Reds start new losing streak at Tampa Bay
By HAL McCOY The Cincinnati Reds winning streak came to a quick halt Tuesday night. One game. After ending a nine-game losing streak Monday night, beating the Tampa Bay Rays, the Reds started a new losing streak Tuesday night, losing to the Rays, 6-5. AND IT WAS MOSTLY DUE to a walk on the wild […]
Gennett steps in for Cozart and helps Reds end losing streak
By HAL McCOY Losing Zack Cozart is not a good thing for the Cincinnati Reds. But getting Scooter Gennett more playing time is not a bad thing. And that’s the way it played out Monday night when the Reds expunged a nine-game losing streak with a 7-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays in Tropicana […]
Arroyo admits his career probably is over and done
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — It is difficult to witness any career spiral to below sea level, a career crash and burn to ashes. Baseball career obituaries are neither fun nor easy to write. And it is more difficult when it happens to a class act, to a guy more honest than Abe and more […]
LA blasts Reds, 10-2 — eighth straight loss
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Gildna Radner, the old Saturday Nigh Live star, wrote a book entitled, ‘It’s Always Something.’ It wasn’t about the 2017 Cincinnati Reds, but it could have been because, indeed, with the Reds it is always something. After a loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers Friday night, the media swarmed Billy […]
Pete Rose’s personal head-first favorites
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — They won’t give him a plaque in Cooperstown but in Cincinnati they’ve given Pete Rose everything but the Carew Tower and the Roebling Bridge. They named a street next to Great American Ball Park for him, Pete Rose Way, they’ve retired his number 14, they’ve put him into the Cincinnati […]
Hamilton, Cozart struggling at the top
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — The Cincinnati Reds are playing baseball these days with about as much punch as cherry Kool-Aid. On a hot night in Great American Ball Park, where baseballs normally are hit so hard in 90-degree weather that they can be tracked by air traffic controllers at Lunken Airport, the Reds were […]
Bad news in San Diego, good news in Dayton
By HAL McCOY DAYTON — As club owner Bob Castellini left the clubhouse and passed a media gathering near the door, he stopped and said, “It was a great day for the Cincinnati Reds.” He, of course, was not referring to what happened earlier in the day in San Diego, where the Reds lost to […]
Richard, Padres put silencer on Reds, 6-2
By HAL McCOY Scott Feldman’s first seven pitches to the San Diego Padres Tuesday night were enough to challenge the patience of Job. Seven pitches — two bloop singles, two seeing-eye ground ball singles dribbled through the infield and the Padres owned a 2-0 lead without once squaring up the baseball. And Padres left hander […]
Reds, Arroyo ripped by Padres, 9-3
By HAL McCOY This says it all about where the Cincinnati Reds are, or aren’t, these days. It was the third inning Monday night of a game against a bunch of lowly no-named guys wearing San Diego Padres uniforms, a team that entered the game with 40 losses and 16 ½ games out of first […]