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@Reds Not challenging pitch 3 and then challenging pitch 7 is the perfect way for this god forsaken week to end.

Final:

@ATBBTTR Unfortunately we'll have to because it'll likely be a big part of the reason the Reds ultimately fall short of any goals they have (unless the wheels completely come off here which doesn't seem out of the question either).

- Reds about to lose seven straight division games, three straight walkoffs - Rhett Lowder and Emilio Pagan both leave games with injuries - Multiple baserunning and fielding issues - Hitting has fallen off a cliff Please let us never speak of this road trip again

@yuggs513 Season effectively ended this week and I won't be convinced otherwise. They're not good enough to have a week like this and survive and who knows when it'll actually all be over.

An embarrassing road trip. As embarrassing of a road as you could get on multiple levels. Embarrassing enough for someone to lose their job despite having a winning record.

@Soly_Reds Season effectively ended this week and you won't convince me otherwise.

About to get super bleak

@RedsDaily4 Just a disastrous, season-altering week.

Oh no. Training staff out to look at Rhett Lowder and he’s leaving the game…

@CBoxSports Gotta be the first time ML history that a team who was 9 games above .500 and in first place was dead last in their division a week later.

The Reds are now in last place in the NL Central. Cincinnati led the division for 22 days this season and entered this road trip holding a one-game lead over the Cubs for first place.

@OBG78 @CBoxSports They have a pretty ironclad case for worst professional sports franchise this century.

@CBoxSports Miserable being a fan. They have to be the worst pro franchsie of all major sports the last 30 years.

@CharlieG__ Manifest it, Charlie.

Graham Ashcraft is up in the bullpen. Presumably, he’d pitch if the Reds tied the score, or took the lead for the save in the first game without Pagán.

@ryanhammer09 Pacers will be back next year to end their season, so yes.

They are currently the best team left, East is depleted, conf finals last year, prob on their way back this year, year 4 of the Brunson core… Feels like it HAS to be this year for the Knicks to get to a finals if this core will ever do it.

@bryce_spalding He fucking rocks. That was awesome to see.

Holy Tejay Antone. What an incredible story. Comeback Player of the Year locked up.

@Schultz975 These playoffs have been a constant reminder how much I miss the Pacers’ offense.

Sixers with one (1) point in the last six minutes. Woooof.

@bryce_spalding They were 20-11 and a week later I’m approaching full blown apathy. Only the Reds.

This isn’t a singular person issue either. There ain’t many, people playing winning baseball on the Reds side right now, period. As ugly a stretch of Reds baseball I’ve watched in a long while and that’s saying a lot. Staring down losing 7 of 8 games and combined score currently stands in those 8 games (56 to 24).

@yuggs513 Atrocious vibes.

Just not winning baseball at the moment

@CBoxSports God what a meatball of a pitch that was.

Ian Happ strikes again. 2-1 Cubs.

@RedsDaily4 You couldn't script more horrific contracts than their last three at 3B (I'm not including Geno because he was signed largely as a DH. Moose, Candy, Hayes is the stuff of absolute nightmares and when you're a small market team, you simply cannot miss like this.

If we showed anyone these numbers alongside a .404 OPS, nobody would say this player deserves to be in the lineup every day. Nobody. I do think the defense will improve over time and the OAA will look better by the end of the season, but right now, there’s simply no justification for the everyday playing time on a team that struggles so much offensively. I didn’t love the trade when it happened, but like a lot of fans, I talked myself into it. I wanted it to work. Now? This has a real chance to go down as one of the worst trades in franchise history.

@BurnHardLang @dotsonc Benson>Friedl

@TheHerrm @dotsonc Myers>Friedl

Matt McLain now 0 for his last 19, right? cool, cool

@RedsInFour Turns out the completely unsustainable start was indeed unsustainable.

@cgarber8 Praying it’s Ashcraft.

@bryce_spalding @joel_wisecup We have a 35 game sample of him being awful. There’s just too many holes right now. They needed McLain and Stephenson to at least be average hitters, they’ve both been atrocious. Offense is completely reliant on the long ball because this lineup can’t string hits together.

@joel_wisecup @TheHerrm He had a 130 wRC+ the last like 14 games coming into tonight.

So many plus counts. So little results. Taillon has been 2-0 or 3-1 on so many dudes. Infuriating to not capitalize.