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Chase Petty is available to pitch bulk innings today. The Reds initially acquired him by trading Sonny Gray, who’s starting today for the Cardinals. Back in spring training, Austin Wynns spoke about the two of them. Wynns has trained with Gray during the offseason. Wynns

Terry Francona tells Tommy Thrall on the pregame show that Nick Martinez is available out of the bullpen today. It happened last year where Martinez made a relief appearance between starts.

Brent Suter had been nearly unhittable this year as an opener and whenever the Reds needed length out of him. He entered today with a 2.91 ERA, but Burleson gives the Cardinals an early 2-0 lead against Suter in the first inning today.

Nick Martinez is able to find a silver lining from his bad start on Thursday. Since he didn’t throw many pitches or go deep into the game, he had the ability to pitch out of the bullpen today. He throws a scoreless third in a true bullpen day for the Reds.

It all adds up over the course of the series. The inning yesterday where the bullpen struggled impacted the availability/number of guys at their freshest today (so did the fact that it was a true bullpen game today). So Pagan has to throw one-plus. Pagan was great in the eighth

The Cardinals are having the season they are because of how their defense has had innings just like the incredible one the Reds just had. The Reds just showed they’re able to do that. As impressive of an inning as they’ve had all season, and the type of inning good teams have.

Chase Petty has been a starter for his whole life. It’s a tough ask having the rookie pitch out of the bullpen in extras as the Reds lose on a walk off. They got there because of how much the Reds have asked for from their bullpen over the last three games. It added up today as

Some prospect notes from High-A Dayton. Snapshots on Adam Serwinowski, Carlos Jorge, Connor Burns, Victor Acosta and Luke Hayden. charlieschalkboard.substack.com/p/reds-prospec…

A lineup change as a heating up Matt McLain moves up to the No. 2 spot. Lux moves down to fifth as the Reds create some more left/right balance.

In his return to the No. 2 spot in the lineup, Matt McLain homers to give the Reds an early lead. He follows his best game of the year with this

If you look at it on paper, there are a lot of similarities between where the Reds are at entering tomorrow’s series against the Yankees and where they were at in 2023 when the Dodgers came to town in June. One of the similarities is a terrific start by Andrew Abbott in the

This is a group of young prospects that won in High-A last season and are winning in Double-A this year. Sal Stewart and Hector Rodriguez have been even better in 2025 and have had really exciting seasons. Edwin Arroyo and Cam Collier are big names in the system. Ethan