Off The Bench by Chatterbox Sports

Headlines: 

• The reds have now won 9 straight against the houston astros. Rhett Lowder threw 6 and a third innings allowing 4 hits while striking out 3

Around the league 

• The Tigers were down to their final strike and trailing 3-0 when Parker Meadows hit a go ahead grand slam  to win the game.  Tigers beat the padres 4-3

NFL

• The chiefs beat the baltimore ravens in the NFL opener.  27-20 the final score as the Ravens were a toe away from tying the game

Chiefsaholic gets 17 years for robberies 

Headlines: 

• The reds have now won 8 straight against the houston astros. They scored 9 in the first inning.  Spencer Arrighetti recorded 2 outs before he was pulled.  He gave up 9 earned runs in the first inning

Around the league

• Phillies beat the blue jays as kyle schwarber matches soriano’s mlb record with 13th leadoff home run of the season.  

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Watch Off the Bench Presented by UDF with Chatterbox Sports Monday-Friday 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. LIVE on the Chatterbox Sports YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE to the channel to ensure you never miss a thing. Headlines: Reds lose the series to the Brewers but beat the Astros 5-3 as the bullpen carries another game. Santiago Espinal’s bloop single drives in 2 big runs. Espinal is now hitting 270. Amed rosario went 2-4 with an rbi Blake Dunn is back up with the Reds and they have DFA’d Dom Smith Ty France went 4-4 with an rbi Tyler stephenson went 2-4 “We dont have a choice. We have who we have right now. We all signed up to play. We didnt sign up to sit and watch the game. No matter what the team’s record is, no matter how our seasons are going both as a team or individually, at the end of the day we all fell in love with the game of baseball by playing the game.” emelio pagan on the state of the pitching staff Reds and astros will be back on wednesday as Spencer Arrighetti takes on nick martinez. Martinez has a 3.78 era and a 1.13 whip. Arrighetti has a 4.63 era with a 1.38 whip. Around the league Yankees take care of the rangers 8-4. Stanton has reached 25 home runs 10 times in his career Pirates take game one against the cubs winning 5-3 The mets are now within a half game of the final NL wildcard. They won yesterday 4-1 Padres activated fernando tatis jr and they shutout the tigers 3-0. Guardians take game 1 against the royals as they try to win their division Dodgers crush the diamondbacks 11-6. Shohei ohtani went 2-4 with 2 walks and 3 stolen bases. He has 46 stolen bases and 44 home runs. The orioles obliterate the white sox 13-3. The White Sox have now lost 11 in a row. The third 11 game losing streak of the season. They are 31-108. The AL Central is 38 games under 500. There are 5 teams in the division and four of them are above 500.

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Headlines: Reds beat the Athletics 10-9. The Reds carried a 7-6 lead heading into the ninth inning. Alexis diaz didnt record an out and gave up 3 runs. The Reds rallied in the bottom half to win it on a tj friedl base hit. Tyler Stephenson went 3-5 with a home run and 2 rbi’s as his hit streak rises to 13 Santiago espinal hit streak ends but he does record an rbi Will Benson has now homered in back to back games Lawrence Butler hit 3 home runs yesterday, the second time he has done so this season JJ Bleday went 5-5 with 2 doubles and a home run The A’s are the first team in MLB history to have one player hit 3+ home runs and another player collect 5+ hits and somehow lose the game The Reds and the Brewers start a 4 game series this afternoon during a double header! First game is at 1240 where it is nick martinez on the bump against colin rea. Rea is 12-4 on the year with a 3.6 era. Martinez is 6-6 with a 3.62 era Game 2 is underway at 640 where it is the debut of Rhett Lowder. Around the league Phillies for the second time in 3 games come back to beat the Braves. Castellanos hit a go ahead 2 run shot. 5-4 win for philly Royals lose 6-3 to the astros . two costly errors in the 8th were the difference Dodgers win 6-3 over the orioles to take the series Cardinals beat the padres 4-1 Brewers shutout the giants 6-0 COLLEGE Football NC State beat western carolina 38-21 after a rocky start. Bowling greens football season started off with a kick return touchdown against Fordham. They win 41-17 Toledo dropped 49 on Duquesne in their opener Colorado hangs on to beat North Dakota St 31-26. The game was decided by a questionable pass interference call. Deion sanders was still throwing the ball with a minute left and no time outs for NDST. North Carolina survives after Minnesota misses a 42 yard field goal. 19-17 the final. 12th ranked utah shutout southern utah 49-0 Carlos alcarez He was stunned by Botic Some Very Sad News Blue Jackets Johnny Gaudreau and his brother were killed in a car-bike crash. They were riding bicycles while a driver who was under the influence struck them.

Headlines: The Reds won 6-5 last night. Until the 8th inning where the athletics took a 9-6 lead and won the game. Seth brown homered twice as the reds bullpen is struggling to pitch every inning. Fernando cruz settled in after giving up a home run to the leadoff batter. Santiago Espinal had another multi hit game is now hitting .266 on the season. He was hitting .183 on july 7th. Since then, he has hit safely in 27 of his last 30 games. He is on a ten game hitting streak. Tyler stephenson went 1-4 with a double and is on a 12 game hitting streak. Will Benson hit a 3 run home run to give the Reds a lead. The Reds and the athletics are back at it tonight at 510 where JT ginn will take on Julian Aguiar. JT ginn has a 2.45 era while Aguiar has a 3.60 era. Around the league It was shohei ohtani bobblehead night. He caught the first pitch from his dog. Fans were there before 11 am. Ohtani hit another home run and stole 2 more bases. 42 stolen bases and 42 home runs. Dodgers win 6-4 Diamondbacks win 8-5 over the mets as corbin carroll hit 2 home runs including the goahead grand slam Rockies destroy the marlins 8-2 The tigers have won 6 in a row as they beat the angels yet again 3-2 Rangers beat the white sox 4-3 and 3-1 in their double header. But in the second game, former red travis janikowski robbed the winning home run in the 9th inning. Brewers take care of the giants 5-3 Cardinals walk off the padres 4-3 on an arenado single Braves win another game this time 5-1 over the twins. Sale gets his 15th win of the year to complete this sweep Nationals take the series against the yankees winning last night 5-2 Astros shutout the phillies 10-0. Spencer arrighetti had a no hitter into the 8th inning Guardians avoid a 4 game sweep and take one back against the royals Cubs win 14-10 over the pirates to complete the three game sweep. They scored 41 runs in three games Wnba Angel reese scored 7 points on 3-10 shooting adding 14 rebounds in the sky’s loss to the mystics The fever beat one of the best teams in the league 84-80 as caitlin clark scored 19 points and broke the rookie 3 point record in the win. She did have 7 turnovers. NFL Jacoby brisset is starting in new england the team announced The giants are unretiring Ray Flaherty’s number 1 to give to malik nabers. He received permission from the family of the late Flahrety. The browns restructured watsons contract. They converted 44 million of his 46 million dollar salary this season into a signing bonus so the browns now have 60 million plus on the cap. The most in the nfl Russel wilson is the starting quarterback in pittsburgh

Headlines: The Reds lose to the athletics 5-4.  The offense didnt wake up until it was too late.  The bullpen did its job until they didnt.  Jakob junis pitched 4 innings of perfect baseball.  He became the 6th reds pitcher since 1979 to record a hitless start of at least 4 innings .  He joins hunter greene (twice), wade miley, tyler mahle, homer bailey twice, and tom browning.  

• Junis and Buck farmer combined for the longest combined no hitter (4.1) its the longest combined perfect bid since 1990 when jack armstrong, scott scudder, norm charlton and rick mahler did it.  

Around the league

• Orioles beat the dodgers 3-2

Headlines 

• The Reds host the athletics looking to break their three game home losing streak as the athletics come to town.  The reds have the 8th ranked team era in the NL.   The athletics are 56-75 and 23-20 on the road.  In the reds last 10 games the reds are 3-7 with a 6.59 era and have been outscored by 26 runs.  

Around the league

• The mariners beat the rays 5-1 as randy arozerena hits a 3 run home run against his former team.  

The cowboys and cee dee lamb agree to 136 million dollar deal.  

Packers get willis to backup love

Headlines The Reds lose the series and lose yesterdays game. 4-3 the final score as alexis diaz loses the game. Yasmani grandal with a walk off home run. Nick Martinez started the game and pitched 3 innings of 1 earned run baseball Carson spiers got a bounce back performance going 4 innings of shutout baseball. Elly De La Cruz went 2-5. His third multi hit game in his last 5 games Santiago espinal has hit safely in 8 straight games The reds are off today and will take on oakland at GABP on tuesday . Around the league Astros hit back to back homers to push past the Orioles 6-3 Mariners win 4-3 over the Giants . bryan woo went 7 innings only allowing 1 earned run while striking out 7 Mookie Betts hit the go ahead 2 run home run in the 8th to win 3-1 Padres walked off the mets as Jackson Merrill delivers another clutch walk off home run Athletics get a game back against the brewers as they win 4-3 Tigers finished off a sweep the white sox yesterday as they are now the second fastest team to reach 100 losses in the modern era. They are 31-100 Phillies steamroll the royals 11-3 and win that eries Cardinals beat the twins 3-2 The marlins crushed the cubs 7-2 The Yankees obliterate the rockies 10-3 as Aaron judge is the 5th player ever with three 50 home run seasons. He hit 2 home runs yesterday. He has 9 rome runs in his last 10 games WNBA - the aces beat the sky at the buzzer. Angel reese finished with 11 points on 4-16 shooting with 22 rebounds

Headlines The reds lose game 1 against the pirates in humiliating fashion. 7-0. Nick Lodolo went 4.2 innings allowing 2 hits, 3 walks, 5 earned runs. Struck out 9. Paul skenes went 6 innings allowing two hits and striking out 9. Rosario got his first hit as a red and elly had another hit. Umpiring was woeful and defensively they were awful. Reds pitching has given up 55 runs in their last 7 games Reds and pirates are back at it tonight where Andrew Abbot takes on bailey falter. Andrew abbott is 10-10 on the season with a 3.72 era. Falter has a 4.02 era. AROUND THE LEAGUE Patrick Corbin earned career win number 100 as the nationals beat the rockies 8-3 Yankees shutout the guardians as aaron judge hits his 48th home run. 6 home runs in last 10 games Cardinals shutout the brewers 3-0 Cubs destroy the tigers 10-2. Miguel amaya hits his first career grand slam Athletics win 3-1 against the rays and split the series Blue jaus win 5-3 over the angels Spencer Schwellenbach retired 19 batters in a row at one point in the braves 3-2 win over philly Astros shutout the orioles 6-0 Mets crush the padres.