It is 99 miles from Louisville Slugger Field, the Cincinnati Reds’ Triple-A home, to Incredible American Ball Park. Called up for his major association debut Monday, Reds outfielder Rece Hinds said he was “a disaster area” and “presumably teared up multiple times” as he traveled those 99 miles Monday.
Hinds got a call from Bats supervisor Pat Kelly on Sunday tellin g him he’d been called up when Reds outfielder Stuart Fairchild was put on the harmed list. Hinds called his mom, who booked a morning departure from her home in Sarasota, Fla., and Hinds’ most memorable stop when he crossed the Ohio Stream into Cincinnati was to her inn prior to making a beeline for the ballpark.
Hinds’ nerves were reassured the moment he strolled into the Reds’ clubhouse as he saw recognizable faces wherever he looked. A second-balance pick of a Florida secondary school in 2019, Hinds had played with a significant number of the ongoing Reds players some place since being drafted, from Elly De La Cruz to Monday’s starter Andrew Abbott.
“Everybody simply welcoming me and seeming as though they were glad for me to be here what not, it only sort of had a pleasant spot in my heart,” Hinds said. “It caused me to feel more great and feel like home.”
With Fairchild joining individual outfielders TJ Friedl and Scratch Martini on the IL, Jake Fraley on the family crisis list and recently gained outfielder Austin Slater not planned to answer to the group until Tuesday, Reds administrator David Ringer burned through no time getting Hinds into the setup, in which he batted eighth and played right field.
With the Reds falling off of a frustrating range because of the Detroit Tigers this previous end of the week, Hinds’ two hits (a twofold and grand slam) helped flash the group to a 6-0 triumph over the Colorado Rockies.
“We understand what he’s equipped for without a doubt and to step squarely into a major association game like that and straightforwardly add to a success — what an incredible method for getting moving,” Chime said.
Hinds, drafted as an infielder however moved to the outfield before the 2021 season to take a portion of the mileage off of his body, was denied of a hit in the third inning when Ezequiel Tovar made a jumping cut of a ball Hinds hit at 106.8 mph off the bat, yet straight into the ground.
Hinds gave back from the Rockies in the highest point of the fifth when he made a sliding catch to endure a shot away from Tracker Goodman for the second out of the inning, just after Abbott had strolled a couple of players to procure a hill visit from Reds pitching mentor Derek Johnson. Abbott followed with a strikeout to end the inning and afterward pitched two additional scoreless edges to procure his 10th success of the time.
The second player of the lower part of the fifth, Hinds followed with his most memorable major association hit, coating a ball off the glove of Tovar into focus field. Not happy with his most memorable major association hit being a solitary, Hinds never quit running and slid straight into second for a twofold.
“When I saw it off the glove, I assumed I’m going two here,” Hinds said.
That hustle twofold demonstrated the way that Hinds can find a place with this Reds group that is forceful on the bases, as confirmed by De La Cruz getting two taken bases to give him a major association driving 45 on the season, as well as getting discovered attempting to take home in the main inning.
With the Reds driving 2-0 in the eighth, Hinds opened the inning with his most memorable grand slam, impacting a Tyler Kinley slider 449 feet into the subsequent deck in left-focus field to begin a four-run eighth for the Reds.
“Frankly, I didn’t actually watch where the ball went,” Hinds said. “I sort of taken a gander at the burrow and I totally shut down on the bases, so I was unable to let you know what occurred, what was happening.”
What was happening was the very sort of grins that he saw before in the day. His colleagues went to the passage between the burrow and clubhouse to celebrate, as the group has done over the most recent few months as a component of the group’s redone homer festival.
“You saw it a ton in our clubhouse, in our burrow today, it resembled a companion joining the group and there was a ton of fervor,” Ringer said. “Everybody was excited for Rece to start off very strong like that. There were a great deal of grins.”
Hinds’ homer was the second-hardest hit bundle of the inning (109.6 mph to De La Cruz’s twofold at 113.1 mph) and the second-most intriguing play after De La Cruz scored from third on a comebacker to the pitcher. In any case, that is simply regular Elly things, it appears. Obviously, 449 feet is not really surprising for the 6-foot-4, 215-pound Hinds.
“That is only an ordinary homer for Rece,” Abbott said.
Slater is nearly joining the group and program moves should be made, yet Hinds made a very decent case to keep close by for something other than one day.
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