For the reds, hitting is contagious. Losing the skid skins behind the 4 -shots of TJ Friedl

Milwaukee – Tj Friedl had four shots and his first race in the house of the season for the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday, but while he looked at Emilio Pagán launching his ninth inning, he did not remember anything of this.

All that Friedl could think was his mistake in the fourth inning when he took off from the first on the Moscow ball of Santiago Espinal on the right with one as if there were two. Friedl took off with the field, looking for a circle going hard to the third base when the right brewers Sal Frelick launched the ball first to complete the double game of inning.

As part of a team that had fought to mark the delay races, making 35 inning without a race, Friedl did not agree with its cost of a team to a team, even if the Reds led 7-0 at that point.

“He is unjustifiable,” Friedl said after the 11-7 victory of the Reds over the Milwaukee Brewers to break a four-games losing skid.

In Friedl he was asked if perhaps the visit of the Brewers launch coach Chris Hook after his single made him lose track. He refused to accept that, embracing instead the literal meaning of unjustifiable.

“There are no excuses for this, simple for this,” said Friedl. “There are no excuses for what happens. Never. Those things happen, and there are no excuses for this. It is not the (visit to the mound), it is not what is happening in the game. It is unjustifiable.”

The manager Terry Francona, who used the terms “small things” and “playing in the right way” since he hired the work of the Reds in October, faced him during the game. Friedl, who started in the central field for each of the first seven games of the team’s season before serving as a beaten designated on Saturday, knew what he did. He also knew what could mean, especially when the brewers retired in two races in the fifth inning and then chipped with a pair of races following a seventh of three shots. Only when the catcher Jose Trevino squeezed the fast 94 mph of Pagán while Oliver Dunn of Milwaukee crossed that he could exhale.

It wasn’t alone.

Even if the Reds managed 14 shots, one day after being hit through 6 2/3 inning, when a team is on a four-games Skid, three losses 1-0-does not seem guaranteed. And, for Friedl, which is a daily appetizer in part because it is such an intelligent basic runner, an error like that has struggled. So, when Francona approached him to error, he knew he just had to possess him.

Fortunately, the Reds resisted and did not have to have the loss.

It does not mean that Friedl would have felt better in any other game on such a mental error, but the error flies in front of what the coaching Reds staff, with a new manager and a mix of old and new coaches, tried to pierce every man in the roster.

This Reds team does many of the same things that each large team does before games, but there are only added details. The pre -departure program, published every day in the Club House, the details when the players have to do everything, from the meetings of the blows, when the rescuers have to stretch and when the team will make defensive exercises and make stroke tests. For the batting practice, however, almost every day there will be a second part on the basic race program. One day last week, it was specific as “Run Reads base (@ 2b W/ 1 out). Another day, it was the basic race recites the third base.

When Francona and the rest of the Reds leadership speak of “little things”, they are this kind of thing. There have been mistakes – like Jacob Hurtubise who runs into a double play that he did not have against the San Francisco Giants in the opening series – but the focus is not to be perfect, but don’t make the same mistake twice.

It is that kind of things that will attack the players, who will remain with Friedl.

Nobody had to tell him he has messed up. He knew it immediately. He knew when he was faced during the game and knew it after the game. He will also know the next time he will be on the base with one outside and a ball is hit on the outdoor field.

The Reds were not perfect Saturday, but in baseball perfection is always the goal, even if it is not realistic. The appetizer Brady Singer, near Perfect in its previous start, brought Brice Turang, the leader of Milwaukee, Brice Turang with one outside the fifth and an advantage of 7-1. He then renounced four consecutive shots, including a single in Frelick with the loaded bases that went under the glove of the Reds Right defender Jake Fraley on the wall, allowing three points to score and the advantage of the Reds was reduced to 7-5.

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Two inning later, Friedl-Che chose and was surprised to steal in the first, at home in the second and chosen in the quarter before his gaffe-he put a perfect bunt for a basic blow with a runner, and then scored on Elly de la Cruz, giving the Reds a four-shooting pillow.

One of the best gaming bunters, Friedl had tried to catch twice before this season without reaching any of the time. Just as he had done during the spring, Francona remembered Friedl to focus on positioning the ball where he wanted to be out of the club instead of trying to capture the Infield by surprise.

“I feel like I really hurried it, trying to be too subtle,” Friedl said. “We talked about it in the spring training, I was trying to be too subtle and showing (the bunt) late and all these things. It was the last spring game, and I pushed a gun from a left -handed, but on the third line. But I showed it soon, I gave myself time to see it.”

After BUNTS without success, Friedl said he was trying to “overlap” his bunt, showing him soon, putting him down and then running. That’s exactly what he did, putting the ball on the grass along the line of the first base in such a perfect point that the launcher Connor Thomas has not even made a shot first.

These are all these things that add up – the advantages and the least – that form a baseball season. Mathematics does not always seem right: three consecutive days this week, the Reds had the same number of shots as their opponent and fell 1-0. Saturday, there were mental errors on the bases, the error in the external field and a two out of the lifter Scott Barlow, followed by a double Bloop with two shots for the brewers in the seventh inning. On the other side of the coin, Christian Encornacion-Filand hit two balls 100 miles per hour or rather outside the club who seemed to be able to leave the American family field usually to the sizes of a beating, but were captured. Saturday, he left the fourth with a race in the house that bounced from the massive scoreboard in the central field, one that Francona said it was almost as much as he could imagine he was hit.

“This is just a part of the game, I imagine,” said Encornacion-Stand. “Sometimes they go out, sometimes not. Fortunately, that has come out.”

Jose Trevino celebrates with Blake Dunn after hitting a 2 -throw humerus against the Brewers. (Patrick McDermott / Getty Images)

It was a cathartic day once the final is recorded. The Reds had scored 14 points out of 14 shots in Singer’s last release, Monday against Texas Rangers, and in the following four losses, they managed a total of 14 shots and only two points.

For three days, the Reds players noticed that he was part of the baseball, which hitting is contagious and the blows could be as fleeting as the meeting of food poisoning that made his way through the Club House on Thursday in Milwaukee. Finally, on Saturday, it came true. Eight of the nine players in the formation of the Reds recorded shots and what did not do it, Jeimer Candelario, had a sacrifice on a ball that hit 103.8 mph from the club.

“When you are on the bridge and look at the guys, go out and do not get on the base, you can put a lot of pressure on yourself to be the one to make things work,” said midfielder Blake Dunn, who was late for training for Matt McLain with a narrow tendon of his left taste and responded with his first race at home of the season and the first by Reds Outfielder this season. “When you have a day like today when everyone strikes and you remove that mental and stressful and worrying aspect and you are just playing baseball.”

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