Cincinnati Reds play-by-play broadcaster John Sadak was exasperated after they collapsed in a house loss to the Chicago Cubs on Sunday.
“In a season that is had some very irritating moments, that is the worst to date and it is not shut,” Sadak mentioned in the course of the FanDuel Sports activities Community broadcast (h/t Dave Clark of the Cincinnati Enquirer).
The irritating second could possibly be exhausting to prime. Coming into the highest of the sixth inning, the Reds led, 8-3. The Cubs proceeded to attain eight unanswered runs.
Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner drove in two runs with a double within the prime of the seventh inning. He additionally scored a run off a wild pitch within the sixth and a single from first baseman Michael Busch within the seventh.
Issues continued to snowball for the Reds within the eighth inning. Cubs catcher Reese McGuire — who was known as up from Triple-A Iowa on Sunday — homered to proper area on a 78 mph sweeper from Reds reduction pitcher Taylor Rodgers.