For much of the 2025 season – when he was healthy, at least – Hunter Greene looked like one of the best pitchers in baseball. But in the first postseason appearance of his MLB career on Tuesday against the Los Angeles Dodgers, he looked like anything but.
The Cincinnati Reds' ace (though, can he really be called that anymore?) got lit up for five earned runs in just three innings in Game 1 of the National League Wild Card series. No other team scored more than three runs during the opening games of the Wild Card series across the league – which is to be expected when going up against the opposing team's ace.