Atlanta managed to sneak an early run past Vlad Gutierrez on Thursday, a blustery start to the final game of a series in which the Cincinnati Reds had lost each time they’d played. Fortunately, though, the bats woke up immediately thereafter and pounded lefty starter Kyle Muller (and his bullpen mates) in a thunderous 12-3 victory.
Jesse Winker swung the biggest bat, his grand slam in the Top of the 2nd blowing the doors off the damn thing. Tyler Naquin socked a 3-run dinger, Kyle Farmer poked one of the 2-run variety, rookies Jonathan India and Tyler Stephenson added rally killers of their own, and the Reds offense finally picked up the beat Joey Votto has been laying down for the better part of the last month.