On a day when the bats remained painfully quiet, at least the Cincinnati Reds got some promising results from their arms.
Tyler Mahle got the start, and looked (and was) positively unhittable for a time. Considering he entered having allowed nary a hit in 4 IP in his previous start, it’s something of an indication that he’s finding his groove as a dart-throwing dynamo in this rotation, something that’ll be much needed this season (more on that below).
His final line ended up more pretty dang solid than great, but it was overall a start that should’ve been good enough to get the job done had the offense done, well, anything.