OBSERVATIONS: Whipping a dead horse (Raisel Iglesias)
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave while watching the Colorado-Colorado State football game at midnight. I’ll watch anything played with a ball but bowling because I could never pick up the 2-7 split. —Sonny Gray is 10-and-6 with a 2.80 earned run average and wonders what he did to tick off his […]
Iglesias blows another one, Reds drop doubleheader
By HAL McCOY With no apologies to Clint Eastwood, it was the Good, the Bad & the Ugly for the Cincinnati Reds Saturday in Busch Stadium. They dropped a day-night doubleheader to the St. Louis Cardinals, 10-6 and 3-2. The Good? Sonny Gray was as good as it gets in Game 2, giving up no […]
Observations: Where has Aquino been and where should Iglesias go?
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave while wondering if MLB would be so kind as to schedule the Cincinnati Reds against the Miami Marlins 162 times next season. The Reds might even be talked into playing all 162 in Miami. —Shame on the Cincinnati Reds. How in the name of Aristotle could […]
Iglesias gives it up again, Reds lose in 12, 4-3
By HAL McCOY What is more unbelievable? Is it Aristides Aquino hitting 14 home runs in his first 28 games, a major league record? Is it pitcher Alex Wood giving up 11 home runs in 34 innings? Is it a minor league pitcher with a minor league record completely shutting down the Cincinnati Reds Thursday […]
DeSclafani strings zeroes against Marlins in 5-0 Reds win
By HAL McCOY For the second straight night, the Miami Marlins saw up close and personal what might have been. Where might they be had they not traded pitchers Luis Castillo and Anthony DeSclafani to the Cincinnati Reds? On Tuesday night, Castillo beat them and is 3-and-0 against the Marlins since the trade. On Wednesday […]
Castillo continues mastery over his former team
By HAL McCoy The Miami Marlins, perhaps not trying to be all that they can be, have traded in recent times a roster of all-stars — Giancarlo Stanton, Christian Yelich, Marcell Osuna and J.T. Realmuto. And maybe there is one deal they wish they hadn’t made, the trade that sent a young lower-minors pitcher to […]
Marlins perfect tonic for struggling Reds
By HAL McCOY The Miami Marlins, possessors of the National League’s worst record, were the perfect medicinal tonic for the Cincinnati Reds Monday night. After losing three straight over the weekend to the Pittsburgh Pirates, inhabitants of last place in the National League Central, the Reds opened a four-game series in Miami with a 6-3 […]
Observations: Even Rose wouldn’t bet on Reds reaching .500
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after reading a woman’s request that pole dancing be added to the Olympic Games. Would the winner be the dancer that collected the most dollar bills? —For those who still believe the Cincinnati Reds can finish .500 this year, well, to do that they need to […]
Reds hit low point — swept by lowly Pirates
By HAL McCOY It would take a forensic pathologist to dissect what the Cincinnati Reds did on PNC Park Sunday afternoon, other than to desecrate the playing field. Suffice it to say that starting pitcher Trevor Bauer was awful, the Reds’ defense was abysmal and the offense was dormant until it was too late. Put […]