So this afternoon, the Reds sent rookie right hander Graham Ashcraft, 2-0 in the first three starts of his young MLB career, to the mound. Lefty Tyler Gilbert, he of the spot start no-hitter late last season, started for us, making his audition for the fifth rotation spot now that Humberto Castellanos is on the DL after getting kinda shelled in his last several appearances. To make a long story short, Gilbert bombed his audition, and this game was pretty much off the rails and plummeting over a cliff from the very start.
Ashcraft, who apparently throws the hardest cut fastball in the major leagues, mowed down the top of our lineup on 11 pitches.