Hamilton’s fleet feet saves Reds
By HAL McCOY ‘Run, Billy, run. Run, Billy, run. Run, Billy, run Billy, run Billy run.’ If anybody doesn’t believe speed kills, especially on a baseball basepath, they need to watch the ninth inning of Wednesday night’s Cincinnati-Cleveland baseball game. Not only once, but twice Hamilton used his Olympic speed to save the Reds and […]
Encarnacion still likes Great American Small Park
By Hal McCoy CINCINNATI — Eugenio Suarez’s English is getting better and better and it was near-perfect early Tuesday afternoon in the Cincinnati Reds clubhouse as he walked around singing, over and over, the first stanza of, “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” Because it was a scheduled day off for Suarez, he should […]
Feldman pitches strong game to beat Tribe, 5-1
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — As Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona sat in his visitor’s clubhouse office before Monday night’s game, entertaining the media, he leaned back in his chair and said, “I don’t imagine you see too many 2-1 games in this ballpark.” No, Terry, you certainly don’t, not in Great American Small Park […]
What is Arroyo’s immediate future with Reds?
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — The media stepped softly, sort of beating around the bush, or is it beating around the mound, while asking about Bronson Arroyo and his immediate future with the Cincinnati Reds. The 40-year-old Arroyo commands that kind of respect and talking about his demise is not a pleasant approach. Arroyo pitched […]
‘WoJo’ (Who?) saves the day for the Reds
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — The Cincinnati Reds wore camouflage jerseys Saturday against the Colorado Rockies, perhaps hoping nobody would see them losing their eighth straight game. It turned out that it certainly wasn’t the reason. They weren’t hiding anything because after falling behind by five runs in the fifth inning they tore into the […]
Of Chili Peppers, hot dogs and another Reds defeat
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — The rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers played next door at the U.S. Bank Arena while the Cincinnati Reds and Colorado Rockies played a baseball game Friday night at Great American Ball Park. Before the game, RHCP guitarist Josh Klinghoffer was in the Reds clubhouse visiting Bronson Arroyo. It isn’t […]
Reds lose sixth straight, 9-5, to Cubs
By HAL McCOY If there can be any positive taken from a 9-5 beating, it should be a lesson hard-learned by Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Amir Garrett. The lesson? Don’t let an umpire upset your equilibrium and don’t outwardly display your displeasure. That’s what happened to Garrett Thursday afternoon in Wrigley Field. Brought up from […]
Reds lose fifth straight with controversial finish
By Hal McCoy When Scott Feldman trudged to the Wrigley Field mound Wednesday night, the Chicago Cubs were the only major league baseball team on the planet he had not faced. And now he wishes it was still that way. Because of his own wildness and some suspect work by the usually well-oiled Cincinnati Reds […]
Cubs outlast Reds in Home Run Derby, 9-5
By HAL McCOY Whenever the Chicago Cubs need a player or two, they reach down into their minor league system and pluck out a star. And if they are playing the Cincinnati Reds they seem to become instant superstars. It is if they grow them in the cornfields outside of Des Moines. On Tuesday night […]