Winning 9 of the next 15 games isn’t outlandish, even for these Cincinnati Reds, I suppose. They’ve won 6 of their last 10 after all, and the return of Joey Votto appears set for this weekend.
That kind of spate of solid play would lift the current Reds from their 10-26 record - currently the worst in all of Major League Baseball - to a record of 19-31. That’s still a very bad record, one that would probably still see them among the worst two or three clubs in the league at that point, but it’s precisely the record that has become something of a demarcation line for calling time on an existing season.