McCoy: Reds Creep Ever Closer To Wild Card Spot
By Hal McCoy Contributing Writer With the Minnesota Twins in town, the Cincinnati Reds faced their last opponent of the year with a winning record. And the Reds took care of business in an emphatic way, pinning a 7-3 defeat on the Twins, the first-place occupants of the American League Central. It was a gargantuan […]
OBSERVATIONS: Did Jim Maloney Throw The Hardest Of All?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, where I have been accused of living in the past with my old stories. And maybe I am, but I love ‘em and hope you do, too. —OH, NO-NO: It was an era in major league baseball when pitchers threw hard, harder and hardest — Bob […]
McCoy: Reds Commit Three Errors To Kick One To The Mets, 8-4
By Hal McCoy Contributing Writer When the synopsis of the 2023 season is written, if the Cincinnati Reds don’t qualify for the playoffs, they can look back at September 17 as a day of infamy. And they won’t be sending the Atlanta Braves any thank you notes. The Reds perpetrated three errors Sunday afternoon in […]
McCoy: Reds Score Another One-Run Win, Beat Mets, 3-2
By Hal McCoy Contributing Writer Defense is spelled d-e-f-e-n-se, but on Saturday night in Citi Field it was spelled S-t-e-e-r, I-n-d-i-a and B-e-n-s-o-n for the Cincinnati Reds. Spencer Steer, Jonathan India and Will Benson made outstanding late-game defensive plays to preserve a 3-2 victory for the Reds over the New York Mets. And it enabled […]
McCoy: India Saves The Reds With Huge Home Run
By Hal McCoy Contributing Writer Jonathan India was in danger of being fitted for a golden sombero, emblematic of striking out four times in a game, when he walked to the plate in the seventh inning Friday night in Citi Field. New York Mets starter David Peterson struck out India the first three times India […]
McCoy: Reds Absorb Critical loss to Tigers, 8-2
By Hal McCoy Contributing Writer As the saying goes, “You can’t win ‘em all,” but at this late stage of the season the Cincinnati Reds need to win ‘em all. It didn’t happen Thursday afternoon in Comerica Park, an 8-2 beating by the Detroit Tigers that ended the Reds modest three-game winning streak. With the […]
OBSERVATIONS: Stephenson Finally Found The Right Spot In Tampa
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, ready to watch the survival drama of the last 2 1/2 weeks to see whether the Cincinnati Reds are a bunch of ‘A Star(s) is Born’ or if they are just star-crossed. —CHANGING IT UP: Sometimes it takes a change of scenery for a person to […]
McCoy: Another One-Run Win Puts Reds In Wild Card Tie
By Hal McCoy Contributing Writer Nick Senzel said it and it sounds like Captain Obvioius, but it is right on point: “We can’t get to where we want to go if we don’t win games.” And it wasn’t easy Wednesday night, but it was mission accomplished, a 4-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers that wasn’t […]
McCoy: Reds Rescue Another Win, Take Down Tigers in 10
By Hal McCoy Contributing Writer For the Cincinnati Reds, it ain’t funny how time slips away. But they are making good use of the limited time ticking away on the 2023 regular season. When the game in Detroit began Tuesday night, the Reds were two games behind the Arizona Diamondbacks for the third and final […]