Oh What A Mess They Made
By Hal McCoy If you don’t want to read about one of the ugliest among many ugly games played by the Cincinnati Reds this season, click on over to the classifieds. And you might find an ad placed there by the Reds: “Wanted: Pitchers who can throw strikes.” The St. Louis Cardinals hung a 10-3 […]
Reds Waste A Burnsy Gem
By Hal McCoy Those were not the 2015 World Series champion Kansas City Royals on the Great American Ball Park playing field the last three days. The Cincinnati Reds just made them look like the 2015 World Series winners instead of a team 15 games under .500. The Reds wasted another top-shelf pitching performance from […]
Reds Get ‘Er Dunn in 10th
By Hal McCoy There was no possible way the Cincinnati Reds could win this game. No way possible. But there was a way, the most improbable of improbables. It ended dramatically, a walk-off single poked to right field by Blake Dunn, who lugged a 1 for 19 skid to the plate in the 10th-inning. His […]
No Elly, No Chase, No Win
By Hal McCoy The Cincinnati Reds lost big before the game and then lost even bigger during the game Monday night in Great American Ball Park. They lost their scheduled starting pitcher, Chase Burns, to an illness. They lost shortstop Elly De La Cruz to the 10-day injured list. And then, playing two eggs short […]
Reds Win, Elly Injured
By Hal McCoy Just when it looks as if the Cincinnati Reds will need resuscitation, they kick it away and show signs of life. Faced with the possibility of being swept three games by baseball’s best team against one of MLB’s best pitchers, the Reds stayed the course Sunday afternoon for a 6-4 win in […]
Acuna, Braves Bombard Reds
By Hal McCoy No matter what uniform they wear — white, gray black or red — nothing seems to change for the Cincinnati Reds. They wore gray Wednesday and lost in New York to the Mets. They wore black Friday night and lost to the Atlanta Braves. And they wore red Saturday night and lost […]
A Whipping From The Braves
By Hal McCoy Tito Francona’s penchant for tinkering with his new toys blew up in his face Friday night in Great American Ball Park, an 8-3 loss to the awesome Atlanta Braves. But what’s a manager to do when his Cincinnati Reds bullpen is an emergency ward? With the Reds trailing by 4-3, Francona summoned […]
Reds Leave 17 On Base
By Hal McCoy How does a major-league baseball team leave 17 men on base? The Cincinnati Red know it isn’t easy, but they can frustratingly count the ways. Because they did it. They left 17 runners standing on the bases, begging for somebody, anybody to drive them home. But only two scored and the Reds […]
Burns Scorches Mets
By Hal McCoy This was one of those times when they could have marked a ‘W’ next to the Cincinnati Reds in the standings and saved wear and tear on the players by not playing. With Chase Burns on the mound, good teams struggle. With Chase Burns on the mound against the injury-wracked New York […]