Reds fire David Bell with 5 games left in regular season [Video]

The Cincinnati Reds are about to play their last few games of the 2024 season but will be doing so without David Bell in the dugout.

The Reds fired Bell on Sunday night after the game lost 2-0 to the Pittsburgh Pirates. The loss dropped the Reds to 76-81 on the season.

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Cincinnati named bench coach Freddie Benavides the interim manager for the final five games of the season.

“David provided the kind of steadiness that we needed in our clubhouse over the last few seasons. We felt a change was needed to move the Major League team forward. We have not achieved the success we expected, and we need to begin focusing on 2025,” Reds president of baseball operations Nick Krall said in a news release.

The Reds hired Bell before the start of the 2019 season as he replaced Bryan Price and Jim Riggleman. …