Spencer Steer put bat to ball on the 125th pitch of Alex Cobb’s outing last night, lacing it for a double over the head of the RF and off the brick wall that Barry Bonds once used as his own personal home-run hurdle. It drove in a run, it got the Reds on the board, and it prevented them from being completely no-hit, as the play came with a pair of outs in the Top of the 9th after they’d been utterly dominated (and hitless) until that point.
It was the latest in a long, growing line of disappointments surrounding this franchise, one that had so effortlessly put itself back into the national conversation earlier in the season for the first time in forever.