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 […]
McCoy: Reds Stage An Outrageous Finish
By Hal McCoy On a night when Hunter Greene showed he can be a mere mortal, his Cincinnati Reds picked him up with an one-inning volcanic explosion of runs. It came in the 10th inning, a carousel of seven runs that provided the Reds with a 10-4 win over the Miami Marlins. With the score […]
McCoy: Reds Rally Falls One Swing Short
By Hal McCoy The Cincinnati Reds came within one successful swing of the bat from completing an unfathomable comeback Wednesday night against the Miami Marlins. But it came up one swing short in a 6-4 loss in mostly vacant (8,657 fans) and silent loanDepot Field. After falling behind, 6-0, TJ Friedl ripped his first career […]
OBSERVATIONS: Oh So Close To So Many No-Nos
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wondering when Hunter Greene will pitch a no-hitter or a perfect game. . .well, maybe a complete game if his manager permits it. —OH, NO. . .NO NO-NO: Corey Seager, pitchers hate you. On Tuesday night, Houston’s Framber Valdez was one out away from his second […]