Decision-time lurking for Reds: Buy, sell or stand pat?
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — This question is asked so much by fans these days Alex Trebek should use it as his Final Jeopardy answer, The answer: “With the July 31 trade deadline approaching, this team was in a quandary over to be Buyers, Sellers or Stand-patters?” The answer is: Who are the Cincinnati Reds? […]
Grand slam off Stephenson lifts Cardinals past Reds, 7-4
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — The Cincinnati Reds wobbled into Thursday night’s game on crutches and wrapped in gauze. They were missing three catchers, outfielder Nick Senzel and infielder/outfielder Derek Dietrich. And closer Raisel Iglesias is on paternity leave. The St. Louis Cardinals, though, shed no tears for the Reds because the Cardinals were in […]
Just call the Reds a baseball M.A.S.H. unit
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — It would have been apropos for David Bell to show up at Thursday’s pre-game media scrum wearing a doctor’s smock and a stethoscope. For 25 minutes, all the Cincinnati Reds manager talked about was medical issues. The Reds made a blizzard of transactions before the game to cover aches, pains, […]
Darvish muzzles Reds, Cubs take series, 5-2
By HAL McCOY When a pitcher is in a blind funk, the best sight he can see is a bunch of guys in Cincinnati Reds uniforms. Case in point: Chicago Cubs pitcher Yu Darvish. In his two years wearing a Cubs uniform Darvish had never won a game in Wrigley Field. He was 0-and-3 with […]
Schwarber’s 10th-inning home run ends frustrating night for Reds
By HAL McCOY As they have done so often this season, the Cincinnati Reds put all their eggs in a first-inning basket and they got fried. They scored three runs in the first inning Tuesday night in Wrigley Field, then put their bats on dry ice and didn’t score again. That enabled Middletown native Kyle […]
Reds win round one in showdown with Cubs, 6-3
By HAL McCOY The Cincinnati Reds were so lucky Monday night in Wrigley Field that they should look for loose change on the Lake Michigan beach. They might find a fortune. Everything that could go their way Monday night against the Chicago Cubs went their way, leading to an important 6-3 victory. They were down […]
Reds score nine, but lose to Rockies, 10-9
By HAL McCOY Tyler Mahle gave up four runs in the first inning to the Colorado Rockies Sunday afternoon in Coors Field. And the Cincinnati Reds figured they had the Rockies right where they wanted them. Tanner Roark gave up four runs in the first inning Saturday night but the Reds won, 17-9, by scoring […]
Reds rip Rockies, 17-9 as Ervin whacks six hits
By HAL McCOY Fans in Coors Field waited three hours and eight minutes through a lightning show and a rain delay for the start of what they expected to be a major league baseball game. What they got, when festivities finally commenced, was a slow pitch softball game with the ball ricocheting around Coors like […]
Bell: Six ejections doesn’t fit his personality
By HAL McCOY At his daily pre-game press briefings and his post-game dissection of the game, Cincinnati Reds manager David Bell is Casper Milquetoast. His demeanor is a flat line, never up and never down. He talks in a monotone. If one doesn’t know whether his Reds won or lost they couldn’t tell by Bell’s […]