The Detroit Tigers met the Cincinnati Reds on April 25 with Jack Flaherty on the mound for Detroit and Brady Singer starting for Cincinnati. The matchup came one night after Nathaniel Lowe's two-run walk-off home run lifted the Reds in a game that produced 17 runs and 22 hits.
Flaherty entered having allowed two earned runs across his last 15 innings of work, while Singer came in with a 5.32 ERA. Detroit had also won six of the past nine meetings between the teams and seven of its past 10 trips to Cincinnati, a stretch that helped frame this game as more than a routine April meeting.
The Tigers arrived with a 10-4 record in their last 14 games and had scored 34 runs across their past six contests, a run that showed up in the numbers as well as the standings. They ranked 10th in the majors in hits, and the Over had gone 5-1 in their last six games and cashed in their past four matchups against the Reds.
Cincinnati entered the weekend as joint leaders of the NL Central and had been producing at the plate, scoring six or more runs in four of its last five outings. That made the rematch feel live from the start, especially after the previous night’s barrage around a rain delay and a walk-off finish that turned the series opener into an instant reference point.
That is what made the April 25 game matter: two teams were meeting with real momentum, both were swinging the bats, and the Reds were trying to back up a dramatic win while the Tigers were trying to keep a strong run going on the road. For anyone looking for where to watch Detroit Tigers vs Cincinnati Reds, the attraction was not just the names on the lineup card but the way both clubs had been scoring and trading blows leading into first pitch.
