Reds @ Giants Aug 7th-9th

[GS Warriors 1]

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Records: Giants 60-48(2nd NL West), Reds 46-61(5th NL Central)

Probable Starters

Friday: Homer Bailey(2-7, 7.06 ERA vs Tim Lincecum(12-3, 2.18 ERA), 7:15pm PST

Saturday: Bronson Arroyo(10-10, 5.10) vs Barry Zito(7-10, 4.47), 1:05pm PST

Sunday: Aaron Harang(5-13, 4.52) vs Matt Cain(12-3, 2.25), 1:05pm PST

[Stanford]

Thanks for doing the series thread!

I'm honestly feeling a sweep, which would be interesting going into a series with the Dodgers.

[GS Warriors 1]

I'm going to the game on Sunday, first one this season.

I'm thinking sweep as well.

[Stanford]

Think Rios is on his way?

[SactownHrtBrks8]

I'm hoping we are the people who made that claim on Rois. That would be sweet

[TheLowlySquire]

^^ No, have there been rumors? I'm also thinking sweep. 2 out of 3 is almost guaranteed.

[SactownHrtBrks8]

^^ No, have there been rumors? I'm also thinking sweep. 2 out of 3 is almost guaranteed.

I haven't seen anything but i have been looking around we will see soon enough

[TheLowlySquire]

Per mlbtraderumors

8:44pm: Geoff Baker of The Seattle Times reports that the Mariners did not put the claim in on Rios.

7:58pm: John Fay of The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that "someone high in the front office" confirms that the Reds did not claim Rios.

6:16pm: Henry Schulman of The SF Chronicle says that vice president of baseball operations Bobby Evans "hinted strongly" that the Giants are not the team that claimed Rios.

4:41pm: Rob Bradford of WEEI.com reports that the Red Sox didn't claim Rios, either.

4:39pm: Joel Sherman of the New York Post hears from a high-ranking Mets official that the Mets did not claim Rios. J.P. Ricciardi didn't get into specifics with MLB.com's Jordan Bastian and just said it's normal to place players on waivers.

2:52pm: ESPN.com's Buster Olney hears that Alex Rios has been claimed on waivers by an unknown team. The Blue Jays now have three choices:

* They can let the claiming team have Rios and the $60MM-plus remaining on his contract.
* They can pull him back from waivers and keep him.
* They can work out a deal with the claiming team.

One executive calls this an "incredible opportunity" for the Blue Jays to shed payroll.

[Stanford]

Eh, 'hinted strongly' is what Henry Schulman took from his comment. I believe it was something like 'its unlikely that we could claim him' - which is true since the entire AL gets a shot at him first. But who is willing to take on his contract? It has like 6 more years on it. I'm not ruling us out at this point.

[TheLowlySquire]

10:02pm: Olney is now reporting that the White Sox "are most likely the team awarded claim on Rios, but the Blue Jays have not confirmed it." The Sox face a mutual option on right fielder Jermaine Dye after the season, and could also consider using Rios in center field if they acquire him.

We're not getting Rios.

Velez has been amazing. Renteria, not so much.

[Stanford]

Who would have thought it would be the pen and not the offense that costs tim the win/

[Stanford]

Are we really going to lose a Lincecum start to the **** Reds?

[Stanford]

5 errors!

[TheLowlySquire]

While the ump was a POS, the Giant's bullpen and defense clearly f***** up the game. This one hurt.

[Stanford]

Worst loss all year?

[RIPskaterdude]

Brian **** Wilson

[Stanford]

Let's go Cainer!

[Stanford]

Of course, Harangs first win in like two months comes against us, at home, with Cain on the mound.

[RIPskaterdude]

Pathetic. We can't lose series to teams like the Reds, ESPECIALLY when Tim and Matt are pitching. Of course, the bullpen lost the 1st game, but we really need to sweep teams like this...Now the Rockies will play the Pirates, and we get the Dodgers...

[GswStorm3]

Brandon Phillips is a beast, he took over this series.