Reds will try to reverse August slide in San Francisco

Aug. 28—With 30 games left in the season, the Cincinnati Reds will have to do something in the last five weeks of the season they haven't done in the wild card era, at least in a 162-game season — overcome a deficit in the standings to make the playoffs. Three losses in four games to the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix left the Reds 1 1/2 games out of the wild-card picture entering a ...