Alcantara and Abbott’s Shocking Setback: What’s Next for These Rising Stars?
The Reds have been fairly consistent all year. In recent plays I’ve detailed how they are an average team in most major statistical categories. I won’t rehash that here, but I will just mention that this is a team that hasn’t been too far under .500 for the season, and they haven’t been too far over .500 for the season either. They actually haven’t been more than three games under .500, and no more than four games over .500 at any point in this season. They have lost four straight games and are at 46-46 for the season as of today. Their offense has disappeared over the past four games, scoring a total of five runs while allowing 25. They get arguably their best pitcher taking the ball to vault them over .500 today as Andrew Abbott takes the hill. Abbott enters the game with a 7-1 record and a 2.15 ERA. He is also the owner of a 1.09 WHIP. None of the numbers rank as he doesn’t have enough innings to qualify, but he has still completed 83.2 innings this season. He is coming off of one of his worst starts, he allowed four earned runs in 3.1 innings, but the Reds did win the game 9-6. He has only had 12 at-bats against him from Marlins hitters and they did get five hits, including a grand slam.Â
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