Reds waste another solid pitching performance, lost to LA, 3-2, for three-game sweep
By HAL McCOY Walker Buehler, whose Twitter handle is Buehler’sDayOff@Buehler’sDayOff, did not take a day off Wednesday afternoon in Dodger Stadium. But the Cincinnati Reds’ offense did take a day off, another in a long string of days off. For six innings, Buehler, a Lexington, Ky., native, held the Reds to no runs and one […]
Punchless Reds get four hits, fall to Dodgers, 6-1
By HAL McCOY Whether it be the new supercharged analytics permeating baseball these days or whether it be a desperate effort to ignite a lethargic offense, Cincinnati Reds manager David Bell came up with another eyebrow-raising batting order Tuesday night. It didn’t work. After batting catcher Curt Casali at leadoff Monday night, Bell put Joey […]
Iglesias blows one-run lead in 9th on Pederson’s two-run homer, Reds lose, 4-3.
By HAL McCOY With Dodger Stadium just a few hills away from Hollywood, the script for the Cincinnati Reds was perfect. . .for 8 1/2 innings. Unfortunately, it was an Alfred Hitchcock ending for the Reds on Jackie Robinson Night. LA’s Joc Pederson spoiled it all. The Reds, the only team in baseball who had […]
Cardinals play long ball to end Reds’ streak, 9-5
By HAL McCOY It was a game divided into three parts Sunday afternoon in Monterrey, Mexico. Unfortunately for the Cincinnati Reds, the St. Louis Cardinals won two of those three parts. Part One: The Cardinals scored four runs in the first inning off Reds starter Anthony DeSclafani on a three-run home run by Marcell Ozuna […]
Reds come alive late in Mexico, stop Cardinals, 5-2
By HAL McCOY For five innings it looked as if the Cincinnati Reds were going to lose. It looked as if they were going to get shut out. It look as if they were going to get no-hit. As they say, looks are deceiving. For five innings, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright held the […]
Jose Iglesias applies the leather and the wood to Marlins
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — After he and his Cincinnati Reds teammates scored 14 runs and ripped 16 hits Tuesday night, Jesse Winker said the team was a ticking time bomb ready to explode. The Reds exploded again Wednesday night, but it was late and a much tinier poof of smoke. For seven innings the […]
Winker hopes to knock the ‘L’ out of his name
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Some things are inevitable — death, taxes and major league baseball teams spending more money on players than the gross national product of Ecuador. And it is inevitable that Jesse Winker is going to hit and hit with style and grace, notwithstanding his long 0-fer to start the season and […]
Castillo quiets Marlins while Reds explode for 14 runs
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Due to the two-game suspension of Yasiel ‘The Wild Horse’ Puig, the Cincinnati Reds saddled up Tuesday night with only three position players on the bench to face the Miami Marlins. It didn’t matter. Extra guys weren’t needed. With Luis Castillo (1.59 earned run average) on the mound for the […]
Bell reacts to to suspension and what Pittsburgh pitcher Archer did
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Joe Torre is major league baseball’s Lord of the Law, the enforcer and the man who doles out punishment. He is an honorable man, a baseball lifer, but his most recent ruling leaves people scratching their heads under their baseball caps. Following Sunday’s on-the-field scrum in Pittsburgh, Torre made these […]