OBSERVATIONS: Third Wild Card Spot Wide Open
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wondering why in the name of Sol, the Norse sun goddess, they play high school football in the furnace of the August heat. —EXPLANATION POINTS: Yes, the Cincinnati Reds are putting together a push to climb up to that much-coveted third wild card position in the […]
McCoy: Reds Homer Barrage Buries Cardinals For Sweep
By Hal McCoy It is said that chicks dig the long ball and if that’s the case the Cincinnati Reds are extremely popular this week with the fair sex. The Reds unloaded five home runs Wednesday night in Great American Ball Park on their way to a 9-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. And […]
McCoy: It’s So Easy Being Greene These Days
By Hal McCoy The Cincinnati Reds have figured out a winning formula in recent days — pitching, home runs and defense. They applied the methodology for the third straight game Tuesday night in Great American Ball Park, a 4-1 victory over the struggling St. Louis Cardinals. Pitching? Hunter Greene continues to be a baseball artist, […]
ASK HAL: Yes, De La Cruz Is The Real Deal
By Hal McCoy Q: The Chicago White Sox are on track to lose 123 games which would surpass the record 120 losses currently held by the 1962 New York Mets, so are players from that Mets team monitoring the White Sox’s performance? — DAVE, Miamisburg/Centerville/Beavercreek. A: Maybe they are proud to be in the record […]
McCoy: Reds Play A Perfect Game Against Brewers
By Hal McCoy Several incredibly amazing things happened for the Cincinnati Reds Sunday afternoon in American Family Field. —First and foremost, they beat the Milwaukee Brewers for only the 13th time in 47 games. —Secondly they won it by one run, 4-3, only their 10th one-run win in 31 one-run affairs. —They spotted the high-octane […]
OBSERVATIONS: Baseball’s Own Spyders and Snakes
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave wondering when a player from the Reds will say to the Milwaukee Brewers what Pedro Martinez said when the New York Yankees kept beating him up: “Who’s your daddy?” Small market is no excuse. Of the 30 teams, Milwaukee is 27th smallest, San Diego is 26th […]
McCoy: Reds Waste Pitching Gem By Martinez
By Hal McCoy It was a matter of which team would blink first. And when it comes to the Milwaukee Brewers, the Cincinnati Reds always blink. Not only did they blink first — the Brewers never blinked, Milwaukee’s Rhys Hoskins gave them a big black eye with an eighth-inning home run. That’s all the Brewers […]
McCoy: Brewers Go Bombs Away Early On Reds
By Hal McCoy If it had been a heavyweight boxing match, it would have been stopped in the first round. And they would have carried off the Cincinnati Reds on a stretcher. This, though, was baseball and they had to play nine innings, altough an eight-run run rule would have been apropos after three innings. […]
OBSERVATIONS: Words of Praise Pile Up on Elly
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave while awaiting the Reds’ three-game series with Milwaukee and will it be a Brewers’ knockout blow or a Reds’ survival series? —ELLY THE ENTERTAINER: The wonderment and glamorous words of approval for Elly De La Cruz keep coming for all corners of sportsdom. Former pitcher Ryan […]