Image by Jeff Dean/Getty Images TJ Friedl smoked a 2-run homer, walked, took a bag, and drove in a triad of runs for the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday, sustaining them to their seventh successive victory while doing so. The Reds outlasted the Chicago Cubs by the song of 4-3, doing so on the backs of Friedl, former Cub Jeimer Candelario that socked a solo homer), and an all-around initiative by the team's throwing Zack Littell Jersey, this win behaved, however these success are what we're right here to discuss. The Reds have actually risen forward in the muddied National League Central mess, vaulting completely approximately 2nd location in the division in this surge and possessing the 5th best run differential in the NL along the road. They are, I'll advise all of us, still a game under the.500 mark, but in the Rob Manfred Age of Engagement Trophies they currently being in a digital connection for the last Wild Card 's right - the Cincinnati Reds you have actually viewed play baseball 65 times so much this season have actually somehow discovered their means right into the real, real postseason mix. Several of you are entirely woozy at that factual comment. Others are groaning throughout as it's a measure of a busted playoff system in which groups who don't appear like'playoff' teams much more frequently than not still obtain rewarded with'postseason play, ' therefore allowing affordable owners to stay economical given that the course to'postseason play' ends up being an easier and simpler sell to followers by the of you are incorrect. That a 32-33 Cincinnati Reds club even makes you really feel kinda amusing like when you utilized to view Garth speak concerning climbing the rope in gym class is also more of a charge of what this group and its woeful possession teams throughout the years has actually done to you. I Reds are on a heating system once more. Fire one up with 'em while it lasts!