Spencer Strider dominated on Saturday afternoon, sending the Braves to their first series win in Cincinnati since the 2017 season. Strider struck out 11 Cincy batters, tying a career high, while allowing just one run, one hit, one walk, and one hit-by-pitch. That’s a lot of “1”s, which is also the number of runs the Reds ended up with in this game.
While Strider’s dominant performance was pretty much all the Braves needed, this game had a ton of weirdness to it that didn’t really factor into the final result very much. The weirdness started very early: with one out and one on in the top of the first, Matt Olson inexplicably decided to bunt the very first pitch.