Reds fans, take a deep breath. The panic button can wait.

After a brutal six-game losing streak on their current seven-game road trip through Pittsburgh and Chicago, the Cincinnati Reds are in a rough patch. But rookie sensation Sal Stewart has a simple message for the faithful back home: "Chill."

"So many people are in a panic right now," Stewart said from a quiet Wrigley Field clubhouse Wednesday night. "Just gotta chill. We're good. Things like this happen all the time, and especially to good teams. We're in a good spot and we're gonna keep going."

It's been a tough stretch, no doubt. The Reds opened with two blowout losses and have since dropped four consecutive one-run games—including three straight walk-off defeats to the Cubs at Wrigley. They've held leads late in all three, only to see them slip away. Even after scoring four in the ninth inning to grab the lead, closer Graham Ashcraft couldn't close the door.

Now 1-8 in NL Central play, the Reds have fallen from first place—where they sat by a game over Chicago when the trip began—to five games back of the Cubs and their star-studded lineup. Injuries to key players haven't helped, and the locals are understandably restless.

But Stewart, who made a rare baserunning mistake during the series, isn't hitting the panic button. The rookie's confidence in his team remains unshaken.

"We just get up and we keep playing," he said. "Everyone in this clubhouse knows that we've got it taken care of, and we're going to come out here and keep playing hard."

For Reds fans, that's the kind of resilience worth believing in. After all, every good team hits a rough stretch—and this one's far from over.