Okay folks, let’s just calm down. I know we’ve been without baseball for five months and then two more days because the rain, but there’s no reason to overreact to Sonny Gray‘s performance on Sunday afternoon. The Cincinnati Reds fell to the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-0 and Gray most certainly did not have his best stuff. But it’s a long season.
Let’s pause for just a moment, take a break from criticizing, and think about this logically for just a second. While playing conditions are never an excuse for a poor performance, it was 35 degrees at first pitch on Sunday afternoon, the second-coldest game ever played at Great American Ball Park.