Reds pile on with 11 runs to avoid sweep
By HAL McCOY No Nick Senzel, no Jose Iglesias, no problem. With Senzel and Iglesias not available to the Cincinnati Reds Sunday afternoon, their replacements, Jesse Winker and Jose Peraza, stepped up and stepped up high and mighty. Both were major contributors as the Reds ripped into the Texas Ranger, 11-3, pushing their Sunday record […]
Reds lose another one-run game, 4-3 to Rangers
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — As part of their 150-year celebration, the Cincinnati Reds wore replicas of the uniforms worn by the 1935 team. The front of the jerseys were plain white — no wishbone-C, no ‘Cincinnati,’ just blank, nothing to identify the team wearing them. And the way the Reds are playing these days, […]
Bell addresses complaints by his pitchers
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Tyler Mahle and Cincinnati Reds manager David Bell engaged in a little heart-to-heart round table discussion Saturday afternoon. After his start Friday night, Mahle expressed displeasure to the media that Bell carries a quick hook in his back pocket, that Bell removes him too quickly from games. If there was […]
Back to last place for listless, lifeless Reds
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — The occupancy of fourth place was a short term rental for the Cincinnati Reds — lasting just one day out of last place in the National League Central. With their 7-1 loss Friday night to the Texas Rangers in Great American Ball Park and Pittsburgh’s 11-0 victory over the Miami […]
It is ‘Father’s Weekend’ for DeShields Senior and Junior
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — While Sunday is Father’s Day for most, for Cincinnati Reds first base coach Delino DeShields the next three days is Father’s Weekend. The Reds are playing the Texas Ranger and on the Rangers roster is outfielder Delino DeShields, Jr. Even though it is on opposite teams, on opposite sides of […]
Reds club four home runs to swamp the Indians, 7-2
By HAL McCOY The Cincinnati Reds used The Big Bang Theory Wednesday afternoon in Cleveland’s Progressive Field. After scoring only 12 runs in their previous six games, the Reds used four solo home runs, four doubles and solid pitching from Anthony DeSclafani to record a 7-2 victory over the Cleveland Indians. And they started with […]
Reds lose in 10 innings to Tribe, 2-1
By Hal McCoy For the Cincinnati Reds, it was another big opportunity and another big swing-and-a-miss. Given the chance to climb out of last place for the first time this season, the Reds lost a 2-1 10-inning game to the Cleveland Indians in Progressive Park. Closer Raisel Iglesias, who hadn’t given up a run since […]
Castillo, Reds shut down Cardinals, 4-1
By HAL McCOY The Cincinnati Reds re-visited an old baseball axiom Tuesday night in Busch Stadium. It is: Put the ball in play and good things happen. After striking out 15 times in their previous game, the Reds did not strike out once against the St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher. And putting the wood to […]
Mad Max puts three-hit, 15-strikeout muzzle on Reds
By HAL McCOY When Mad Max Scherzer spends his day on the Great American Ball Park mound they would do well just to string a bunch of 0’s across the scoreboard and be done with it. And mark down a slew of K’s in the scorebook and be done with that, too. Scherzer made his […]