Elly De La Cruz swiped another pair of bags on another 2-hit night, Spencer Steer was on base a trio of times (and bonked in a pair of runs), and Stuart Fairchild had one of the plays of the year with a pinch-hit inside-the-park home-run that hyphen-enthusiasts world-wide have been waiting in-earnest-for their-entire-lives.
The end result? A victory for the Cincinnati Reds in their series opener against the San Francisco Giants, a win that finally gave them a victory in the month of May...on May the 11th, eastern time.
It ended an 8-game losing streak, a streak that compounded with their sub-par play before the actual ‘streak’ that sunk them within earshot of last place in the National League Central.