Reds shut out third straight game, scoreless in 28 straight innings
By HAL McCOY It is 28 and counting and the Cincinnati Reds wish they couldn’t count that high. The Reds were shut out Friday night by the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2-0, the third straight game in which they have been blanked and their scoreless futility has reached 28 innings. The last time the Reds suffered the […]
Reds suffer back-to-back shutouts, waste gem by Mahle
By HAL McCOY The Cincinnati Reds’ avoidance of home plate continued Thursday night in Pittsburgh — they are steering clear of home plate as if they fear it is infected with an incurable disease. For the second straight game the Reds were shut out, this time 2-0 by the Pittsburgh Pirates after they lost Wednesday […]
Castillo brilliant, but Reds fall to Brewers, 1-0
By HAL McCOY Four hits, four hits, three hits. One-run loss, one-run loss, one-run loss. That’s the sad but true tale of the Cincinnati Reds during a three-game series sweep by the Milwaukee Brewers. It concluded Thursday afternoon with an utterly frustrating day in Great American Ball Park, a 1-0 defeat.One-run victories are the […]
OBSERVATIONS: Of the Reds, Harper, Sandoval (and more)
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave while thinking about the five seasons — winter, spring, summer, fall and the best season of all, baseball. The Cincinnati Reds are off to a low-flying start, 1-and-3, and swinging as if they are using a wet rolled-up newspaper for a bat. They’ve had four hits […]
Lorenzen: “That loss is on me,” after Reds fall to Brewers, 4-3.
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — This is how things are transpiring so far this season for the Cincinnati Reds — and none of it has a positive gloss on it. With the score tied in the sixth inning Tuesday between the Reds and Milwaukee Brewers, manager David Bell summoned Michael Lorenzen from the bullpen. Curious? […]
It is much too early to call the Reds ‘Team Slump,’ isn’t it?
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — After three games in weather not suited for outdoor ice hockey, the Cincinnati Reds, as a team, are hitting .200 with an on-base average of .276. Those are not good numbers for a team that carries the label, “New, Improved Reds.” It is way, way, way too early for fans […]
Reds lose game to Brewers and lose Hunter Greene for the entire season
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — The one certainty one heard all spring about the Cincinnati Reds was: “They’ll hit, they’ll score runs, they’ll hit, they’ll score runs.” And perhaps they will, even though they barely are displaying a pulse at home plate over the last couple of days as the long, long season begins its […]
The Brew Crew is a big early challenge for refurbished Reds
By HAL McCoy CINCINNATI — They were known as Harvey’s Wallbangers during Harvey Kuenn’s short time as manager and for the most part they’ve carried the nickname of the Brew Crew. They are the Milwaukee Brewers, the National League Central defending champions and they came muscle-flexing into Great American Ball Park Monday night to do […]
Reds: As many errors (4) as hits (4) in 5-0 loss to Pirates
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Those weren’t gray clouds hanging over Sonny Gray’s shoulders Sunday afternoon in Great American Ball Park. Those were black clouds, dark black clouds, punctuated by the black jerseys worn by the Pittsburgh Pirates on a bat-chilling day, a day during which the Reds committed as many errors (4) as they […]