Scooter Gennett News: Gennett was optioned to Triple-A Nashville following Wednesday's game.

Gennett was optioned to Triple-A Nashville following Wednesday's game.

Gennett was nearly a walk-off hero in Wednesday's 5-4 loss to the Cubs, as he came on to pinch-hit with two outs in the ninth inning and a runner on base and sent a Kevin Gregg offering all the way to the warning track before it was caught. Even those heroics might not have saved Gennett from demotion with the previously dormant Rickie Weeks hitting an impressive .429 this month and reasserting himself as the team's top second baseman.