Reds first team to reach 20 defeats this season
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — The Cincinnati Reds became baseball’s first 20-game losers this year and it took them only 25 games to accomplish it. With a 7-4 loss to the Atlanta Braves Wednesday afternoon in Great American Ball Park, the Reds fell to 5-and-20. And after winning the first two of this four-game series, […]
Reds fall short of ‘true winning streak’
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — As Lou Brown, mythical manager of the Cleveland Indians said in the movie Major League II, “We won a game yesterday so if we win one today that’s two in a row. If we win one tomorrow that’s called a winning streak. It has happened before.” It hasn’t happened yet […]
Reds give one away, then grab it back in 12 innings
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — For the first time, 23 games into the 2018 season, the Cincinnati Reds covet and caress a two-game winning streak. And it was worth it for the few stragglers who wandered off the street and into Great American Ball Park Tuesday night and stayed the entire 4 hours and six […]
Schebler sparks Reds come-from-behind rout of Braves, 10-4
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — For some obscure reason, the Cincinnati Reds decided to play a baseball game Monday night in Great American Ball Park that should have been postponed due to a lack of interest. After a rainy afternoon and with the hometown team losing nearly every game, there could not have been more […]
Cardinals do it to the Reds for the 11th straight time
By HAL McCOY With absolutely no apologies to Cher, ‘And the beat goes on,’ and unfortunately for them, it is the Cincinnati Reds who keep getting beat on every day. After six innings Sunday afternoon in Busch Stadium III, the Reds trailed the St. Louis Cardinals by one run. But when the 44,430 fans headed […]
Cardinal try to hand over a win, but Reds refuse to take it
By HAL McCOY St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny did everything he could to hand the Cincinnati Reds a victory on a platinum platter Saturday afternoon in Busch Stadium III. The Reds, though, said politely, “No thanks,” and absorbed another defeat, 4-3. Matheny permitted 21-year-old Jordan Hicks, who jumped from Class A to the majors, […]
A new manager but it’s the same ol’ Reds
By HAL McCOY The view from his new perch as interim manager of the Cincinnati Reds was no different Friday night than it was when Jim Riggleman was bench coach — bad starting pitching, a silent offense and zero success against the St. Louis Cardinals. Riggleman, managing his first game as fired manager Bryan Price’s […]
Groundhog Day: Reds again lost by 2-0 to Brewers
By HAL McCOY It was Groundhog Day in Miller Park Wednesday afternoon for the Cincinnati Reds, another 2-0 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers. It was as if they took a videotape of Tuesday’s 2-0 loss and replayed it Wednesday. —Just as he did Tuesday, Milwaukee first baseman Eric Thames hit a two-run home run to […]
Reds: ‘What a difference a day makes’
By HAL McCOY As Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocal artist Dinah Washington sang in 1958, “What a difference a day makes, 24 little hours.” Just one day, 24 little hours, after the Cincinnati Reds scored 10 runs on 14 hits, they scored no runs on three hits Tuesday night and lost to the […]