Did Matt Harvey makes his last start for the Reds?
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Matt Harvey may or may not have made his final start for the Cincinnati Reds Tuesday night when he started against the 102-loss Kansas City Royals in the relative solitude of the near-empty Great American Ball Park echo chamber. He did, though, make his final start of 2018 for anybody. […]
Barry Larkin won’t be next Reds manager
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — For those hoping and wishing and praying that Barry Larkin will be the next manager of the Cincinnati Reds, well, your hopes, wishes and prayers won’t be answered. Barry Larkin doesn’t want it. Not at this time, Maybe down the road, but not now. This startling information comes from President […]
Reds shut out fifth time on 10-game trip
By HAL McCOY The Cincinnati Reds continued their parched-in-the-desert crawl toward the finish line Sunday afternoon in Marlins Park, another lethargic and lackadaisical loss to the Miami Marlins, 6-0, the fourth time they were shut out on the 10-game trip. As broadcaster Chris Welsh said midway through the latest dismal effort, “The Reds are making […]
Reds reach 90 losses fourth straight year
By HAL McCOY The Cincinnati Reds reached their annual 90 losses pit Saturday night in Marlins Park. And they earned it, just as they earned most of the other 89 losses. At least they didn’t get shut out. Barely. After getting shut out four times in seven games, they were working on five in eight […]
Castillo pitches 8 1/3 shutout innings, Reds lost in 10 innings, 1-0
By HAL McCOY The entire Cincinnati Reds roster owes Luis Castillo a four-course meal at an exotic South Beach restaurant on Miami’s South Beach. And include an expensive bottle of French wine. Castillo pitched the game of his short big league life Friday night in Marlins Park. He pitched 8 1/3 innings of scoreless baseball. […]
Reds shut out third time in five games
By HAL McCOY The Cincinnati Reds spent more time swatting mosquitoes than they did swatting baseball’s Wednesday night in Miller Park. They were shut out for the third time in their last five games, 7-0, by the Milwaukee Brewers, scraping together two lonely singles for the entire ugly evening. And it was the fifth time […]
Lorenzen shows starters how it’s done
By HAL McCOY An accurate, forthright and honest opinion from Cincinnati Reds broadcaster Jeff Brantley, a former major league closer who knows pitching from A to Z: “I have seen no improvement at all from last year to this year from the young starting pitchers. None.” While that won’t go down easy in the Reds […]
History: Yelich hits for cycle against the Reds for the second time this season
By HAL McCOY Shortly after Milwaukee’s Christian Yelich slid into third base with a triple Monday night, the large crowd in Miller Park began chanting, “MVP, MVP, MVP.” MVP? To the Cincinnati Reds, Yelich is all-Galaxy, all-Universe, all-Everything. That triple in the sixth inning gave Yelich the cycle — a single, double, triple and home […]
Reds finally take advantage of solid starting pitching as Castillo shuts down Cubs, 2-1.
By HAL McCOY The Cincinnati Reds finally quit wasting a resource they don’t normally have — knock down, shut down starting pitching. After losing the first two games of a three-game series to the Chicago Cubs despite shutout pitching by Matt Harvey and Cody Reed, the Reds used stout and solid pitching by Luis Castillo […]