The Cincinnati Reds were ridin’ high with tears in their eyes when this series began against the St. Louis Cardinals.
Winners of five straight, they boasted the second-best run differential in all of Major League Baseball, and had their home turf on which to play their biggest rivals. Problem is, the Reds simply have not been able to muster any sort of offense in their home park this year despite it being perhaps the single most offensive-inducing park in the bigs.
Their collective 67 wRC+ in home games this year is the worst in all of baseball.