Price, Melvin: Commiserating friends
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — It isn’t often that the Cincinnati Reds and Oakland A’s are on the same field, other than spring training, and Reds manager Bryan Price most likely appreciates that, as does A’s manager Bob Melvin. That’s because they are close friends and as Price said, “We are in touch with each […]
Finnegan ‘balks’ at chance to beat St. Louis
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Adam Wainwright has been more like Adam Wainwrong for most of this baseball season — a 5-and-4 record with a bloated 5.40 earned run average when he trudged to the Great American Ball Park mound Thursday night. And when the Cincinnati Reds pushed across a couple of runs in the […]
Reds No. 1 pick: 3B Nick Senzel (My pick, too)
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — It is — ta-dum — third baseman Nick Senzel. That’s whom the Cincinnati Reds selected in the first round tonight of the free agent baseball draft. And I got it right. In a piece I wrote Monday I predicted the Reds would take one of three players and Senzel was […]
Reds unarmed for Battles of the Bullpen
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — From the beginning it was evident that neither starting pitcher Wednesday in Great American Ball Park was fooling anybody, not even themselves. It was going to be Survival of the Unfittest or baseball’s version of Last Man Standing. Neither starting pitcher stood for longer than five innings and when it […]
Votto: After frustration comes exhilaration
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — Joey Votto used a different ‘F’ word to describe the game-winning walk-off home run he unleashed Tuesday night in the bottom of the ninth, but there definitely was frustration involved. Frustration, though, was not the F-word he used. With the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals tied with one out […]
Reds, Nats both play give-away, but Nats hold on
By HAL McCOY CINCINNATI — As Washington Nationals manager Dusty Baker watched the unfathomable plot unfold on the field a thought crossed his mind — an old television show. “I was thinking about Fred MacMurray from ‘My Three Sons.’” said Baker. “Only I have four sons over there that wreaked havoc on us during this […]
Grass Roots Baseball: Ya gotta love it
By HAL McCOY COLUMBUS — It isn’t often, if ever, that a person can sit in a comfortable swivel chair in a gorgeous venue and be transported 58 years back to re-live some of the best times of his life. That, though, is what happened to me Thursday afternoon. For a day, I was 17 […]
Reds unleash extra base barrage on Rockies
By HAL McCOY Major League Baseball scheduled a four-game baseball series in Denver this week and four softball games broke out. It was like those big guys who travel the country and put on hitting displays with softballs before major league games, launching juiced-up softballs deep into the upper decks. It was the Cincinnati Curley’s […]
Lamb throws heavy rocks at the Rockies
By HAL McCOY If you try to figure out baseball, just stop. Don’t try it. Don’t do it. You can’t. After giving up 17 runs, 19 hits and seven home runs to the Colorado Rockies Tuesday night, the Cincinnati Reds turned John Lamb loose on them Wednesday night. That figured to be a major mismatch […]