1994 Cincinnati Reds season

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1994  Cincinnati Reds
League National League
Division Central
Ballpark Riverfront Stadium
City Cincinnati
Record66–48 (.579)
Divisional place1st
Owners Marge Schott
General managers Jim Bowden
Managers Davey Johnson
Television WLWT
SportsChannel Cincinnati
(George Grande, Chris Welsh)
Radio WLW
(Marty Brennaman, Joe Nuxhall)
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The 1994 Cincinnati Reds season saw the team move to the new National League Central. They were leading the division by a half game before a strike ended the 1994 Major League Baseball season in mid-August.

Contents

Offseason

Regular season

For the first time, the Opening Day game was moved to Sunday night as part of ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball . Up to that point, traditionally Opening Day was held on a Monday, with the Reds customarily hosting the first game of the afternoon. The move was met with some controversy, as many fans and traditionalists, including Reds owner Marge Schott, were not happy about the Sunday night game, especially since it was also Easter Sunday. [6] [7] Many tickets for the Sunday night game went unsold, and the team elected to wait until Monday afternoon's game for the traditional Opening Day pageantry and festivities. A sparse crowd of only 32,803 braved frigid weather Sunday night April 3 to watch the Reds lose 6–4 to the St. Louis Cardinals. [8] [9]

For Game 2 on Monday April 4, dubbed by most in attendance the "traditional" opening day, a sold out, standing room only crowd of 55,093 arrived at Riverfront Stadium, shrugging off the previous night's game. The pomp and ceremony, including the traditional Findlay Market parade was held under sunny skies. Kevin Mitchell hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th inning to win the game 5–4. [10] [11]

By Friday, August 12, the Reds had compiled a 66-48 record through 114 games (although they had actually played 115 games, since their April 6 game against the St. Louis Cardinals at Riverfront Stadium ended tied 8–8 after the top of the 6th inning due to poor weather [12] ). They were leading the NL Central Division by just half a game over the Houston Astros. Prior to the strike, they had scored 609 runs (5.30 per game) and had allowed 490 runs (4.26 per game). [13]

Game log

1994 Regular Season Game Log (66-48-1) (Home: 37-22-1; Road: 29-26)
April (15-7-1) (Home: 10-2-1; Road: 5-5)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecordReport
1April 3 Cardinals
2April 4 Cardinals
3April 6 Cardinals
4April 8 Phillies
5April 9 Phillies
6April 10 Phillies
7April 11@ Expos 9-4 (11 inn.) Carrasco (3-0) Heredia (0-1)12,5265-1-1 Boxscore
8April 12@ Expos 7-1 Pugh (1-0) Boucher (0-1)12,4666-1-1 Boxscore
9April 13@ Expos 2-3 Wetteland (1-1) McElroy (0-1)14,0726-2-1 Boxscore
10April 15@ Phillies
11April 16@ Phillies
12April 17@ Phillies
13April 19 Pirates
14April 20 Pirates
15April 22 Marlins
16April 23 Marlins
17April 24 Marlins
18April 25 Cubs
19April 26 Cubs
20April 27@ Pirates
21April 28@ Pirates
22April 29@ Marlins
23April 30@ Marlins
May (14-15) (Home: 7-5; Road: 7-10)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecordReport
24May 1@ Marlins
25May 2@ Cubs
26May 3@ Cubs
27May 4@ Cubs
28May 5 Astros
29May 6 Astros
30May 7 Astros
31May 8 Astros
32May 9@ Padres
33May 10@ Padres
34May 11@ Padres
35May 13@ Giants
36May 14@ Giants
37May 15@ Giants
38May 17 Braves
39May 18 Braves
40May 19 Braves
41May 20 Dodgers
42May 21 Dodgers
43May 22 Dodgers
44May 23@ Rockies
45May 24@ Rockies
46May 25@ Rockies
47May 26@ Rockies
48May 27@ Mets
49May 28@ Mets
50May 29@ Mets
51May 30 Expos 7-3 Rijo (3-3) Hill (8-3)27,87528-22-1 Boxscore
52May 31 Expos 5-4 (13 inn.) Schourek (3-0) Shaw (2-2)25,04629-22-1 Boxscore
June (15-11) (Home: 10-4; Road: 5-7)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecordReport
53June 1 Expos 9-10 Scott (3-2) Carrasco (3-2) Martínez (1)23,65329-23-1 Boxscore
54June 3 Mets
55June 4 Mets
56June 5 Mets
57June 7@ Cardinals
58June 8@ Cardinals
59June 9 Rockies
60June 10 Rockies
61June 11 Rockies
62June 12 Rockies
63June 13@ Dodgers
64June 14@ Dodgers
65June 15@ Dodgers
66June 17@ Braves
67June 18@ Braves
68June 19@ Braves
69June 21 Giants
70June 22 Giants
71June 23 Giants
72June 24 Padres
73June 25 Padres
74June 26 Padres
75June 27@ Astros
76June 28@ Astros
77June 29@ Astros
78June 30@ Pirates
July (17-10) (Home: 8-6; Road: 9-4)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecordReport
79July 1@ Pirates
80July 2@ Pirates
81July 3@ Pirates
82July 4@ Marlins
83July 5@ Marlins
84July 6@ Marlins
85July 7 Pirates
86July 8 Pirates
87July 9 Pirates
88July 10 Pirates
All-Star Break : NL def. AL at Three Rivers Stadium, 8–7 (10)
89July 14 Cubs
90July 15 Cubs
91July 16 Cubs
92July 17 Cubs
93July 18 Marlins
94July 19 Marlins
95July 20 Marlins
96July 22@ Cubs
97July 23@ Cubs
98July 24@ Cubs
99July 25 Astros
100July 26 Astros
101July 27 Astros
102July 28@ Padres
103July 29@ Padres
104July 30@ Padres
105July 31@ Padres
August (5-5) (Home: 2-5; Road: 3-0)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecordReport
106August 1@ Giants
107August 2@ Giants
108August 3@ Giants
109August 5 Braves
110August 6 Braves
111August 7 Braves
112August 8 Braves
113August 9 Dodgers
114August 10 Dodgers
115August 11 Dodgers
Legend
Reds winReds loss All-Star Game Game postponed

Season standings

NL Central 		W L Pct. GB Home Road
Cincinnati Reds 66480.579—37–2229–26
Houston Astros 66490.574½37–2229–27
Pittsburgh Pirates 53610.4651332–2921–32
St. Louis Cardinals 53610.4651323–3330–28
Chicago Cubs 49640.43416½20–3929–25
Division leaders		 W L Pct.
Montreal Expos 74400.649
Cincinnati Reds 66480.579
Los Angeles Dodgers 58560.509
Wild Card team W L Pct. GB
Atlanta Braves 68460.597—
Houston Astros 66490.57421⁄2
New York Mets 55580.487121⁄2
San Francisco Giants 55600.478131⁄2
Philadelphia Phillies 54610.470141⁄2
St. Louis Cardinals 53610.46515
Pittsburgh Pirates 53610.46515
Colorado Rockies 53640.453161⁄2
Florida Marlins 51640.444171⁄2
Chicago Cubs 49640.434181⁄2
San Diego Padres 47700.402221⁄2

Record vs. opponents

1994 National League record

Sources:
TeamATLCHCCINCOLFLAHOULADMONNYMPHIPITSDSFSTL
Atlanta —4–25–58–28–43–36–04–55–46–33–96–15–15–7
Chicago 2–4—5–76–64–54–83–32–41–41–65–56–35–45–5
Cincinnati 5–57–5—4–47–54–63–64–22–44–29–38–27–22–2–1
Colorado 2–86–64–4—3–95–54–64–25–12–42–35–53–78–4
Florida 4–85–45–79–3—2–43–32–76–44–61–65–12–43–7
Houston 3–38–46–45–54–2—1–82–43–35–18–45–58–28–4
Los Angeles 0–63–36–36–43–38–1—3–96–67–53–36–45–52–4
Montreal 5–44–22–42–47–24–29–3—4–35–48–212–05–77–3
New York 4–54–14–21–54–63–36–63–4—4–64–56–66–66–3
Philadelphia 3-66–12–44–26–41–55–74–56–4—5–44–84–84–3
Pittsburgh 9–35–53–93–26–14–83–32–85–44–5—3–31–55–5
San Diego 1–63–62–85–51–55–54–60–126–68–43–3—5–24–2
San Francisco 1–54–52–77–34–22–85–57–56–68–45–12–5—2–4
St. Louis 7–55–52–2–14–87–34–84–23–73–63–45–52–44–2—

Notable transactions

Roster

1994 Cincinnati Reds
Roster
PitchersCatchers

Infielders

OutfieldersManager

Coaches

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

PosPlayerGABHAvg.HRRBI
C Brian Dorsett 7621653.245526
1B Hal Morris 112436146.3351078
2B Bret Boone 108381122.3201268
SS Barry Larkin 110427119.279952
3B Tony Fernández 104366102.279850
LF Kevin Mitchell 95310101.3263077
CF Roberto Kelly 4717954.302321
RF Reggie Sanders 107400105.2631762

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

PlayerGABHAvg.HRRBI
Deion Sanders 4618451.27707
Thomas Howard 8317847.264524
Ed Taubensee 6117752.294821
Jacob Brumfield 6812238.311411
Jeff Branson 5810931.284616
Lenny Harris 6610031.310014
Jerome Walton 466821.30919
Willie Greene 16378.21603
Brian Hunter 9237.304410
Joe Oliver 6194.21115
Steve Pegues 11103.30000

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

PlayerGIPWLERASO
José Rijo 26172.1963.08171
John Smiley 24158.211103.86112
Erik Hanson 22122.2554.11101
John Roper 1692.0624.5051
Tim Pugh 1047.2336.0424
Tom Browning 740.2314.2022

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

PlayerGIPWLERASO
Pete Schourek 2281.1724.0969
Kevin Jarvis 617.2117.1310

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

PlayerGWLSVERASO
Jeff Brantley 5066152.4863
Chuck McElroy 521252.3438
Johnny Ruffin 517213.0944
Hector Carrasco 455662.2441
Tim Fortugno 251004.2029
Rich DeLucia 80004.2215
Jerry Spradlin 600010.134
Scott Service 61207.365

Farm system

LevelTeamLeagueManager
AAA Indianapolis Indians American Association Marc Bombard
AA Chattanooga Lookouts Southern League Pat Kelly
A Winston-Salem Spirits Carolina League Mark Berry
A Charleston Wheelers South Atlantic League Tom Nieto
Rookie Princeton Reds Appalachian League John Stearns
Rookie Billings Mustangs Pioneer League Donnie Scott

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Indianapolis, Princeton, Billings [16]

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