8-1-25 FRIDAY MORNING SPORTS

The Reds lose a wild one and make another trade; Guards send Bieber to Jays; Locos win Game 1 of Championship Series; Bengals sign veteran TE Fant. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the WIMA Sports Desk. A wild one in Cincinnati
last night, as the Braves and Reds each scored eight
runs in the eighth inning, and then Atlanta scored in
the tenth and the Reds didn't twelve eleven Atlanta wins it.
The Reds got three home runs in the game from
La de La Cruz, Spencer Steer, and kee Brian Hayes. Ironically, Hayes,

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who was just acquired in a trade and considered to
be possibly the best defensive third basement in baseball, committed
a two run error earlier in the game. The game
and the eighth inning got wild, and a key play
for Atlanta was a bunt down the first base line
that the Reds didn't get an out on when maybe
they could have. But it was a tough break, said

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manager Terry Francona.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
The bun to me looked like, I don't know what
he could have done. Now I'm looking at it in
real time, and then I went and looked at it.
He wants it to go file it kicks back the
other way, so he has to try to pick it up.
He just WHI was very unfortunate, and then we just
couldn't stop the.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Bleeding, so the Reds dropped the opener of the set
with Atlanta and fall to fifty seven and fifty three
on the season, three and a half games behind the
Padres for the third and final National League wild Card spot.
Reds and Braves again tonight and Cincinnati. I should say
this afternoon. Yeah, a rare Friday afternoon game. Of course,
that's because the teams will then move to Bristol, Tennessee

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for tomorrow night's game at Bristol Motor Speedway. Tonight's pitching
matchup or at today's I keep saying tonight Brady Singer
Bryce Elder from Cincinnati. We'll have the pregame at twelve ten,
first pitch at twelve forty. The Reds also made another
trade yesterday, picking up outfielders slash utility man Miguel Anduhar
from the A's for a pitching prospect. Andohar is hitting

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two ninety eight with six home runs on the season.
The Guardians also involved in trade yesterday, sending former Cy
Young Award winner Shane Bieber to the Blue Jays for
a pitching prospect. He's been out since Tommy John surgery
last season. The Guardians also traded reliever Paul Sewell to
the Tigers. The Guardians host the Twins tonight. The Tigers,

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who were also off last night, hosted the Phillies tonight.
Lima Locos with a four to one win at Hamilton
last night in Game one of their best of three
championship series in the Great League Summer Collegiate League. It
was tied at one in the eighth. The Locos scored
three runs on one hit and four walks. Strong start
from Brady Kester. He went six shutout innings, allowing only

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two hits, and the Locos are a win away from
a championship. The Joe's will have to win two in
Lima to take it from them. Game two of the
series is tonight at Simmons Field in Lima. First pitch
set for seven o'clock. To the NFL, the Bengals signed
veteran tight end Noah Fant yesterday. The twenty nineteen first

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round pick has been with Seattle the last three years.
Last year, he caught forty eight passes and won for
a touchdown. Bengals said coach Dach Taylor says their offensive
system sets up tight ends for success.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
I mean they'll pat a couple of people in the back.
I think our quarterback first of all, is going to
find you, you know, and so we face a lot
of his own coverage, and so guys that have awareness
and savviness and good hands, Joe's going to find you.
Anytime that anybody gets that void, you're going to get
to catch. And we found that a lot with our
tight ends because of the receivers that we have that
draw so much attention. Our tight ends have done a

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great job over the years finding that space and being
rewarded for it. I think schematically, our staff does a
great job of utilizing everyone to their strengths and so
giving guys the best opportunity to play to their strengths
and be able to maximize that and in a tight
room or especially You've seen that payoff time and time
again for guys from a statistical standpoint, from a Bengals

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offensive standpoint, from a financial standpoint, that's really paid off
for a lot of guys here over the last couple
of years.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
The Bengals have their preseason opener Thursday night at the Eagles.
Of course, the Buckeyes are in camp as well. A
Buckeye update with Stally Insurance coach Ryan Day and company
trying to figure out who's going to be the starting
quarterback Julian saying or Lincoln Keenholtz, and the head coach says,
the key to who wins the job will be who

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commands the offense.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
You want command of the offense when you stand in
there as a quarterback. You want everybody in that hull
of the belief in you. You want them to follow
your command. I mean, that's a big part of it.
Then taking care of the football, making routine plays, routinely
getting us into the right play. That's one of the
things last year that I feel like Will probably doesn't

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get enough credit for. It was all the little things
that kept the offense moving.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
The Buckeyes opened the season August thirtieth with Texas with
eleven fifty e WYMA Sports. I'm Todd Walker.