Know Your Foe #30: Division-leading Reds welcome Rockies to Great American Ballpark

by Bryan Kilpatrick on Jul 16, 2010 12:16 PM MDT in Know Your Foe

CINCINNATI REDS (49-41, 1st in NL Central)

2009 Record vs. Rockies: 0-7

Last Series vs. Rockies: September 7-10, 2009 @ Coors Field (L 0-4)

The Reds were doubled up by the Rockies in the series, as they were outscored 16-8 in what was an atypically low-scoring set of games in Denver. Colorado used late-game heroics to beat the Reds in three out of the four games in the series, with the exception being the last game - in which former Red/Rockie Kip Wells allowed all five runs in the bottom of the third inning. Other than that, the starting pitching - in this case, consisting of Homer Bailey, Matt Maloney, and Bronson Arroyo - did a nice job of containing the Colorado offense. As for the Reds' offense, Brandon Phillips came away from the series with five hits - all singles - to lead the way. Scott Rolen had three hits, including a key homer in the eighth inning of Game 3, but the Cincinnati bats were pretty much non-existent aside from that.

Recent Series Results: won 2-1 at New York (NL), lost 0-4 at Philadelphia

The Reds are coming off of a pretty brutal 11-game road trip of their own, as they finished 5-6 in games against the Cubs, Mets, and Phillies. They started off by going 5-2 in their first two series before a draining series sweep at the hands of the defending NL Champions that put them under .500 for the trip. They got very good pitching in the last two games against the Phillies, as Travis Wood carried a perfect game into the ninth inning in his start, and only allowed one hit in nine complete innings while striking out eight. However, the Reds' bats weren't able to do anything against Roy Halladay and later, the Philly bullpen. In the next game, Maloney kept the Philly bats in check by allowing just a run on four hits in six innings, but this time the Cincy bats were frozen by Cole Hamels on their way to being shutout in back-to-back games. It will definitely be interesting to see if the Reds can revive their offense upon returning home. The statistics say yes, as the Reds have posted an OPS of .830 at home, which is over 100 points higher than their road OPS (.728).

Friday-Sunday: 3-game series @ Great American Ballpark

Expected Pitching Matchups

Friday, 16 July 2010 @ 5:10pm MT

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Jason Hammel	7-3	15	15	0	0	0	0	90.1	97	42	41	9	24	72	4.08	1.34

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Bronson Arroyo	9-4	18	18	1	0	0	0	120.1	107	54	54	13	41	58	4.04	1.23

Saturday, 17 July 2010 @ 5:10pm MT

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Jorge De La Rosa	3-1	5	5	0	0	0	0	27.1	26	18	15	2	14	32	4.94	1.46

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Edinson Volquez	4-0	6	6	0	0	0	0	31	14	5	5	1	8	28	1.45	0.71

*The impressive stats listed above are Volquez's combined numbers from his six rehab appearances in the minors. This will be his first start for the Reds since June 1st, 2009, prior to undergoing Tommy John surgery. He hasn't officially been activated yet, so he still appears on the injury report at the end of this article.

Sunday, 18 July 2010 @ 11:10am MT

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Aaron Cook	3-5	22	17	2	0	0	0	99.2	108	59	54	8	40	44	4.88	1.48

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - TBA	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00

*The Reds have yet to decide the order of their rotation after Volquez.

More after the jump...

Expected Lineup

Player	Pos	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	ISO	BABIP	wOBA
Brandon Phillips	2B	0.294	0.351	0.469	0.820	0.174	0.315	0.356
Orlando Cabrera	SS	0.245	0.283	0.329	0.612	0.084	0.265	0.278
Joey Votto	1B	0.314	0.422	0.589	1.011	0.275	0.346	0.433
Scott Rolen	3B	0.290	0.361	0.548	0.909	0.258	0.289	0.385
Johnny Gomes	LF	0.277	0.330	0.471	0.801	0.194	0.322	0.340
Jay Bruce	RF	0.266	0.339	0.446	0.785	0.180	0.326	0.342
Chris Heisey	CF	0.286	0.378	0.557	0.935	0.271	0.313	0.395
Ryan Hanigan	C	0.333	0.449	0.481	0.930	0.148	0.352	0.407

Bench

Player	Pos	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	ISO	BABIP	wOBA
Corky Miller	C	0.224	0.274	0.328	0.602	0.103	0.279	0.271
Miguel Cairo	IF	0.306	0.345	0.417	0.761	0.111	0.337	0.339
Paul Janish	IF	0.296	0.397	0.463	0.860	0.167	0.311	0.370
Laynce Nix	OF	0.234	0.268	0.411	0.679	0.178	0.276	0.284
Drew Stubbs	OF	0.235	0.310	0.399	0.709	0.164	0.297	0.321

Closer

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Francisco Cordero	3-3	43	0	0	0	24	6	40.2	41	19	19	5	22	34	4.20	1.55

Injuries

Cincinnati Reds Injuries

15-Day

Player	Injury Type	Injury Date
Ramon Hernandez	knee	07/05/2010
Homer Bailey	shoulder	05/24/2010
Aaron Harang	lower-back	07/01/2010
Mike Lincoln	other-excused	06/01/2010

60 Day DL / Out for the season

Player	Injury Type	Injury Date
Edinson Volquez	elbow	02/22/2010
Chris Dickerson	other-excused	04/30/2010

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2 out of 3!

hopefully..Go Rockies!

Get better Tulo....time to rally around each other and hang in there until our Mr. everything returns

Troy Tulowitzki: "When people think of the Rockies, I want them to think of a winning organization."

by TuLoRocks2008 on Jul 16, 2010 12:22 PM MDT reply actions

I do think so, but we have to get tonight's to make it happen

I’ve heard Cueto likely to pitch Sunday, and we’ve got road Cookie, and tonight’s matchup favors us.

If we get tonight we can sweep (but still very difficult). If we don’t get tonight, I don’t think we get two of three this weekend.

Watching the purple row from high atop the big brown monolith on California Ave

by Mondogarage on Jul 16, 2010 12:35 PM MDT up reply actions

yeah every game is pretty much a toss up

i just hope the Reds bat stay silent like they did in Philly for at least one more series and hopefully we get out of here with 2 out of 3….in the long run i want a 6-5 road trip i would be very happy with that

Get better Tulo....time to rally around each other and hang in there until our Mr. everything returns

Troy Tulowitzki: "When people think of the Rockies, I want them to think of a winning organization."

by TuLoRocks2008 on Jul 16, 2010 12:46 PM MDT up reply actions

So basically

Game one we have two guys who are trending up with occasional implosions.
Game two we have the battle of the hard throwing guys just off the DL
Game 3 is a matchup where there is no way of telling what either team will get

Yeah, I like us for 2 of 3 here.

Bazinga!

by Junction Rox on Jul 16, 2010 12:39 PM MDT reply actions

Exactly

The difference is that in game 1, our guy does a better job of missing bats than their guy, whose success appears to be more BABIP-based.

The difference in game 2 is that, if both pitchers were inclined to get unnerved in their first start out of the gate…well….we’ve already had that, Volquez has not. That’s a big if, though, because Volquez is really good.

Watching the purple row from high atop the big brown monolith on California Ave

by Mondogarage on Jul 16, 2010 12:51 PM MDT up reply actions

Game 3 is either going to be Cueto or Harang.

Probably Cueto.

Project Libra

by Greg Stanwood on Jul 16, 2010 12:55 PM MDT up reply actions

Holy Crap

Couldn’t get in for a while, but found out Latos’ Injury

Brad Eldred: El poderoso burrito

by frightened inmate #2 on Jul 16, 2010 2:46 PM MDT reply actions

aw, man. It happened at Coors Field. we’ll get blamed for this somehow.

Brad Eldred: El poderoso burrito

by frightened inmate #2 on Jul 16, 2010 2:47 PM MDT up reply actions

BTW – could that Blackberry Messenger widget in the right sidebar be any BIGGER or more ANNOYING? Geez, pushes our content further and further down the page.

Get your purple on.

by rockhead on Jul 16, 2010 3:02 PM MDT up reply actions