When you go into a series against the team with baseball’s best record, you want a guy like Hunter Greene on the mound to start things off. It’s the perfect spot for your former first round pick to showcase himself. Unfortunately, with the Reds’ lead sitting at 1-0 in the top of the 3rd, Greene was hit in the leg with a comebacker that forced him out of the game. For a team whose bullpen has, well, struggled, this season, that is about the last thing you could ask for in a series like this. Except it didn’t matter tonight, because the combination of Buck Farmer, Alex Young, Ian Gibaut, and Kevin Herget allowed only 1 run over 6 innings of relief against baseball’s best offense to help lead the Reds to an 8-1 victory That was enough to earn all of them tonight’s Joe Nuxhall Memorial Honorary Star(s) of the Game, though there were plenty others who were deserving.
Hunter Greene exits early, Reds hammer Rays 8-1
