The good news is that the Cincinnati Reds have still, to date, won more baseball games than they have lost during the 2023 Major League Baseball regular season.
The bad news is that I’m not going to spill too much ink on the Reds falling completely apart in their Tuesday outing against the Chicago Cubs, since there were some relatively positive aspects to the 12-5 shellacking, believe it or not.
Luis Cessa was rather cromulent in his first outing as a starter, exiting having only yielded a lone ER in 5.1 IP. An inherited runner immediately came in to get charged to his ledger, naturally, but the Reds were up 3-1 when their 5th starter left the mound in the 6th inning, and that’s the kind of thing that deserves merit given how barely stitched together this entire pitching staff concept is at the moment.