The Cincinnati Reds’ postseason hopes took a crushing blow on Saturday evening as they blew a 9-0 lead towards the Pirates. The host Reds wound up shedding the sport 13-12. For Pittsburgh, it is their largest comeback in the 133-year history of the franchise.
After the 3rd inning, the Reds held a 9-0 lead. Soon after, despite the fact that, the Pirates commenced a methodical comeback for the ages.They put one run at the board in the fourth. In the 6th, the Pirates plated 5, 3 of which got here on Bryan Reynolds’ twenty third homer of the season. Then in the 7th a bases-clearing double via Alfonso Rivas introduced the Buccos all of the long ago:
In addition to the franchise history famous above, that nine-run margin is tied for the largest blown lead in Reds’ franchise history. It’s a mark they closing equaled in 2004.
The Pirates would pass on to rating 13 unanswered runs earlier than the Reds tried a comeback of their very own. Down 13-9 going into the ground of the 8th, the Reds tallied two runs in that body and some other in the 9th. Also in the 9th, the Reds had the tying run on 3rd base with one out, however Elly De La Cruz struck out and Jonathan India flied out to finish the danger and the sport.
All of it yielded a predictably wild win-expectancy chart:
The Pirates had up to now come again from 8 runs down on 4 events, maximum just lately in 1994 towards the Astros. Never had they surmounted a nine-run deficit — till Saturday at Cincy.
As for the Reds, they have got now misplaced 4 video games in a row at a time when they may be able to least have the funds for this sort of skid. Saturday’s fantastic defeat drops them to 79-77 at the season, 2.5 video games out of the general wild-card spot in the National League, and chasing the Cubs and Marlins. They have six video games left at the regular-season time table, together with Sunday’s collection finale towards Pittsburgh.
Coming into Saturday’s slate, SportsLine gave the Reds an 18.3% likelihood of creating the playoffs, however that determine can be decrease after the lovely loss to the Pirates. If the Reds finally end up lacking the playoffs via a unmarried sport or by means of mathematical tiebreaker, this one will sting much more than it already does.