{"id":689066,"date":"2026-06-07T02:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/689066\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T02:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:58:14","slug":"cincinnati-reds-fall-under-500-after-another-bullpen-implosion-against-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/689066\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Reds fall under .500 after another bullpen implosion against St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Moll<\/a> hasn\u2019t really been a problem for the 2026 version of the Cincinnati Reds. He certainly hasn\u2019t been the problem, that\u2019s for damn sure.<\/p>\n

On Saturday afternoon in Busch Stadium, though, it was the big hit coming off a Moll pitch that flipped the scoreboard in the Bottom of the 8th inning and, ultimately, sent the reeling Reds to a 6-5 loss that gave the series victory to the St. Louis Cardinals.<\/p>\n

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Even after the homer by lefty Lars Nootbaar<\/a> off Moll, a lefty, Moll still sports a 2.96 ERA on the season. Again, he\u2019s not the problem \u2013 but perhaps the attrition around him in the bullpen and the once again lack of a starter capable of pitching deep enough into the game to take the pressure off the beleaguered pen reared its head, and it was Moll left holding the bag.<\/p>\n

Nick Lodolo<\/a> was meh again, allowing 4 ER in 5.0 IP and needing 95 pitches just to get that far. The patchwork elbow of Tejay Antone<\/a> held together things in the patchwork bullpen for a time, but then the 8th inning happened and the Reds couldn\u2019t find a way for a miracle.<\/p>\n

Speaking of miracles, that miracle April run to start the season? It\u2019s officially poof. This loss sends the Reds back under the .500 mark at 31-32, and given what we\u2019ve seen from them as their best and brightest fall by the wayside, I fear it\u2019s simply more of the norm unless the front office can figure a way out of this jam of mediocrity.<\/p>\n

Do you have confidence in them to get that done?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Moll hasn\u2019t really been a problem for the 2026 version of the Cincinnati Reds. He certainly hasn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[15056,2319,7644,363,75308,6454,158706,99,1231,299233],"class_list":["post-689066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-lars-nootbaar","tag-mlb","tag-nick-lodolo","tag-ohio","tag-sam-moll","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-tejay-antone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}