‘The Pete Rose Way’
By Hal McCoy Do All-Star games mean anything to today’s baseball players, other than the prestige and recognition they bring? Do the results matter, win or lose? It used to be, before interleague play, when the National League teams never played the American League teams. The National League did not like the American League and […]
Reds drop Ho-Hummer To Cubs
By Hal McCoy It is a familiar script written early in the season and it wasn’t written to favor the Cincinnati Reds. When they need a big hit, a clutch hit, a game-turning hit, for the most part this season they just aren’t there. It happened once again Saturday night during a 5-3 loss to […]
Greene Dominates Cubs
By Hal McCoy The Real Hunter Greene stood tall Friday night, as tall as the 41-story Great American Tower in downtown Cincinnati. Five days ago, an impostor wore Greene’s uniform when he gave up eight runs, seven hits and four walks to the Baltimore Orioles in only 3 2/3 innings. That was Greene’s nervous and […]
Reds Waste Singer Gem, Lose, 1-0
By Hal McCoy Put a road gray Philadelphia Phillies uniform on Jesus Luzardo and they should add a cape. The man is baseball’s versopm of Superman when he is in enemy territory. The Cincinnati Reds discovered that the hard way Thursday night in Great American Ball Park, a 1-0 loss to the Phillies. Luzardo, the […]
Reds Homer Barrage Buries Phillies
By Hal McCoy For one night, the 2026 Cincinnati Reds looked like the 1976 Big Red Machine, with Sal Stewart playing the part of Joe Morgan. The Reds hit five home runs, two by Stewart and four in one inning as the Reds ripped apart the Philadelphia Phillies, 11-5. As experience goes, the rookie Stewart […]
Reds Find Another Way To Lose To The Brewers
By Hal McCoy The sun set in the west, the oceans didn’t dry up, dogs still hate cats and the Milwaukee Brewers found a way to beat the Cincinnati Reds. Nothing ever changes, especially with the Brewers outdoing the Reds. How did this one happen, this 5-3 loss at American Family Field? Simply stated, this […]
Some Early-Week Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and have I mentioned lately that the Cincinnati Reds’ ineptitude is as transparent as lingerie hanging in a Victoria’s Secret store window? —OK, HIT ME: Nobody talked about his inner thoughts about baseball better than Pete Rose. When I interviewed him, I opened my notebook and […]
An Ugly Finish For Reds
By Hal McCoy The Pittsburgh Pirates did everything imaginable to enable the Cincinnati Reds to grab a three-game sweep. Didn’t happen. The Pirates ripped and rolled to a 9-4 win Sunday afternoon in PNC Park. There is no proof that magician Harry Houdini was wearing a Reds uniform. After all, he died in 1926. But […]
Suarez To The Rescue
By Hal McCoy Defeat was one gulp of air, one deep breath away for the Cincinnati Reds. One swing and a miss, one pop-up, one ground ball and it was a heart-shattering defeat. Then Eugenio Suarez said, “No, not today, baby.” HIs three-run home run in the top of the ninth gave the Reds an […]