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Reds baseball game #14.

We went to the second to last Reds Sunday church baseball game of the season…

It was our fourteenth Reds game of the season…

The Pirates Jason Jaso came in to pinch hit…

We saw this guy in the boxes below us, and thought Mat Latos was back in the house…

Time for the Sunday live edition of the Reds mascot race…

Gapper just edged out Fritz the Oktoberfest Zinzinnati mascot…

The Pirates were down to their last strike…

And this one belongs to the Reds!

It’s always great to be back at the ballpark. With a doubt, GABP is one of my favorite places to be in all of Cincinnati. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on September 18, 2016 • Permalink

Posted in #FALLinCINCY, Reds baseball, Sports

Tagged 2016, Baseball, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Reds, Downtown, GABP, Great American BallPark, MLB, Ohio, Pittsburgh Pirates, Reds baseball, September

Posted by Thadd F. on September 18, 2016

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Reds baseball game #10.

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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by Thadd F. on June 26, 2016 • Permalink

Posted in #SUMMERinCINCY, Reds baseball, Sports

Tagged 2016, Baseball, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Reds, Downtown, GABP, Great American BallPark, June, MLB, Ohio, Reds baseball, San Diego Padres

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! 🙂

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by Thadd F. on June 7, 2016 • Permalink

Posted in Reds baseball, Sports

Tagged 2015, 2016, Baseball, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Reds, GABP, Great American BallPark, June, MLB, Ohio, Reds baseball, St. Louis Cardinals

Posted by Thadd F. on June 7, 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. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on May 11, 2016 • Permalink

Posted in Reds baseball, Sports

Tagged 2016, Baseball, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Reds, Downtown, GABP, Great American BallPark, May, MLB, Ohio, Pittsurburgh Pirates, Reds baseball

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. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on May 2, 2016 • Permalink

Posted in Reds baseball, Sports

Tagged 2016, Cincinnati, Downtown, GABP, Great American BallPark, May, MLB, Ohio, Reds baseball, San Francisco Giants

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.

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by Thadd F. on April 24, 2016 • Permalink

Posted in Reds baseball, Sports

Tagged 2016, April, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati, Downtown, GABP, Great American BallPark, MLB, Ohio, Reds baseball

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? ⚾ 🙂

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by Thadd F. on April 10, 2016 • Permalink

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Tagged April, Baseball, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Reds, Downtown, GABP, Great American BallPark, MLB, Ohio, Pittsurburgh Pirates, Reds baseball

Posted by Thadd F. on April 10, 2016

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HAPPY OPENING DAY!

Happy Opening Day from Eighth Street in downtown Cincinnati! #BaseballIsBack!
⚾️👍👌:) Here is the rundown of all today’s pregame events around downtown Cincinnati. And more here. But… with FC Cincinnati’s inaugural home opener on Saturday, I think this should officially be dubbed OPENING WEEK! ⚽️ 🏆 💯

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by Thadd F. on April 4, 2016 • Permalink

Posted in Central Business District, Reds baseball, Sports

Tagged 2016, April, Central Business District, Cincinnati, Downtown, Ohio, Opening Day, Reds baseball

Posted by Thadd F. on April 4, 2016

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Taken with Instagram.

We have our tickets for Opening Night of the 2016 season of Cincinnati Reds baseball…

We can’t wait for the baseball season to start! Taken with Instagram. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on March 18, 2016 • Permalink

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Tagged 2016, Cincinnati, Downtown, March, Ohio, Reds baseball, Taken with Instagram

Posted by Thadd F. on March 18, 2016

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Happy Pitchers and Catchers Day!

The first real sign of Spring is here! Pitchers and catchers report for spring training today! It won’t won’t be long until we’re finally watching Reds baseball again! And I can’t wait. Remember when we went to Spring Training out in Arizona last spring? It was an amazing week! I don’t know that this season will ever be able to compete the awesomeness that was last season. And I know we’re not going to even try to get close to the 46 Reds games we went to during the All-Star summer. But I can definitely see us making it down to 20+ Reds games at GABP this season. And the Reds may be rebuilding but really, who cares? Baseball is back! ⚾🌵 🙂

Photo courtesy of the Cincinnati Reds.

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by Thadd F. on February 18, 2016 • Permalink

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Tagged 2016, Baseball is back, Cincinnati, Downtown, February, Happy Pitchers and Catchers Day!, Ohio, Reds baseball, Spring Training

Posted by Thadd F. on February 18, 2016

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