If Reds pitchers are going to give up a bunch of runs, can it please be the young ones in the game gaining valuable experience? In the first six innings tonight, Bryan Price used Tim Adleman (29) and Blake Wood (31).
Up tomorrow: 40-year-old Bronson Arroyo.
Yay, sorting.
Tim Adleman went 5.1 innings, walked one and struck out three. He gave up 8 hits and 5 earned runs. Before tonight, Adleman had a career ERA estimators of 5.31 (FIP) and 4.99 (xFIP).
Here’s a line from a recap I wrote last year. Only needed to change one character: “Adleman is a nice story.