Bailey throws darts at the Brewers
By HAL McCOY The last time Homer Bailey pitched, it was in Pittsburgh and he was one step above awful and in the post-game interview he said, “The pitcher stunk.” He didn’t have to say that Friday night in Milwaukee. He could have said, “The pitcher was great,” but he didn’t. That isn’t in his […]
DeSclafani hits another snag, finally loses
By HAL McCOY Anthony DeSclafani has hit a snag in his baseball haberdashery. The stoic Cincinnati Reds right hander sought his seventh victory for the third time Wednesday night and was denied by the St. Louis Cardinals and Jaime Garcia, 3-1. DeSclafani was 6-and-0 at the start of each of his last three starts and […]
Billyball ignites Reds past Cardinals, 7-4
By HAL McCOY St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina probably begs and pleads and cajoles his pitchers by saying, “Please, please, please don’t let Billy Hamilton get on base.” But they do. And they pay — Molina, the pitchers and the Cardinals. When Hamilton gets on base he becomes a human merry-go-round as he swiftly […]
Cingrani, Ohlendorf ruin Reed’s night
By HAL McCOY The Cincinnati Reds received a clear and vivid snapshot of what they expected Cody Reed can be and will be in Busch Stadium III Monday night. Unfortunately for Reed and the Reds, what should have been Reed’s first major league victory turned into the nightmare of all nightmares. The Reds led, 4-0, […]
Straily outpitcheds Ol’ King Cole
By HAL McCOY Gerrit Cole, a 19-game winner last year for the Pittsburgh Pirates, must think he is facing The Big Red Machine when he pitches against the last place Cincinnati Reds. When Cole works against the Reds he pitches like Old King Cole or Nat ‘King’ Cole. After losing Sunday afternoon in PNC Park, […]
Reds won’t win seventh straight series
By HAL McCOY There will be no seventh straight series victory for the Cincinnati Reds, not after their second straight defeat Saturday night in a three-game series with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Reds had won six straight series, all by two games to one, against Milwaukee, Atlanta, Arizona, San Francisco, San Diego and St. Louis […]
Another first batter homer off Reds reliever
By HAL McCOY It is incredulous, inconceivable, incredible and any other ‘in’ one can fathom when it comes to what Cincinnati Reds relief pitchers have done this season. Ross Ohlendorf walked in from the bullpen to start the bottom of the ninth inning, asked to protect a tie game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first […]
Finnegan: On again, Off Again, On again
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — So far in his brief career, Cincinnati Reds pitcher Brandon Finnegan can be best described this way: ‘On Again, Off Again, Finnegan.’ On Thursday afternoon in Great American Ball Park, Finnegan was on his best behavior against the St. Louis Cardinals. The 22-year-old left hander from Fort Worth, Tex., gave […]
Bailey to Reed: ‘Been there, done that’
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Cody Reed may want to sit down next to Homer Bailey and ask, “What was it like and what can I do?” It was 2008 and Bailey started eight games for the Cincinnati Reds and was 0-and-6 with a 7.93 earned run average. Reed made his eighth start of 2016 […]