Castillo quiets Marlins while Reds explode for 14 runs
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Due to the two-game suspension of Yasiel ‘The Wild Horse’ Puig, the Cincinnati Reds saddled up Tuesday night with only three position players on the bench to face the Miami Marlins. It didn’t matter. Extra guys weren’t needed. With Luis Castillo (1.59 earned run average) on the mound for the […]
Bell reacts to to suspension and what Pittsburgh pitcher Archer did
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Joe Torre is major league baseball’s Lord of the Law, the enforcer and the man who doles out punishment. He is an honorable man, a baseball lifer, but his most recent ruling leaves people scratching their heads under their baseball caps. Following Sunday’s on-the-field scrum in Pittsburgh, Torre made these […]
Reds suffer ‘TKO’ in fight-spiced 7-5 loss to Pirates
By HAL McCOY The Cincinnati Reds showed some fight Sunday afternoon in Pittsburgh’s PNC Park but in the end they suffered another technical knockout. They lost for the eighth straight time, this time by 7-5, concluding a four-game sweep by the Pirates, the first time that has happened to the Reds in Pittsburgh since 1969, […]
Reds: Scoreless streak ends, losing streak trudges onward
By HAL McCOY That isn’t a monkey perched on the shoulders of the Cincinnati Reds. It isn’t a gorilla, either. It’s King Kong on one shoulder and Mighty Joe Young on the other. The Reds shed their stinking streak of 30 straight scoreless innings and scored five runs Saturday afternoon in PNC Park against the […]
Reds shut out third straight game, scoreless in 28 straight innings
By HAL McCOY It is 28 and counting and the Cincinnati Reds wish they couldn’t count that high. The Reds were shut out Friday night by the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2-0, the third straight game in which they have been blanked and their scoreless futility has reached 28 innings. The last time the Reds suffered the […]
Reds suffer back-to-back shutouts, waste gem by Mahle
By HAL McCOY The Cincinnati Reds’ avoidance of home plate continued Thursday night in Pittsburgh — they are steering clear of home plate as if they fear it is infected with an incurable disease. For the second straight game the Reds were shut out, this time 2-0 by the Pittsburgh Pirates after they lost Wednesday […]
Castillo brilliant, but Reds fall to Brewers, 1-0
By HAL McCOY Four hits, four hits, three hits. One-run loss, one-run loss, one-run loss. That’s the sad but true tale of the Cincinnati Reds during a three-game series sweep by the Milwaukee Brewers. It concluded Thursday afternoon with an utterly frustrating day in Great American Ball Park, a 1-0 defeat.One-run victories are the […]
OBSERVATIONS: Of the Reds, Harper, Sandoval (and more)
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave while thinking about the five seasons — winter, spring, summer, fall and the best season of all, baseball. The Cincinnati Reds are off to a low-flying start, 1-and-3, and swinging as if they are using a wet rolled-up newspaper for a bat. They’ve had four hits […]
Lorenzen: “That loss is on me,” after Reds fall to Brewers, 4-3.
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — This is how things are transpiring so far this season for the Cincinnati Reds — and none of it has a positive gloss on it. With the score tied in the sixth inning Tuesday between the Reds and Milwaukee Brewers, manager David Bell summoned Michael Lorenzen from the bullpen. Curious? […]