The Reds have had a pretty good year overall, and currently lead the Cubs nine games to seven in the season series. They’re 10 games under .500 — but by Pythagorean numbers their record should be two games over, as they have a +10 run differential. Their pitching staff has allowed 656 runs, just six more than the Cubs.
For more on the Reds, here’s Wick Terrell, manager of our SB Nation Reds site Red Reporter.
To say the 2019 Cincinnati Reds season has ground to a screeching halt would be both true and the most polite way possible to describe it.