Reds Walk One Off, 4-3

By Hal McCoy If any proof was needed that the Colorado Rockies are one of the all-time worst baseball teams, solid evidence was displayed Saturday afternoon in Great American Ball Park. The Rockies did everythng possible to gift-wrap an easy win for the Cincinnati Reds. The Reds didn’t take the ribbon off the package until […]

Rockies beat Reds ‘Intentionally’

By Hal McCoy To borrow Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s famous quote, for Cincinnati Reds outfielder Austin Hays it was, “A day which will live in infamy.” Hays hit into a double play and struck out four times to strand seven base runners as the Reds lost Friday night to the gosh-awful Colorado Rockies, 3-2. And Elly […]

Some Pre-Weekend Observations

By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, watching the maturation of Elly De La Cruz over the last month. Instead of attemption to drown baseballs in the Ohio River, he has become a magician, using a bat as his wand to spray singles and doubles up the middle and the opposite way. He […]

Reds Bats Come Alive

By Hal McCoy Somebody left a wake-up call in the Cincinnati Reds bat rack a couple of days ago. After scoring five runs total during a four-game losing streak, the Reds scored 13 Wednesay and Thursday to win two games and gain a split of the four-game series against the Miami Marlins. On Thursday’s Happy […]

Abbott Shows Why He’s An All-Star

IBy Hal McCoy When the Cincinnati Reds scanned the pre-game stats sheet and saw that Miami starting pitcher Sandy Alcantara was an eight-game loser with an astronomical 7.01 earned run average, they salivated. And on their side was All-Star pitcher Andrew Abbott and his 7-1 record and 2.15 ERA. It was the perfect scenario for […]

Some mid-week Observations…

By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wondering how a team that lost 100 games last season and has been more than 10 games under .500 most of this year can win 11 straight road games as the Miami Marlines have done. Baseball. Ya gotta love it. —ALL-$$$ TEAM: They’ve named the All-Star […]

A Farcical Night For Reds

By Hal McCoy For those who missed the Vaudeville-like comedy baseball of the Savannah Bananas in Great American Ball Park a few days ago, well, they showed up again Tuesday night wearing Cininnati Reds uniforms. It was thought it had already gone from bad to worse for the Reds the past few days, but Tuesday […]

Reds Get Junk-ed, 5-1

By Hal McCoy That wasn’t Philadelphia’s Zack Wheeler pitching against the Cincinnati Reds Monday night in Great American Ball Park. The Reds just made him resemble Wheeler during a 5-1 loss to the Miami Marlins. It was Bark in the Park Night and Miami pitcher Janson Junk pitched like a junkyard dog in holding the […]

Reds Lose To Wheeler-Dealer

By Hal McCoy If Chase Burns desires to be a dominant major league pitcher, the Cincinnati Reds rookie should have been furiously scribbling in a notebook Sunday afternoon in Citizens Bank Park. He witnessed Pitching Perfection from Philadelphia’s Zack Wheeler during the Reds 3-1 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. Wheeler was one pitch from a […]