Hunter Greene dazzled in historic fashion on Tuesday night as the Reds beat the Cardinals in a National League Central battle.
The Cincinnati Reds, one of the most disappointing teams in all of baseball, are making a last-ditch charge here in 2024.
With a 4-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday, the Reds are now 59-61 on the year. While two games under .500 doesn't seem all that impressive, this year, it's just 4.5 games back of the third and final wild card spot in the National League. Though there are four teams to jump to get into that spot, the opportunity still exists for Cincinnati to make the playoffs for the first time since the COVID 2020 season.
Starting pitcher Hunter Greene dominated for Cincinnati on Tuesday, going 7.0 innings and allowing just one run on four hits. He walked one and struck out eight. Greene is now 9-4 with a 2.83 ERA on the season. Furthermore, with his eight strikeouts, he passed Stephen Strasburg for the seventh-most strikeouts through a pitcher's first 70 games in baseball history.
Only Dwight Gooden , Jose Fernandez , Hideo Nomo , Mark Prior , Kerry Wood and Tim Lincecum have more than Greene's 473 through 70 games.meeting against the Cardinals, Hunter Greene sits at 154 strikeouts through 23 outings in 2024 . Owning 470 overall in his career, he can move into 7th on this list of National Leaguers if he collects at least 6 tonightThe Reds and Cardinals will battle again on Wednesday night with first pitch coming at 6:40 p.m. ET.
Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady.
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