A’s Apply 3-Game Chokehold
By Hal McCoy Those weren’t the 1927 New York Yankees the Cincinnati Reds faced this weekend, it just looked that way. It was the Nomadic Athletics, the last place team in the American League West, doing a more than reasonable facsimile of the ’27 Yankees. The Athletics completed a bone-crushing three-game sweep of the Reds […]
Reds Ripped By A’s Again
By Hal McCoy Just when the Cincinnati Reds needed him most, starting pitcher Hunter Greene put forth the worst effort of his career. Just when the Reds needed them most, relief pitchers Graham Ashcraft and Scott Barlow couldn’t stop a nose bleed. Due to those circumstances, the Vagabond Athletics administered an 11-5 beating on the […]
A’s Slap A Zero On Reds
By Hal McCoy They played in a minor league ball park against a last place team and the Cincinnati Reds played like a mediocre minor league team Friday night in Sacramento. They lost to the ‘No City First Name Athletics,’ 3-0, and they lost in the worst way. They were 0 for 12 with runners […]
Some Pre-Weekend Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSRVATIONS from The Man Cave with a word of advice to the Cincinnati Reds: Don’t take the Sacra-Vegas Athletics lightly this weekend. It’s the old, “On any given day. . .” —ONE THAT GOT AWAY: In early August of 2019, the Cincinnati Reds signed a pitcher name Kevin Gausman off waivers. […]
Reds keep creeping up
By Hal McCoy The New York Mets keep cooperating and the Cincinnati Reds keep capitalizing. The Mets lost for the fifth straight time Wednesday afternoon and the Reds played a perfect game Wednesday night to beat the San Diego Padres, 2-1. And suddenly the Reds and San Francisco Giants are both just two games behind […]
GREAT EIGHT: ‘The Extras’
By Hal McCoy It was John Milton who penned, “They also serve who only stand and wait.” In 1975, Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Andserson could have changed only one word in that quote: “They also serve who only sit and wait.” During that 108-win season, Anderson scribbled The Great Eight on his starting lineup card […]
Mets Use Knockout Punch
By Hal McCoy The Cincinnati Reds filled the bases with nobody out in the ninth inning. Down 5-4. Season on the line. And they didn’t score. They lost, 5-4, to the New York Mets and most likely their playoff aspirations died with the ninth-inning futility, They are six games behind the Mets and two games […]
Reds Bullpen A Pigpen
By Hal McCoy NIck Lodolo was scheduled to start on the mound for the Cincinnati Reds Tuesday night against the Toronto Blue Jays, but an illness prevented it. And as it turned out, it made everybody associated with the Reds just as sick during a 12-9 slugfest won by the Blue Jays. Lodolo’s illness forced […]
Reds Pull A Baseball Miracle
By Hal McCoy Call it what you want, maybe ‘The Baseball Miracle On The Banks of the Ohio River.’ Whatever one calls it, the Cincinnati Reds staged the comeback win of the season, maybe the decade, Monday afternoon in Great American Ball Park. It was a walk-off two-run single in the bottom of the ninth […]