Opening Day starting lineup March •
March 28: The Reds rallied from 2–1 deficit to defeat the Pirates on Opening Day in front of a crowd of 44,049, the largest for a regular-season game in Great American Ballpark history.
April •
April 13: The Reds played for the first time in 16 years (excluding Canada) outside the United States as they played in
Monterrey,
Mexico against the Cardinals. The Reds won 5–2. •
April 17: In the 8th inning,
Joey Votto popped up to
Dodgers first baseman
Cody Bellinger in foul territory, Votto's first career pop out to first in 6,827 career plate appearances. •
April 18: Joey Votto hits his first career leadoff home run and number 271 as a member of the Cincinnati Reds, moving him into fourth place on the Reds franchise all-time home run list.
May •
May 2:
Luis Castillo was named
N.L. Pitcher of the Month for the month of April. In 43.1 innings, Castillo had an ERA of 1.43 and struck out 42 batters while going 3–1. •
May 3:
Derek Dietrich became the first major league second baseman to hit a pair of three-run homers in the first three innings of a game since Reds Hall of Famer
Joe Morgan on Aug. 19, 1974, according to
STATS. •
May 5:
Eugenio Suárez,
Jesse Winker and Derek Dietrich hit back-to-back-to-back home runs off
Giants pitcher
Jeff Samardzija on three-consecutive pitches in the first inning. According to the
Elias Sports Bureau, the last time a team homered on three consecutive pitches was the
Dodgers on June 12, 2007, against the
Mets. •
May 28: Derek Dietrich hit three home runs and had 6 RBIs in a win over the
Pittsburgh Pirates. The three home runs gave Dietrich 7 home runs versus the Pirates this season and also marked his last six hits all being home runs.
June •
June 21: Derek Dietrich became the first player in the modern era (since 1900) to be hit three times by a pitch in one game according to the Elias Sports Bureau. •
June 30:
Luis Castillo was named to the
2019 Major League Baseball All-Star team, the first Reds starting pitcher since 2014 to make the All-Star team. This is Castillo's first All-Star selection.
July •
July 7:
Sonny Gray was named as a replacement to the MLB All-Star team, replacing
Washington Nationals starting pitcher
Max Scherzer. This is Gray's second All-Star selection. •
July 9:
Luis Castillo pitched a scoreless fourth inning with two strikeouts for the National League, who lost to the American League 4–3 in the
All-Star Game. •
July 13: Against the
Colorado Rockies, the Reds, according to
Elias Sports, became the first Major League team in the modern era to ever collect five triples and at least three home runs in one game. •
July 30: Reds trade
Yasiel Puig to the
Cleveland Indians as part of a three-team trade with the
San Diego Padres and in exchange receive Indians starting pitcher
Trevor Bauer. As part of the deal, the Reds send top prospect
Taylor Trammell to the Padres. •
July 31: Reds traded starting pitcher
Tanner Roark and sent cash to the
Oakland Athletics for minor league outfielder Jameson Hannah. The Reds also traded second baseman
Scooter Gennett to the
San Francisco Giants for a player to be named later.
August •
August 10: Rookie
Aristides Aquino hit three home runs against the
Chicago Cubs to match
Trevor Story's record for most home run's in a players first 10 games with seven. •
August 12: Aristides Aquino hit his 8th home run becoming the first player to ever hit eight home runs in his first 12 career games. •
August 17: Aristides Aquino hit is 11th home run becoming the first player since 1900 to have 11 home runs in his first 17 games, according to the Elias Sport Bureau. •
August 18:
Kevin Gausman threw an
immaculate inning, striking out all three batters on nine pitches, the 6th such feat in Reds history. This was the second time Gausman had thrown an immaculate inning, with the first coming on April 23, 2018. •
August 28: Aristides Aquino hit his 13th home run of his career becoming the first player in the modern era to hit 13 home runs in his first 100 career plate appearances. •
August 29: Aristides Aquino hit his 14th home run in August, breaking the National League rookie record for home runs in a month set by
Cody Bellinger in June 2017.
September •
September 2: Aristides Aquino hit his 15th career home run, becoming the fastest player to hit that mark in MLB history. Aqunio needed just 122 plate appearances, 13 fewer than the record set by
Rhys Hoskins in 2017. •
September 3: Aristides Aquino is named the
National League Player of the Month &
National League Rookie of the Month for the month of August. In August, Aqunio hit .320/.391/.767 with 14 home runs, and 33 runs scored. The 14 homers tied Hall of Famer
Frank Robinson (August 1962) and
Greg Vaughn (September 1999) for Cincinnati's franchise record by any player—rookie or veteran—in a calendar month. Aquino's 14 round-trippers also set an NL record for rookies in any calendar month. •
September 4: The four home runs hit in the Reds 8–5 victory over the Phillies were by players who weren't in the starting lineup:
Logan Morrison and
Jay Bruce for the Phillies and Michael Lorenzen and
José Iglesias for the Reds. It was the first time since 1900 in which four players who weren't in the starting lineup for either team entered the game and hit a home run, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. •
September 18:
Eugenio Suárez hit his 48th home run of the season, the most ever by a Venezuelan player, breaking the previous mark of 47 set by
Andrés Galarraga in 1996. •
September 25: Eugenio Suárez hit his 49th home run of the season, which moved him ahead of
Mike Schmidt and
Adrián Beltré for the modern NL record by a third baseman. •
September 26:
Marty Brennaman broadcasts his final game as the voice of the Reds on radio network
700 WLW. Brennaman has been the voice of the Reds for the past 46 seasons and is just one of eight major league broadcasters to cover one team for 46 seasons. •
September 30: Eugenio Suárez is named the
National League Player of the Month for the month of September. Suárez recorded a .337/.455/.747 slash line with 10 homers and 18 RBIs over 25 games in September. He is the second straight Reds player to win Player of the Month honors after Aristides Aquino was Player of the Month in August. == Game log ==