Fresh off of dropping 2 of 3 to the Texas Rangers at home over the weekend, the Cincinnati Reds are right back where they’ve spent the bulk of the last five seasons - last place in the National League Central. Their preponderance for losing close games repeatedly only to occasionally have their bats explode for a runaway victory has become something of a pattern, simultaneously showing us just often enough how good they can be while consistently mixing in frustration after frustration.
Fact is, they’re 31-38 on the season, and those numbers are getting big enough to suggest that pattern is less a pattern and more just who these guys are.