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 […]
Some Labor Day Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from the extremely hot Man Cave trying to hide the three cigar burns I put on my new La-Z-Boy in The Man Cave (And happy Nadine doesn’t read my stuff). —THE FAST ONES: Wasn’t it heart-warming to see Eugenio Suarez hit a home run during his first game after becoming […]
FINALLY. . .Reds Win Series From Brewers
By Hal McCoy The Cincinnati Reds should board an elevator in the downtown Carew Tower, scramble off at the 47th-floor Observation deck and shout over the edge, “We did it, we did it, we did it.” What they did, finally did, was win a series against the Milwaukee Brewers, a task for them that was […]
Reds Love The Close Ones
By Hal McCoy If only the Cincinnati Reds could play every game that is eventually decided by two or fewer runs. With a 5-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers in rain-drenched Great American Ball Park Saturday night, the Reds are 42-24 in games decided by two or fewer runs. That’s a .636 winning percentage. The […]
No homers for Brewers? Doesn’t Matter
By Hal McCoy The name of American rapper Ludacris is either a take off on his real name, Christopher Brian Bridges, or somebody doesn’t know how to spell ludicrous. Ludacris put on a post-game show Friday night in Great American Ball Park, but what happened on the field during the game was ludicrous. The Milwaukee […]