Burns, Offense Bury Nats
By Hal McCoy The numbers indicated that the afternoon affair involving the Washington Nationals-Cincinnati Reds would be a tight low-scoring event. Washington pitcher Foster Griffin was 4-1 with a 2.22 earned run average. And his previous start he held the Miami Marlins to one run and four hits over seven innings. Cincinnati pitcher Chase Burns […]
Reds Blow Another One
By Hal McCoy What began as a perfect night for the Cincinnati Reds turned into a devastating head-on train wreck Wednesday night in Great American Ball Park. Nick Lodolo struck out the side to start the game and Tyler Stephenson’s grand slam home run in the bottom of the first gave the Reds a 5-0 […]
Nats Cleared For Takeoff
By Hal McCoy The snarky desciption for the home run friendly home playground for the Cincinnati Reds is Great American Smallpark. Broadcaster and former Reds relief pitcher Sam LeCure came up with a new one during the pre-game show Tuesday: “Great American Airport.” How apropos. The Washington Nationals were cleared for takeoff six times Tuesday […]
Where Do The Reds Stand?
By Hal McCoy As Casey Stengel once put it when managing the 120-loss expansion New York Mets, “We were worse than we were bad.” And so it was recently for the Cincinnati Reds during a nauseous eight-game losing streak that plunged them from first place in the National League Central to last place. The most […]
Hey, Abbott. . .He’s Back…
By Hal McCoy Andrew Abbott is back and back in a big way. After enduring a lost in space spring training and most of April, he is back to being what Cincinnati Reds manager Tito Francona calls, “Abbott-ish.” With his mother, Jeannette, nervously watching from her Great American Ball Park seat on Mother’s Day, Abbott […]
I’m back and the Reds WIN. Coincidence? Uh, yeah.
By Hal McCoy The fumbles, tumbles and stumbles are over for the Cincinnati Reds — at least for one day. At least the eight-game losing streak is dead and buried as the Reds stopped the Houston Astros, 3-1, Saturday afternoon in Great American Ball Park. How did the Reds get the loss monster off their […]
For Reds It’s ‘May Day, May Day’
By Hal McCoy Pass the smelling salts. The Cincinnati Reds are comatose. I decide to take a little vacation on Saint Simons Island in Georgia, just a little rest and relaxation. Some R&R. And the Cincinnati Reds decided to do it, too — their version of R&R — rotten & revolting baseball on a seven-game […]
Pirates Plunder Reds, 9-1
By Hal McCoy The wait was not worth it for the Cincinnati Reds Friday night in PNC Park. Weather delayed the game’s start for an hour and 17 minutes and when it commenced the Reds wished it hadn’t. The Reds encountered an angry band of Pittsburgh Pirates and suffered a 9-1 defeat. And for the […]
Reds Keep Rolling Along
By Hal McCoy This is how it is going so far this season for the baseball-blessed Cincinnati Reds. The new and improved Colorado Rockies, fresh off a three-game sweep of the New York Mets, put runners on base in all nine innings Tuesday night in Great American Ball Park. They put their leadoff man on […]