Reds leave their hearts in San Francisco
By HAL McCOY The up-and-down Cincinnati Reds are down right now. Way down, after the San Francisco applied an 8-3 beating Sunday afternoon. They beat the Giants Thursday night, their fourth straight win over the Giants this season, and were in first place in the National League Central at 19-15. Then came Friday, Saturday and […]
Bonilla pitches ‘losing’ gem
By HAL McCOY The Cincinnati Reds ‘Apprentice Pitching Program’ continued Saturday afternoon and this time it was Lisalverto Bonilla making his starting debut. Bonilla became the eighth different starting pitcher used by the Reds this season and the fourth to make his Reds debut. And afterward, nobody said, “You’re fired.” In fact, Bonilla was stunningly […]
Reds totally futile in 17 innings, lose 3-2
By HAL McCOY The Cincinnati Reds-San Francisco Giants baseball game Friday night/Saturday morning was a couple of Alfred Hitchcock movies — ‘The Birds’ and ‘Vertigo.’ In the last segments of the 17-inning game, dozens of sea gulls circled above AT&T Park, waiting for fans to clear out so they could munch on scraps. And from […]
Cozart plays like Mozart for Reds
By HAL McCOY Not long ago the MLB Network listed the top ten shortstops in the majors and nobody with the initials Z.C. was named. Zack Cozart, the Rodney Dangerfield of shortstops. No respect. As have many teams this season, the San Francisco Giants felt the sting of Cozart’s reverberating bat Thursday night at AT&T […]
Reds pitch-perfect in 5-3 win over Yankees
By HAL McCOY If Cincinnati Reds manager Bryan Price has a piece paper in his desk, diagramming how to use his pitching staff, it was followed to the last comma and last period Tuesday night. What he wants these days, with the Reds short of quality starting pitchers because three of his best are on […]
Yankee show they don’t need sleep
By HAL McCOY If the New York Yankees were sleepwalking Monday night in Great American Ball Park, they were sleepwalking with a purpose. After playing an 18-inning game in Chicago Sunday night that lasted more than six hours, the Yankees arrived in Cincinnati Monday morning as the sun was rising. Then they put the Cincinnati […]
Feldman better than Cueto, shuts down Giants
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Not even the iconic and legendary Johnny Beisbol could stuff a cork into the flowing offense manufactured these days by the Cincinnati Reds. To the Reds, Johnny Cueto was just another former teammate named Johnny on Sunday afternoon in Great American Ball Park. Oh, they didn’t pillage and plunder Cueto […]
Kivlehan makes amends the best way possible
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI – It is difficult to fathom that the San Francisco Giants won the World Series in 2010, 2012 and 2014 — judging by the way they’ve played the last two days and their below ground standings in the National League West. Oh, how the mighty do fall. Or maybe, just maybe, […]
Good news: Arroyo ‘fit’ and the Reds hit, hit and hit.
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — It was Cinco de Mayo, so it was the Cincinnati Los Rojos against the San Francisco Gigantes on Friday night in Great American Ball Park — it said so on the fronts of their uniforms. Everybody knew, though, it was the Reds and the Giants. And even though the game’s […]