Mitch Keller was bad, career swingman Nick Martinez and the Cincinnati Reds shut out the Pittsburgh Pirates through six, third base coach Mike Rabelo made perhaps the worst send of the season with two outs, down by seven in the seventh when he waived 37-year-old Andrew McCutchen bad knees and all to get thrown out at home on a groundball to left even though outfielder Wil Benson had the ball before McCutchen had even touched third, Pirates batters struck out 11 times, Oneil Cruz stamped a 20/20 season with a home run off lefty reliever Brent Suter, Rowdy Tellez snapped an 0-for-very-large-number hitless streak with a two-hit game, the Reds win by a score of a lot to not nearly enough.
Pirates hit loss 82, a yearly tradition
