They bad.
Major League Baseball added eight games to the already lengthy schedules of all teams for the 1962 season, meaning that all twenty franchises played 162 regular season contests that year for the very first time. And in the 53 renditions since that season expansion, only once have the Cincinnati Reds won fewer games than the 63 they've claimed so far in 2015.
The 101 losses suffered by the 1982 Reds stand as the lone time in the franchise's 134 years that they've had triple-digit losses in a single season, and their 61 victories stake claim as the fewest ever in a 162 game season.