The Cincinnati Reds are going to lose at least another 60 games during the 2024 season, and at least a dozen or so of them are going to be uglier than last night’s 9-4 thumping at the hands of Bryce Harper and the Philadelphia Phillies.
It was rainy, cold, and nasty. Harper socked three homers, the final of which was a grand slam. Elly De La Cruz played perhaps his worst game as a member of the Reds, his miscues coming at key times when the game was not yet out of hand. The bullpen? Well, it bailed out nobody.