Reds Steer-ed Right
By Hal McCoy The lineup/batting order Cincinnati Reds manager Tito Francona put together Wednesday afternoon looked as if he pulled it out of Gene Autry’s Stetson. And it worked. The Reds recovered from a shutout administered to them Tuesday with a 6-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in Busch Stadium III. Even though their […]
Some Early-Week Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, finding it hard to believe only two weeks remain in baseball’s regular season, until I see college football on every TV channel on Saturdays. —THE SURGEON’S SCALPEL: Baseball’s biggest mystery is why so many pitchers end up injured, especially when they are totally babied these days. […]
Reds Ravage Cards’ Bullpen
By Hal McCoy A quick glance at the box score reveals that the Cincinnati Reds gagged and hanged the St. Louis Cardinals, 11-6, Monday night in near-empty Busch Stadium III. That quick glance needs to be a deeper search, like when the Cardinals came to bat in the eighth inning. The Reds only led, 7-6, […]
A’s Apply 3-Game Chokehold
By Hal McCoy Those weren’t the 1927 New York Yankees the Cincinnati Reds faced this weekend, it just looked that way. It was the Nomadic Athletics, the last place team in the American League West, doing a more than reasonable facsimile of the ’27 Yankees. The Athletics completed a bone-crushing three-game sweep of the Reds […]
Reds Ripped By A’s Again
By Hal McCoy Just when the Cincinnati Reds needed him most, starting pitcher Hunter Greene put forth the worst effort of his career. Just when the Reds needed them most, relief pitchers Graham Ashcraft and Scott Barlow couldn’t stop a nose bleed. Due to those circumstances, the Vagabond Athletics administered an 11-5 beating on the […]
A’s Slap A Zero On Reds
By Hal McCoy They played in a minor league ball park against a last place team and the Cincinnati Reds played like a mediocre minor league team Friday night in Sacramento. They lost to the ‘No City First Name Athletics,’ 3-0, and they lost in the worst way. They were 0 for 12 with runners […]
Some Pre-Weekend Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSRVATIONS from The Man Cave with a word of advice to the Cincinnati Reds: Don’t take the Sacra-Vegas Athletics lightly this weekend. It’s the old, “On any given day. . .” —ONE THAT GOT AWAY: In early August of 2019, the Cincinnati Reds signed a pitcher name Kevin Gausman off waivers. […]
Reds keep creeping up
By Hal McCoy The New York Mets keep cooperating and the Cincinnati Reds keep capitalizing. The Mets lost for the fifth straight time Wednesday afternoon and the Reds played a perfect game Wednesday night to beat the San Diego Padres, 2-1. And suddenly the Reds and San Francisco Giants are both just two games behind […]
GREAT EIGHT: ‘The Extras’
By Hal McCoy It was John Milton who penned, “They also serve who only stand and wait.” In 1975, Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Andserson could have changed only one word in that quote: “They also serve who only sit and wait.” During that 108-win season, Anderson scribbled The Great Eight on his starting lineup card […]