Noelvi Marte de Cincinnati Reds from the third base in the right field
Noelvi Marte de Cincinnati Reds was in the alignment of the outside field on Sunday for the first time in his career after spending his life as an inner field player.
New York – can Cincinnati Reds Win an eliminatory series?
After a weekend in New York, the Reds have at least one team thinking that she has the answer to the question that has won the franchise for 30 years.
Win an post-season series?
“The Reds? Yes,” said the food manager Carlos Mendoza. “It starts on the mound, right?”
“Watch them in recent days, then locate them, the starting pitch jumps,” he said. “If you can throw four or five guys day after day that will give you a chance, it’s a good feeling.”
The starters of Reds Nick Lodolo, Nick Martinez and Andrew Abbott combined for 18 rounds and six points authorized in their first series of the Star break while the Reds only became the fourth team this season to win a series at Citi Field, where the food has the best home record in the National League.
“I do not give a SH – what is their file at home. I don’t even know what it is,” said Reds manager, Terry Francona, after the Reds barely missed a 3-2 defeat in the final. “I am upset that we have lost today.”
This is certainly a prospect when the weekend ended.
Terry Francona will not speak of the history of the Reds qualifying series
In fact, it may be part of the answer to the initial question, if not the point.
Do not expect Francona to give a (choose your favorite blasphemy) since how long since the Reds have won an eliminatory series. He did not succeed in the big leagues as long, too bad in Cincinnati.
In fact, the only player on the list of Reds who has been there for a long time to witness the last season of the Reds in a big league uniform is Tyler Stephenson, who made his eight -game debut this pandemic season of 2020 and was not on the alignment of the playoffs.
So, what do one of these drought guys from the franchise century know? Heck, most were not born the last time the Reds won an eliminatory series, when Barry Larkin, Bret Boone and Jeff Brantley swept the Dodgers in the 1995 division series before losing against the Braves.
Could it be the team to break the sequence – assuming that they conduct their recent wave of success in the past two months and get there?
They seem to think. Above all, the way they beat the first two games of the break, just a few weeks after beating the Yankees and the Padres positioned in playoffs at home. What came only a few weeks after defeating the best team in the American League, the Tigers, in Detroit.
As they won the first two games in New York, it was clear what the Reds thought of themselves and their place in this mixture in the playoffs which they threaten to upset.
“It shows who we are and what we mean,” said Martinez. “To start the second half with two big victories is a good way to show the league.”
But can they do something they haven’t done for 30 years?
Emilio Pagan of Reds has already been in the playoffs
“I am in a way the good guy to ask,” said Emilio Pagán closer, whose Houdini acts with two on and no July 19 was the moment of launcher of the ninth round of the year for the Reds – while he has ameded the last three withdrawals of Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto and Pete Alonso.
“When I was in Minnesota, we had a kind of similar thing.”
It was in 2023, when the twins reached the playoffs and faced a barrage of questions on the test of even winning the playoff series game For the first time since 2004.
“It was” it’s great, you enter, but you can break the sequence of playoffs, “said Pagán.” The answer we said continued to say was that we understand where the question comes from. But none of us been here for all this. “
These twins also answered the question in October, beating the Blue Jays in the Wild-Card series before falling from 3 games to 1 against Houston in the second round.
The Reds left New York 2 1/2 games in the playoff position, so they have a long term for a long offer at this stage.
But they also left New York with a state of mind in the playoffs.
“I think this series has shown that we can compete at a high level,” said Pagán. “The Padres series. And some other series. We played very well.
“I really think we can go not only to win a series, but maybe win a few series and go a little further than that,” he said.
They must still get there. They are 9-13 against the rivals of the national league currently in the position of playoffs, with series which are left against these six teams, plus another series against Al East-Lead Toronto.
These 31 games represented half of their remaining calendar because they left New York.
It may be at that time that someone will know if he has what it takes to win the big series when it matters most?
“This is a very fair question. We understand where not only the question comes from the question, but where the fans of Reds are on this,” said Pagán. “They don’t care who is here or not here. They want to win. We are in the same way.
“We want to get there. But we don’t want to get there. We want to get there and make noise and make something special. ”
The dishes, for his part, know what they have seen in this Reds team at the moment.
The October affair wins?
“They have good (in rotation),” said Mendoza. “They also have very good arms in their enclosure of the lifts. Obviously, (Elly) of the Cruz in short. They are versatile. They have speed. So, yes, I could see that.”
And the director linked to the fame of fame.
“Obviously, he pushes these guys and puts guys in different positions to succeed,” said Mendoza, “and I am not surprised.”
The remaining calendar of the Reds will make them no favor
Who knows if they get there, thanks to the calendar of gloves that remain and with so many other quality teams on the way? It is a long road on the rise until October.
But if three games in New York in mid-July said something, perhaps this second-class rotation in the NL (by Fangraphs.com The war) begins to respond to the Reds enigma in October for the first time in 30 years?
Just ask the guy who has already helped answer a similar question two years ago.
“I like our chances in a short series against anyone with our pitching,” said Pagán, “and the way our programming is more and deeper and deeper as we have continued and the guys have become healthy and somehow installed in their roles.
“I think we can not only win, but maybe go in the race.”
Now they just have to get there.
