Cincinnati Reds make more futile history in 1-0 loss to Milwaukee Brewers
The things, they are not good!
Hall of Famers Tony Gwynn, Kirby Puckett, and Cal Ripken, Jr.!
Actors Sean Penn and Antonio Banderas, Jane Lynch and Julianne Moore!
The likes of Jeremy Clarkson and David Duchovny, tennis star Ivan Lendl and U2’s Bono!
John Franco, and the late, great Tom Browning!
All of these folks were born in 1960, the last year in which a Major League Baseball team lost three straight games by the score of 1-0. At least, that was the last time before the 2025 Cincinnati Reds did just that, as they completed said trio of futility on Thursday night in Milwaukee against the Brewers.
It was the same story as the previous two games against the Texas Rangers, really. They got excellent starting pitching, this time from Nick Lodolo. On the offensive side of things, though, they looked befuddled by the same Nestor Cortes who gave up homers on each of his first three pitches of the season in a destruction at the hands of the New York Yankees, and the mere idea of even threatening to score was once again farfetched.
There’s surely a light at the end of this tunnel for Cincinnati, who is obviously missing Tyler Stephenson and Austin Hays and has Spencer Steer looking like a gigantic fraction of his former self at the dish. Still, this is a franchise that hasn’t gone anywhere in three decades, fired their last manager, and has a history of ending seasons with horrendous April play before they ever have a chance to see if they can float, and it’s hard not to conjure up the memories of all that while this team limps through real, live big league games once again.
These Reds might not end up a bad, brutal team over the duration of 162 games in 2025, but for now, they’re playing some really bad, really brutal baseball and putting themselves in the kind of hole they’ve not emerged from in a really, really long time.
Final: Brewers 1, Reds 0