Dateline: Cincinnati
The Reds reactivated Rhett Lowder from the disabled list and Luis Mey was optioned to Louisville.
The Reds hope the rookie will hold the fort and prevent the St. Louis Cardinals from sweeping the three-game series after recovering from an achy shoulder.
Lowder, making the 15th start of his career and ninth of the season sports a 3-3 record and a 5.40 ERA.
Back from a year of for injury those stats are skewed. He was 3-1 with a 3.18 ERA in his first six starts but 0-2 with nearly a 23.00 ERA in his last two.
Lowder pitched five innings, allowing three earned runs on five hits and no walks with eight strikeouts in a rehab start at Louisville on Tuesday and deemed ready to return.
He faced the Cardinals one time. That was on September 10, 2024. He pitched five scoreless innings in a five-hit effort in a 3-0 win. Lowder didn’t walk a batter and struck out three.
Lowder is up against 25-year old right hander, Michael McGreevy, the Cards first pick in the 2021 draft from UC-Santa Barbera.
McGreevy is 3-5 with a 2.98 ERA in 11 starts. He gave up five runs on seven hits to the Milwaukee Brewers on May 26 but rebounded to pitch six innings against the Texas Rangers on June 1. He gave up two runs on five hits and two walks and struck out one.
He’s walked 17 batters in 66 innings and struck out 44.
McGreevy is 2-0 against the Reds in two starts with an 0.69 ERA. He allowed the Reds one run in 13 innings on eight hits, five walks and six strikeouts.
He beat the Reds 4-2 on August 30 last season with six innings with one run on five hits, two walks and no strikeouts. He also pitched seven scoreless innings on three hits and three walks with six strikeouts in a 3-0 win on September 16.
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