Reds on the brink of a ‘winning streak’
By HAL McCOY As Lou Brown, the mythical manager of the Cleveland Indians said in the movie ‘Major League,’ “You won a game yesterday. You won a game today. If you win tomorrow, that’s called a winning streak. It has happened before.” Well, if the Cincinnati Reds can beat the Pittsburgh Pirates Wednesday night, they’ll […]
Castillo gives lesson to his former team
By HAL McCOY When the Cincinnati Reds traded 14-game winner Dan Straily to the Miami Marlins last winter for minor league pitcher Luis Castillo, the howls from fans could be heard from the Ohio River to South Beach in Florida. As luck would have it, Straily and Castillo faced each other Sunday afternoon in Marlins […]
Reds starters monotonously bad
By HAL McCOY Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A Cincinnati Reds pitcher didn’t make it beyond 4 1/3 innings and the Reds lost. Add Tim Adleman to the list. He pitched 4 1/3 innings Saturday night against the Miami Marlins and gave up six runs, six hits and the inevitable home run. […]
Romano walks six and Reds lose again
By HAL McCOY Sal Romano was provided with three runs in the top of the first inning Friday night before he had to throw his first pitch to the Miami Marlins. It wasn’t enough. The night turned into another walk-a-thon by a Cincinnati Reds rookie pitcher, followed by a bullpen meltdown that led to a […]
Stephenson takes another walk on the wild side
By HAL McCOY Robert Stephenson can’t seem to grasp the concept — a pitcher has to throw strikes in the major leagues or find another profession. When Stephenson was sent back to the minor leagues in late May, after struggling while working out of the bullpen, the message Cincinnati Reds manager Bryan Price gave him […]
Reds: Please do away with interleague play
By HAL McCOY Most National League aficionados wish that interleague play would just go away, never to re-surface, and the Cincinnati Reds pray that it will go away. And soon. But it isn’t going to happen so the Reds have to continue to slog along. Since interleague play began in 1997, the Reds have the […]
Reds turn triple play but still lose to Yankees, 4-2
By HAL McCOY Aroldis Chapman pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for a save, Todd Frazier had a single, a walk and scored a run and Didi Gregorius hit a home run and drove in two. A few years ago that might have described what three members of the Cincinnati Reds did Tuesday night in Yankee Stadium, […]
Reds’ bats silent in 6-2 loss to Tribe
By HAL McCOY Zack Cozart hit his 12th home run and Scooter Gennett hit his 18th home run and that’s all she wrote Monday night for the Cincinnati Reds. Both home runs were solo shots and that’s all the runs the Reds scored against the Cleveland Indians in a 6-2 defeat at Progressive Field. Cozart […]
Romano stays dry, towels off Marlins
By HAL McCOY There was a glimmer of sunshine on a gloomy Sunday afternoon at the end of a gloomy homestand for the Cincinnati Reds. They won a baseball game, 6-3, only their second win on the now completed 10-game homestand. And what did it take? It took an outstanding pitching performance by rookie Sal […]