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Colin Rea didn’t start out so well, with the Reds jumping out to a two-run lead, but the defense made it stop and Rea continued to make his pitches. Andrew Abbott, who looks like a lefty Miles Mikolas, took the mound for the visiting Reds and threw well enough to leave the Cubs hitless until Justin Turner led off the third with a grounder up the middle.
The Reds tacked on a couple more in the fourth on a Tyler Stephenson dinger. It was starting to look bad for the boys in blue. In fact, it got worse. Abbott brought his ‘A’ game and the Cubs were thoroughly stymied.
The Reds’ bullpen, though, is another matter entirely. The Cubs rallied for two in the eighth.
But that was all they wrote. 6-2 Reds. Let’s have a better outcome today, yes?
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