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Games Played on 05/21/13 Minor League Player of the Day: Louisville 1B Mike Hessman: He went 3 for 4 with a HR and a 2B. AAA Louisville 6 – Gwinnett 2 Mike Hessman went 3 for 4 with a HR and a 2B. Billy Hamilton went 1 for 4 with a BB and a SB. Neftali Soto walked twice. Corky Miller hit his 3rd HR. Felix Perez tripled. Chad Reineke got the win as he went 7 IP and allowed 2 R on 6 H and 1 BB with 3 K. Kevin Whelan and Yohan Pino each added 1 IP of scoreless relief. AA Mobile 4 – Pensacola 2 Luis Durango went 2 for 3 with 2 BB. Bryson Smith doubled. Tim Crabbe got the loss as he went 5.2 IP and allowed 4 R on 9 H and 1 BB with 4 K. Drew Hayes (1.1 IP), Lee Hyde (1 IP), and Loek Van Mil (1 IP) each added scoreless relief outings. High A Bakersfield 12 – High Desert 10 Marquez Smith went 3 for 5 with a 3B and a 2B. Ryan Wright went 2 for 5 with 2 HR. Kyle Waldrop went 2 for 4 with a HR, a 2B, and a SB. Yorman Rodriguez went 1 for 3 with a 3B and 2 BB. Dominic D’Anna went 2 for 4 with a 2B. Steve Selsky and Juan Silverio each went 2 for 5. Jake Johnson got no decision as he went 4.2 IP and allowed 6 R, 5 ER, on 7 H and 1 BB with 3 K. Kyle McMyne picked up the win while allowing 1 R, 0 ER, over 1.2 IP of relief. Low A Dayton - No game scheduled.

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Kyle Waldrop hit his 9th home run of the year in a Bakersfield Blaze offensive explosion on Tuesday night.

Let’s recap tonight’s titanic struggle…. FINAL Cincinnati 4 NY Mets 0 W: M. Leake (4-2) L: J. Niese (3-5) BOX SCORE POSITIVES –Great start by Mike Leake: seven shutout innings, allowing three hits. I’ll take that every time, thank you very much. –Todd Frazier had two hits, including a double. Looks like Frazier may finally be emerging from his slump. –Devin Mesoraco homered and walked, and his CatcherERA is fantastic after the shutout. –Excellent relief work by Sam LeCure and Logan Ondrusek. NEGATIVES –None. NOT-SO-RANDOM THOUGHTS –That’s nine wins in eleven games for the mighty Redlegs. Even better, after that miserable start in road games, the Reds are now 12-12 away from home. –Cincinnati has the highest run differential in the major leagues. –How good has Cincinnati’s rotation been? 2.91, 3.09, 3.22, 3.25, 3.28. Those are the ERAs of everyone in the Reds current rotation. Their top sub checks in at 3.27. — Jason Linden (@JasonLinden) May 22, 2013 Source: FanGraphs

May 21, 2013; New York, NY, USA; Leake pitches against the New York Mets during the first inning of a game at Citi Field. The Reds won the game, 4-0. (Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports) Get this out of the way right off the bat. In Mike Leake‘s last two outings, he has faced two of the poorer offenses in the National League. In his last outing, he faced the Miami Marlins who are last in the NL in many offensive categories. Tonight, it was the New York Mets. The Metropolitans do score at a higher rate (6th in the NL at 4.21 runs per game) than the Marlins (last with 2.71 runs per game), but Leake put forth a far better effort on this night. Leake’s line: 7 IP, 3 hits, no runs, 2 walks and 4 punch outs. He threw 99 pitches and coaxed 11 groundouts from Mets batters. The only inning where New York threatened was in the 4th, but a potential error in judgment (good for the Reds though) was third base coach Tim Teufel holding Lucas Duda after a double by John Buck. The way the ball was returning to the infield, it was highly doubtful any play at the plate was forthcoming. Ah, and the Mets Ike Davis ended the inning with a groundout to Votto. Over his last two outings, Leake has lowered his ERA from 4.32 to 3.25. In fact, if you look at the ERA for all Reds starters, it’s pretty darn good. Here’s your peek: Latos – 2.91 Bailey – 3.09 Cueto – 3.22 Leake – 3.25 Cingrani – 3.27 Arroyo – 3.28 The only offense the Reds needed came in the game’s first inning…and two outs. Joey Votto walked. You know what that means. Brandon Phillips would single putting runners at first and second. Jay Bruce would walk, loading the bases for Todd Frazier. ToddFather scorched a grounder that found its way through the legs of David Wright, resulting in a pair of runs. They weren’t done. This evening’s starter in left field was Donald Lutz. Lutz would trickle a ball toward second base and beat the throw from Daniel Murphy. Bases loaded once more. The final run came on a free pass to Devin Mesoraco. That’s all the scoring for the Good Guys until the top of the 9th when Mesoraco knocked home run #2 on the season. Maybe he likes the 9th inning. Mes also had 2 RBI in the game. Sam LeCure worked the 8th and allowed only a walk. Logan Ondrusek entered in the 9th and recorded a perfect inning, retiring two on whiffs. The Redlegs are now 10 games over .500 with a 28-18 record and are assured of winning the series. Same two teams tomorrow afternoon with a 1:10 PM ET start. A great pitching matchup with Mat Latos and Matt Harvey squaring off in the series finale.

It felt like déjà vu when I turned on my computer, loaded up the game, and checked the score: 3-0 after one inning, just like it was last night.  Only this time, the Mets were kept quiet by starter Mike Leake, and the bullpen combination of Sam LeCure and Logan Ondrusek.  In the end, the […]

The Joe Nuxhall Memorial Honorary Star of the Game Mike Leake, fresh off of the relief of not being sent to Louisville when Johnny Cueto made his return, was positively dominant tonight, and he gets the nod. Leake tossed 7 shutout innings, allowing just 3 hits and 2 walks while striking out 4. With tonight's result, Leake has lowered his season ERA to 3.25 which, for you conspiracy theorists, is now lower than Tony Cingrani's MLB ERA of 3.27. Commence argument about how they match up over 24 other statistical categories. Honorable mentions are due to Devin Mesoraco (1 for 3, 2 RBI, HR); Todd Frazier (2 for 4); Joey Votto (1 for 3, BB, yawn); Chris Welsh (Hi Chris!); and Sam LeCure (1 scoreless inning to lower his season ERA to 1.35...#beeasy). Key Plays Offense in this one was terribly hard to come by, but the Reds got what they could (and what they shouldn't have) in the Top of the 1st. After Derrick Robinson and Zack Cozart were retired to start the game, Joey Votto walked, Brandon Phillips singled, Jay Bruce walked, and both Votto and Phillips scored when Todd Frazier hit a grounder through David Wright's hundred million dollar legs. Donald Lutz then reached on a softly hit infield single, and Devin Mesoraco walked to drive in Bruce. Reds led, 3-0. In the Top of the 9th, Devin Mesoraco cored a big apple deep to LF for his 2nd HR of the season. Since Mike Leake and Sam LeCure had breezed through the first 8 innings, all Logan Ondrusek had to do was shut down the 9th, which he did. Reds win, 4-0! Source: FanGraphs Other Notes Even when JTM tries to ruin things, I still love when Chris Welsh and George Grande are together again. Despite starting the season with a 1-8 record in road games, the win tonight leaves the Reds at an even 12-12 away from GABP. If they can keep up their recent trend on the road, their winning ways at home will make them nearly impossible to beat in the NL Central division race. Last year, both the Reds and the Cardinals had identical 50-31 home records; on the road, the Cardinals were 38-43 while the Reds were 47-34. Once upon a time, there existed Tupelo Tuesdays. It's high time we resurrected this. Chris Welsh is Magnum P.I.!! HOW ELSE DID HE FIND US???

NEW YORK — Mike Leake went seven shutout innings to push his scoreless streak to 13 2/3 innings. He allowed three hits, walked two and struck out four. Leake is 4-2 with a 2.30 ERA in his last seven starts. His stellar start just continued the trend for the Reds. Their starters are 6-0 with ...

The Reds have become a left-handed heavy roster this season due to injuries to left fielders Ryan Ludwick and Chris Heisey. Both Ludwick and Heisey are right-handed hitters. Reds general manager Walt Jocketty is not beating the bushes for a right- handed batter on the trade market to fill the void, however. “We’ve looked at it,” Jocketty said on Tuesday. “There is really nobody out there that would make much of a difference. We’re just biding our time to see what happens.” Ludwick is out until at least the All-Star break with a right shoulder injury suffered on Opening Day that required surgery. Heisey has been on the disabled list since April 29 with a right hamstring strain. He suffered a setback in the first game of his rehab assignment last week and is still at least a couple of weeks from returning. The Reds have patched things together primarily with lefty hitters Xavier Paul and Donald Lutz….and switch hitter Derrick Robinson.

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