The Cubs were supposed to open the 2022 season against the Reds. That series got moved to October due to the lockout, and so after 40 games have been played, the Cubs see the Reds for the first time this year starting tonight.
For an update on the Reds, here’s Wick Terrell, manager of our SB Nation Reds site Red Reporter.
The 2022 Cincinnati Reds are 12-28 and not going to make the playoffs. It’s the third week of May, and the cavalcade of awful that wrapped the post-lockout offseason and rolled into the first few weeks of the regular season has already long cemented that.