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 […]
Bullpen spoils another shutout performance by a starter
By HAL McCOY The Milwaukee Brewers want to send a message to Cincinnati Reds manager Jim Riggleman: “What are you trying to do to us?” For the second straight game in Wrigley Field against the division-leading Chicago Cubs, Riggleman pulled his starting pitcher when that pitcher was throwing a shutout. And for the second straight […]
Reds blow a shutout by Matt Harvey
By HAL McCOY When Cole Hamels is scheduled to pitch against the Cincinnati Reds, he could put a life-size cardboard cutout of himself on the mound and go play golf and he’d still win. He was 11-and-1 for his career against the Reds when he trudged to the mound Friday night for the Chicago Cubs […]
Dodgers finally take one from Reds, 8-1
By HAL McCOY The Los Angeles Dodgers borrowed a famous quote from the 1976 movie Network: “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this any more.” After losing six straight games to the Cincinnati Reds this season, the Dodgers turned a fire hose on the Reds Wednesday afternoon in Great American Ball […]