Perhaps that headline is a tad bit misleading, in some ways. The Cincinnati Reds are fresh off a streak of objectively terrible baseball, having lost a series on the road against the woeful Miami Marlins in thoroughly thumpless fashion. In the process, they actually set a team record for scoring futility, as former Red Reporter Fearless Leader Joel Luckhaupt pointed out in a Twitter thread last night that must’ve made his eyes burn.
The reality is, though, that the Cincinnati Reds have managed to not even be good at being bad this year, and that scoring futility is just one of the many ways.