CINCINNATI — Rockies reliever Daniel Bard stood with his hands on his hips as Jake Fraley rounded the bases. There’s no telling what Bard was thinking at that moment or what he might have been saying to himself.
We can only imagine, but it surely wasn’t good. Not when he gave up the winning runs in Colorado’s eighth consecutive loss.
What we do know is that Bard served up a two-run, screaming, line-drive homer to Fraley in the eighth inning, sparking the Reds to a 5-3 win and their 11th victory in a row. The Reds’ rally began with a bloop double by Elly De La Cruz into no-man’s land in left field.