Rox rock assortment of AAA pitchers, 17-4
By HAL McCOY With apologies to Kermit, who said it isn’t easy being green, it isn’t easy being red these days, especially if you are a member of the Cincinnati Reds. The Colorado Rockies slapped a memory on the Reds Tuesday night in Coors Field that even Alzheimer’s couldn’t erase. Stopping the Rockies from crossing […]
Reds’ bats awaken in Coors pinball machine
By HAL McCOY It wasn’t Dan Straily’s finest hour, but not too many pitchers have their finest hours, or finest minutes, in Coors Field, the world’s largest pinball machine. Straily, the Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher against the Colorado Rockies on Memorial Day, didn’t have a memorable day — five runs and eight hits in six […]
Reds rally: Too little and too late
By HAL McCOY After poking their heads out of the deep recesses of a losing cave Saturday, the Cincinnati Reds retreated back to the darkness Sunday afternoon, losing to the Milwaukee Brewers, 5-4, in Miller Park. There was a familiar pattern to it, too. Bad baserunning by the Reds and Johnny Bench-like hitting from Milwaukee […]
The 11-game losing streak is h-i-s-t-o-r-y
By HAL McCOY The Ogre is gone, no longer lurking over the shoulders of the Cincinnati Reds. The Ogre has left the building. The 11-game losing streak is h-i-s-t-o-r-y. IT WASN’T EASY and it was full of controversy, but the Reds scored a 7-6 victory Saturday afternoon over the Milwaukee Brewers in Miller Park. Where […]
Brewers lead Lamb to the slaughter
By HAL McCOY If there is one team the Cincinnati Reds should be able to compete with in the National League Central it is the Milwaukee Brewers. The Brewers are in the same ship as the Reds, one with a lot of holes and taking in water. They, too, are in a rebuilding process. Like […]
Straily’s sensational effort goes to waste
By HAL McCOY The bats the Cincinnati Reds are using these days are cold enough to freeze a polar bear. Or, as one man once said, “They are taking bats to the batter’s box for no apparent reason.” The losing streak reach 10 straight Wednesday night in Chavez Ravine, a 3-1 loss to the Los […]
Reds: Where has all the offense gone?
By HAL McCOY Las Vegas didn’t know what to do until they thought it over. Then they did know. When the morning line came out they weren’t certain who would pitch Tuesday night for the Los Angeles Dodgers. So, a writer for ‘Scores and Odds’ wrote, “The problem is, as of this writing. not even […]
Finnegan’s best topped by Kershaw
By HAL McCOY They could have turned out the Dodger Stadium lights and emptied the Chavez Ravine parking lots after the sixth inning Monday night in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Dodgers scored a run in the sixth inning, the game’s only run, and that is all Clayton Kershaw needed as he pitched his third […]
Just another ‘Loss in the Park’ for the Reds
By Hal McCoy For Cincinnati Reds fans watching games on television they should treat them as if they are watching ’60 Minutes.’ They should watch for 60 minutes and turn it off because nothing good is going to happen after that. And when Eugenio Suarez comes to the plate, take a bathroom break. Suarez has […]