After attending the Reds Season Ticket Holder Photo Day, we decided since we were already at the ballpark that we’d just stay for the game. We picked up a couple of $7 tickets at the North Ticket Office. Once we were back inside GABP, we made our way over the Fox Sports Ohio condominium to kill some time before the start of the ballgame by watching some Reds Live live and in person…

We were asked if we wanted to be on their pre-game game show, “So you think you’re a Reds fan?” but we decided that was just way too much pressure. We still made it on today’s edition of Reds Live…

We decided to watch the game from center field under the PNC Power Stacks…



Going into the fifth inning, Reds pitcher Raisel Iglesias has already fanned 11 DBacks…


Make that TWELVE K’s!

The Sunday Live Mr. Reds Race…




We saw Reds center fielder Ryan LaMarre get his first hit in the Majors…

And Raisel Iglesias struck out 11 batters. And that means…



When it was all said and done, Raisel Iglesias struck out 13 batters on the day, the most by a Reds rookie since 1967! WOW! He threw 7 innings, giving up just 2 runs on 3 hits with the 13 Ks and 3 BBs.

Trailing 2-0, the Reds brought in Jumbo Diaz for the eighth…

And he gave up two more runs, 4-0 DBacks.


And how it would end. Not gonna win many games when you can’t score a run.

Reds have now lost NINE in a row.

Click to see all the photos I took at Reds game 36/40. 🙂

We got up earlier than we would on a Sunday morning to make our back way down to Great American Ball Park for Reds Season Ticket Holder Photo Day…

We ended up entering right by the Reds bullpen…






We found a good spot down the first base line…



Aroldis Chapman…


Sam LeCure was playing long toss right in front of us…





Chapman and Jumbo Diaz started warming up too…




Nate Adcock and Collin Balester…

Fox Sports Ohio’s Thom Brannaman…


Reds third base coach Jim Rigglemann…

Fox Sport Ohio’s Jeff Piecoro…

Sam LeCure…

Todd Frazier gave us a fist bump…

Thumbs up…

Iván DeJesús, Jr…

Brayan Pena…

Eugenio Saurez…

Mesorocket…

Just like at Redfest, Homer Bailey gave just the brush off… Again…

Reds first base coach Billy Hatcher…

Skip Schumaker…

The DBacks Patrick Corbin walked right behind us…

Jo-ey Votto…


The Cowboy, Jeff Brantley…

Zack Cozart…

Frazier was done, in the clubhouse, changed and back on the field to play catch…


Nate Adcock…

Anthony DeSclafani…

DatDude BP…


Jason Bourgeois…

Keyvius Sampson…

Tucker Barnhart…

Sean Marshall…

Billy Hamilton…

Jumbo Diaz…

Ryan LaMarre…

Pedro Villareal…

John Lamb…

Aroldis Chapman…


And Bryan Price…





Oops. Last but not least, David is my Holmberg….




Pretty awesome way to spend a Sunday morning! It was pretty awesome just to get to walk around down on the field. But it was really special to be up close and personal with guys we’ve spent so much time watching all season. Click to see all the photos I took at Reds Season Ticket Holder Photo Day. 🙂

After Brew Ha-Ha, we headed over to the ballpark for Reds v. DBacks…


We don’t normally come into the ballpark from this side…


The Reds were honoring Tony Perez this weekend…


BARGE!

BARGE!!


Rosie was slumming it up in the upper deck tonight…


And the DBacks Paul GoldSchmidt chose tonight to snap out of a power slump…




BP was hanging out with the fans while the play was under review…






Arizona clinched the series with an 11-7 victory over the Reds. Arizona has taken all three games of the four game series so far to climb back to .500, while the Reds have lost eight in a row.






Click to see all the photos I took at Reds game 35/40.

Before tonight’s Reds game, we went back down to Brew Ha-Ha at Sawyer Point…

We wanted to get a couple more of Rivertowne’s Hala Kahiki’s…

And we wanted to try some Island Noodles. Yesterday, it smelled sooo good but the line was massive. Today the line wasn’t too bad & it moved really quick…




Really delicious stuff! And so filling. We shared one with teriyaki chicken and were stuffed!


Brew Ha-Ha is always fun. 🙂

We broke camp from Brew Ha-Ha to head up to Fountain Square to check out this week’s big fun Midpoint Indie Summer Friday…


And the Indie Crafty Market was also taking place on the Square…








I thought tonight’s headlining band, San Fermin was one of the best of this season’s Midpoint Indie Summer bands so far. They have a really unique sound. And I’m particularly fond of their song, “Jackrabbit.”











The Friday night Midpoint Indie Summer’s on Fountain Square are always fun. 🙂

It’s that time of year! Time once again for Brew Ha-Ha at Sawyer Point…





Two of the best beers we tried out of this year’s batch were Founder’s Rubaeus, on the left, and Rivertowne’s Hala Kahiki…

Another really good beer we tried at Brew Ha-Ha was Southern Tier’s Warlock, which is kinda like a darker version of their incredible Pumpking…

And speaking of Pumpking…

YUM! Still one of the best pumpkin beers out there.






There were a lot of good beers and a bunch of funny comedians. Brew Ha-Ha at Sawyer Point is always a bunch of fun! 🙂

Reds game #34 of the season was against the Arizona Diamondbacks…



There weren’t very many people at tonight’s game. Not many at all.






The DBacks Paul Goldschmidt…








The Diamondbacks scored five unanswered runs to notch a 5-4 come-from-behind win over the Reds to extend Cincinnati’s losing streak to six games.




Click to see all the photos I took at Reds game 34/40. 🙂

We made it back from our evening dog walk just before another monsoon broke out…


We’re really happy that we had tickets to last night’s Reds game and not tonights. 🙂
Taken with Instagram.

Do these pizza people bring you rounds of beers, walls of televisions and fried pickles? Ohhhhh… You’re at B-DUBS? We finally went back to Buffalo Wild Wings in Newport this evening for the first time in a long time. The last time we were here the service was horrible. Stupid horrible. But we finally decided to give this particular B-Dubs another try. Genifer got boneless wings with mild and I got these honey bbq traditional wings…

The wings tasted especially good tonight. I guess absence really does make the heart grow fonder. In the hit or miss world of B-Dubs, tonight was a hit. Taken with Instagram. 🙂

We went over to Genifer’s nephew’s birthday celebration over on “The Westside.”



Happy birthday, Liam! 🙂