But what is the PLAN?
Tonight could have been described as the start of Phase One: Justus Sheffield was starting after his best outing in the bigs, Kyle Lewis was making his big league debut, and a smattering of the farm had just been brought up. That alone was reason to tune in regardless of the end result, and boy, did we get a treat.
Justus started off the night with a bang, needing just fourteen pitches to send the top of the Reds’ lineup down in order, including two pretty strikeouts of Alex Blandino and Eugenio Suárez.