It’s bad enough to be swept by a division rival in baseball.
It’s much worse when that sweep to simultaneously bolster one rival’s win streak and another’s losing streak.
And it’s something else entirely when that sweep is capped off by the sort of blunder that would make grade school baseball prospects blush.
The Cincinnati Reds lost to their National League Central rivals, the Chicago Cubs, to the score of 8-3 on Thursday.
Not only did the Cubs sweep the Reds, but the win at Wrigley Field has secured Chicago its longest home win-streak since 1935, according toESPN.
The loss was the seventh straight loss for the Reds, and ninth straight victory for the Cubs, who now lead the NL Central.
That’s all enough to sting Reds fans plenty, but compounding matters is the fact that this freefall came after a 20-11 start, which was good enough for first place in the NL Central at the time.
The Reds are now in last place in the division — and winless in May going into Thursday’s stinging loss, as pointed out byFox News— which is all bad enough.
But Thursday’s loss added insult to injury, after a boneheaded blunder from the Reds in the fourth inning all but guaranteed that their woes would continue for another game.
Already down 2-0 to the Cubs, the Reds had a golden opportunity to get out of a very sticky situation (bases loaded, nobody out) when they appeared to be set-up for a double play.
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