It is much too early to call the Reds ‘Team Slump,’ isn’t it?
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — After three games in weather not suited for outdoor ice hockey, the Cincinnati Reds, as a team, are hitting .200 with an on-base average of .276. Those are not good numbers for a team that carries the label, “New, Improved Reds.” It is way, way, way too early for fans […]
Reds lose game to Brewers and lose Hunter Greene for the entire season
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — The one certainty one heard all spring about the Cincinnati Reds was: “They’ll hit, they’ll score runs, they’ll hit, they’ll score runs.” And perhaps they will, even though they barely are displaying a pulse at home plate over the last couple of days as the long, long season begins its […]
The Brew Crew is a big early challenge for refurbished Reds
By HAL McCoy CINCINNATI — They were known as Harvey’s Wallbangers during Harvey Kuenn’s short time as manager and for the most part they’ve carried the nickname of the Brew Crew. They are the Milwaukee Brewers, the National League Central defending champions and they came muscle-flexing into Great American Ball Park Monday night to do […]
Reds: As many errors (4) as hits (4) in 5-0 loss to Pirates
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Those weren’t gray clouds hanging over Sonny Gray’s shoulders Sunday afternoon in Great American Ball Park. Those were black clouds, dark black clouds, punctuated by the black jerseys worn by the Pittsburgh Pirates on a bat-chilling day, a day during which the Reds committed as many errors (4) as they […]
‘Scrap Heap’ Reds come to the rescue on Opening Day
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — This is how it is supposed to happen to players wearing a Cincinnati uniform after the Reds rescue them off the scrap heap, unceremoniously discarded by their previous team. And so much the better when it happens on Opening Day in front 44,049, largest regular-season crowd in Great American Ball […]
Reds lose sixth straight exhibition game, 8-5 to Braves
By HAL McCOY The Cincinnati Reds have one more opportunity to win a spring training game before everything counts. The optimists will say, “They’re saving their wins for the regular season.” The pessimists say, “Oh, no, another long, long season.” The Reds lost their sixth straight exhibition game Monday night in Atlanta’s SunTrust Park, 8-5 […]
OBSERVATIONS: Castillo Reds’ Opening Day starter, UD and Wright State put up stern fights in NIT losses
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS while spending a long, long evening in The Man Cave La-Z-Boy watching basketball (Wright State), baseball (Cincinnati Reds) and basketball (University of Dayton), leaving the chair only for bathroom duties and refrigerator raids. —In a somewhat surprising move, Cincinnati Reds manager David Bell named Luis Castillo as the Opening Day […]
Observations: Is it time for the Reds to starting winning?
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, watching a horse named Syndergaard race at New York’s Aqueduct Park and wondering if many race horses have names associated with baseball. With no laundry or dishes to do, I checked the entries for five race tracks on one day and discovered: Conforto, Schott, Paint the […]
UD throws in a clinker and a stinker and is out of the A-10 tournament
By HAL McCOY The University of Dayton picked the worst possible time to play patty-cake basketball, permitting a muscular and physical Saint Louis University team to impose its will on the Flyers. The result was one-and done,and not really so well done, for the Flyers, a 64-55 loser in their first game in the Atlantic […]