Game 143: Reds at Mets (4:10 PM ET) - Junis vs. Quintana

Elly De La Cruz homered, tripled, and swiped a pair of bags the last time the Cincinnati Reds came to New York to play some baseball. That came in the three game series against the Yankees over the Fourth of July, and last night he began his second trip through the Big Apple in 2024 in similar fashion.

Elly smashed a homer to straightaway center against the Mets in last night’s series opener, and while the Reds ultimately lost that game in extra innings, well, how well Elly does at the plate right now is one of the precious few things left to root for around this iteration of the disappointing Reds. He did it from the right-side of the plate, too - his weaker side by a considerable margin at…