Our final Sunday Reds game where we could just walk down the street to GABP…
Today, the Reds were retiring Pete’s Rose’s iconic #14…
And this one belongs to the Reds!
🙂
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Reds baseball game #10.
Posted by Thadd F. on June 26, 2016
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Reds baseball game #9.
Tonight, we walked down to GABP to watch our Reds take on those whiny bird Cardinals from St. Louis…
Because one our favorite ex-Reds pitchers was on the hill tonight, Mike Leake!
BARGE!
These guy were either giving the $1 hot dog stand a work-out, or doing the All-You-Can-Eat-Seats the right way…
Adam Duvall hit a dinger for the Reds…
The Cardinals tied the game at 6 in the top of the ninth…
In the bottom of ninth, Joey Votto hit a walk-off home run for the Reds win! Walk-off, Mr. Votto! Walk-off!
The Reds game are always fun, especially when they win! 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on June 7, 2016
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Reds baseball game #7.
We went down to the ballpark to take in our seventh Reds game of the season. And it was a perfect afternoon for baseball. Just perfect. And the DirecTV Blimp was hovering high above Cincinnati again…
It was the final game of the series between the Reds and the Seattle Mariners. So why wouldn’t there be a big pail of glow-in-the-dark light sabers and T-Rex dinosaur swords outside of GABP for a day game? And no. I did not buy one. I didn’t have any cash.
The DirecTV Blimp was overhead almost the entire game…
I remember when my parents used to take us to Cubs games, one of the free giveaways we got more than once were Cubs painter hats. I hadn’t thought about or seen a baseball painter hat in years. I wonder if our Cubs hats are still at my parents house in Michigan?
The Mariner’s Robinson Cano…
And he ended up on third…
Votto might be struggling right now. But I still get a tingle when he steps to the plate…
The Sunday live Reds mascot race…
This one belongs to Mr. Redlegs. He owned today’s race…
The Reds dropped another one. And ended up getting swept by the Mariners. 
Oh well. It was a gorgeous day for a baseball game. And we got to see The Gies…
Sundays like this are made for watching baseball, win or lose. 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on May 22, 2016
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Reds baseball game #6.
Tonight, Genifer and I went to see our sixth game of this Reds season. They were playing the Cleveland Indians in the final game of the battle for the Ohio Cup. The Reds got destroyed the first two games up in Cleveland, getting outscored 28-7. And they lost last night 8-7 in 12 innings. We were thinking that we’d just skip this series and go to the game on Sunday against the Mariners until Allison called to see if we’d like to use her family’s season tickets. And we jumped at the opportunity to sit in the second row, directly behind the Indians dugout. It’s been a while since we’ve sat in those seats. And both times were to see the Cubbies play…
Tim Adleman had to leave the game early…
Joey Votto went yard…
There was a really big, almost full moon tonight…
The Reds ended getting swept by the Indians in the four-game Battle for the Ohio Cup…
Win or lose. It’s always fun to go hang out at the ballpark. Especially in those seats!
Thanks again, Allison! 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on May 19, 2016
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Reds baseball game #5.
On a whim, we went to our fifth Reds game of the season tonight…
The Reds were playing the Pirates again…
There were a couple of plays that went under review…
This play at second ended up in the Pirates manager, Clint Hurdle and Starling Marte both getting tossed out of the game…
Our friends Scott and Cathy were at tonight’s game as well…
Bryan Price wasn’t happy about Oldendorf getting tossed after the Reds pitchers combined to plunk four Pirate batters…
The Reds led most of the game that featured five home runs (one by Jay Bruce), six hit batters and four ejections. But trailed 5-4 going into the ninth. Joey Votto came on to work some magic for the Reds and reached base on a walk…
But there wouldn’t be any late game heroics tonight for the Reds. And the game would go on to finish 5-4 Pirates…
It was fun to get in another Reds game before they head out for a five-game road trip. 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on May 11, 2016
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Reds baseball game #4.
The last time we saw Johnny Cueto pitch at Great American Ball Park was the day we got engaged all the way back last summer in July. He got traded to the Kansas City Royals, got his ring and then was traded to the San Francisco Giants. The Giants were in town for three games and guess who was pitching the first game of the series… our boy Johnny Beisbol.
We picked up seats in the new Cincinnati Bell Fioptics District Rooftop on Saturday before we left for the FC Cincinnati match against Wilmington Hammerheads FC. Let’s go…
Johnny Beisbol…
Cueto versus Votto…
And Cueto got was better than Votto in the first. Cueto versus BP?
After Cueto go through the first, we headed up to Cincinnati Bell’s The Fioptics District…
We moved down to the terrace to watch some more of the game…
The Giants jumped out to a 3-0 lead in second… BARGE!
Cueto versus Votto round two…
And Votto took Cueto yard!
The storm clouds were looking pretty ominous. But the rain stayed away. For once.
The Reds roughed up Cueto for six runs in the third…
Back up to The Fioptics District Rooftop…
Genifer got a hot dog, and I got some chicken fingers. I offered to share my chicky fingers with her but she wasn’t impressed. She was pretty adamant that chicken fingers aren’t baseball food. Baseball food or not, they were pretty delicious…
The Reds bullpen imploded. Again. And gave up five runs in the top of the seventh…
And the Reds ended up losing 9-6. It’s going to be a long season. But The Fioptics District is a really fun area to hang out in. It offers a really different perspective of the game. Good stuff. 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on May 2, 2016
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Reds baseball game #3.
It was really pretty out this afternoon. So we walked down to GABP to see the Reds take on those Chicago Cubbies for Reds game #3 of the season…
We got some walk-up tickets to the game for just $6 using our PNC Reds card. We had no idea what was going on at the front gates to GABP. But there were incredibly long lines waiting to get into the ballpark, and this was right as the game was about to start…
It was worse than trying to get into last summer’s All-Star Game or one of the Reds postseason games…
It was a surprisingly full house for Sunday baseball despite the Reds being walloped 16-0 and no-hit by the Cubs Jake Arrieta back on Thursday…
I wonder how many of the people at the game were Cubs fans though. There was an awful lot of Cubbie blue in the stands this afternoon…
There was the Sunday live edition of the Reds Mascot race…
And this one belongs to Mr. Redlegs…
One of favorite Reds, Tucker Barnhart made an appearance…
We got some dogs…
Then we moved up to the view level out in left field…
It’s hard to take a selfie with your sunglasses on…
This one was better…
Boom! Pow! Cubs win! Cubs win! Holy cow…
Oh well. It was beautiful Sunday for baseball, and it’s always fun to be at the ballpark regardless if Reds win or lose. And I can only imagine that they’ll be doing more than their fair share of losing this season.
Posted by Thadd F. on April 24, 2016
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Reds baseball game #2.
Looking out our window a few hours before game time, it looked like it was going to be a really nice day. The sun was out. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky. And there wasn’t any wind. The wind’s been the kicker this week. After we walked Oscar, we decided to head down to the ballpark to take in our second Reds game of the season. We just got some walk-up tickets from the box office. When Genifer went to pay for the tickets with her PNC Reds debit card, our $14 tickets instantly became $6 tickets. Who knew that our PNC Reds cards got us discounted tickets Sunday through Thursday at the GABP? So that was pretty awesome. And we were so impressed that I forgot to take a photo of the front of the ballpark. I must be rusty and out of practice.
We decided to watch the start of the game from under the PNC Power Stacks…
I never did figure out why all the mascots started the game in bib overalls…
Tim Melville was making his Major League debut today…
We moved upstairs to our normal Reds habitat, upper deck down the third base line…
And that was about the last time we saw the sun…
They’re doing Strikeouts for Slices again this season! HOORAY!
The first live Sunday Reds Mascot Race of the season. This one belonged to Mr. Red…
We had our first under review play of the season…
And they got it right on the field, he was out at home…
The sun completely disappeared on us and the wind picked up. So we ended up watching most of the game from the relative warmth of the Cincinnati Bell FiOptics Gigabar out in the left field corner of the view level.
Tim Melville went 4 innings giving up five hits and a run in his debut. Eugenio Suarez crushed his fourth home run of the season. And the Reds won on a Jay Bruuuuuce walk-off triple score BP all the way from first base!
Two games. Two walk-off wins! Another chilly but great day at the ballpark! Who would have thought the Reds would start the season 5-1? ⚾ 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on April 10, 2016
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Reds Opening Night 2016.
Tonight was Opening Night of the 2016 season of Reds baseball. It was another cold and rainy start a Reds baseball season. But at least this game started on time unlike last year’s Opening Night.
We had about all we could stand of the rainy and the cold and the wind. The wind was the worst part. It just cut right through you. We wandered down the third base line of the upper deck to find the latest addition to GABP, the brand new The Fioptics District sponsored by Cincinnati Bell located in the left field corner of the View Level…
Upstairs there are soooo many TVs on this amazing patio. Tickets for the Fioptics District are just $15 and they include a $9 drink voucher for your first beer. The ticket also gives fans general admission access into sections 408-410, with both traditional ballpark seats as well as standing drink rails. And access to this incredible patio overlooking all of downtown and Mt. Adams…
Underneath the Fioptics District Rooftop is The Fioptics Gigabar…
The Reds were trailing 2-1 going into the ninth. Time for some rally caps!
AND THEY WORKED! Scott Schebler delivered a walk-off double with the bases loaded to give the Reds a 3-2 victory over the Phillies and the first two games of the season-opening series!
It was another great Opening Night! It definitely could have been warmer. But it was a great Opening Night nonetheless. Welcome back, baseball! 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on April 6, 2016
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