The Cincinnati Reds were blown out by the Washington Nationals by a score of 17-7. That’s the Reds fourth-straight defeat, three coming at the hands of the National League Wild Card leader.
The Nationals scored 10 runs in the fifth inning to blow the roof off of this one. The game was tied at one when their enormous rally began.
The moment that changed the game came with one out in that fateful fifth. Runners were on second and third with Stephen Strasburg at the plate. For whatever reason, Trevor Bauer pitched Strasburg very carefully. He tried to sneak a 3-2 changeup over the black, low and away, but Strasburg stabbed at it and laced a single into shallow right field.