Some Pre-Weekend Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSRVATIONS from The Man Cave with a word of advice to the Cincinnati Reds: Don’t take the Sacra-Vegas Athletics lightly this weekend. It’s the old, “On any given day. . .” —ONE THAT GOT AWAY: In early August of 2019, the Cincinnati Reds signed a pitcher name Kevin Gausman off waivers. […]
Reds keep creeping up
By Hal McCoy The New York Mets keep cooperating and the Cincinnati Reds keep capitalizing. The Mets lost for the fifth straight time Wednesday afternoon and the Reds played a perfect game Wednesday night to beat the San Diego Padres, 2-1. And suddenly the Reds and San Francisco Giants are both just two games behind […]
GREAT EIGHT: ‘The Extras’
By Hal McCoy It was John Milton who penned, “They also serve who only stand and wait.” In 1975, Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Andserson could have changed only one word in that quote: “They also serve who only sit and wait.” During that 108-win season, Anderson scribbled The Great Eight on his starting lineup card […]
Mets Use Knockout Punch
By Hal McCoy The Cincinnati Reds filled the bases with nobody out in the ninth inning. Down 5-4. Season on the line. And they didn’t score. They lost, 5-4, to the New York Mets and most likely their playoff aspirations died with the ninth-inning futility, They are six games behind the Mets and two games […]
Reds Bullpen A Pigpen
By Hal McCoy NIck Lodolo was scheduled to start on the mound for the Cincinnati Reds Tuesday night against the Toronto Blue Jays, but an illness prevented it. And as it turned out, it made everybody associated with the Reds just as sick during a 12-9 slugfest won by the Blue Jays. Lodolo’s illness forced […]
Reds Pull A Baseball Miracle
By Hal McCoy Call it what you want, maybe ‘The Baseball Miracle On The Banks of the Ohio River.’ Whatever one calls it, the Cincinnati Reds staged the comeback win of the season, maybe the decade, Monday afternoon in Great American Ball Park. It was a walk-off two-run single in the bottom of the ninth […]
Finally. . .A Reds Win
By Hal McCoy It was Avoidance Day for the Cincinnati Reds Sunday afternoon in Great American Ball Park. And with a 7-4 win over the St. Louis Cardinals, the Reds avoided adding to a pile of negative factors. —They avoided a six-game losing streak. —They avoided falling under .500 for the season. —They avoided collapsing […]
Some Sunday Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave while watching Kyle Schwarber swing a bat, making me want to drop my Nadine-made margarita and grab a bat. Well, almost. —CLOSE PROXIMITY: It is approximately 25 miles from 1618 Pinecrest Drive in Dayton to 6339 Todhunter Road in Middletown. The Pinecrest address is where Michael […]
Another Game, Another Loss
By Hal McCoy The futility meter continues to plummet swiftly downward for the Cincinnati Reds. With another excrutiating loss Saturday night, 4-2, to the St. Louis Cardinals, their losing streak stretched to a season’s worst five games. Little more than a week ago they were a season’s best seven games over .500 and a half-game […]