The Cincinnati Reds needed a win in the worst way, some big hits in the worst way, an absolute hammer of a performance by one of their burgeoning aces in the worst way.
They didn’t get all of that on Monday night against the Texas Rangers. In fact, they barely got any of it, but they managed to cobble their way back into a game that once seemed lost thanks to some timely poor accuracy from the Rangers bullpen and, eventually, a big hit from Joe Nuxhall Memorial Honorary Star of the Game TJ Friedl.
Nick Lodolo struggled for the second straight game.