The Cincinnati Reds continue their West Coast trip continuing their quest to break into the second Wild Card position. After taking 2 of 3 from the Los Angeles Angels, they take on the Arizona Diamondbacks only half a game out of that playoff spot. The Reds send Zack Littell to the mound to make his fourth start as a Redleg. He\u2019ll face off against Ryne Nelson. Nelson is a right handed pitcher in his fourth season in the majors. He\u2019s had a solid season in 2025, making 16 starts (26 appearances) and putting up a 3.58 ERA across 113 innings. His last time out, he threw 6 shutout innings against the Pirates.<\/p>\n
The Reds did make a move heading into this series, promoting Zach Maxwell from Triple-A Louisville and demoting Luis Mey. Maxwell is a right hander who was selected in the 6th round of the 2022 draft out of Georgia Tech. He\u2019s throwin 49.2 innings for Louisville and owns a 4.17 ERA. He\u2019s thrown well in the month of August, allowing only 1 run in 9.1 innings with 6 walks and 13 strikeouts. His first appearance for the Reds will be his Major League debut.<\/p>\n
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Today\u2019s Lineups
REDS DIAMONDBACKS
TJ Friedl \u2013 CF Geraldo Perdomo \u2013 SS
Gavin Lux \u2013 DH Ketel Marte \u2013 2B
Elly De La Cruz \u2013 SS Corbin Carroll \u2013 RF
Austin Hays \u2013 LF Lourdes Gurriel \u2013 LF
Noelvi Marte \u2013 RF Pavin Smith \u2013 1B
Spencer Steer \u2013 1B Gabriel Moreno \u2013 C
Ke\u2019Bryan Hayes \u2013 3B Adrian Del Castillo \u2013 DH
Jose Trevino \u2013 C Blaze Alexander \u2013 3B
Matt McLain \u2013 2B Alek Thomas \u2013 CF<\/p>\n
Zack Littell \u2013 RHP Ryne Nelson \u2013 RHP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Reds continue their West Coast trip continuing their quest to break into the second Wild Card…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[25638,664,146,22,4314,124,5,30643,50,1538,38,1177,5993,730,1533,1176,729,56,1627,1401,4,542,352,5938,6288,973,8167,5170],"class_list":{"0":"post-266243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-adrian-del-castillo","9":"tag-alek-thomas","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","12":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","13":"tag-austin-hays","14":"tag-baseball","15":"tag-blaze-alexander","16":"tag-cincinnati-reds","17":"tag-corbin-carroll","18":"tag-diamondbacks","19":"tag-elly-de-la-cruz","20":"tag-gabriel-moreno","21":"tag-gavin-lux","22":"tag-geraldo-perdomo","23":"tag-jose-trevino","24":"tag-ketel-marte","25":"tag-los-angeles-angels","26":"tag-luis-mey","27":"tag-matt-mclain","28":"tag-mlb","29":"tag-noelvi-marte","30":"tag-pavin-smith","31":"tag-ryne-nelson","32":"tag-spencer-steer","33":"tag-the-reds","34":"tag-tj-friedl","35":"tag-zack-littell"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115075748056548435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266243","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=266243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}