The American League West is apparently just what the Cincinnati Reds needed to get their season back on track and moving in the right direction. After losing six straight games to Tampa Bay and Pittsburgh last week, the Reds returned home to face the first place Texas Rangers and swept them while picking up two walk-off wins in the process. They then hit the road to face off against the last place Oakland Athletics and in game one of the series it was the pitching staff for the A’s showing why they are the worst in the league by a wide margin as Cincinnati dropped 11 runs on them in a win. Yesterday saw Cincinnati’s offense struggle, but they scored twice in the 9th to pull off a 3-2 win.
Five wins in a row and all of a sudden everything is starting to feel better for the Reds. They’ve moved to 12-15 on the season, the offense that seemed to cease to exist last week has scored 33 runs this week in five games. In the process they’ve put some room between themselves and the last place St. Louis Cardinals, who are 10-18 entering the final day of the month.
Henry Ramos is leading the way
There were plenty of people who felt that Henry Ramos should have made the team out of spring training. But despite hitting .448/.469/.759 with two walks and two strikeouts in 32 plate appearances the Reds sent him to the minor leagues. After serving a suspension to start the season in Triple-A for a fight he was involved in back in 2021, Ramos was activated in Louisville and picked up his hitting ways. He hit .314/.400/.486 in 11 games with the Bats, walking as often as he struck out – five times.
The Reds then called him up last week and he’s started in all five games since. He’s had seven hits and walked four times in those five games. He’s hitting .412/.524/.529 in the process and struck out just once. The 31-year-old outfielder has been a lightning bolt for the offense. As he’s gone, so has the offense. And so have the victories.
Elly De La Cruz mishits a home run
On Saturday afternoon Elly De La Cruz picked up his first home run of the season. It was a surprise to him, initially. And he seemed a little frustrated that he let a pitch he should have crushed get by him in the sense that he should have hit it better.
Look at his reaction. Then look at where the ball goes (well, you can’t actually see where it lands, but you can see the fence it goes over). He thought he popped out. The ball wound up going over the fence in dead center field, which is 400 feet away. And it also landed beyond the batters eye.
Hawkeye is now in all Triple-A stadiums and it is saying that baseball only went 378 feet. We know that simply isn’t accurate. Perhaps it didn’t factor in the super powers of Elly De La Cruz.
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