McCoy: This Reds Win Belongs In a Museum
By Hal McCoy If there was a Museum For Bizzarre Baseball Games, Thursday’s 10-9 Cincinnati Reds win over the Oakland Ahletics would be a featured exhibit. One exhibit would be the baseball Cincinnati’s TJ Friedl ripped for a two-run ninth-inning walk-off single, only the second Reds walk-off win this season. There would be the bat […]
OBSERVATIONS: He Backed Up What He ‘Predicted’
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATNS from The Man Cave and 100 degrees, 105 when I light up a Monte Cristo White Label Churchill. —RUN, DON’T WALK: It was 1963 in the Florida Instructional League. Long-time iconic coach George Kissell was coaching third base for the St. Louis Cardinals. “This young kid I’d never seen before […]
McCoy: Reds Suffer Another Unfathomable Loss
By Hal McCoy Of all the excruciating defeats suffered this season by the Cincinnati Reds, Wednesday night’s 9-6 reversal to the Oakland Athletics ranks in the Top Three, if not No. 1. They trailed the A’s 5-0 entering the seventh inning, but scored six times in the seventh to take a 6-5 lead. The exclamation […]
McCoy: A’s Use Three Homers to Top Reds, 5-4
By Hal McCoy Only the New York Yankees rely more on home runs to score runs than the Oakland Athletics. And the Cincinnati Reds were injected with a full dose Tuesday night in Great Ameridcan Ball Park. The A’s launched three late-game home runs to account for all their runs in applying a 5-4 defeat […]
OBSERVATIONS: Pirates Doing What Reds Should Do
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after a scrumptious meal Monday night at Jimmy’s Italian Restaraunt in Downtown Dayton. Baked Zitti, a side of sausage, house salad with tasty Italian dressing, two glasses of Moscato and one full and satisfied stomach. —ELLY’S ELEGY: Historic stuff keeps being applied next to Elly De […]
Ask Hal: Baseball Brawls Mostly G.M.A
By Hal McCoy Q: Following a bench-clearing brawl, is there ever any discussion regarding which team prevailed? — DAVE, Miamisburg/Centerville/Beavercreek. A: Baseball and and brawl should never be in the same sentence. I’ve only one true brawl on a baseball field. At best, most are skirmishes, just a bunch of guys pushing and shoving each […]
McCoy: Grandal Gets Revenge With Walk-off Home Run
By Hal McCoy For Yasmani Grandal, it was a message to the Cincinnati Reds: “See, I told you.” Grandal ripped a one-out, two-run walk-off home run off Reds closer Alexis Diaz in the ninth inning Sunday afternoon to give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 4-3 victory in PNC Park. With a 3-2 lead, Diaz retired dangerous […]
A History of Baseball Frustrations In Cleveland
By Hal McCoy The Cleveland Guardians, baseball’s Shock Rock team this season, have been the surprise team in major league baseball, holding down first place in the American League Central most of the season.. Will it stay that way? Will the Guardians win the American League Central? Will they even make the playoffs? While those […]
McCoy: Firsts for Aguiar, Kelly in 10-2 Reds Win
By Hal McCoy The Cincinnati Reds did what they are supposed to do Saturday night against a pitcher with a 0-5 record. And they did it fast and furiously in the first inning in PNC Park against Jake Woodford. They scored four runs in the firsrt and four more in the fourth en route to […]