Kershaw Krushes Reds
By Hal McCoy When the Cincinnati Reds play the Los Angeles Dodgers, it gives them food for thought — rotten tomatoes. It is ready, set and no go. Knowing they had to play a near-perfect game because they were facing Clayton Kershaw Tuesday night in Dodger Stadium, they did the flip-flop and floundered again, a […]
Reds Lay Big Fat Egg
By Hal McCoy The Cincinnati Reds drew a blank Monday night in Dodger Stadium, a sleepwalk 7-0 loss at the hands of the Los Angeles Dodgers. More accurately, they drew a blank out of the right hand of Emmit Sheehan, a lower-tier pitcher in the Dodgers’ rotation. He played three-card monte with the Reds with […]
The Great Eight: Cesar Geronimo
By Hal McCoy They call him ‘Chief,’ not because he is Native American, but because his name is Native American. Cesar Geronimo roamed center field the way Geronimo, the Apache chiefl, roamed the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts in Arizona. Geronimo could catch ‘em, but he didn’t want to talk about ‘em. He was the quietest […]
Singer Silences D-Backs
By Hal McCoy Just when it looked as if the schizophrenic Cincinnati Reds were helpless and hopeless again, pitcher Brady Singer stepped to the forefront. The box score says the Reds whipped the Arizona Diamondbacks, 6-1, Sunday afternoon in Chase Field. But it wasn’t that easy. It took six one-run, one-hit pitching by Singer and […]
Some Sunday Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wasting away in Mancaveville with the west coast late-night Cincinnati Reds exasperations. —The ‘Manfraud’: As a frequent guest on his great Lexington, Ky. sports talk show, awesome host Alan Cutler, ‘The Cut Man,’ he loves it when I refer to the baseball commissioner as Rob Manfraud. […]
D’Backs Destroy Reds, 10-1
By Hal McCoy When a team’s so-called stopper is involved in a 10-1 loss, it doesn’t bode well for the immediate future. That’s what happened to Andrew Abbott and the Cincinnati Reds Saturday night in Chase Park. Abbott was attacked by the Arizona Diamondbacks for seven runs and eight hits in four innings that included […]
Reds Blow One to D’Backs
By Hal McCoy There is one method opposing teams have used time and time again to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks this season. And the Cincinnati Reds were afforded that opportunity Friday night in Chase Park and failed miserably during an 11-inning 6-5 loss. Stay close and the Arizona bullpen will find a way to give […]
Some pre-weekend Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, trying to put this thing together when my Havenese, Parker, keeps bringing me her ‘squeaker’ toy to play tug of war and fetch. —THE STREAKERS: Remember when two naked streakers ran across the Shea Stadium outfield and when New York Mets manager Yogi Berra was asked […]
A Night of ‘Misses’ for Reds
By Hal McCoy For the Cincinnati Reds it was one big swing-and-miss during a 2-1 loss Wednesday night to the Los Angeles Angels in the Big A. —They missed an opportunity to move into a tie with the New York Mets in the wild card chase after the Mets lost, 5-4, to the Washington Nationals. […]