Finnegan (1-3) gave up a run on five hits and four walks with two strikeouts over eight innings in a loss Monday to the Dodgers.
Finnegan also worked around three Reds errors, stranding all the extra runners. The bread and butter for Finnegan was the groundball, as he induced 13 outs on the dirt, including four double plays. Unfortunately, he was matched up against Clayton Kershaw, who was almost perfect in a two-hit shutout. Finnegan lowered his ERA to 3.97 with the effort, but he continues to play with fire with the walks. He now has 27 in 56.2 innings, a 4.3 BB/9 that ranks sixth-worst among the 52 qualified National League starters. He'll have to tighten things up if he wants to keep rolling quality starts like this one.