Reds unleash extra base barrage on Rockies
By HAL McCOY Major League Baseball scheduled a four-game baseball series in Denver this week and four softball games broke out. It was like those big guys who travel the country and put on hitting displays with softballs before major league games, launching juiced-up softballs deep into the upper decks. It was the Cincinnati Curley’s […]
Lamb throws heavy rocks at the Rockies
By HAL McCOY If you try to figure out baseball, just stop. Don’t try it. Don’t do it. You can’t. After giving up 17 runs, 19 hits and seven home runs to the Colorado Rockies Tuesday night, the Cincinnati Reds turned John Lamb loose on them Wednesday night. That figured to be a major mismatch […]
Rox rock assortment of AAA pitchers, 17-4
By HAL McCOY With apologies to Kermit, who said it isn’t easy being green, it isn’t easy being red these days, especially if you are a member of the Cincinnati Reds. The Colorado Rockies slapped a memory on the Reds Tuesday night in Coors Field that even Alzheimer’s couldn’t erase. Stopping the Rockies from crossing […]
Reds’ bats awaken in Coors pinball machine
By HAL McCOY It wasn’t Dan Straily’s finest hour, but not too many pitchers have their finest hours, or finest minutes, in Coors Field, the world’s largest pinball machine. Straily, the Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher against the Colorado Rockies on Memorial Day, didn’t have a memorable day — five runs and eight hits in six […]
Reds rally: Too little and too late
By HAL McCOY After poking their heads out of the deep recesses of a losing cave Saturday, the Cincinnati Reds retreated back to the darkness Sunday afternoon, losing to the Milwaukee Brewers, 5-4, in Miller Park. There was a familiar pattern to it, too. Bad baserunning by the Reds and Johnny Bench-like hitting from Milwaukee […]
The 11-game losing streak is h-i-s-t-o-r-y
By HAL McCOY The Ogre is gone, no longer lurking over the shoulders of the Cincinnati Reds. The Ogre has left the building. The 11-game losing streak is h-i-s-t-o-r-y. IT WASN’T EASY and it was full of controversy, but the Reds scored a 7-6 victory Saturday afternoon over the Milwaukee Brewers in Miller Park. Where […]
Brewers lead Lamb to the slaughter
By HAL McCOY If there is one team the Cincinnati Reds should be able to compete with in the National League Central it is the Milwaukee Brewers. The Brewers are in the same ship as the Reds, one with a lot of holes and taking in water. They, too, are in a rebuilding process. Like […]
Straily’s sensational effort goes to waste
By HAL McCOY The bats the Cincinnati Reds are using these days are cold enough to freeze a polar bear. Or, as one man once said, “They are taking bats to the batter’s box for no apparent reason.” The losing streak reach 10 straight Wednesday night in Chavez Ravine, a 3-1 loss to the Los […]
Reds: Where has all the offense gone?
By HAL McCOY Las Vegas didn’t know what to do until they thought it over. Then they did know. When the morning line came out they weren’t certain who would pitch Tuesday night for the Los Angeles Dodgers. So, a writer for ‘Scores and Odds’ wrote, “The problem is, as of this writing. not even […]