Reds: Please do away with interleague play
By HAL McCOY Most National League aficionados wish that interleague play would just go away, never to re-surface, and the Cincinnati Reds pray that it will go away. And soon. But it isn’t going to happen so the Reds have to continue to slog along. Since interleague play began in 1997, the Reds have the […]
Reds turn triple play but still lose to Yankees, 4-2
By HAL McCOY Aroldis Chapman pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for a save, Todd Frazier had a single, a walk and scored a run and Didi Gregorius hit a home run and drove in two. A few years ago that might have described what three members of the Cincinnati Reds did Tuesday night in Yankee Stadium, […]
Reds’ bats silent in 6-2 loss to Tribe
By HAL McCOY Zack Cozart hit his 12th home run and Scooter Gennett hit his 18th home run and that’s all she wrote Monday night for the Cincinnati Reds. Both home runs were solo shots and that’s all the runs the Reds scored against the Cleveland Indians in a 6-2 defeat at Progressive Field. Cozart […]
Romano stays dry, towels off Marlins
By HAL McCOY There was a glimmer of sunshine on a gloomy Sunday afternoon at the end of a gloomy homestand for the Cincinnati Reds. They won a baseball game, 6-3, only their second win on the now completed 10-game homestand. And what did it take? It took an outstanding pitching performance by rookie Sal […]
Stephenson better, but still a work in progress
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — The re-invention or re-tooling of Cincinnati Reds pitcher Robert Stephenson still needs some tweaking and tinkering. Stephenson, the team’s No. 1 draft pick in 2011, was summoned from Class AAA Louisville Saturday to make his first major league start of the season. Stephenson made the Opening Day roster and pitch […]
Bats go silent and Reds lose another one, 3-1
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — With the two worst starting staffs in the National League and two of the most prolific offenses, it was expected that the Miami Marlins-Cincinnati Reds game Friday night in Great American Ball park would provide more in-game fireworks than the post-game fireworks. But as former major league pitcher Joaquin Andujar […]
Reds mangled by D-Backs Bomb Squad, 12-2
By HAL McCOY It was about 2 a.m. Thursday morning when Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Patrick Corbin was awakened in his hotel room by a phone call. “You’re pitching today,” said Corbin’s manager, Torey Lovullo. Taijuan Walker, the scheduled starter, left town on maternity leave when his wife went into labor. With a 1-and-6 road record […]
It takes 11 innings, but Reds finally win one
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — It isn’t healthy for baseball teams playing the Arizona Diamondbacks to do the following: —Permit the D-Backs to fall behind early. They lead the majors with 30 come-from-behind wins. —Go into extra innings against them because they were 7-and-1 in overtime before Wednesday’s game against the Cincinnati Reds. —Get involved […]
Price: Players need to be ‘Tough s.o.b.s’
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — What happened Tuesday night in Great American Ball Park was enough to push Cincinnati Reds manager Bryan Price into talking about how baseball players have to be tough s.o.b.’s to survive and succeed. It was inevitable that when stretch came to tug that something had to snap. Price didn’t snap, […]