Have you seen a bad baseball game?

Question

Thursday, I was in Great America Ballpark in Cincinnati to see the Reds and the Astro play baseball. In my 50 years of going to baseball games it was the worst game I have ever seen. Drop balls, players out there with no energy. One player came up with bases loaded and never took the bat off his shoulder, struck out looking, never swung at a pitch and wanted to argue with the ump about it. People started leaving in the 4th inning. The guy beside me says this is when I turn it off at home, their just bad. The kid beside my wife apologized to us because we traveled 3 hours to see the game and it was bad. We finally left in the 6st inning.

How can a team charge the public and put on such a poor display. We paid $65 (it was ladies night, so my wife ticket was 1/2 price) and would have had more fun watching my grandsons high school team. The Reds traded Josh Hamilton, leading the majors in RBI and an All Star and Ken Griffey Jr., on the down side of his career but still with 600 homers, and now have an outfield with a rookie who tried to make a basket catch and dropped the ball, and a center fielder hitting .190.

Has anybody experienced such poor play as I did at a baseball game.

Answer 1

It's nice to believe all players are motivated to win.  Truth is, a lot of players can't wait for the season to be over so they can spend time with their families, etc.

Answer 2

Almost every A's game is a bad one. I know how you feel.  

Answer 3

Last year I was home sick from school, and I was watching the Dodgers stinking it up against the Colorado Rockies who eventually went to the World Series to get owned by the Red Sox. Now the Rockies are horrible this season. :)

Answer 4

I was watching that game at home and got so sick of it that I shut it off around the 5th inning.  It doesn't even look like the Reds are trying most of time. It is a bad time to be a Reds fan.

Answer 5

i went to a rangers blue jays game last sunday it was awesome two homers by gerald laird and one by chris davis but hamilton and kinsler didnt get a hit i saw someone actong like he got hit was limping but called back then later got overturned

Answer 6

You don't get the best played baseball games by teams that are completely out of the race.  The motivation sometimes isn't there combined with the fact that there are reasons why these teams are out of contention( alot of average to poor players/pitchers).  In my opinion, the worse games are the 12-10 games where there is no pitching at all, tends to be poor defense/ defense execution and there are alot of cheap home runs because of wind or just parks that favor alot of HR's.  

Answer 7

From Kansas City...The Royals..doens't get much worse