It had been a minute since we’d seen Jesse Winker as a part of the Cincinnati Reds juggernaut offense. At least, it’s been a quick minute since he was a part of the 2021 vintage, seeing as he played the part of the single most potent bat the club could boast in 2020.
A flu-like illness had kept him out while the Reds mashed and mauled all week, but he returned on Friday against the Arizona Cardinals and picked right up where he’d left off. He socked a homer that was wrongly ruled a double, added a pair of singles later, drove in a run, scored a run, and generally looked the part of Jesse Damn Winker once again.