At first I was afraid, I was petrified.
Anthony DeSclafani was making his first start in a Reds uniform since September, 2016. And I’d heard all the pessimism on the radio. It had been so long since AD had pitched. There was the oblique injury. The elbow injury. The oblique again. The Reds have seemed so unlucky with the health of pitchers. When one returned, another one bit the dust. Then another one gone and another one gone.
Given that recent history, whether you’re a brother or whether you’re a mother, you were right to be worried.