{"id":702870,"date":"2026-05-19T06:15:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/702870\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:15:26","slug":"cincinnati-reds-receive-promising-sal-stewart-development-despite-loss-vs-phillies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/702870\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Reds Receive Promising Sal Stewart Development Despite Loss vs. Phillies"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cincinnati Reds<\/a> were defeated 5-4 by the Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> on Monday night. Cincinnati has now dropped three consecutive contests. However, Sal Stewart<\/a> continued to swing the bat well.<\/p>\n

Stewart has endured ups and downs this year. He is beginning to get back on track, though. The Reds infielder had two hits and a home run in the contest on Monday night.<\/p>\n

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Stewart has now recorded two hits in back-to-back games. He had previously gone 0-14, so Stewart is clearly figuring things out at the plate.<\/p>\n

He is a young player and ups and downs are to be expected. Overall, the infielder has impressed, however. He looks like a future star.<\/p>\n

Overall, he is now hitting .249\/.340\/.475 across 48 games played. He has an .815 OPS, 11 home runs and eight doubles as well.<\/p>\n

Stewart will be a strong candidate for the National League Rookie of the Year Award. He could even earn some All-Star consideration. Stewart features the ceiling of one of the better hitters in the game.<\/p>\n

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With that being said, he is only 22 years old. He still has room to improve. Stewart will have some inconsistent moments as he adjusts to the MLB level.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the Reds certainly believe in Sal Stewart.<\/p>\n

The Reds had a respectable performance on Monday. However, they were defeated in the ball game.<\/p>\n

Nick Lodolo<\/a> pitched 5.2 innings of three-run baseball. He added three strikeouts, but Lodolo did walk five hitters.<\/p>\n

The bullpen ended up surrendering two more runs in the defeat.<\/p>\n

Offensively, Cincinnati scored four runs on six hits. As mentioned, Stewart led the way with a big performance. Cincinnati’s lineup has been inconsistent in 2024, but it performed fairly well on Monday. The Phillies were simply able to score more runs in the contest.<\/p>\n

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The Reds now hold a 24-24 overall record in 2026. They are in last place in the National League Central standings at the moment. In all reality, Cincinnati can still make a postseason run. They will need to play a more consistent brand of baseball, as they are 4-6 over their past 10 games.<\/p>\n

The Reds will play the Phillies in Philadelphia once again on Tuesday night in the second contest of the three-game series. First pitch for the Reds and Phillies clash is scheduled for 6:40 PM EST as Cincinnati looks to get back into the win column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Reds were defeated 5-4 by the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night. Cincinnati has now dropped three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,535,50,4259,4,1331,25,536,6513],"class_list":["post-702870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-reds","tag-baseball","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cincinnatireds","tag-mlb","tag-nick-lodolo","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-reds","tag-sal-stewart"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116599778409741301","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702870","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=702870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}