Austin Wynns swatted the game’s tying homer off former National League Cy Young Award winner Sandy Alcantara in the Top of the 3rd inning today in Miami, and he later iced the cake with an RBI double to plate the final run in Cincinnati’s 5-2 win over the Marlins in the finale of the three-game series.
Let’s be honest - it’s never great when you’ve got to lean on the unexpected offense of your third-string catcher to eek out a victory over a rebuilding team going nowhere and avoid a sweep. That said, it’s that much more satisfying when that precise scenario plays out, and the Reds are running themselves up into a good problem to have in the coming days because of it.