Bailey bombed as Reds score 12 and lose
By HAL McCOY They played a wild, wild, wild one out west in Glendale, Ariz., a spring exhibition game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox. The Reds scored 12 runs and bashed 14 hits. They weren’t enough. When the sagebrush quit blowing Wednesday afternoon, the White Sox owned a 14-12 victory at […]
Wright State wins its way into the NCAA
By HAL McCOY Raise your hand if you thought Wright State University could win the Horizon League championship when Loudon Love didn’t have a field goal in the first half. Put those hands down and use them to applaud and high-five Wright State for doing just that Tuesday night at Little Caesar’s Arena in Detroit. […]
Finnegan makes spring debut in Reds win
By HAL McCOY Brandon Finnegan’s first spring appearance on the mound for the Cincinnati Reds began with a bang, a bang on his first pitch. The bang was off the bat of Cleveland superstar Francisco Lindor, a home run to left field. Inauspicious? Yes. But Finnegan shook that off and gave up only an infield […]
It’s all about ‘Love’ for Wright State
By HAL McCOY It looked more like football than basketball during the Wright State-Milwaukee Horizon League semifinal tournament game Monday night. And the physicality of the game suited Loudon Love perfectly because the 6-foot-9, 275-pound red shirt freshman was an all-state offensive tackle in high school. What does Love have to do with it? Everything […]
DeSclafani ineffective as Reds continue to struggle
By HAL McCOY Anybody with even a minuscule knowledge of baseball knows that preseason/exhibition results mean next-to-nothing. Just ask the Cleveland Browns. After going undefeated in the preseason last season they went 0-and-16 when it counted in the regular season. So it is not necessary to pull the alarm handle on the Cincinnati Reds so […]
Flyers throw in another ‘stinker’ at La Salle
By HAL McCOY Just when one swears the University of Dayton Flyers can not possibly play worse, one is proved a liar. Just one game ago, at Rhode Island, the Flyers played their worst half of the season, a second half wipeout by the Rams. So, one game later, playing at La Salle, the Flyers […]
DeSclafani, Mahle sharp, but Reds lose again
By HAL McCOY With one hitch and glitch by Robert Stephenson on Monday, the starting pitchers the Cincinnati Reds have sent to the mound in the early spring training going have been spot on. The Reds have pretty much gone through the rotation one time and Anthony DeSclafani continued the trend Tuesday against the Milwaukee […]
Reds acquire Revere — A message to Hamilton?
By HAL McCOY The significant news Monday out of the Cincinnati Reds camp in Goodyear, Ariz., had nothing to do with the team’s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks. It was a ‘B’ day for the Reds — the only regular in the lineup was Scott Schebler and he was the designated hitter. And the Reds […]
Two new Reds bullpenners make spring debut
By HAL McCOY In addition to filling out a starting rotation, manager Bryan Price and the Cincinnati Reds hope to find some sand bags to shore up baseball’s worst bullpen — three years running. To do that, the Reds added a couple of veteran journeymen bullpenners, signing David Hernandez and Jared Hughes to two-year contracts. […]