The Jim Day podcast.

Hi, Gene Day.

Have a good night, Gene Day.

All right, welcome back in.

It's the Jim Day podcast.

As always, thanks for checking us out.

And we've got another first-timer,

at least to the Jim Day podcast.

He is Pierce Johnson. Welcome in.

Thank you. Thank you.

How are things besides, you know, your best friend, uh, getting injured?

Talk about that here in a minute.

But you got your first save in a Reds uniform.

That had to be pretty cool. Yeah, it was great. It was great. And we needed it. It was, we kind of been grinding as a team. And it was a tough road trip. But, you know, that's why we play 162 of these things, right? Yeah. It's a long year. You had a couple off days, but, you know, that was a long stretch of games,

and I feel like bullpen was pretty taxed, you know, guys are a little tired.

It's just, you know, that's baseball.

Kind of have to roll with the punches.

It was one of the tougher road trips I've ever experienced, and I've been around, I'm a hold,

I've been around for a long

time. I was a tough one

especially just the way the games unfolded

and division games

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