | 47.8% |
| Pittsburgh | 34 | 33 | 8.0 | 46.1% |
| Chicago | 34 | 33 | 8.0 | 39.7% |
| Cincinnati | 32 | 34 | 9.5 | 7.2% |
| Playoff Odds via Fangraphs | ||||
I’m still tired from last night. Need Singer to step up today.
We all can get back to our bedtime schedule tonight.hopefully winning the series would sure be nice
Steer at 2B doesn’t produce much in the way of warm fuzzy feelings for me …
Chance to at least win the series before limping back to the Queen City.
He’s a positive WAR at any position and is acceptable with Elly out. I don’t like sitting Arroyo though. Maybe play Arroyo at second, Steer at first and bench Lowe and his gold glove. I’m not a McLain fan but he is the best defensive second baseman. Is he better at SS than Arroyo?
Agree about Arroyo! He impressed me with that 11-pitch AB last night!
Steer is used to insure Geno and Lowe both play.He will bounce from second to the outfield which puts Arroyo on the bench and like last night Marte watches.On occasion he will play some first by far his best position.Arroyo nor Marte are starters on this team as it is right now.They will play some but not every day in the majors.Its just the way it is until it isn’t.Lowe is a professional hitter and Geno makes 15 mil on a one year deal to hit homers.He will be given every at bat possible to do just that.Tito just can’t help himself to not move MMC up in the lineup.His speed and defense say he is a starter and belongs at the top of the order but his bat says nope and nope and nope again.Maybe today it does.
MMC in the leadoff spot doesn’t give me even cold fuzzies!
The Reds 15 Million Dollar Man, Mr. Suarez, needs to step it up! HRs are nice but hits with RISP would be even better!
He did have a big hit lastnight but was 3 for 40 before that for an .075 avg.
He needs to start sitting if he doesn’t pick it up, that negative.7 WAR and .203 avg.is looking pretty ugly.
Reds make it easy on King with a 1-2-3 first inning on only 7 pitches!
Let’s see if Singer can duplicate that!
@Dennis Westrick. Do you have to wear a suit every workday.Asking for a friend
Petty will be in the game shortly.Singer with his stuff has to be perfect and he just hasn’t been this year.
Seriously Higgins? You challenge that one but you don’t on the Merrill Strikeout which led to a run.
Higgins does know he can challenge the HP umpire’s calls, right? Singer’s 5th pitch to Merrill looked like a strike on TV!
Should be 0-0. This whole crew sucks behind the plate.
I’m in agreement that Higgins probably cost us that run with his “enthusiasm” to take it around the horn when he should have challenged the call of a ball.
OK, at least he won the next one and they got Manny at the plate.
Time for some offense. Have to mute the sound so I can lead my 4:30 meeting.
Why would you ever start a meeting at 4:30. You should have gotten a government job like I did. Lol
Are you in kidding me,Bleday!? Nice throw! Tag by Higgins.
Wow! Has Manny Machado gotten slow or what!? Looked like he was running in water. We’ll take it!
Father Time has never lost!
Higgins cost Singer a run and he can’t afford that the way he is pitching.
Anyone else tired of “going perpendicular”? I suspect I have seen that ad 200 times so far and the season is relatively young?
Nice bounce back inning by Singer! Still fuming over Higgins not challenging that pitch (an obvious strike) in the Merrill AB in the 1st inning!
I am with you Dennis, that was obvious.
Must be hard for Marte to look at the scoreboard and see that he still has 0 RBIs.
it would be just like this team to get a big win and then come out flat as can be. Moving Mclain to lead off is a very poor move my bet is he doesn’t get on base.
Every time he collects a few hits, he’s instantly bumped back into the #1 or #2 spot. He hits .158 as a leadoff hitter, as opposed to .500 in the #7 hole and .250 as the number-9 hitter. He clearly has stunk at the top of the order since 2023. But someone blindly believes THIS time the old magic will reappear. No, wait … THIS time. No one else is given this much grace.
Yeah I can’t figure it out either. Francona again, having those La Russa-esque gut pains errrrr feelings.
MMC has very little plate discipline! Just don’t get it! His ABs make Manny Sanguillen look like a hitting savant!
Doug, any update on Elly’s likely return date?
supposed to get an MRI Friday when back in Cincinnati. Depends on that result
Some really poor years by veterans.
Machado .171
Lorenzen 0-5 with ERA 10 last 5 starts and getting shelled @ Coors
Castillo stunk outside of Seattle before but now just stinks ERA 5.16
Swanson .182 and benched 2 days.
Bregman .675 OPS and apologized
Bo Bichette .606 OPS
Why you dont shell out $100-200 mil to guys over 30
I hear Nick Castellanos is available!
He may still be in San Diego and ready to go
Tito I get it about MMC and his defense and his speed and what he was in 2023.Please please just leave him in the 8 hole or 9 hole and play him every day for as long as you want.He has seen 3 pitches in the lead off spot today and made two outs.That is not a top of the order bat.Its not.I get it that its a get away day game and the plane is ready and we are in a hurry to get on it but please.
Bleday or Stewart would have been a better choice IMO!
Why was Stewart swinging 3-0 just after the Padres SP threw a wild pitch? Not smart baseball gents!
3-0 count and last ball went to the backstop. Sal swings. Just let him walk you and be a team player.
It didn’t take but a couple of months to send Friedl down but it may take years to do anything with MMC.He is not a top of the order bat.He has seen 3 pitches and made two outs.I am ok if they never ever do anything but please leave him at the the bottom of the order.No reason not to have Myers just slide into that spot while Dunn takes a day off.
I for one want McLain to swing more on first pitch. It’s the best pitch he will see in my opinion because he is below the average of first pitch swinging. He is about 28 %. Pitchers know it and throw it down the middle. McLain said he likes to see what the pitcher had. He handcuffs himself. He does need to be at bottom of the order though.
Had- has
Someone complaining about Steer last night? Spencer says shut it.
+15,000
It’s the same 2-3 people that wait, and come in here once the Reds are losing, to start complaining.
You can set your watch to it.
Steer massive bomb!
He is half way to 20 homers yet again in early/mid June.
Yet people don’t like him and wanted to get rid of him because he doesn’t deliver.
Go easy on them. I was skeptical of Dunn but you challenged me and hes been a huge lift last 3 weeks. Elite speed and defense and scrappy hitter.
Dunn/Myers/Bleday/Steer/Elly/Sal/Lowe all solid years. Need MM/Arroyo/Marte to grab their spot. Maybe Suarez catches a heater???? Or not……Catching is what it is and pretty much every other team too.
He is a reliable solid citizen. We need more of that in all walks of life
That helps, Spencer.
Need to leave him alone for sure.On a team that looks like they never picked up a bat on some nights and hitting is hard at least he produces.Lets also keep in mind he moves all over the diamond and that has to effect him.Maybe he just needs to play first.Just a thought.
Thank God for Steer! Unfortunately, may need more that 2 runs unless Singer emulates the ghost of Cy Young today!
Sorry Dennis I don’t see that happening. I just hope he can hold onto the lead for an inning.
Singer is battling! At least thru the first 4 innings!
Steer I think only has a .4 WAR which is not very good for this time in the season. I think moving him all around actually may lessens his value. It feels like aside from the WAR stat he’s having a good season. The Reds should probably put him at his 1st or 2nd best Defensive position and not move him at all, and then figure out the other positions.
All you need to judge Steer by is wRC+ or OPS+. Hes a good hitter and versatile defender and good 1b but WAR doesn’t account for that.
WAR rewards middle of the field defense and speed and is not the end all be all. It loves Matt McLain. It hates corner OF/IF bats who arent Joey Votto or Willie Wilson.
Adam Dunn career WAR 18. 462 HR and OPS +124 but a donkey.
Dante Bichette career War 5.7.
1995 season
.340/.364/.620 40 HR 128 RBI 2nd in MVP- season WAR 1.2
Anyone want Bichette playing LF and batting 3rd?
I like the WAR stat on Baseball Reference as it kind of gives a general glance at a player’s productivity, but I agree it isn’t the be all end all, and I’m not too sure how accurate it generally is at times. I’ll be honest I’m kind of old school mostly paying attention to Average an OBP. I still don’t really understand OPS…I guess I should look into it a bit!
Often wonder what goes thru Singer’s head when he is pitching with a lead?
Another play that Meyers couldn’t finish. I’ve seen a few of them this year. He needs to improve. Dunn is opposite, he gets the deal “done” defensively
Watching the Reds outfield these days is more thrilling than a ride at Disney World!
I just don’t think Mclain will ever be what we had hoped, even expected, after 2023.
McLain couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a boat right now! And we wonder why the Reds have so many RISP left out to dry!
why do the reds just stop hitting when there are runners in scoring position? It has been a huge problem all season long
As expected, the Reds squander another opportunity to expand their lead! BOTH Reds hitters with an opportunity to drive in a run struck out! Happens far too often!
Singer has kept the Reds in it but well our offense is not getting it done so far.Maybe they bust out with some crooked numbers .
They keep putting on that shift and Tatis keeps hitting it in that 2nd base hole.
The one guy that will kill you in the Padres’ lineup (Tatis, Jr.) does it again with 2 outs and a RISP! Never fails! Just after the Reds squandered an excellent run scoring opportunity!
The offense so far is its typical state: offensive. (Haha)
But I’m going to need this version of Brady singer from here on out. This will play. Location is on point and pitch mix looks good.
Seems like 40% of RLN has given up on Marte and wants him gone, but idk?
4-13 with 2 walks (.400 obp) and 3 steals isn’t too bad so far
Singer kept them in the game with 2 runs in 5 innings. Not bad for the 5th starter. Hes been very poor but not today. Worse case scenario he gets you a AA relief pitcher at the deadline if things continue down a bad trajectory for the team. If he can just give 5 innings and reasonable ERA for the next month and a chance to win. He did that today.
Singer 2 runs in 6 innings!
Once again…men on base to drive in….failure
Nice outing by Singer against an underperforming Padres lineup but it has some dangerous pieces
Bleday!!!!
McLain was getting hot and taking walks in last games but Tito moves him for the leadoff spot and he is 0-4 2Ks
On the TV broadcast the Cowboy talked about how Matt M changes is approach when he is batting leadoff. Not for the better.
3-23 in the leadoff position this year,
Bleday got a hold of that change up.
Bleday!! went deep with 2-outs…Reds ahead!
Joey, one of the best batting eyes ever. Sal’s got a pretty good eye as well.
Votto would have had a field day with ABS.
I LOVE ABS
Votto would have intimidated umps. Ted Williams,Tony Gwynn etc. Joe West and Angel Hernandez would be sweating.
I’m pretty sure Joe West sweats all the time anyway.
McLain is currently 0-4 as the leadoff hitter! Enough said!
It’s one game.
not just one game. Discussion by Cowboy around the 6th inning that Matt changes his approach in the leadoff spot – and not for the better.3-23 in the leadoff coming into today.
J.J. Y’know, when they finally rebuild, I’m thinkin’ HE’S a keeper. Cowboy pretty much summed it up about McLain during that last at bat. About time somebody spoke the truth.
Bled at and Steer have a Hr swing. I don’t have data and I don’t want to look it up, but I am willing to bet that they have a lot more fly out/ pop out than ground outs. But when they connect, man, it’s extra base.
13.50 Baby Huey in high leverage? Tito are you losing it?
Ricky Karcher saved a game once…..just sayin’
ONCE!!
Maxwell was in there last night in the 11th. Rewarding him.
Actually he was at 3.50 with Lville this year and 4.50 with the Reds last year. Why not? We’re not going anywhere and you can’t pitch Moll & Tony every game
Desperation breeds madness. Maxwell came through though.
Maxwell got Tatis out to preserve the lead. Did not have that on my bingo card this morning!
A little bit scary Big sugar got the scoreless
Bench Geno!
That Geno’s shot is welcome! tacking to the lead
Geno’s swings I thought looked better today. Not surprised he homered. Maybe he is coming out of it.
All right. A double last night and a Hr today. Sign of life.
Ah. You. Hay. Knee. Oh. BOOM!
Marte 105.9 mph
105.9 MPH? Is he qualifying at Indy? That’s actually pretty slow! 🙂
I know, the velocity of the batted ball.
Maybe the Reds are starting to come out of their doldrums.
This weekend against the Diamondbacks, a contestant for a Wild Card spot, and then the Mets.
Back on the bench Friday.
The most of Reds runs scored have done by homers…
They’re going downtown!
Geno’s 1st HR in forever and Sadek called it like a routine fly ball….I would give just about anything for the reds to come back next year with a new play-by-play TV guy
He can take Larkin with him.
He sure did ….. noticed the same thing
It’s the turn of Ferguson to blow the lead apparently…the two lefties hit for doubles…
Bullpen gascan in full effect …. Just unbelievable …. 8th inning meltdown in progress AGAIN
if you are a left-hander out of the BP and you can’t get lefthanders out….you are a waste of a spot in the pen
Nice job Tony … sucked all year
Thank you again BP
What a problem so frustrating is this bullpen…
2 run lead with 6 outs to get…too much to ask this BP…same over and over ….last night was too much to ask for again
Santillan got no business in the big leagues right now
He has fallen off the cliff completely
Send the entire bullpen to Louisville. As we have seen with all the other players who we send to Louisville, they bat .190 here and .350 down there. Must be the water.
Paddack and Petty are the guys who left in the bullpen I guess
It would be easier on my health if they just lost. Give by false hopes is causing major hypertension
Meant to say. “ giving me”
That DP by JJ was just a killer….one thing about Tito, he never does anything to try to stay out of a DP
Santillan came in and threw 5 straight fastballs around 93-95 mph. Andujar let him get away with a meatball down the middle but the next batter made him pay. It’s just lazy ass, going with an easy pitch, the fastball. When you lose mph on fastball, you need to use other pitches more, smh.
What a way to lose this game..smh
I’m not even mad.
Read it and weep … Padres 5, Reds 4
how many times can you use the headline: “bullpen blows lead”
keep it handy
Petty can’t pitch at this level and Reds front office hasn’t figured that out yet …PATHETIC PITCH
Another really tough loss because the bullpen and wasted chances to score more runs…this game was absolutely winnable…the frustration will be very high
Well that’s that folks
Going out of business sale. 1 day only….ok actually 51 days to go. No offer will be refused
great roadtrip….1 win…..sad
Most atrocious bullpen in MLB … hardly any major league caliber pitchers whatsoever in that bullpen right at this moment …. Pure pitiful , dumpster fire bullpen , rudderless ship of an organization.
Most atrocious bullpen in MLB … and it ain’t even close .
Reds with 9 LOBs and 1-6 with RISP! That’s all you need to know! That plus a BP that cannot protect a 2-run lead with 6 outs to go! Pathetic performance and another crushing loss!
Reds with 9 LOBs and 1-6 with RISP! That’s all you need to know! That plus a BP that cannot protect a 2-run lead with 6 outs to go! Pathetic! Another crushing loss!
To quote Dumbledore re: one of the magical candies …
“Earwax. Disappointing.”
I personally don’t blame Petty. Game was lost the inning before with the blown save.
Help me with Ferguson.He threw 6 pitches all fastballs to the first lefty and 5 more to the next lefty.I looked twice and no sliders or curves and maybe 1 was a cutter.How can that be unless he has no breaking pitches at all.If you throw the same thing over and over it will get hit.No change of speeds just same old pitch.As for Petty a cement mixer to Tatis center cut? Bounce that one dude and make him beat you with a fastball.This pen lacks any knowledge of pitching.
Who is calling the pitches though? Aren’t they being called by the dugout?
I agree. Sometimes I wonder about the pitch calling. Even Cowboy is calling out the pitch selection
I know nothing about pitching or hitting or big boy baseball at all.Unless you throw 100 and I read one time big league hitters can time an airplane you don’t throw the same pitch over and over.The two lefties stayed in to bat so they couldn’t be that bad against a left pitcher to being with.Don’t even give your self a chance to win doing stuff like that.