OBSERVATIONS: Reds Get Snubbed, Only Diaz An All-Star
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, awaiting games with Carly Simon-like anticipation every day, wondering what The Mid-Size Red Machne will do next. Maybe this team might eventually size up, but there will never be another Big Red Machine. Maybe they can become The Big Red Machine 02 or The Big Red […]
McCoy: Hey, Abbott, You’re Good, and Stephenson Ain’t Bad
By Hal McCoy Contributing Writer The San Diego Padres were hit with baseball’s version of Hurricane Andrew Sunday afternoon in Great American Ball Park. Rookie lefthander Andrew Abbott was a Category 5 while pitching 7 2/3 innings, a career best, and 12 strikeouts, a career-best, as the Reds recorded a another dramatic win, 4-3. Abbott […]
McCoy: Reds Fail to Cash In Early, Fall to Padres, 12-5
By Hal McCoy Contributing Writer The Cincinnati Reds encountered some lethal RISPy business Saturday afternoon against pitching nemesis Michael Wacha. It enabled the San Diego Padres to hang in there until they could score 11 runs in the sixth, seventh and eigth innings and plant a 12-5 beatdown in front of 30,895 in Great American […]
McCoy: Reds Pull Off Another Pocket Full of Miracles
By Hal McCoy Contributing Writer Babe Ruth wasn’t talking about the 2023 Cincinnati Reds when he said, “It’s hard to beat a team that never gives up.” But it fits these Reds like an infielder’s mitt. The Reds staged another one for the ages Friday afternoon in Great American Ball Park, another walk-off for the […]
OBSERVATIONS: Reds Are The Fastest Team On The Basepaths
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Cave after a boring day off because there was no Cincinnati Reds game, although I did watch the Pirates beat the Padres through the thick smoke sent to us, with love, from Canada. —RUN REDS, RUN: Anybody who has watched the Cincinnati Reds speed around the bases like […]
McCoy: Rallyin’ Reds Do It Again, Score Four in 10th to Win, 11-7
By Hal McCoy Contributing Wriiter No matter the dire situation, no matter the situation, the Cincinnati Reds always play with their thumbs up and nobody’s chin is ever down on the second button of his jersey. On Wednesday night in Camden Yards, the Reds scored four runs in the 10th inning to rescue another implausible […]
McCoy: McLain, Abbott, Friedl help Reds End Three-Game Skid
By Hal McCoy Contributing Writer While Ellymania is on temporary pause, two not-so-publicized rookies keep on keeping for the Cincinnati Reds. Infielder Matt McLain and pitcher Andrew Abbott have no pause buttons and were the major components, along with TJ Friedl, of the Reds 3-1 victory Tuesday night over the Baltimore Orioles. McLain doubled to […]
OBSERVATIONS: Any Have Any Pitchers The Reds Can Have?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, reading an anthology of baseball columns written by Damon Runyon, which ran on forever because he writes about the game, the weather, the celebrities in the stands, gamblers, descriptions of the ball parks, what the guys in the press box were saying, what the vendors were […]
McCoy: Poor pitching leads to 10-3 loss to Orioles, Reds third straight defeat
By Hal McCoy Contributing Writer On baseball’s ugly game meter, the needle went off the scale on the Cincinnati Reds Monday night in Camden Yards. And lay it firmly at the feet of the pitchers, this 10-3 loss to the Baltimore Orioles. While losing their third straight, the Reds toppled out of first place in […]