Elly De La Cruz worked a 3-ball count before squibbing a dribbler to the shortstop that he legged out for an infield single, and he later swiped 2B as the Cincinnati Reds looked to give themselves a chance for an epic comeback Tuesday night. So began the Bottom of the 9th in tonight’s game against the Seattle Mariners, a game that - much like every game played by the Reds these days - featured both the unpredictable and the never-yet-played.
Christian Encarnacion-Strand followed Elly’s havoc with a walk-off single into RF that gave Cincinnati a 7-6 victory, but that barely scratches the surface of how the Reds walked themselves into said situation in the first place.