December 21st, 2018. The Reds trade Homer Bailey and prospects Jeter Downs and Josiah Gray to the Dodgers for Yasiel Puig, Matt Kemp, Alex Wood, and Kyle Farmer. After years of trading away star players for prospects, the Reds made a move to upgrade their Major League team. Marking the end of the rebuild???

April 6th-7th, 2019. In the second game of a three game series against the Pirates, Derek Dietrich watched a towering home run before trotting around the bases. The next day, Pirates starter, Chris Archer, threw a fastball behind Dietrich. A brawl followed led by Cincinnati's Yasiel Puig. Dietrich said it was just how he played the game and he was not going to change. Staring at his home run was not intended to show up the Pirates pitcher.

May 28th, 2019. Derek Dietrich, after being thrown at by the Pirates for watching a home run earlier in the season, hits three home runs against the Pirates at Great American Ballpark.

September 4th, 2019. Michael Lorenzen becomes the first player to earn the win, hit a home run, and play in the field in the same game since Babe Ruth in 1921.

September 26th, 2019. Marty calls his last game. Before the 2019 season, Reds radio broadcaster, Marty Brennaman, who had been with the Reds since 1974, announced that he would retire at the end of the 2019 season. Marty gave an emotional sign off at the conclusion of the broadcast. The picture on this card is from that game, when the players came out of the dugout to recognize Marty after the game.

September 23rd, 2020. Trevor Bauer dominates the Brewers on short rest. In the middle of a wild card playoff chase with the Cardinals, Brewers, Phillies, and Giants, Bauer threw eight innings and only allowed one run and the Reds beat the Brewers 6-1. The win in this game put the Reds in the second Wild Card spot and a game ahead on Milwaukee. At the end of the year, Bauer won the Cy Young award. At the conclusion of this game (what would be his final start of the season), Bauer was leading the NL in ERA, strike outs, WHIP, and was second in batting average against (from official MLB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CFgKxkagjYN/?utm_source=ig_embed).

September 25th, 2020. The Reds "sneak on in" to the 2020 playoffs. After starting 20-26, the Reds go on a 10-2 run to sneak into the playoffs. Mike Moustakas hits two home runs, and the Reds clinch a spot in the playoffs for the first time since 2013.

April 3rd, 2021. Tempers flair with the Cardinals again. On opening day, Nick Castellanos hit a home run and did a trotting bat-flip celebration in a 11-6 loss to the Cardinals. The next game, Castellanos was hit by a pitch and thought that the Cardinals were throwing at him. Castellanos worked his way around the bases and eventually came home on a wild pitch. After a close play at the plate, Castellanos scored, flexed, and screamed "Let's go" while standing over the Cardinals pitcher, Jake Woodford. Cardinals catcher, Yadier Molina, charged in to back Castellanos off of Woodford and the benches emptied. The Reds would go on to win the game 9-6 and win the last game of the series against the Cardinals. Three days later against the Pirates, Castellanos hit another home run and did another bat flip celebration prompting Reds closer, Amir Garrett, to say in a post game interview, "I want everybody to think that the Cincinnati Reds is like the most cockiest team ever. We're some bat flippin', show boatin', son of a guns."

May 7th, 2021. Wade Miley throws a no-hitter against the Indians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE8OuIEYkYQ

July 10th-11th, 2021. The Reds break through against Hader in back-to-back games. Before the all-star break, the Reds headed into a four game series in Milwaukee against the Brewers who they were trailing in the division by six games. After splitting the first two games, the Reds won the final two games of the series by scoring in the ninth inning. The first night, Eugenio Suarez hit a opposite field home run off of Brewers All-Star closer, Josh Hader and the Reds won 4-3. The next night, the Reds rallied against Hader again. Nick Castellanos hit a single with the bases loaded that scored two runs and the Reds won 3-1. The Reds entered the All-Star break trailing the Brewers by four games in the division.