PITTSBURGH – As most of the Reds found their way to the post-game meal or the shower following Sunday's 5-0 loss to the Pirates, Eugenio Suárez wheeled his suitcase out of the visitors' clubhouse with traveling secretary Gary Wahoff.



As the team prepared to stumble across the state of Pennsylvania to Philadelphia after dropping three of four to the Pirates, the hero of that one win was headed back to Cincinnati to be reevaluated by team medical director Dr. Timothy Kremchek. The initial diagnosis was a fractured right thumb, the result of a 93.7-mph fastball from Jameson Taillon.



By the seventh inning, Suárez had received the diagnosis and Louisville third baseman Alex Blandino – not top prospect Nick Senzel – was pulled from the Bats' game, likely to begin a trip to meet the Reds in Philadelphia.



“Immediately, (Suárez's) nail was turning different colors and there was bleeding around the thumb,” Reds manager...