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Sizemore with a 2 run single.

7-4 Reds.

Hafner with a PH RBI single. 7-5 ... it ain't over yet.

Getting interesting ......

Hafner comes through with a pinch hit base hit to make it 7-5 Reds ........

One on, one out ........

Let's go Tribe!

Well, so much for that rally.

2 more innings to make it happen.

Holy crap ... a 102 MPH fastball?

How does this kid have a 5+ ERA?

He's throwing smoke on everything. Even his slider is 90+.

It's nice to see him being able to put that 102 over the plate again.

Well congratulations on the win.

Thanks, although it's not much of a consolation prize after losing the first 5.

Guys snubbed out of all star game

Dan Haren
Tommy Hanson
Andrew McCuthchen
Every AL SS but Jeter
CC Sabathia
Ryan Madson
Michael Pineda
Paul Konerko
Craig Kimbrel

I'll take 5 out of 6 from the Reds...who wouldn't?

Except that 80% of nationally televised games feature the Yankees or Red Sox.

Bring on the rich kids so we can kick their butts.

TopDawg,

Previous poster was saying it's the fault of the "ignorant voter" that Jeter is the All-Star starter. Why is the voter ignorant? Why is Jeter what they all know about? How much have they been talking about Jeter's calf injury on Sportscenter despite him having a pretty bad (.324 SLG% puts him 19th among SS despite playing in routine fly ball HR park) season?

Because it's ignorant that Derek Jeter is in the 2011 All Star Game... let alone a starter. People simply vote for the guy based on name and team - and that's ignorant.

That falls on the people, not Bud Selig.

Yes, I agree that the voter is ignorant, and that Jeter has no buisness being an allstar. My point is that the voter is ignorant due in no small part to the overexposure of the Yankees and Red Sox, and glamor teams in general.

Honestly, even Jose Reyes is getting extraordinary amounts of pub despite playing on a .500 team. When's the last time you heard ESPN talk about guys from the Braves or the Brewers? Or how about the fact that the perennially awful Pirates are competing in their division this year?

Jason Heyward and Jurgens get a ton of pub from the Braves.

Well, there's that.

I can't blame you I was thinking the same thing a few weeks ago. Then I looked at his numbers and decided I'd shut up.

Man, that little swinging bunt by Cano is going to be the difference in this game.

Might be.

Hopefully we can manage to score a few here and win this damn thing.

Well, Burnett's likely either going to the distance or going 8 and then Rivera will come in. If they're going to capitalize it has to be now with the dropped foul and wild pitch.

Man I hate having to rely on Duncan and Kearns to come through in the clutch ......

However .... Duncan does come through with a nice AB, and a solid RBI base hit.

Halfway there...

AUSTIN KEARNS!!!

Whoa! Kearns comes through with a 3 run blast!

I take back 10% of the bad things I have said about Kearns this year. lol

Santana with a bomb, and it's 6-3 TRibe in the 9th!

Tomlin gets win #10, Perez gets save #20.

With as hard as it is for us to get wins against these guys, it sure is nice to grab game 1.

Woohoo! Way to rock a gem by Burnett!

great win, tomlin was awesome.

i don't wanna bring the p-word up, but we're fans so it's perfectly ok to...

but a shortened 3 man playoff rotation with carrasco, tomlin, masterson isn't all that shabby. it might not be lee, halladay, hamels, but they will give you a chance, esp combined with the bullpen mafia

i just don't know if the offense can really get that much better. kearns came up big tonight, but he is what he is. duncan is what he is... sizemore and choo have been ?'s all year, hafner has been great but will he stay healthy?

I felt earlier in the year that we could use another arm, but I think I am with most that another bat would be more important.

I just hope that they take advantage of what they have and don't just assume that it will be this good next year, simply because next year was supposed to be it.

Yeah, I think that we definitely need another bat.

I suspect that we could see White back in the rotation when he returns from injury.

As a side note ..... congratulations to Josh Tomlin on becoming the 1st pitcher since 1919 to go at least 5 innings in each and every one of his 1st 29 Major League appearances. That's really something special.

He's one of the guys we actually drafted too.

i dunno if he's gonna be this great all the time, but he has an ace's attitude. was not fazed at all by the series of events after losing the no-hit bid. they got their big hit, and after that he got out of it.

He might not be "great" ...... but he's been very good each and every time out so far in his career.

I'll take that any day of the week.

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He might not be "great" ...... but he's been very good each and every time out so far in his career.

I'll take that any day of the week.

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I agree. I have read some articles on him, and the stat geeks just keep waiting for the floor to fall out. They always cite the fly ball to ground ball ratio as a sign that disaster is coming. Instead, they should watch him pitch.

Not only does he not get rattled, he is smarter than most hitters. He knows their tendencies, and he forces them into situations where they can't help themselves but to swing. His bevy of fly balls last night were poorly hit, weak flys; not smashed shots that were barely kept in the ballpark.

He also has excellent command. The ump last night had a very hitter friendly zone (for both teams), and that should have been a huge disadvantage for a guy like Tomlin who relies on precision and well placed strikes on the corners. That he pitched so well in spite of that is also quite remarkable.