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 […]
Finnegan’s best topped by Kershaw
By HAL McCOY They could have turned out the Dodger Stadium lights and emptied the Chavez Ravine parking lots after the sixth inning Monday night in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Dodgers scored a run in the sixth inning, the game’s only run, and that is all Clayton Kershaw needed as he pitched his third […]
Just another ‘Loss in the Park’ for the Reds
By Hal McCoy For Cincinnati Reds fans watching games on television they should treat them as if they are watching ’60 Minutes.’ They should watch for 60 minutes and turn it off because nothing good is going to happen after that. And when Eugenio Suarez comes to the plate, take a bathroom break. Suarez has […]
This one can’t be pinned on the bullpen
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — With his long, curly blond hair and blond bushy mustache, Cincinnati Reds pitcher John Lamb resembles a Daguerrotype of General George Armstrong Custer. And continuing the military motif on Saturday afternoon in Great American Ball Park, the Cincinnati Reds wore camouflage jerseys The Seattle Mariners and King Felix Hernandez recognized […]
Stop if you heard this one, ‘The bullpen. . .’
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — The Seattle Mariners were, like most teams who play the Cincinnati Reds these days, a ticking time bomb that goes off as soon as the bullpen arrives on the scene. It’s the same thing over and over and over again for the Reds, Groundhog Day to the extreme. On a […]
Price remembers the young ‘King Felix’
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Even though Cincinnati Reds manager Bryan Price once was pitching coach for the Seattle Mariners, it wasn’t like old times this weekend with the Mariners in town. Price said hello and talked to a few people, mostly front office types, but there is only one player on the roster who […]
Reds applying firm grip on last place
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — A dozen or so people stood outside the Great American Ball Park main gate Thursday protesting ‘Chief Wahoo,’ the logo the Cleveland Indians wear on their caps. The Cincinnati Reds, particularly the pitchers, should have joined to protest the evil treatment the Wahoos administered to them over the past four […]
Bryan Price: ‘Losing this way is maddening’
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Is it considered a moral victory when the Cincinnati Reds hold the Cleveland Indians to under 13 runs and under 16 hits in a baseball game? The Reds are looking for any positives they can find, under any bed sheet or under any carpet, after losing two games in Cleveland […]