Reds blow multiple leads, fall to Pirates in walk-off loss

If you haven’t been paying attention, the Cincinnati Reds have been doing a lot of losing lately. How you want to define “lately” is up to you, because that term can stretch pretty far when you’re talking about this franchise. In it’s most immediate past, the Reds have now lost 8 of their last 10 games after their walk-off defeat to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Tonight’s game started off well enough. Graham Ashcraft was cruising and had a comfortable 3-run lead thanks to home runs from Nick Senzel and TJ Friedl. Things fell apart in the 7th inning, though. Holding a 3-1 lead going into the inning, Pittsburgh was able to tie the game after a couple of infield hits and a couple of not-so infield…