Reds No. 1 pick: 3B Nick Senzel (My pick, too)
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — It is — ta-dum — third baseman Nick Senzel. That’s whom the Cincinnati Reds selected in the first round tonight of the free agent baseball draft. And I got it right. In a piece I wrote Monday I predicted the Reds would take one of three players and Senzel was […]
Reds unarmed for Battles of the Bullpen
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — From the beginning it was evident that neither starting pitcher Wednesday in Great American Ball Park was fooling anybody, not even themselves. It was going to be Survival of the Unfittest or baseball’s version of Last Man Standing. Neither starting pitcher stood for longer than five innings and when it […]
Votto: After frustration comes exhilaration
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Joey Votto used a different ‘F’ word to describe the game-winning walk-off home run he unleashed Tuesday night in the bottom of the ninth, but there definitely was frustration involved. Frustration, though, was not the F-word he used. With the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals tied with one out […]
Reds, Nats both play give-away, but Nats hold on
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — As Washington Nationals manager Dusty Baker watched the unfathomable plot unfold on the field a thought crossed his mind — an old television show. “I was thinking about Fred MacMurray from ‘My Three Sons.’” said Baker. “Only I have four sons over there that wreaked havoc on us during this […]
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 […]