On a day when the Cincinnati Reds offense largely fell flat and their starting pitcher didn’t exactly have his best outing, that leaves the bullpen as the most likely focus of this here section. Sure enough, the Reds got a very solid outing from rookie Joel Kuhnel, who was making just his second career big league appearance.
It was a good one. A pair of scoreless innings, in fact, in which Kuhnel allowed only a lone walk, nary a hit, hit 97 mph repeatedly on the zap gun, and struck out a St. Louis Cardinal.