Observations: Do Away With The ‘Intentional Walk’
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and if you are at the Holiday At Home parade in Kettering Monday morning, please wave as I ride by in the back of an El Camino right behind grand marshal Gary Sandy. —XXXXXXX: It is time for baseball commissioner Rob Mafraud, or somebody, to banish […]
McCoy: Another Night, Another One-Run Loss To The Brewers
By Hal McCoy Another day, another loss, another one-run loss, another loss to the Milwaukee Brewers for the star-crossed Cincinnati Reds. The Brewers were 1 for 15 with runners in scoring position. And won. The Brewers struck out 14 times. And won. It was Milwaukee 5, Cincinnati 4, Saturday night in Great American Ball Park. […]
McCoy: Brewers Finish Off Reds With 10-Run Inning
By Hal McCoy John Sadak said it perfectly in the middle of Milwaukee’s 10-run inning Sunday night: “This is a whole new level of ugly.” And when it was over, a 14-0 Brewers track meet over the Cincinnati Reds, the Bally Sports Ohio play-by-play man added, “No mercy from the Brewers, a humbling nightcap.” It […]
McCoy: Reds Lose Another One-Run Game, 5-4
By Hal McCoy No matter if it is day or night, rainy or bright, scorching hot or bitterly cold, no matter what day it is, the Milwaukee Brewers are going to beat the Cincinnati Reds. It took them 10 innings and some baserunning blunders by the Reds, but the Brewers did it again Friday afternoon, […]
McCoy: This Reds Win Belongs In a Museum
By Hal McCoy If there was a Museum For Bizzarre Baseball Games, Thursday’s 10-9 Cincinnati Reds win over the Oakland Ahletics would be a featured exhibit. One exhibit would be the baseball Cincinnati’s TJ Friedl ripped for a two-run ninth-inning walk-off single, only the second Reds walk-off win this season. There would be the bat […]
OBSERVATIONS: He Backed Up What He ‘Predicted’
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATNS from The Man Cave and 100 degrees, 105 when I light up a Monte Cristo White Label Churchill. —RUN, DON’T WALK: It was 1963 in the Florida Instructional League. Long-time iconic coach George Kissell was coaching third base for the St. Louis Cardinals. “This young kid I’d never seen before […]
McCoy: Reds Suffer Another Unfathomable Loss
By Hal McCoy Of all the excruciating defeats suffered this season by the Cincinnati Reds, Wednesday night’s 9-6 reversal to the Oakland Athletics ranks in the Top Three, if not No. 1. They trailed the A’s 5-0 entering the seventh inning, but scored six times in the seventh to take a 6-5 lead. The exclamation […]
McCoy: A’s Use Three Homers to Top Reds, 5-4
By Hal McCoy Only the New York Yankees rely more on home runs to score runs than the Oakland Athletics. And the Cincinnati Reds were injected with a full dose Tuesday night in Great Ameridcan Ball Park. The A’s launched three late-game home runs to account for all their runs in applying a 5-4 defeat […]
OBSERVATIONS: Pirates Doing What Reds Should Do
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after a scrumptious meal Monday night at Jimmy’s Italian Restaraunt in Downtown Dayton. Baked Zitti, a side of sausage, house salad with tasty Italian dressing, two glasses of Moscato and one full and satisfied stomach. —ELLY’S ELEGY: Historic stuff keeps being applied next to Elly De […]