Burns ‘Chases’ Mighty Yankees
By Hal McCoy Who’s your daddy? On Father’s Day, the Cincinnati Reds continued to show that Yankee pin-stripes don’t cause them to melt into sweaty puddles on the Yankee Stadium grass. On Sunday afternoon, the Reds applied a 4-1 defeat on the Bronx Bombers to take the series two games to one. The Reds are […]
Stewart, Steer Rock Yankees
By Hal McCoy They call Yankee Stadium The House That Ruth Built, even though it’s a newer model, and the Cincinnati Reds nearly knocked it down Saturday afternoon. The Reds plundered the New York Yankees, 10-2, doubling their pleasure with a barrage of doubles. Of their 15 hits, seven were doubles and one was a […]
Reds Whiff 17 Times In 5-0 Loss
By Hal McCoy The wind was blowing 15 miles per hour in Yankee Stadium Friday night, perhaps generated by the swings and misses by the Cincinnati Reds. The Reds struck out a season-high 17 times during a 5-0 loss to the New York Yankees, the fifth time this season they’ve absorbed a shutout. Yankees starter […]
Mets Take Measurable Revenge
By Hal McCoy If Cincinnati Reds pitcher Nick Lodolo is walking around today with Band-Aids all over his body, there is a reason — about 11 reasons. The New York Mets nicked, scratched and cut Lodolo all over Great American Ball Park Wednesday afternoon on their way to a 9-1 crush job on the Reds. […]
Another Big Inning Beginning
By Hal McCoy If the Cincinnati Reds could play the New York Mets every game, what a wonderful world it would be for them. They won two of three games in New York in late May, then lost four straight series. That ended Tuesday night in Great American Ball Park because the Mets are in […]
A 12-0 Reds Explosion
By Hal McCoy When Eugenio Suarez cracked a two-run home run in the first inning Monday night, the Cincinnati Reds led the New York Mets, 3-0. The Mets could have packed their bats and gloves and headed to uptown Cincinnati for a scrumptious steak dinner. Chase Burns, the Reds starting pitcher, has given up two […]
Same Ol’ Stuff From Reds
By Hal McCoy Something had to give. The Cincinnati Reds and Arizona Diamondbacks both were 4-11 over their previous 15 games and neither had won a series over their previous four tries. And both were 9 1/2 games behind the first-place teams in their divisions. When it comes to giving, nobody gives more than the […]
Reds Win. . .Somehow
By Hal McCoy The Cincinnati Reds stranded 14 baseruners. The Cinnati Reds were 3 for 17 with runners in scoring position. The Cincinnati Reds struck out 16 times. The Cincinnati Reds put runners on base in each of the first eight innings, but scored in only one of those innings. And somehow, some way, in […]
Padres’ Bunts Foil Reds
By Hal McCoy Something had to give in a game involving two teams reaching for a dangling rope. The Cincinnati Reds carried the burden of eight losses in their last 10 games into Petco Park Monday night. The San Diego Padres, though were worse — 11 losses in their last 13 games. So it took […]