Ask Hal: You Can’t Implement to Mitigate
By Hal McCoy Q: Has MLB implemented measures to mitigate injuries and ensure that star players remain active? — DAVE, Miamisburg/Centerville/Beavercreek. A: How does one mitigate injuries? Does MLB make rules that running into walls is illegal, running hard to first base and risking a pulled hamstring is illegal, sliding hard into second base is […]
McCoy: Twins Turn The Tables On Reds With 5-Run Inning
By Hal McCoy There is positive aggression and negative aggresion on baseball’s basepaths and the Cincinnati Reds have displayed both during a long, long season. On Sunday afternon in Target Field, the Reds put forth the negative side that helped the Minnesota Twins unload a 9-2 beating. The Reds put their leadoff runner on base […]
McCoy: Reds Score Nine Runs In One Inning, Bury Twins, 11-1
By Hal McCoy If the Minnesota Twins checked the standings before the Cincinnati Reds arrived in Target Field Friday, they saw the Reds at 71-77 and 14 games out of first place. The comfort zone for them had to be above the upper deck. By the time the second game of the three-game series was […]
McCoy: De La Cruz, Aguiar Put The ‘Slam’ On The Twins, 8-4
By Hal McCoy The dormant Cincinnati Reds offense erupted like Mount Vesuvius Friday night in Target Field. And the perpetrators during a six-run seventh inning were a pack of players begging for hits as the Reds put an 8-4 beating on the Minnesota Twins. The first game of a series is golden for the Reds. […]
OBSERVATIONS: For The Reds, It Was Three, Three, Three
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, still watching the Cincinnati Reds, still writing about the Cincinnati Reds, wondering why I’m still watching the Cincinnati Reds and writing about the Cincinnati Reds. —THREE-THREE-THREE: On back-to-back-to back days, the Cincinnati Reds won a game in New York, a game in Atlanta and a game […]
McCoy: Reds Waste Another Great Start, Lose, 6-1 To Cardinals
By Hal McCoy For the second straight game it was deja vu all over again and that was not a good thing for the Cincinnati Reds. They lost Thursday afternoon to the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-1, in a game full of similarities to their 2-1 loss Wednesday. In both games, the starting pitchers for both […]
McCoy: Cardinals Stop All The Reds’ Streaks, 2-1
By Hal McCoy For the most part, baseball is a game of failure. And the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals were prime exhibits Wednesday night in Busch Stadium. Both teams were persistent failures in trying to score runs throughout the game — until the St. Louis eighth inning. Paul Goldschmidt lined a run-scoring double, […]
OBSERVATIONS: Which ‘Diaz’ Do You Prefer?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, so honored to have JD Old-Fashioned Cusard in Englewood to name a flavor of the ‘dae’ after me. It was Hal McCoy Cookies n’ Creme. . .my absolute favorite. —DIAL DIAZ: If you are a Cincinnati Reds fan and Alexis Diaz comes in to close a […]
McCoy: Lowder Shuts Down Cardinals, Two Straight Shutouts
By Hal McCoy For a team that has enough injured pitchers to fill a hospital ward, the Cincinnati Reds are pitching as if no arm is missing. For the second straight game, the staff spliced together a shutout, this time a 3-0 decision over the St. Louis Cardinals in Busch Stadium Tuesday night. And over […]