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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Cincinnati Sweeps Cleveland: Facts and Stats

The Reds successfully finished off a sweep of the Indians with a 12-5 afternoon victory at GABP, and are now back to their season-high mark of 8 games over .500.


- This was only the second time they've swept Cleveland in an interleague series.  The first was in May of 2008.  Cleveland has swept Cincinnati 3 times, in 1999, 2004 and 2011.


- The Reds' all-time record against Cleveland is now 39-38 in interleague play.


- This was the second-highest single-game run total for the Reds against Cleveland.  They won 14-5 on July 8th, 2000 at Cinergy Field.


- This was the highest single-game run total for the Reds in any interleague game since June 22nd, 2007 when they won 16-1 at Seattle.


- This is only the 6th time in 229 interleague games that the Reds have scored 12 or more.


- The Reds scored a total of 24 runs in the three-game series.  They've never done that against Cleveland.  


- The last time the Reds scored 24 or more in ANY three-game series was August, 2010 at Arizona (26 runs in a sweep).


- The last time the Reds scored 24 or more in a home three-game series was May, 2010 against Houston (27 runs in spite of being on the losing end of a shutout in the finale).


- The last time the Reds scored 24 or more in an interleague three-game series was June, 2005 against Tampa Bay (34 runs in a sweep).  They only accomplished it one additional time - 1999 at Kansas City (30 runs in a sweep).

- The Reds' interleague record now stands at 103-126, for a winning percentage of .450 which is still the fourth-worst in MLB.  Only the Orioles, Padres and Pirates have been worse.

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