At one point during this four-hour game, George Grande, without the slightest bit of irony, uttered the cliché “never a dull moment in a baseball game.” Turns out that clichés, in addition to being dull, are also usually wrong.
The Reds are 15-22. They head to Cleveland to start a four game series, two away then two at home.
Solid Start Dan Straily worked around ten base runners in five innings. Throwing 109 pitches, he recorded a season-high six strikeouts and walked three. He also drew a bases-loaded walk. Straily won’t be one of the Reds five best starters by the trade deadline.