May 31, 2006
Reds Demise
The Cincinnati Reds fall from grace started on May 12th. In that time they've gone 5-12. After such a good start, the regression might not surprise you, but the reason should. The pitching and defense during this stretch gave up 91 runs, 5.3 per game. But the Reds offense is capable of covering that, at least to stay at a .500 level. It's the offense that's really collasped, scoring just 69 runs, 4.1 per game. And that's actually generous. The Reds scored 4 runs or less in eleven of these 17 games and lost every one of those contests, including four shutouts. You can place most of the blame on Kearns, Griffey and Encarnacion.
Griffey is in a free fall as far as taking walks, he had more in July of 2005 than he has since then and he's about to finish his worse month in obtaining walks since his rookie season.
Therefore I'm helping him find his eye.
http://www.baseballminutia.com
my stros have done bout the same thing