Roark provides offense, but Reds give him no support
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Tanner Roark made his first career start against his old team Saturday afternoon, the Washington Nationals. He wanted to provide the pitching and hoped his teammates provided the offense. It was just the opposite. Roark was barely ordinary on the mound and provided all the offense. He drove in both […]
Gennett: Two to three weeks away from playing baseball
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Scooter Gennett’s teammates can’t wait for the day the diminutive second baseman walks into the clubhouse and sees his name on the lineup card. And that isn’t just because the Cincinnati Reds can use his offensive production. Oh, no. It is because Gennett has so much nervous energy that his […]
Bell erupts after Pirates hit Suarez, says umps/league not protecting his players
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — The Cincinnati Reds, presented an opportunity to climb out of last place Wednesday afternoon, popped their heads out of the hole and crawled back in. With a victory over Pittsburgh in Great American Ball Park, the Reds would have passed the Pirates and climbed into fourth place in the National […]
Dietrich/Iglesias: Huge bargains at $4.5 million
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — One can only imagine the scenarios in the front offices of the Detroit Tigers and the Miami Marlins almost daily. They most likely take a seat in their comfortable black leather office chairs and scan the results of baseball games around the country. That’s when the teeth-gnashing and hand-wringing and […]
Sims (pitches), Dietrich (three homers) lead Reds past Pirates, 11-6.
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Lucas Sims, an emergency plug-in starting pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds Tuesday night, treated the Pittsburgh Pirates like the Toledo Mudhens. And Derek Dietrich treated them like the Bad News Buccos with three home runs and six RBI. Dietrich and Sims did the heavy lifting as the Reds obliterated the […]
Just when the going gets good, Votto’s hamstring acts up
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Joey Votto seemed on the verge of becoming, well, Joey Votto. In four games he collected 10 hits of an assorted variety. Then in the first game of Monday’s doubleheader against the Pittsburgh Pirates, he was running from third to home on a late-game sacrifice fly when he felt something […]
Reds can’t take big step forward, split with Pirates
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — It seems as if it is such a small hill to climb, but to the Cincinnati Reds it is as tall, treacherous and as foreboding as Mount Everest. After starting the season 1-and-8, the Reds scrambled back to four games under .500 nine times, just one win away from three-under. […]
No ‘extra-curriculars’ expected in Reds- Pirates rematch
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — When last seen, the Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates were holding a impromptu gathering around home plate at PNC Park with some shoving, finger-pointing and some words exchange not suitable for a church picnic. Reds catcher Tucker Barnhart was clinging to the leg of Yasiel Puig, trying to restrain him […]
Reds rip Cubs, 10-2, take the series again
By HAL McCOY If the Cincinnati Reds play the rest of baseball they way they’ve played the first place Chicago Cubs so far this season, matters might get considerably interesting. With an emphatic 10-2 victory Sunday in Wrigley Field, the Reds have won four of six games against the Cubs this season. And they’ve won […]