Blown leads, balls lost in the sky, and the end of the Reds' recent dominance of the Cubs
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Blown leads, balls lost in the sky, and the end of the Reds' recent dominance of the Cubs

New York Times  

CHICAGO — We interrupt your previously scheduled feel-good Reds story for a day of mistakes, two separate squandered five-run leads, and the end of a five-game winning streak against the Cubs. It was a hit — still, I should have made the play.” The next batter, Anthony Rizzo, grounded out, but with two strikes, Báez was on the move and the Reds couldn’t turn the double play, allowing the go-ahead run to score. “I’ve got to use it to motivate me, right?” Hughes said. “That’s baseball, you’re not going to go out and be locked in and perfect every single time,” Harvey said. “We’ve come back on a few clubs like that,” Reds interim manager Jim Riggleman said.

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