To see what it was like, the Reds should have stayed on the field after the game and ran the bases with the fans, who got to touch 'em all. But she didn't warn him about Rick Reed. The Reds were bound and gagged by Mets starter Reed, a former Cincinnati Replacement Red. He was the No. 1 starter for the strike-breaking team during spring training in 1995, but when the strike was settled just before the season was to begin, Reed and the rest of the Replacement Reds were handed trash bags in the clubhouse and told to clean out their personal belongings and disappear forever. Most of them did.
Reed lives on and has become one of baseball's better pitchers.
He left the Reds out for the trash collector on Sunday, holding them to no runs and four hits for six innings. Reed does what he does. How he does it, I don't know. Edgardo Alfonso, hitting .143 when the game commenced, led the fourth with a home run to break the 0-0 knot. If you look at it, Reed has been one of the best pitchers in the league and he is having a tremendous year .