Game 110: Okay, Everybody Just Calm Down

Cueto Deals, Offense Can't Back Him Up

Cincinnati     1   3   0
Milwaukee   3   8   0

By Ryan Bramwell

Well, that wasn't fun.  Milwaukee's Mike Fiers continued his rapid rise in the majors as he was tremendous versus the Redlegs on Tuesday night.  In fact, Fiers had a perfect game through six innings of work.  The Reds just couldn't seem to touch him.  Fiers has started 12 games now in the bigs and sports a miniscule 1.80 ERA along with a WHIP of 1.01 through 80 innings.  That's impressive.  He could be that good, or it could be that no one has figured him out just yet.  Cincinnati's batters sure made it look like a little of both last night.

I don't feel much like recapping this one.  I fell behind on reviewing the last three games and now I am too disappointed to complete one for last night's game too.  It's terrible, I know.  Let's hope that Mat Latos and the Reds can get it done today in Milwaukee and avoid a rare sweep.  Hopefully, and I am thinking very optimistically here, the Reds will have had enough of this losing stuff and will activate our savior before the Chicago series.  We have surprised the masses and baseball as a whole with our play during the absense of Joey Votto, but I think we might be running out of steam right now.  We could really use his bat back in the lineup.  As fans, I don't think we could have asked for anything more from Votto's replacements and the rest of the team.  They turned up the dials and raked in win after win, and we have to be super satisfied and ultra-pleased with that fact.  But now we are in a lull.  Let's bring back the dynamite, shall we?