Ian Happ hit a home run in the Cincinnati Reds ballpark against Cincinnati Reds pitching because the Cincinnati Reds haven’t yet figured out a way to simply pitch around, over, under, below, above, or not at all to his Cincinnati Reds-crushing self.
It’s the kind of perplexing certainty that seems to help define what we’ve witnessed as a whole from this organization over the last five or so years - trying the same damn thing over and over and over again with it never once working at all. It was much of the same in a microcosm on Saturday night in Great American Ball Park, as the Reds fell to the Chicago Cubs by the score of 7-2 in a game that was not really that close.