Hunter Greene's pregame 'moment' at Dodger Stadium has social media piling on Reds

The night before the Cincinnati Reds were set to take on the Los Angeles Dodgers, Hunter Greene, who is from Sherman Oaks, CA, "took a moment" on the mound at Dodger Stadium as he soaked it all in before the biggest start of his career.

Fast forward 24 hours later, and Greene surrendered a leadoff homer to Shohei Ohtani to begin Game 1 of the Wild Card Series. About an hour after that, he was bounced from the game. He completed just three innings of work, surrendering five earned runs on six hits and two walks. He allowed three home runs. He threw 65 pitches.

For as good as Greene's been all season, this was the last thing the Reds needed. Greene's pregame actions followed by his actual performance are about to make him a meme of sorts.

In fact, Reds fans are already in shambles as they take hits left and right on social media. They won't get shut out on Tuesday, but this will be a swift defeat (and the most lopsided one by far of the first slate of Wild Card games).

Compared to every other starter on Tuesday, Greene was by far the worst. All of Tarik Skubal, Gavin Williams, Nick Pivetta, Matthew Boyd, Max Fried, Garrett Crochet and Blake Snell outperformed him by miles. It showed that this was the first postseason start of his career. And it might've took the shine off his "ace" aspirations.

Hunter Greene's pregame 'moment' at Dodger Stadium has Reds fans in shambles

It looked like a perennial World Series contender against a team that hasn't sniffed a full-season playoff series since 2012. That's just how it goes when the gap is that wide, but Reds fans believed they had an outside shot with their starting pitching, and the Dodgers blasted them into oblivion to put that notion to rest.

Greene's last start came on Sept. 24 in a loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates, and then he resurfaced a day later to drop some questionable comments about his teammates, which certainly didn't help set an appropriate tone for a playoff series against the defending world champions.

They obviously had an uphill battle since they didn't necessarily earn their playoff spot as much as the Mets handed it to them, but with how up-and-down the Dodgers have been this year, Greene had a chance to make his mark. All he needed to do was not this.

Don't expect the overnight social media behavior to get any better. We'll see everyone back here Wednesday night at 9 p.m. ET ... and we can only hope it's not this bad again.