{"id":677097,"date":"2026-04-16T19:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/677097\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:14:12","slug":"struggling-cincinnati-reds-infielder-is-mlbs-unluckiest-player-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/677097\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggling Cincinnati Reds Infielder is MLB&#8217;s Unluckiest Player in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati Reds third baseman Ke&#8217;Bryan Hayes didn&#8217;t get off to a good start this year, going 1-for-12 in March. He picked up two hits early in April to bring his batting average to .130, which isn&#8217;t great, but it was still very early in the season. Since April 6, Hayes has gone hitless in 21 consecutive at-bats, bringing his season total to 3-for-44 with one run scored and a slash line of .068\/.146\/.068. <\/p>\n<p>Manager Terry Francona has his own ideas on how to get Hayes out of this slump. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The guys were pretty good last night. They were pretty good,&#8221; Francona said,<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CharlieG__\/status\/2044791641089757520\" rel=\"nofollow\"> via Reds reporter Charlie Goldsmith<\/a>. &#8220;Trevino said something about getting a chicken and having it sacrificed. I told him if we need to, we&#8217;ll get a human. We&#8217;ll find somebody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Francona is only joking, hopefully, the Reds need to find a way to get Hayes going. While there are some aspects of Hayes&#8217; game that need to be tweaked right now, the harsh reality is that he&#8217;s simply been unlucky. <\/p>\n<p>Ke&#8217;Bryan Hayes is the Unluckiest Player in the League This Season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Reds third baseman Ke&#8217;Bryan Hayes didn&#8217;t get off to a good start this year, going 1-for-12 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,535,50,4259,4,536],"class_list":{"0":"post-677097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-reds","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-reds","11":"tag-cincinnatireds","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-reds"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116415986570814174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677097","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=677097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}