ONE More To Go…
By Hal McCoy For the Cincinnati Reds, it’s The Final Countdown. After 161 games, the hopes and dreams for a playoff berth rests on game 162, the final game of the regular season. If the Reds win Sunday afternoon’s game against the Milwaukee Brewers, they are in, owners of the third and final wild card […]
Some Late-Week Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and while it’s only for the last spot in the National League playoffs (the sixth spot), the last-week battle between the Mets, Reds and Diamondbacks is nerve-wracking and invigorating. —ABS (A BAD SYSTEM): Forever and ever I have been adamantly opposed to the Automated Balls & […]
Extra-Inning Woes For Reds
By Hal McCoy When it comes to playing extra-inning games, the Cincinnati Reds are as helpless as a man stranded in the desert without water. In one of the biggest and most important games of the fast-fading season, the lowly Pittsburgh Pirates handed the Reds a 4-3 gut-grabber in 11 innings Wednesday night. With a […]
A Devastating Loss
By Hal McCoy There was no good news, bad news for the Cincinnati Reds Tuesday night. It was bad news and worse news. The bad news was that the Reds lost to the last-place Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-2. The worse news was that the New York Mets came from 6-1 behind the Chicago Cubs and rolled […]
The Great 8 – Pitchers
By Hal McCoy The team hotel in Philadelphia was behind a barbed-wire fenced-in parking lot in old Veterans Stadium. To walk from the park to the hotel required a three-block foot trip to circumvent the parking lot. As I left the stadium one night, a security guard said, “Walk straight back in the parking lot […]
Reds…Onward And Upward
By Hal McCoy Nick Martinez put it perfectly and succinctly in four words: “You can’t kill us.” And he is one of the main reasons the Cincinnati Reds have scrambled from the depths to the top of the National League’s third wild card standings. The Reds are alive and kicking like the Wild Horse of […]
Some Sunday Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wondering what team that is playing in Great American Ball Park these days. Take away my crystal ball, it’s all fogged up and full of cracks. Most everybody outside the Cincinnati Reds clubhouse had them as burnt toast a couple of weeks ago. And I’m guilty […]
Reds Plug In The Power
By Hal McCoy Still down two, but only eight games left. The Cincinnati Reds are doing all they can to catch the New York Mets for the final wild card spot, playing with their tongues hangng due to the exhausting chase. But they need help and aren’t getting it. The Reds stretched out a long […]
Reds Steer-ed Right
By Hal McCoy The lineup/batting order Cincinnati Reds manager Tito Francona put together Wednesday afternoon looked as if he pulled it out of Gene Autry’s Stetson. And it worked. The Reds recovered from a shutout administered to them Tuesday with a 6-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in Busch Stadium III. Even though their […]