For the Reds starting pitchers it is mostly ‘Five and Dive’
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Any day now every member of the Cincinnati Reds bullpen is going to show up at work with their shoulders in a sling and their elbows encased in ice buckets. And it won’t be a gag. Because the Reds starting pitchers can’t seem to pitch more than half of a […]
Hader strikes out eight Reds in 2 2/3 innings, MLB record
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — The Milwaukee Brewers stumbled into town as forlorn as a baseball team possibly could be. They fled Chicago with a quick exodus Sunday night after losing four straight to the Chicago Cubs. That wasn’t the bad part. The bad part was that they were shut out three times in Wrigley […]
Mahle quiets Twins, Reds bats noisy
By HAL McCOY When a team begins the season 3-and-18, it takes what it can get as far as positive feedback. For the Cincinnati Reds, it is a series victory — their first this season. They didn’t exactly dance from the bus to the airplane for the trip home Sunday afternoon, but they were a […]
Reds bats quiet again in 3-1 loss to Twins
By HAL McCOY This is why in baseball it isn’t healthy to get excited about one game, unless it is Game 7 of the World Series. Just 10 hours after scoring 15 runs on 20 hits Friday night, the Cincinnati Reds scored one run on six hits Saturday afternoon in Target Field. And it added […]
Reds come back from early deficit to blast Twins, 15-9
By HAL McCOY When Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Luis Castillo gives up five runs in the first inning and the team is behind, 8-4, after five innings, it might be expected the Reds would lose by something like 15-9. Well, that was the score. 15-9. But it was the Reds on the top end of […]
Reds first team to reach 20 defeats this season
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — The Cincinnati Reds became baseball’s first 20-game losers this year and it took them only 25 games to accomplish it. With a 7-4 loss to the Atlanta Braves Wednesday afternoon in Great American Ball Park, the Reds fell to 5-and-20. And after winning the first two of this four-game series, […]
Reds fall short of ‘true winning streak’
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — As Lou Brown, mythical manager of the Cleveland Indians said in the movie Major League II, “We won a game yesterday so if we win one today that’s two in a row. If we win one tomorrow that’s called a winning streak. It has happened before.” It hasn’t happened yet […]
Reds give one away, then grab it back in 12 innings
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — For the first time, 23 games into the 2018 season, the Cincinnati Reds covet and caress a two-game winning streak. And it was worth it for the few stragglers who wandered off the street and into Great American Ball Park Tuesday night and stayed the entire 4 hours and six […]
Schebler sparks Reds come-from-behind rout of Braves, 10-4
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — For some obscure reason, the Cincinnati Reds decided to play a baseball game Monday night in Great American Ball Park that should have been postponed due to a lack of interest. After a rainy afternoon and with the hometown team losing nearly every game, there could not have been more […]