I’m not a Josh Naylor scholar. I don’t know every little intricacy and factoid of his career as a baseball player and can’t know for sure where Saturday’s game ranks in the history of his playing the game. But I’m willing to bet that, all things considered, it was one of the worst days of his baseball-playing life.
Lining into a triple play is an unfortunate incident, driven by happenstance and opportunity. He did that. Adding that to the awful play at first that allowed the Reds to take a win from the jaws of defeat, that’s a recipe for utter misery.