The Cincinnati Reds were thoroughly doinked by the San Francisco Giants yesterday. They were doinked the day before, the day before that, and the day before that by the Giants, too. It’s been a long stretch featuring many doinks, unfortunately, as the Cincinnati Reds have slumped to just a 13-22 record over their last 35 games following their electric first week of the season.
As the frustration builds, it’s often easy to seek correlation. This happened, and that happened, and damnit, this was why! That’s particularly true in the game of baseball, for whatever reason, though I think that’s largely due to it being the perfect collision point between short term and long term management strategies.