Gennett steps in for Cozart and helps Reds end losing streak
By HAL McCOY Losing Zack Cozart is not a good thing for the Cincinnati Reds. But getting Scooter Gennett more playing time is not a bad thing. And that’s the way it played out Monday night when the Reds expunged a nine-game losing streak with a 7-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays in Tropicana […]
Arroyo admits his career probably is over and done
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — It is difficult to witness any career spiral to below sea level, a career crash and burn to ashes. Baseball career obituaries are neither fun nor easy to write. And it is more difficult when it happens to a class act, to a guy more honest than Abe and more […]
LA blasts Reds, 10-2 — eighth straight loss
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Gildna Radner, the old Saturday Nigh Live star, wrote a book entitled, ‘It’s Always Something.’ It wasn’t about the 2017 Cincinnati Reds, but it could have been because, indeed, with the Reds it is always something. After a loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers Friday night, the media swarmed Billy […]
Pete Rose’s personal head-first favorites
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — They won’t give him a plaque in Cooperstown but in Cincinnati they’ve given Pete Rose everything but the Carew Tower and the Roebling Bridge. They named a street next to Great American Ball Park for him, Pete Rose Way, they’ve retired his number 14, they’ve put him into the Cincinnati […]
Hamilton, Cozart struggling at the top
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — The Cincinnati Reds are playing baseball these days with about as much punch as cherry Kool-Aid. On a hot night in Great American Ball Park, where baseballs normally are hit so hard in 90-degree weather that they can be tracked by air traffic controllers at Lunken Airport, the Reds were […]
Bad news in San Diego, good news in Dayton
By HAL McCOY DAYTON — As club owner Bob Castellini left the clubhouse and passed a media gathering near the door, he stopped and said, “It was a great day for the Cincinnati Reds.” He, of course, was not referring to what happened earlier in the day in San Diego, where the Reds lost to […]
Richard, Padres put silencer on Reds, 6-2
By HAL McCOY Scott Feldman’s first seven pitches to the San Diego Padres Tuesday night were enough to challenge the patience of Job. Seven pitches — two bloop singles, two seeing-eye ground ball singles dribbled through the infield and the Padres owned a 2-0 lead without once squaring up the baseball. And Padres left hander […]
Reds, Arroyo ripped by Padres, 9-3
By HAL McCOY This says it all about where the Cincinnati Reds are, or aren’t, these days. It was the third inning Monday night of a game against a bunch of lowly no-named guys wearing San Diego Padres uniforms, a team that entered the game with 40 losses and 16 ½ games out of first […]
Reds blow four-run lead in 8th, lose to Dodgers again, 9-7
By HAL McCOY If the Cincinnati Reds never again see Hollywood, Century City, Pasadena, the Walk of Fame, the La Brea tar pits and, especially, Chavez Ravine, it will be too soon. It appeared they had finally shaken the Dodger Stadium anvil on their backs Sunday afternoon when they entered the eighth inning with a […]