Good job Jerry

Kudos to Reds' manager and Goldsboro, NC native Jerry Narron for pulling Edwin Encarnacion last night for not running out a pop up. Narron is known as a "baseball guy," and it's great to see a manager stick by his convictions.

Add to that a first-inning goof by Edwin Encarnacion that also threatened to cast a deeper pall on the series finale. With two men on, the Reds third baseman hit a routine pop fly to second base but thinking it was a foul ball, he never left the batter's box to run to first base.

Before the bottom of the second inning, Narron pulled Encarnacion for not hustling. Encarnacion would have come out an inning earlier, but Narron did not see the entire play while watching the baserunners.

"I saw Eddie come in with his bat, so I came down here [to the clubhouse to watch the replay]. Eddie did not run," an angry Narron said. "He told me he did not see the ball where it was. But you still have to run. I don't care if we lose every game. We're not going to play guys that don't hustle, as simple as that. I told them from Day 1. We'll pinch-hit pitchers. We'll play pitchers if we have to. [If] you can not hustle, you can not play.

"I love him. I think he's going to be a great player. He messed up. But doggone it, we can't be messing up in this game like that by not hustling. If you don't know where the ball is, you hustle until you find out. He's never dogged it. It was probably an honest mistake, but it was a mistake."