Reds pitchers: Take note from a guy named Smith
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — What the Cincinnati Reds pitching staff needs to do sometime soon is huddle around Miami pitcher Caleb Smith and ask, “What has changed?” Smith shut down the Reds Saturday night on no runs and three hits over 5 2/3 innings as the Marlins shut down the Reds, 6-0. Smith struck […]
Duvall searching for batting average answers
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Adam Duvall entered Saturday night’s game carrying a light number to home plate, a .167 batting average, an average that most pitchers wouldn’t like to talk about. Duvall hit a home run to the opposite field Friday night and hopes that might jump-start him to better things. At this point, […]
Suarez homers in first and Reds hang on, 4-1
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — It is one of those numerical anomalies, an anomaly that is true but not accurate. After a 4-1 victory over the Miami Marlins Friday night the Cincinnati Reds continue to be atop the league in some offensive categories over their last 11 games. But it isn’t true that those numbers […]
Reds: More errors than runs and another defeat
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — It is not a good thing when a baseball team makes more errors than it scores runs. That was the modus operandi Wednesday night in Great American Ball Park that led to another in the long pantheon of defeats for the Cincinnati Reds. They made three errors. They scored one […]
For the Reds starting pitchers it is mostly ‘Five and Dive’
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Any day now every member of the Cincinnati Reds bullpen is going to show up at work with their shoulders in a sling and their elbows encased in ice buckets. And it won’t be a gag. Because the Reds starting pitchers can’t seem to pitch more than half of a […]
Hader strikes out eight Reds in 2 2/3 innings, MLB record
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — The Milwaukee Brewers stumbled into town as forlorn as a baseball team possibly could be. They fled Chicago with a quick exodus Sunday night after losing four straight to the Chicago Cubs. That wasn’t the bad part. The bad part was that they were shut out three times in Wrigley […]
Mahle quiets Twins, Reds bats noisy
By HAL McCOY When a team begins the season 3-and-18, it takes what it can get as far as positive feedback. For the Cincinnati Reds, it is a series victory — their first this season. They didn’t exactly dance from the bus to the airplane for the trip home Sunday afternoon, but they were a […]
Reds bats quiet again in 3-1 loss to Twins
By HAL McCOY This is why in baseball it isn’t healthy to get excited about one game, unless it is Game 7 of the World Series. Just 10 hours after scoring 15 runs on 20 hits Friday night, the Cincinnati Reds scored one run on six hits Saturday afternoon in Target Field. And it added […]
Reds come back from early deficit to blast Twins, 15-9
By HAL McCOY When Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Luis Castillo gives up five runs in the first inning and the team is behind, 8-4, after five innings, it might be expected the Reds would lose by something like 15-9. Well, that was the score. 15-9. But it was the Reds on the top end of […]