Myers, Elly Save A Split
By Hal McCoy Dane Myers owns a bat with ears. And she listens. The Cincinnati Reds were within one out of losing both ends of Monday’s doubleheader against the St. Louis Cardinals in Great American Ball Park. After losing Game One, 2-1, the Reds trailed by a run with two outs in the ninth inning […]
Messy Finish As Reds Lose, 7-1
By Hal McCoy The Cincinnati Reds offense continues to run on a lean mixture. When a team’s first six batters in the order go 1-for-20, the team loses. When a team has one more hit (four) than it makes errors (3), the team loses. When a relief pitcher puts eight straight batters on base, the […]
Some Sunday Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and as always, I happened to tune in Saturday’s St. Louis-Chicago Cubs game and saw something I’d never seen before. . .well, something nobody had ever seen before. Read on. —JOSHUA WAS FIT: It was Joan Baez who sang, ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.” […]
Sunday Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and as always, I happened to tune in Saturday’s St. Louis-Chicago Cubs game and saw something I’d never seen before. . .well, something nobody had ever seen before. Read on. —JOSHUA WAS FIT: It was Joan Baez who sang, ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.” […]
Reds Give One Away
By Hal McCoy When an MLB team is given chance after chance after chance to win, the inevitability eventually come into play. That’s exactly what happened to the Cincinnati Reds Friday night in Great American Ball Park against the Miami Marlins, a team the Reds are chasing for a wild card. And it was a […]
A Sensational Pitchers Duel
By Hal McCoy What was expected was presented, a double-sided pitching clinic to rival all pitching clinics. It was Chase Burns against Sandy Alcantara and both pitched as if it would be their last stand on a pitcher’s mound. It was Cincinnati Reds 1, Miami Marlins 0 and that says it all. The match-up was […]
Reds Survive Chisox Head-Hunting
By Hal McCoy The Cincinnati Reds survived a furious comeback assault by the Chicago White Sox, but more importantly they survived an assault on Sal Stewart. The Reds won, 9-8, staving off Chicago’s late-game rallies, but the talk of the game was what happened to Stewart. He hit a home run in the first inning […]
Some MId-Week Observations
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave wondering if I should call Noah Syndergaard to build me an ark because I can’t build one when I can’t hammer a nail or turn a screw driver. —THIRD MAN THEME: After a bolt out of the gate following the All-Star break, the Cincinnati Reds are […]
Castillo Silences Reds, 5-0
By Hal McCoy There were no late-game heroics by the Cincinnati Reds Wednesday night. There were no heroics at all. Newly-acquired Chicago White Sox pitcher Luis Castillo displayed that he is a great pitcher when he remembers it. He remembered it Wednesday and turned the Reds bats into useless pieces of wood with seven shutout […]