{"id":352453,"date":"2026-06-09T01:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/352453\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T01:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:55:08","slug":"cincinnati-reds-vs-san-diego-padres-andrew-abbott-vs-walker-buehler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/352453\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Reds vs. San Diego Padres \u2013 Andrew Abbott vs. Walker Buehler"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the one hand, it\u2019s a bit hyperbolic to declare that a 31-33 team playing a road series in San Diego<\/a> is playing for their season. There are, after all, almost 100 games left in the 2026 regular season.<\/p>\n

For the Cincinnati Reds, though, it\u2019s been five-plus weeks of absolute crud on the baseball field, both in the form of their overall record and in terms of the health of the roster. This is a team that\u2019s threadbare in almost all facets right now, a team now lacking identity and depth at the very same time. And when you factor in that the trade deadline comes at just about 100 games \u2013 not the full 162 \u2013 suddenly game 65 takes on a lot more meaning when it comes to how aggressive this tepid front office will be about a run this season.<\/p>\n

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God that\u2019s embarrassing to say yet again. It\u2019s only the exact same admission I\u2019ve had to make mid-June for all of the 15 or so seasons that I\u2019ve covered this franchise.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Andrew Abbott takes the mound against the Padres tonight in late night West Coast action, with Lexington, Kentucky\u2019s own Walker Buehler<\/a> on the bump for the Friars. First pitch is set for 9:40 PM ET, so you\u2019ll need to stay up much, much later than you probably should to see the end of this one.<\/p>\n

Lineups for both clubs are listed below.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Lineups<\/p>\n

REDS<\/p>\n

PADRES<\/p>\n

Blake Dunn<\/a> \u2013 CF<\/p>\n

Fernando Tatis \u2013 2B<\/p>\n

JJ Bleday<\/a> \u2013 LF<\/p>\n

Jackson Merrill<\/a> \u2013 CF<\/p>\n

Sal Stewart<\/a> \u2013 1B<\/p>\n

Ty France<\/a> \u2013 1B<\/p>\n

Nathaniel Lowe<\/a> \u2013 DH<\/p>\n

Manny Machado<\/a> \u2013 3B<\/p>\n

Eugenio Suarez<\/a> \u2013 3B<\/p>\n

Xander Bogaerts<\/a> \u2013 SS<\/p>\n

Noelvi Marte<\/a> \u2013 RF<\/p>\n

Gavin Sheets<\/a> \u2013 DH<\/p>\n

Matt McLain<\/a> \u2013 SS<\/p>\n

Jase Bowen \u2013 RF<\/p>\n

Tyler Stephenson<\/a> \u2013 C<\/p>\n

Samad Taylor<\/a> \u2013 LF<\/p>\n

Edwin Arroyo<\/a> \u2013 2B<\/p>\n

Freddy Fermin<\/a> \u2013 C<\/p>\n

Andrew Abbott \u2013 LHP<\/p>\n

Walker Buehler \u2013 RHP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the one hand, it\u2019s a bit hyperbolic to declare that a 31-33 team playing a road series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[143911,27252,144004,9004,144006,47881,78582,77535,51388,144005,3493,117714,143957,4694,3674,144007,115236,73895,74,76,75,96848,80608,92756,60758],"class_list":["post-352453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-andrew-abbott","tag-baseball-field","tag-blake-dunn","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-edwin-arroyo","tag-eugenio-suarez","tag-freddy-fermin","tag-gavin-sheets","tag-jackson-merrill","tag-jj-bleday","tag-manny-machado","tag-matt-mclain","tag-nathaniel-lowe","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-noelvi-marte","tag-sal-stewart","tag-samad-taylor","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-ty-france","tag-tyler-stephenson","tag-walker-buehler","tag-xander-bogaerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}