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 […]
Castillo’s gem lifts Reds to within 3 1/2 games of first place
By HAL McCOY Mother Nature played a cruel trick on Cincinnati Reds pitcher Luis Castillo on the Fourth of July in Great American Park. It appeared as if Castillo was on his way to a complete game shutout over the Milwaukee Brewers. He had one-hitter and a one-run lead with two outs in the eighth […]
Gray shuts out Brewers (Yelich, Grandal don’t play)
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Milwaukee Brewers manager Craig Counsell decided to rest both Christian Yelich and Yasmani Grandal Wednesday night in Great American Ball Park against the Cincinnati Reds. That meant the removal of 49 home runs and 114 RBI from his lineup. Reds starting pitcher Sonny Gray said, “God bless you, Craig, and […]