Shortly after the Cincinnati Reds wrapped a Top of the 1st that featured a single, walk, and a pair of stranded runners, the one thing that could make us all look beyond the dismal negativity surrounding the club happened.
Hunter Greene strode to the mound in Truist Park outside Atlanta, taking a Major League Baseball in his hand on a big league mound for the very first time. That Greene took that mound that day was spectacular in its own evolution, of course, but that was only one part of the equation about which I speak today.
His first pitch was caught by Tyler Stephenson.