{"id":44326,"date":"2021-10-11T11:49:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T11:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=44326"},"modified":"2021-10-11T11:49:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T11:49:17","slug":"reds-try-to-make-up-ground-in-playoff-race-as-nationals-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=44326","title":{"rendered":"Reds try to make up ground in playoff race as Nationals visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The Cincinnati Reds will try to stay in the National League <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/news24\/search?query=wild-card\">wild-card<\/a> race when they open a four-game series against the visiting Washington Nationals on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Reds, who split two games against the Pirates before being rained out on Wednesday, come into the series 4 1\/2 games behind the St.<\/p>\n<p>Louis Cardinals for the second wild-card spot.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Making up ground on the Cardinals will not be easy for the Reds (78-74) as St. Louis goes into Thursday riding a 11-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati has 10 games remaining in its 2021 season, with eight of those games coming against either the Nationals or the Pirates.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The other two games come against the AL Central-leading White Sox.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Washington (63-89) is coming off a series win against the host Miami Marlins after taking two of three.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Nationals, who have won 10 of their past 11 games in Cincinnati,  <a href=\"http:\/\/dewadmino.site\">download aplikasi dewadominoqq<\/a> held on to beat the host Marlins 7-5 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rainout, there was news coming out of Great American Ballpark on Wednesday as the Reds announced a two-year contract extension for manager David Bell.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s something I&#8217;d like to do for as long as possible,&#8221; Bell said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love doing it, love the team, the organization and our players.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t change my focus. I was confident it would all work out, so it doesn&#8217;t really change anything other than it just makes me look forward to finishing strong this year and continuing that for years to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sonny Gray was scheduled to start Thursday&#8217;s series opener but the rainout pushed things back.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>So, Luis Castillo (8-15, 4.08 ERA) gets the start for Cincinnati after he missed out on facing the Pirates.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Castillo comes into the game on a bit of a high after picking up the win against the Dodgers on Sept. 17. Castillo threw 6 1\/3 shutout innings, giving up five hits and striking out 10.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This month, Castillo is 1-1 in three starts, giving up seven runs (five earned) with 22 strikeouts in 19 1\/3 innings of work.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Castillo is 0-3 lifetime against the Nationals, allowing 13 runs with 20 strikeouts in 21 1\/3 innings of work. This is the first time he has faced Washington this season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Nationals will counter with lefty Patrick Corbin (8-15, 6.17), whose last outing against the Rockies only lasted four innings.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Corbin gave up six runs on nine hits, striking out five. He also gave up two home runs, which gave him 36 for the season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just the way my season has gone,&#8221; Corbin said. &#8220;Try to throw the perfect pitch and end up missing my spot.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Yanking pitches, just location, I think. The fastball command wasn&#8217;t very good today. Had some good sliders when I did throw them. Had a couple swings and misses for strike three on those, but it just comes down to fastball command, which hasn&#8217;t really been consistent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This will be Corbin&#8217;s 10th career start against the Reds.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Corbin is 2-4 with a 4.53 ERA against Cincinnati in 10 games (nine starts), but this will be his first start against the Reds this season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati took the only other series against the Nationals this year, taking two of three back in May.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cincinnati Reds will try to stay in the National League wild-card race when they o\u2026","protected":false},"author":8027,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2905],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44326"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44327,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44326\/revisions\/44327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}