The sixth of June has been D-Day for the last 74 years. Scooter Gennett is making a bid for changing it to G-Day over the last two years.
Gennett was 5-for-5 with 10 RBI and four home runs a year ago. Tonight Gennett was 1-for-3 with two RBI but Sal Romano couldn't stifle the Colorado Rockies who bested the Reds 6-3 despite Gennett's performance.
The Reds had 17 hits in a loss last night. Tonight they out hit the Rockies 11-8 but the scoreboard declared it wasn't good enough.
"We have a lot of guys doing good things," said interim manager Jim Riggleman who inherited this dumpster fire. "We have to do more to win. We have to have more timely hits. A few guys doing some good things doesn't do us any good."
Romano issued a two-out walk to the struggling Ian Desmond, who started the game with a paltry .193 average. Tony Wolters, struggling even more than Desmond, was hitting .159 when he doubled past Joey Votto at first to drive Desmond.
Jon Gray, the Rockies starter, had been struggling too. He allowed 20 runs in 32 1/3 innings in the month of May. Gray allowed 19 of those runs in his last four starts in 18 1/3 innings.
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The Reds took the lead in the third. Jesse Winker started it with a double. Votto's single past Nolan Arenado put Winker on third. Gennett's sacrifice fly put the Reds up briefly.
Romano got the first out in the fourth but a ground rule double by Trevor Story preceded an RBI single by Gerardo Parra. Desmond lifted his 11th home run of the season into left field to give Colorado a 4-2 lead.Votto and Gennett doubled to make it 4-3.
Romano started the sixth but Carlos Gonzalez opened the inning with a double. Michael Lorenzen came on to relieve Romano. Lorenzen struck out Story and Parra's fly to deep center sent Gonzalez to third. Lorenzen walked Desmond and Wolters, who hurt the Reds in Colorado last week, singled past Votto to score an insurance run.
Romano finished with five plus innings, allowing five earned runs on six hits and a walk. He struck out six.
Romano did some good things but he realized his performance wasn't acceptable either.
"My change up was the best it's ever been," Romano said. "I gave up five runs. We lost again when I pitched. It doesn't really matter what I did good today. I hung a curveball to Desmond. I didn't get guys out when I needed to. I didn't put guys away when I needed to. I paid for it."
The Rockies scored a tainted run in the eighth.
Gonzalez led off against reliever David Hernandez, replacing Lorenzen. Gonzalez hit a high fly to deep right center. Billy Hamilton and Scott Schebler both tracked it. Hamilton had the ball hit off his glove for a two-base error. Gonzalez slipped rounding second but Gennett dropped the relay throw and couldn't recover it in time to get Gonzalez sliding back to second. Hernandez threw a wild pitch that rebounded back to Tucker Barnhart but his throw was off Suarez' glove. Story walked. Parra singled to right as Gonzalez scored but Story also slipped rounding second and Alex Blandino tagged him for the first out. Hernandez struck out Desmond and got Wolters on a pop to Suarez.
The Reds had the tying run at the plate after two-out singles by Winker and Barnhart but Jake Mcgee got Votto to fly out to left in foul territory.
Wade Davis entered in the ninth inning for the Rockies in an attempt to earn his 20th save in his 23rd try. The Reds looking for three runs to tie sent Gennett, Suarez and Schebler to get that job done.
Gennett popped foul to first base on the first pitch. Suarez singled and went to second on a throwing error by DJ LeMahieu. Schebler struck out swinging. Newcomer Curt Casali became the Reds last hope. Casali had three hits in his first four at bats for the Reds. He popped to short to end the game.
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