Cincinnati Reds SWEPT by Kansas City Royals in Ugly Series at Home | Chatterbox Reds | Game 124
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Reds look to regain momentum in Wild Card race after being swept by Royals
Mark Sheldon
CINCINNATI — Reds momentum? What Reds momentum?
The Reds were feeling very much back in the National League Wild Card race after completing a three-game sweep of the Cardinals on Wednesday. Then, the Royals came to town.
Sunday afternoon’s 8-1 loss to Kansas City at Great American Ball Park completed a three-game series sweep where Cincinnati was outscored, 28-3.
“The way I look at it is we got some pretty good feedback from a good team on where we stood in terms of executing what we needed to do,” catcher Luke Maile said. “We’re going to kind of have to take that information that the Royals just gave us and do something about it. Because if we don’t, we’re going to keep on spinning our wheels kind of where we are. We know that. It’s a challenge for us.”
Against St. Louis, the Reds’ offense compiled 19 runs, including 10 home runs, as the team reached one game below .500 for the first time since June.
The bats went dark against the Royals with one run scored in each game. Jeimer Candelario hit the only homer for Cincinnati all weekend, and it came during Saturday’s game when Kansas City was up by 13 runs.
The Reds are 60-64 with 38 games remaining and six games back of Atlanta from the final NL Wild Card spot. To reach 84 wins — which was enough to get the Marlins and Diamondbacks their Wild Card spots in 2023 — Cincinnati must go 24-14 for a .632 winning percentage.
But the Reds have often followed good series with rough ones. After sweeping the Dodgers at home in late May, they dropped the next series to the Cardinals. After sweeping the Yankees in New York in early July, the Reds were swept at home by the Tigers.
“The record reflects that. We just haven’t executed at a high enough level,” Maile said. “Really what we’re talking about is consistency. We just haven’t executed at a high enough level consistently enough, and that’s where we find ourselves now.”
Where do the Reds need better execution?
“Defense would probably be No. 1. If you just play sound defense, you’re always going to be in the fight, it seems like,” Maile said of his club that made three errors on Saturday and one Friday.
There was one chance to change the game in the seventh inning when the Reds loaded the bases with one out against reliever Sam Long. Jonathan India drew a walk to force home a run. Right-hander Lucas Erceg took over and got Elly De La Cruz with a low changeup for a called strike three. Spencer Steer struck out swinging to end the inning.
De La Cruz finished the series 1-for-11 while Steer was 1-for-9.
Reds left-handed starter Andrew Abbott completed five innings on Sunday, giving up four runs on six hits with one intentional walk and four strikeouts.
3 comments
They are who I thought they were. I won’t use “we” because half yall said we were guaranteed to make a run this year after the dumbest trade deadline last year.
A completely schizophrenic team. Played three great games against STL and then got punked for three straight against KC.
Done with the reds this year, team is like a baby learning to walk, 3 steps forward, then 3 steps backwards, the story of the season with bad management, overworked bullpen week to week, starters throwing 1 and 2 hitters just to lose because of a team that can't hit when needed, About .225 or lower like Benson who has been in there all year , batting .195 …if thats all you have to do to be a major leaguer, I think some of us could bat at least .200…😅, but let's send down rece to the minors, he only had one of the best weeks in major league history, thats all, nothing to see here folks, its the 2024 reds….BRING ON THE BENGALS, A TEAM THAT HAS MORE TALENT, THEN JUST ONE OR TWO GUYS…and will probably at least win more then they lose…should be solid wildcard if not possible world champions…more to see next year with the reds and hopefully everyone healthy to start the year…go cincy……😊😊