Rough debut for rookie Sal Romano
By HAL McCOY Sal Romano, wearing Johnny Cueto’s old No. 47 and with 47 relatives and friends in the Great American Ball Park stands for his major league debut on Easter Sunday, might have been better served throwing only 47 pitches in his three innings. Unfortunately for him and the Cincinnati Reds, probably because the […]
Finnegan goes down, Winker-Gennett pick him up
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Injuries to starting pitchers are a common denominator for the Cincinnati Reds and the pool from which manager Bryan Price plucks his pitchers is getting shallower and shallower. The latest to fall by the wayside, joining Homer Bailey, Anthony DeSclafani and Rookie Davis, is Brandon Finnegan. Finnegan staggered through one […]
A major bullpen implosion as Reds lost, 10-4
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — It wasn’t a matter of time, just a matter of when there would be a Bullpen Blow-up by the Cincinnati Reds. No bullpen can sustain what the Reds bullpen was doing over the first 10 games of the 2017 season — a 1.13 earned run average (best in the National […]
Brawny Braun hurts Reds, Arroyo, as he always does
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — When Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun sees red, as in the Cincinnati Reds, he sees red like a bull. Braun came to Great American Ball Park Thursday night with the most home runs by an opposing players against the Reds over the last 10 years, 35 of them. And he […]
Garrett redux as Reds sweep Pirates
By HAL McCOY Anybody who thought Amir Garrett could match his major league debut, let alone better it, was thinking with a cloudy brain. How can you improve upon six scoreless innings against the St. Louis Cardinals in a major league debut? Ask the Pittsburgh Pirates, who resembled anchored statues in the batter’s box Wednesday […]
Is Scooter really a Harley Davidson?
By HAL McCOY It is about time that Scooter Gennett comes up with a new nickname — something like Harley Davidson Gennett. This guy is no kid’s scooter. He is a high-powered machine. He was the center of offensive activity Tuesday night in PNC Park when the Cincinnati Reds scored a 6-2 victory over the […]
Reds bullpen: 21 up and 21 down
By HAL McCOY Cincinnati Reds manager Bryan Price told anybody who would listen closely all winter long that he planned to use his bullpen in an unconventional manner. On Monday night in Pittsburgh, Price kept his word and it helped the Reds scoot to a 7-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates in PNC Park. With […]
Three shutouts in four wins for Reds
By HAL McCOY Scott Feldman is one interesting hombre — a man of Jewish faith who was born in Hawaii as a son of an FBI agent. And on Sunday afternoon in St. Louis he was one fantastic pitcher while the Cincinnati Reds piled on the Cardinals, 8-0, in Busch Stadium. Feldman pitched six-plus innings […]
A bad day for Arroyo, Stephenson
By HAL McCOY Neither Bronson Arroyo nor Robert Stephenson will scribble any positive notations in their personal journals about April 8, 2017. It was a Bad Day at Busch for both. And it was a nasty afternoon for the Cincinnati Reds, a 10-4 whipping from the St. Louis Cardinals. Arroyo, making his first major league […]