LOS ANGELES – The last things left in the Reds clubhouse following Wednesday’s 3-2 loss to the Dodgers were the “wet bags” – the bags of dirty clothes to be washed when the bus got to San Diego from Los Angeles – and two other bags sitting in the lockers of Joey Votto and Jesse Winker.



The bus was scheduled to pull out at 3:50 p.m., one hour and three minutes after Eugenio Suárez popped up to a falling Austin Barnes to finish off the Dodgers’ sweep of the Reds, dropping the Reds to 5-12 on the season.



As the clubhouse emptied and the last look-over of empty lockers were done to make sure nothing was left behind, the sound from the batting cage next to the visitor’s clubhouse continued. It was the unmistakable thump of wood hitting baseballs, over and over and over. About 25 minutes after the game, Winker came through looking for a bat and seeing his were packed away, grabbed one from Kyle Farmer’s locker. At...