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 […]
Garrett dazzles Cardinals in his debut
By HAL McCOY Amir Garrett not only resembles an exclamation point, but the tall, gangly lefthander pitched with exclamation point emphasis Friday night in his major league debut. Standing on the mound in the hostile environment of sold out Busch Stadium, Garrett pitched like a salty veteran against the St. Louis Cardinals. Garrett gagged the […]
Lorenzen’s bat, bullpen arms save the Reds
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — The major league debut of Cincinnari Reds rookie pitcher Rookie Davis went the way so many rookie debuts go — short, arduous and painful, although the Reds recovered and prevailed, 7-4, over the Philadelphia Phillies. The Davis Debut lasted only three innings, long enough for him to throw 74 pitches […]
Washing cars, pumping gas and catching in the majors
By Hal McCoy CINCINNATI — When Dione Warwick sang about parking cars and pumping gas in her song, “Do You Know the Way to San Jose,” she wasn’t singing about Stuart Turner. If she was, the lyrics would have been, “washing cars and pumping gas,” because that’s what Turner did when he was in high […]
Finnegan retires last 19, Reds win, 2-0
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — It was a matter of who was going to blink and flinch first — Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Jerad Eickhoff or Cincinnati Reds pitcher Brandon Finnegan. And it was Reds first baseman Joey Votto who made Eickhoff blink and flinch with a leadoff home run in the seventh inning that led […]