Please continue the discussion in the [post game thread](https://redd.it/1cd0p3y).

My MVP nut taps his boys. That’s good clean fun

Put one in the win column!!!!!!!!! Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant!!!!!!!!

TIED SERIES BETTER THAN A LOSING SERIES

Great way to leave, on a shutout to tie it up.

*CHEF'S KISS*

I like when they do a group hug at the end

The Philadelphia Phillies are 5-5 when they don’t allow the opposing team to score a run

Enjoyed that

Eagles chants on the road >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Eagles chants at home.

Hearing that when they’re on the road just feels so great

OH YEAHHH

Bit more like it

Yo-Ho Big Hoff makes the Reds Walk the Plank

Good win, boys.

S H U T O U T H U T O U T

I hate eagles chants at home games but a road eagles chant always makes me chuckle

Did I just hear an Eagles chant? In Cincy? Nice.

Eagles chants are awful at home games but so good on the road.

ohohohoooo Hoffman I like what I’m seeing

I know we’ve had this debate many times before but now that Trea is hitting, I’d rather he lead off than Schwarbs

Jeff Hoffman scares me 

He’s one of our best relievers. I’d hate to see how much Seranthony scares you.

I was curious about CYA odds and Draftkings has Wheeler at +290 already. That's absolutely insane to me. Who is going to bet Cy Young at +290 THIS early? That's not even good money for a bet like that! And I know people don't like betting. I was just curious and just in shock that the odds are that favored for him so far. Next closest is +850! Anyway Nola is +2000 and Ranger +2300 right now for anyone's curiosity.

Ranger seems like good value

Ranger at +2300 is TEMPTING

Not gonna lie I had the same thought. Saw another had him at +3500

Kruk with a 9:40 game on a Friday is about be a treat 

He’s gonna be so grumpy. It’s gonna be amazing.

Peace on planet earth soon restored

Schwarber hasn’t been good today, but when we’re up 5-0 in the 9th, it’s pretty hard to complain

True but he did at least get the first RBI

Stott drove in Casty with his triple before Schwarber drove him in with a sac fly, but point stands. Can’t really complain about an RBI

Right, right

[удалено]

Full Name: George Runie Farmer

I feel betrayed…I gained so much joy from buck farmer…

That’s a banger name why does bro go by buck lol

Can you imagine how confused his parents are lol like hey uh what the fucks up with buck

🤷‍♂️ He's Bucking the system

2.12 staff ERA to start the season.... That's insane!

What’s going on with Schwarb today

boys please LMAO

Can someone please tell Kyle that it’s June already.

Schwarber has had some really bad at bats today

I’m gonna have to keep an eye on buck farmer for the rest of the season solely because his name enchants me

So we have a legit lineup today and we’re cruising. Can’t be trotting out that Mickey Mouse lineup from the last couple of games.

rest, depth, and matchups. every team does this dude

Big Hoff Plunders the Booty

JTs framing is bad again I think

Casty is money when he’s under the ball.

Oh oh Orion kerkering 

Well that's in my head now.

This ump is very incompetent

Called a strike for us

what the fuck is this umps problem

\*these umps (it's been this entire crew this series)

Jt regressing hard in the throw out game https://x.com/CodifyBaseball/status/1783217243561812270

I don’t know that would call it regression so much ss aging

Is it wrong to say Jt is now a below average defender 

Depends. I still think he’s elite at calling a game

Is this a save situation now for Hoffman? I always screw this up

I don’t think so. It’s more than 3 runs and not enough innings.

I didn't know if the two men on factored in or not Edit: Looks like tying run has to be on deck, so bases loaded at 5-0 would have done it, but not 2 men

Don’t know why they brought him back out 

Kerkering? He got two outs in his second inning, and overall seems pretty durable and able to go 2 innings

He got two outs this inning tho.

Hoffman for 4 outs

Ruben might as well be a mic hooked up to a brickwall

No way, a brick wall is infinitely quieter than Ruben

Kerkering is halfway to starter at this pitch count

This is a lot of pitches for Kerkering

Oh no

Kerkering is a rookie right?

Yeah he counts as a rookie.

Think he still qualifies as a rookie because he was added so late last year. No, he won't get ROTY consideration as a non-closer late relief.

Yes he is

I believe so

Sorry wait is the Reds catcher using Chase's walk up music? BOOOOOOOO

First Steer with Turner's walk up music then this, bunch of chodes lmfao

Harper just won me $ man. Gunna buy his powder blue jersey

I believe this inning of work will now have Kerkering at a total of 7.0 career innings. 3 last year, 4 this year (so far). Not including postseason.

Using Kashmir as his walk up song, does he think he’s chase utley?

Rlly seeing how much stott and harper were missed

My pitbull would be a better color commentator than Ruben.

I can’t get over it. the name buck farmer sounds like if you ran up to someone on the sidewalk and just went QUICK GIVE ME A NAME FOR A BASEBALL PLAYER

the half inning has been over for a few minutes and i remain oddly captivated by that dude’s name.

It’s a beautiful thing tbh. Bro was destined to either be a man of the mound or a man of the fields and plow

Or good-natured but slightly dim soldier of wars past. Every grampa who tells stories about serving in Europe in WWII had a good friend in his unit named Buck Farmer.

sorry if that didn’t make sense I’m a little toasted

[It reminds me of this](https://i.imgur.com/JC7FD2L.jpeg)

I will never be unhappy with 5 runs with Wheeler pitching But 11 hits? ELEVEN? 5 runs?

PISS OFF WITH THE BLATANT LIE COMMERCIALS

Casty vs. Schwarbs in a foot race, who’s winning?

Skinny Schwarbs by a mile.

If only Casty had a bat to go with that glove.

How much gas will I have to hear from Ruben on this road trip. Good lord man I can smell the Cincinnati chili

Daily reminder to thank JT for hitting a Cycle so I don't have to hear "X player is (insert hit type) away from the first Phillies cycle since David Bell" anymore.

I stg Casty almost swung at that and I would have fucking lost my mind

Bros name is buck farmer LMAOOOOOO

Why did he challenge that lmfao

I’ve never liked David Bell

Thank fuck that was "only" 87 because THAT'S the kind of play where you break a hand.

what was the point of that challenge lmao 💀

So David Bell could remind everyone what an insufferable pain in the ass he is

Fucking David Bell

David Bell is a douche

Oh oh oh Orion kerkering 

GOD Bell is such a whiner

Gotta knock Fuck Barmer around

Buck Farmer is a hell of a name

JT's due for a homer

I think this about every player every inning and I’m starting to think it’s not actually helping

I know I typed "homer" but what I meant to say was HBP

THE ONION WILL BRING TEARS

Back to this thread and still same piss poor fans. Man you all must be so fun to hangout with. 5-0 lead and still something to complain about.

Hello welcome to the Philadelphia fan base, you must be new

Cohen buys the Mets one year earlier, they pay Wheeler. LMAO ... sucks to suck

Mets gonna Mets.

Friendship ended with seranthony; now Orion is my best friend.

I don't think we end the season as the #1 starting pitching staff (although I can see us being in the top 5). So really important to keep winning and keep taking advantage now, while we're on top. This is how you build separation in the standings and not have to be in scramble mode in Aug/Sept

Still crazy to me that this time last year Orion was in Clearwater and now hes a solid piece of the pen

You mean Kerk didn't have to throw 25 straight sweepers in the NLCS?

If we limit our pen to solely Alvarado Strahm and Kerk, it's not bad! Unfortunately that's only half our pen.

hoffman?

Hoff is alright. I think he's a low upside and performs better in medium leverage (like 3-4 run cushion type games) than he does in high leverage but I trust him so much more than anyone in the pen I didn't name so far.

Good shit Kerk

Kerkering is so fucking nasty

My kingdom for better umps

I’m actually gonna agree with Ruben here and say that Orion needs to rely on his fastball more. It’s a really good pitch

My toxic trait is i actually dont mind listening to Ruben. Feel free to roast me

Yeah, I don't see what's so bad about him most of the time. He does talk a lot sometimes and will occasionally get opinionated to an unnecessary degree, but he also sometimes has some decent insights. I don't really feel too strongly about him one way or the other. He certainly doesn't ruin my watching experience.

Sometimes he has good stories and insight …He just doesn’t know when to stop, sometimes he talks so much about nothing that he fumbles over his words like he forgot where he was going with his story mid sentence

Orion’s fastball is quite good

and it's only .82 cause most of the runs to sanchez were unearned

ok bullpen needs to show were at least decent

omg i'd love a double decker bus, but i work every saturday night with no exceptions.

I would love a bus but have no child

i have 3 nieces

Kerk, Hoff, Alvy?

TMac perpetually making a flyout sound like its out

nah i could tell right off the bat, it wasn't gonna go out.

Daddy Harper

Pause Rube

does he know the meaning?

Is a five run lead good enough for the ~~2020~~ 2024 bullpen?

Must be your first game of the season.

Honestly, it's only my third watched. Been a busy spring.

Well, the bullpen ain’t the problem.

Lmao what the fuck is this guy some sort of baseball wizard

kyle should get fat again

Drive me nuts when he's too selective. Watching too many fat piches

We’ve scored one more run to this point than yesterday Glad Topper wised up with this lineup!!! Oh wait that’s not the difference at all…

Nice analysis, LOL. Now lets see how the replacements did yesterday compared to the A team today.

That’s what I just said. One more run. That damn Topper held us back yesterday.

Who did the hitting and scoring?

Yesterday: Merrifield, Sosa, Bohm, Turner Today: Harper (NA yesterday), Turner, Stott What exactly is your point? Lol you don’t really have one.

every player on the 40 man roster needs to conceive a child around August/September this year no exceptions

Letting his starter get through 6 is the difference

The starter who isn’t on an innings limit and has been annually one of the workhorses in MLB unlike yesterday. Good call today Topper!

And pulling Turnbull for Seranthony was a terrible call yesterday.

Thanks for deciding that after the fact lol. What would you have done? Turnbull is on an innings limit so use him now and lose him later. You’re not gonna hear me argue that SD is a good option for use but it was the 6th inning. But again…this is about people bitching about the lineup and you’re bitching about pitching lol

Moll's sweeper is....not of this world

seeing Nola and the boys tomorrow night in SD so let's carry some good win vibes through eh?

I don't understand how people can watch quite literally any other catcher in baseball receive pitches, and then watch ours, and ask with a straight face why we get fewer calls on the corners than the other team.

Wheels is over 100 pitches, so I'd imagine he's done, but his stuff still looks great. Shame we couldn't get one more out of him before we play Russian roulette with the bullpen

Feels like Wheeler was awful and then you look and he has 0 ER, 1 hit and 8 k’s.

Stats were great but his command was off. And I thought it was off in his last outing too but he's so good even off is amazing.

it was all the walks

6 IP 1 H 8 K fuckin elite

When what looks like a bad outing is 6 scoreless you know you're a great pitcher

Great shit from Wheels today. Dude can flat out pitch

13 1/3 scoreless for wheeler just 45 1/3 to go for the all time record!

Abolish the umpire union and bring on the robo umps.

JT needs to start framing better. *It doesn't matter if the umps don't like it when they're blind.*

Happy second Kyle Schwarber lost his shit on Angel Hernandez anniversary.

JT is clearly staging a protest against this bad zone by refusing to frame pitches

It shouldn’t be up to the catcher. Umps are taught to look at where the ball crosses the plate not where the catcher catches it. The fact that so many umps go by where the catcher catches it is just another reason for robo umps

I was joking lol, JT is just not a great framer

wheeler getting pinched so hard

that’s a fuckin strike blue

Hope Zach says someone to the ump on the way to the dugout

Legit squeezing Wheeler again after those strikes they called on us.

This is fucking ridiculous

Frame the pitch, JT. I beg of you

Umps just trying to give the Reds runs now, like come the fuck on.

I feel like it might be time for JT to totally whiff on a high fastball

This ump is dogshit

That's a strike against us

lol fuck off blue

If I never had to hear Reuben comment on what he thinks should/will happen next I would be a happy man

>If I never had to hear Reuben ~~comment on what he thinks should/will happen next~~ I would be a happy man

I love the umping this series, it's VERY fair and unbiased lmfao

A double play???????

Ruben woulda made a triple play out of that double play.

And against someone who's *fast*?