If the rest of our 2025 Statis-Pro is exciting as our season opener this will be fun.
Nick Martinez started the game by keeping the action on his card "8" on a pb 2-8 card to record a strikeout on what would have been a homer for Shohei Ohtani against most pitchers (28 random number) and kept it close 2-0 into the 9th. We track our results here.
But after Tyler Glasnow left with 7 innings of 2 hit ball, Elly De La Cruz singled a runner to 3rd with 2 outs in the 9th inning, stole second base and then scored the game tying run to force extra innings and deny ace Tanner Scott the save.
(Post note: the Reds started with hope in the second game when Cruz led off with a homer. However it was all Dodgers after that in a 9-1 win. Back to the first game ...)
Reds ace reliever Alexis Díaz came in to get the first two outs in the top of the 10th, but at only an above-average PB 2-7, he left a pitch up to Ohtani who drilled a two run homer to give the Dodgers a 4-2 Opening Day win.
Miguel Rojas appeared to give the Dodgers some breathing room with a DEEP drive in the 5th that usually goes out in Cincinnati's home games (see Deep 11'-68 = HR, Great American Ball Park CIN) in the header of their batters cards to see that 11-68 is a homer in Cincinnati while only a 71-88 is a deep fly caught for an out with runners advancing.
Instead the Dodgers has to build a 2-0 without a long ball, capped when Tommy Edman came in as a pinch runner in the 8th, stole second base, then scored on a double by Andy Pages to make it 2-0, before Cruz's heroics.
Many of the top relievers for both teams were used in this game, so by our league rules cannot be used in the 2nd game at the other place, in this case the much more forgiving pitchers park in Los Angeles (Deep 11'-35 = HR, Dodger Stadium), so a flyout on 36-88. The Dodgers seem to have a bigger edge in that game because each series we throw either the 1st and 4th best starter or the 2nd and 3rd, which in this case means the Reds have only the average (PB 4-7) lefty Andrew Abbott while even the Dodgers 4th best starter Roki Sasaki is an elite PB2-8 (top 15% of all pitchers including closers based on his WAR per 9 innings minus ERA.
If the Dodgers get going, the key for the Reds will be to not fall behind by 5 runs by the end of the 8th, since that would give the Dodgers a chance to claim a "sweep" of 3 games to 0 or a blowout win, whereas a closer game like this one is simply scored as a 2 games to 1 edge.
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