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 […]
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 […]