Don\u2019t look now, but the Cincinnati Reds are on a roll!<\/p>\n
They\u2019re still just 52-57 on the season, in last place in the National League Central, and remain 4.5 games back of the final NL Wild Card spot, so perhaps look just a little bit. Still, they\u2019ve gone 9-5 since the season\u2019s second half began, and Friday night\u2019s comeback victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates certainly wasn\u2019t indicative of a team that\u2019s folded up its tent and begun to sit idle until the front office rips it apart at Monday\u2019s trade deadline.<\/p>\n
Sal Stewart, in particular, seems to have been the one to begin leading the Renaissance. His homer and 4-RBI game last night fueled the comeback, and Nick Krall is probably shaking in his boots right now as he debates whether to sell off the likes of Brady Singer and Tyler Stephenson or hold on to them as the team attempts a miracle run through the second half.<\/p>\n
Andrew Abbott gets his turn in the rotation on Saturday in Great American Ball Park as the series vs. the Pirates heads into the 3rd of 4 games, and the Reds can wrap up a series victory with a win tonight thanks to last night\u2019s heroics. Standing in the way of the Reds will be Bucs starter Braxton Ashcraft, with first pitch set for 6:40 PM ET.<\/p>\n
If ever there were a time for the Reds to lean into a miracle, it\u2019s this weekend. So far, so bueno.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s how both clubs will line up to start this evening\u2019s affair:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t look now, but the Cincinnati Reds are on a roll! They\u2019re still just 52-57 on the season,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[99559,99701,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-257395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-cincinnati-reds-discussion","tag-cincinnati-reds-game-information","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}