Which is exactly the way things haven’t happened. On Wednesday, Jack Leiter and a quartet of relievers hummed along to a harmonious 1-0 win over Cincinnati. It followed a 1-0 complete-game win by Nathan Eovaldi the previous night.

Jack Leiter shut the Cincinnati Reds down for the second game in a row and the Texas Rangers won 1-0 to take the three-game series.

Jack Leiter doesn’t remember when he went to his first Opening Day. After all, when he was born in 2000, his father Al was in the midst of a seven-year stint with the Mets. This year, Jack made his first Opening Day roster,

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In his 2025 debut, the right-hander allowed just one run on three hits over six innings in a 1-0 loss to the Texas Rangers.

Nathan Eovaldi continued his mastery of the Cincinnati Reds, tossing his third career shutout, and Wyatt Langford provided the only run with a solo homer as the visiting Texas Rangers prevailed 1-0 Tuesday night.

So far, all three can be guessed at only with the shrugging shoulder emoji, as the Reds have won two of their six games, dropping to 2-4 following their second 1-0 loss to the Texas Rangers in as many days Wednesday.

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