Another Dismal Day For Reds
By Hal McCoy It was one of those many night when the Cincinnati Reds not only couldn’t find hits, they acted as if they couldn’t even spell the word hit. For four innings Friday night in Great American Ball Park, they had no hits and finished with four singles during a 5-2 loss to the […]
Cubs Hand One Over To The Reds, 6-4
By Hal McCoy The Chicago Cubs did everything they could conjure up to lose a baseball game to the Cincinnati Reds. And they succeeded specacularly during a 6-4 defeat to the Reds Friday night in Great American Ball Park. It started with the odds-on favorite to win the National League MVP, Pete Crow-Armstrong, he of […]
Another Beating From The Dodgers
By Hal McCoy One thing that has been proven without argument the last two weeks is that the chasm between the Cincinnati Reds and the Milwaukee Brewers/Los Angeles Dodgers is as deep as the Mariana Trench and as wide as the Pacific Ocean. More proof was provided Thursday afternoon when the Dodgers crushed the Reds […]
Reds Finally Beat Dodgers, 6-2
By Hal McCoy For one night, one game, the Cincinnati Reds quit playing Fay Wray to the King Kong Los Angeles Dodgers. Wlth a 6-2 win Wednesday night in Great American Ball Park, the Reds ended a 10-game losing streak to the Dominant Dodgers. And it temporarily delayed the Dodgers from clinching ther 14th National […]
Another Frustrating Night Against LA
By Hal McCoy The Cincinnati Reds versus the Los Angeles Dodgers is a MisMatch with two capital Ms. For the fifth straight time this year and 10th straight overall, the Dodgers treated the Reds like Tinker Toys during a 4-0 win Tuesday night in Great American Ball Park. During the five straight wins, the Dodgers […]
Packers, er, Brewers Blank Reds, 20-0
By Hal McCoy When the Cincinnati Reds landed at Milwaukee’s Mitchell International Airport, they had no idea their next game would be against the Green Bay Packers. Well, it wasn’t the Packers, it just looked that way when the Milwaukee Brewers blasted and buried the Reds, 20-0. And the embarrassment level reached new heights. For […]
LA Crushes Reds, 14-1
By Hal McCoy The Los Angeles Dodgers completed a three-game sweep of the Cincinnati Reds in Dodger Stadium Wednesday night and the difference was, uh, $$212.1 million. The Dodgers (payroll: $336.4 million) crushed and crunched the Reds (payroll: $124.3 million) 14-1. It was as big of a mismatch as The Charge of the Light Brigade […]
LA’s Own Te(Oscar)
By Hal McCoy They present the Oscars six miles from Dodger Stadium in Hollywood. But Los Angeles Dodgers fans get to see their own Oscar, Teoscar Hernandez, their own Academy Award performer. And his best baseball acting comes against the Cincinnati Reds and he did it again Tuesday night during a 3-2 Dodgers win over […]
Reds Lose Weird One To Dodgers, 6-3
By Hal McCoy To their dismay, the Cincinnati Reds displayed how to lose a game, 6-3, when the opposing team collects only three hits — two by one player. That was the scenario on Labor Day as the Reds were not on good terms with Lady Luck in Dodger Stadium. In fact, Lady Luck is […]