The Cincinnati Reds are rollin,’ baby! Fresh off a series victory in Los Angeles against the Dodgers, they’ve initially eschewed the bugaboo of previous promising seasons by heading to the West Coast and not completely falling apart. If anything, Sunday’s 9-0 drubbing of LA showed that they’re doing much, much more than merely getting by, and hopefully they’ll build on that both for the longer, more rigorous West Coast swing at the end of August and, more pertinently, for the rest of this particular road trip.
Said road trip has them in Wrigley Field, where they will undoubtedly smell stale beer with every breath and be tasked with taking down the red-hot Chicago Cubs for the next four days.