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<\/p>\nThe Cincinnati Reds have won 7 of 9, sit a pair of games over the .500 mark at 37-35 so far in 2025, and just knocked off the Detroit Tigers by the score of 8-4 on Sunday afternoon in Comerica Park.<\/p>\n
You can scour the box scores for every single specific reason the Reds have pulled off these things, or you can simply sigh and mumble Elly De La Cruz to yourselves.<\/p>\n
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Cincinnati\u2019s superstar entered the month of June sporting a solid, yet un-Ellyesque .763 OPS for the entirety of the 2025 season, but he\u2019s been on an absolute tear ever since. He owned a 1.219 OPS in June entering play on Sunday, a game in which he socked yet another 2-run homer as part of a 3-hit afternoon.<\/p>\n
Dating back to May 25th, he\u2019d hit a crazy .343\/.443\/.746 with 7 homers and 6 doubles over his last 19 games, and that was before today. After today\u2019s exploits – including the fourth consecutive game in which he\u2019s socked a homer – he\u2019s up to .273\/.352\/.498 on the season, with 15 homers and 50 ribeyes as the behemoth in the middle of the Reds lineup.<\/p>\n
With today\u2019s victory, the Reds came back to take the series from Detroit after dropping the first game of it. That marks the first time in 39 such instances where they came back to win a series after dropping the first game of one, a simply remarkable run of performance that\u2019s something of a mark of mediocrity for a franchise.<\/p>\n
Elly\u2019s on a heater. The Reds are on a heater. There\u2019s a mighty fine chance this club finds a way to turn this season into something more than mediocrity after all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Reds have won 7 of 9, sit a pair of games over the .500 mark at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,7417,1166,1164,147,53,2583,1163,181,4961,1165,4,1320,285,536,17,1646,594,417,2022],"class_list":{"0":"post-107435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-carries","10":"tag-cruz","11":"tag-de","12":"tag-detroit","13":"tag-detroit-tigers","14":"tag-detroittigers","15":"tag-elly","16":"tag-front-page","17":"tag-game-recaps","18":"tag-la","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-over","21":"tag-red","22":"tag-reds","23":"tag-reporter","24":"tag-series","25":"tag-tigers","26":"tag-to","27":"tag-win"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114691635031215981","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}