Reds Give Away ‘Sweep’ Game
By Hal McCoy As Meat Loaf sang it, “Now don’t be sad, ‘cause two out of three ain’t bad.” The Cincinnati Reds were sad, though, because they let a three-game sweep of the Detroit Tigers slip through the fingers of their second tier relief pitchers. Rhett Lowder turned over a 3-2 lead after five innings […]
Score One For Stewart
By Hal McCoy It was supposed to be a sideshow, the two top candidates for National League Rookie-of-the-Year facing off from opposite dugouts. As it turned out, it was the main event Saturday night when the Cincinnati Reds annihilated the Detroit Tiger, 9-2, on Hall of Fame Night in Great American Ball Park. It was […]
Another Reds Miracle
By Hal McCoy The Cincinnati Reds don’t carry magic wands, but surely there must be pixie dust on their bats. And the magic goes on and on and on and on. The Reds trailed by a run to the Detroit Tigers with two outs and a runner on base in the ninth inning Friday night. […]
Four New Reds Hall Of Famers
By Hal McCoy It will be a four-star event Saturday in Great American Ball Park when the Cincinnati Reds induct four men into the club’s Hall of Fame. Emblematic red jackets will be placed around the shoulders of former manager Lou Piniella, second baseman Brandon Phillips, outfielder Reggie Sanders and pitcher Aaron Harang. All four […]
Martinez Derails Reds
By Hal McCoy The Big Road Machine bogged down on St. Petersburg Beach Wednesday afternoon. After winning their first five games on this road trip and taking a 10-2 road record this season into Tropicana Field, the Cincinnati Reds were stoped by the Tampa Bay Rays, 6-1. And they were sidetracked by a familiar face, […]
Reds Rip Five Homers
By Hal McCoy Elly De La Cruz launched a 414-foot two-run home run in the top of the first inning and Tampa Bay executives could have told fans to vacate the premises, lock the Tropicana Field doors and sweep out the aisles and concourses. When the Cincinnati Reds score first, they don’t lose and they […]
Reds Finally Win An Easy One
By Hal McCoy Sal Stewart’s nickname is Salbert, as in Albert Pujols. Stewart’s teammates hung the nickname on the 22-year old rookie because he displays all the traits displayed by Pujols, a future first ballot Hall of Famer from his days with the Cardinals and Angels. And Stewart once again performed like Pujols Monday night […]
Another Incredible Reds Win
By Hal McCoy Another day, another way for the Cincinnati Reds to lay in the weeds waiting to figure out a way to win a seemingly unwinnable baseball game. They figured it out again Sunday afternoon with a movie-like script that if seen on the silver screen would be critiqued as too schmaltzy, too unreal, […]
An Old-School Reds Win
By Hal McCoy It was directly from The Baseball Book of Fundamentals, Chapter One, for the Cincinnati Reds. With the score tied in the ninth inning, the Reds performed old-school tactics to manufacture the run they needed to beat the Minnesota Twins, 5-4 Saturday afternoon in Target Field. It began when pinch-hitter Spencer Steer hit […]