The Cincinnati Reds lost their 76th game of the 2021 season last night just minutes after the St. Louis Cardinals won their 17th consecutive game, concurrent cataclysms that rang the death knell on the chances this Reds season went anywhere. And before we get to much deeper here, before we get too emotional, that’s what this post is really all about.
This was, as we have come to expect, yet another failed season for this franchise. In the most objective sense, this club tried to make the playoffs and did not, perhaps the clearest failure in their long, long string of failed seasons of late.