Reds beat Rockies with ‘Miracle Ninth’
By HAL McCOY Call it The Miracle on Blake Street, The Greatest Escape of all escapes. It looked as if the Cincinnati Reds were dead in their tracks Saturday night in Coors Field. Yes, the Reds led the Colorado Rockies by one run in the bottom of the ninth. But with closer Raisel Iglesias on […]
Reds discover (again) that no lead is safe in Coors
By HAL McCOY Anybody familiar with hit-and-run and suicide squeeze in baseball knows that no lead in Coors Field is safe. A three-run lead after the top of the third is the slimmest of leads in the park known as Hitter’s Paradise. The Cincinnati Reds knew that going in against the Colorado Rockies Friday night […]
Suarez hits grand slam, Castillo slams the door
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — It was La Piedra (‘The Stone’) versus a Nova (shining star) Thursday afternoon in Great American Ball Park and the stone prevailed. Luis Castillo, nicknamed La Piedra, started for the Cincinnati Reds against Pittsburgh Pirates starter Ivan Nova and it was no contest, a 5-4 victory for Castillo and the […]
Despite bullpen heroics, Reds lost to Pirates, 5-4, in 12 innings
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — There is little on a baseball field at which Joey Votto doesn’t excel, all the metrics reveal that. Base running, though, is not something he does with success because his instincts on the base paths are suspect and he is the second slowest runner on the Cincinnati Reds behind Tucker […]
Scooter drives in six, Dark Knight records victory
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — If you want to turn Scooter Gennett into Motorcycle Gennett just rev him up. And the best way to rev him up is to intentionally walk Joey Votto ahead of him to load the bases. That’s what the Pittsburgh Pirates did Tuesday night in Great American Ball Park — walked […]
A news avalanche: Lorenzen, Barnhart, Brandon Dixon
By HAL McCoy CINCINNATI — There are days when a baseball writer has to look under clubhouse cushions and under the bat rack to find a story. And then there are days when the writer walks into the clubhouse gets hit in the face with a tidal wave of That was the case Tuesday before […]
Riggleman: ‘Cubs just dominated us’
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — The Cincinnati Reds witnessed the Chicago Cubs’ version of Homer Bailey and it didn’t work out so well for the home nine. Cubs starter Yu Darvish, to whom the Cubs are paying $25 million this year, entered Sunday afternoon’s game at Great American Ball Park with a 0-and-3 record and […]
Reds win by one, lose by 10 in doubleheader
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — When it comes to baseball games decided by two or fewer runs this season, the Cincinnati Reds are in a dark cave covered by a deep fog. They briefly poked their heads out of the abyss Saturday afternoon in Game One of a doubleheader against the Chicago Cubs. After closer […]
Cubs pound Bailey, rip Reds, 8-1
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — It won’t be long before Cincinnati Reds pitcher Anthony DeSclafani finally comes off the disabled list and that means somebody currently in the starting rotation is going to exit stage right. And who might that be? Based on what he has done so far, especially in his last two starts, […]