MIAMI -- The pitch count was high early and the walks were piling up for the Reds’ starting pitcher on Monday night against the Marlins. Like a computer that isn’t performing up to standards,
“It wasn’t an easy game,” Gray said. “I think I was able to kind of settle in a rhythm and get quick outs and see what happens. Obviously, I want to be a little bit better than that. You can’t walk five guys and expect positive results.\n\n\"I came in after the third and I just tried to resettle, kind of start over. Go out there and just start over. Here we are. Who cares what just happened. The game is 2-1. Let’s just start over. Let’s just start this day over with.”\n\nWhen the going got tough, Gray got … into a whole new uniform.\n\n“Guys were giving me stuff because I was in the clubhouse and I didn’t have any clothes on. I literally started over,” Gray explained. “They were giving me crap about it, but I didn’t think it was weird until they started talking about it in there. I just started over and tried to go out there from the fourth inning on and go as long as I could.\n\n“I threw two warmup pitches in between innings. That was good. That was weird. I do some weird things every now and then.”
As Gray was turning his night around,