McCoy: Reds Spot Braves Four-Run Lead, Come Back To Win, 6-5
By Hal McCoy It was an excruciating beginning and an exhilarating ending for the Cincinnati Reds Tuesday night in Great American Ball Park. In the end, it was an exquisite 6-5 win over the swooning Atlanta Braves. The finishing touch was provided in the seventh inning by Spencer Steer, a two-run home run that turned […]
OBSERVATIONS: Eric Davis, Elly De La Cruz — 2 Of a Kind (Almost)
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave as baseball’s regular season is drawing to a close and I’m still watching and writing about the Cincinnati Reds for no apparent reason, other than I must be the proverbial glutton for punishment. —THE TWO ‘E.D.s’: Elly De La Cruz’s mentor is a guy with the […]
Ask Hal: You Can’t Implement to Mitigate
By Hal McCoy Q: Has MLB implemented measures to mitigate injuries and ensure that star players remain active? — DAVE, Miamisburg/Centerville/Beavercreek. A: How does one mitigate injuries? Does MLB make rules that running into walls is illegal, running hard to first base and risking a pulled hamstring is illegal, sliding hard into second base is […]
McCoy: Twins Turn The Tables On Reds With 5-Run Inning
By Hal McCoy There is positive aggression and negative aggresion on baseball’s basepaths and the Cincinnati Reds have displayed both during a long, long season. On Sunday afternon in Target Field, the Reds put forth the negative side that helped the Minnesota Twins unload a 9-2 beating. The Reds put their leadoff runner on base […]
McCoy: Reds Score Nine Runs In One Inning, Bury Twins, 11-1
By Hal McCoy If the Minnesota Twins checked the standings before the Cincinnati Reds arrived in Target Field Friday, they saw the Reds at 71-77 and 14 games out of first place. The comfort zone for them had to be above the upper deck. By the time the second game of the three-game series was […]
McCoy: De La Cruz, Aguiar Put The ‘Slam’ On The Twins, 8-4
By Hal McCoy The dormant Cincinnati Reds offense erupted like Mount Vesuvius Friday night in Target Field. And the perpetrators during a six-run seventh inning were a pack of players begging for hits as the Reds put an 8-4 beating on the Minnesota Twins. The first game of a series is golden for the Reds. […]
OBSERVATIONS: For The Reds, It Was Three, Three, Three
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, still watching the Cincinnati Reds, still writing about the Cincinnati Reds, wondering why I’m still watching the Cincinnati Reds and writing about the Cincinnati Reds. —THREE-THREE-THREE: On back-to-back-to back days, the Cincinnati Reds won a game in New York, a game in Atlanta and a game […]
McCoy: Reds Waste Another Great Start, Lose, 6-1 To Cardinals
By Hal McCoy For the second straight game it was deja vu all over again and that was not a good thing for the Cincinnati Reds. They lost Thursday afternoon to the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-1, in a game full of similarities to their 2-1 loss Wednesday. In both games, the starting pitchers for both […]
McCoy: Cardinals Stop All The Reds’ Streaks, 2-1
By Hal McCoy For the most part, baseball is a game of failure. And the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals were prime exhibits Wednesday night in Busch Stadium. Both teams were persistent failures in trying to score runs throughout the game — until the St. Louis eighth inning. Paul Goldschmidt lined a run-scoring double, […]