After two more homers, Eric Thames now has seven against the Reds already in 2017

Early on in the 2017 season, the story at the plate has been Eric Thames. After crushing 124 homers across three seasons in the KBO, he returned to Major League Baseball with the Brewers. Despite not playing in the Majors since 2012, Thames has been scorching hot in April and apparently hasn't missed a beat.
No one can seem to figure out how to retire Thames -- especially the Reds.

With a pair of blasts in his first two at-bats during an 11-7 victory on Monday, Thames became the first player in 2017 to reach 10 home runs on the season, and the fastest to reach double digits in Brewers history.
Thames has saved the bulk of his damage for Reds pitching. Of his 10 homers, seven have come with them on the mound.

For those keeping score at home, Thames is now hitting .474/.583/1.579 in 24 plate appearances against the Reds. Modest.
Thames has been quite judicious in his long-ball exploits as well, divvying up his seven dingers between six different Reds pitchers (he victimized Amir Garrett twice on Monday night). The seven homers in five games against Cincinnati in 2017 would equate to 226 over a 162-game season, a totally reasonable estimation. 
What is for certain, though, is that Thames is already well on his way to establishing a new record for most homers against one team in a single season.

Perhaps most alarming is the fact that Thames has 14 whole games against the Reds remaining in 2017 after Monday night and is already halfway to Lou Gehrig's 1936 mark.
Although Thames probably won't keep up the current pace that would lead to 26 such homers, it's clear that he's seeing the ball as well as anyone.
Maybe it's time for the Reds to just break out the knuckleball. It might be their only hope.