In the immediacy of his team’s 6-4 loss to the Colorado Rockies on Sunday, Cincinnati Reds manager Bryan Price misunderstood a question from a television reporter. He thought he’d been asked about Bronson Arroyo’s job security.
Price was fresh off of watching the 40-year-old right-hander serve up four homers and allow six runs in 5 1/3 innings, Arroyo’s second consecutive start of struggle. Those two outing had come in a stretch in which the Reds had lost eight of nine games and gone a week without a starter completing six innings.
Nevertheless, the manager wasn’t about to entertain the idea that the Great Bronson Arroyo Comeback was nearing a halt.