| 23 June 2010
Mea culpa! But man it's fun to be wrong in this case.
The Reds - who never seem to play well on the West Coast and get blasted by nobodies like me for doing so - finished off a three-game sweep at Oakland Wednesday afternoon.
The Reds are now 40-33, which puts them one game behind the Cardinals (40-31) for first place in the NL Central. (St. Louis won 1-0 Wednesday night over the Blue Jays.)
Johnny Cueto is now 7-2 with a 3.97 ERA on the season. What an excellent season he is having at the age of 24.
And what a sports day it was. First Landon Donovan's goal in stoppage time (91st minute) to lift the United States over Algeria 1-0 and into the final 16/knockout round. I'm definitely not a big soccer fan, but I can get down with some World Cup. I am all about team USA right now. And then I will go back to not caring about soccer for another four years. (Very similar to Olympic hockey.)
Then we saw by far the longest match in tennis history at Wimbledon ... and it's still not over as American John Isner and Nicolas Mahut are deadlocked at 59-59 in the fifth set. It will resume Thursday morning after 10:30 a.m. EST. Are you kidding me with that score? (And Isner is lucky that they suspended play because he was physically drained, while Mahut didn't appear all that tired. It will be interesting to see how that ends up.)
Then the Reds finished off the sweep of the A's. Oh, so you think only Reds fans will remember June 23, 2010 for three big sports events and not just two? True, but that's perfectly fine with me. It was huge for the team to prove that they can win on West Coast after getting swept by the Mariners.
Next up for Cincinnati is a three-game series at home with the Indians that begins on Friday. The Reds took two of three games from their cross-state rivals earlier this season in Cleveland.
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