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 […]
Some Early-Week Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, finding it hard to believe only two weeks remain in baseball’s regular season, until I see college football on every TV channel on Saturdays. —THE SURGEON’S SCALPEL: Baseball’s biggest mystery is why so many pitchers end up injured, especially when they are totally babied these days. […]
Reds Ravage Cards’ Bullpen
By Hal McCoy A quick glance at the box score reveals that the Cincinnati Reds gagged and hanged the St. Louis Cardinals, 11-6, Monday night in near-empty Busch Stadium III. That quick glance needs to be a deeper search, like when the Cardinals came to bat in the eighth inning. The Reds only led, 7-6, […]
A’s Apply 3-Game Chokehold
By Hal McCoy Those weren’t the 1927 New York Yankees the Cincinnati Reds faced this weekend, it just looked that way. It was the Nomadic Athletics, the last place team in the American League West, doing a more than reasonable facsimile of the ’27 Yankees. The Athletics completed a bone-crushing three-game sweep of the Reds […]
Reds Ripped By A’s Again
By Hal McCoy Just when the Cincinnati Reds needed him most, starting pitcher Hunter Greene put forth the worst effort of his career. Just when the Reds needed them most, relief pitchers Graham Ashcraft and Scott Barlow couldn’t stop a nose bleed. Due to those circumstances, the Vagabond Athletics administered an 11-5 beating on the […]
A’s Slap A Zero On Reds
By Hal McCoy They played in a minor league ball park against a last place team and the Cincinnati Reds played like a mediocre minor league team Friday night in Sacramento. They lost to the ‘No City First Name Athletics,’ 3-0, and they lost in the worst way. They were 0 for 12 with runners […]