With his teammates looking for a boost from their ace right-hander, Hunter Greene returns to the mound Wednesday as the Cincinnati Reds close out their three-game series with the visiting Philadelphia Phillies.

Greene (4-3, 2.72 ERA) will be back on a major league mound for the first time since June 3. In the fifth inning of that game against the visiting Milwaukee Brewers, he felt a tweak in his right groin in the fifth inning, an aggravation of the same problem that sent him to the injured list in mid-May and forced him to miss two starts.

This time, instead of two starts, he missed more than two months.

The Reds are in desperate need of wins of any kind at this point. Cincinnati got six shutout innings from starter Brady Singer on Tuesday in a 6-1 win over the Phillies, setting up th

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