Hal McCoy

Dayton

Sports Blogger and Contributing Writer at Dayton Daily News

Contributing Writer at Springfield News-Sun

Blogs on Cincinnati Reds for the Dayton Daily News. Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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McCoy: Big debut for Hays as Reds win fourth straight

1 week ago | daytondailynews.com | Hal McCoy

Neither Castillo nor Lodolo survived the fifth inning in what turned out to be an 8-4 Reds victory, their fourth straight win and sixth in seven games. Castillo, making his first start against his former team, didn’t make it mostly because of a stranger in the Reds lineup. Austin Hays came off the injured list to make his Reds debut Tuesday night and it was a debut that Hays will remember the rest of his life.
McCoy: Reds pitching stellar, bats need to come alive

1 week ago | journal-news.com | Hal McCoy

But can they hit? So far, not very much. After 16 games, the Reds stand 29th of the 30 MLB teams offensively with a slash line of .200/.278/.325. Only the Pittsburgh Pirates are worse at .190/.287/.297. And the Pirates are there to cure what ails you. When last weekend began, the Reds were 5-8, tied with the Pirates for last place in the National League Central. With a three-game sweep of the Pirates over the weekend, the Reds scrambled to .500 at 8-8.
Ask Hal: Criticism should be aimed at front office, not managers

1 week ago | journal-news.com | Hal McCoy

A: Greed, greed, greed. Reprehensible, reprehensible, reprehensible. To make it even worse, they replaced it with an alcoholic beverage advertisement. Clemente was one of the all-time best, ever, and the Pirates recognized him by building the wall 21 feet tall in honor of his number 21 and had the 21 on the wall. Fortunately, the outcry from fans and Roberto Clemente Jr. made the Pirates realize their ignorance and put the ‘21’ back in its rightful place.
McCoy: Reds pitching stellar, bats need to come alive

1 week ago | springfieldnewssun.com | Hal McCoy

But can they hit? So far, not very much. After 16 games, the Reds stand 29th of the 30 MLB teams offensively with a slash line of .200/.278/.325. Only the Pittsburgh Pirates are worse at .190/.287/.297. And the Pirates are there to cure what ails you. When last weekend began, the Reds were 5-8, tied with the Pirates for last place in the National League Central. With a three-game sweep of the Pirates over the weekend, the Reds scrambled to .500 at 8-8.
Ask Hal: Criticism should be aimed at front office, not managers

1 week ago | daytondailynews.com | Hal McCoy

A: Greed, greed, greed. Reprehensible, reprehensible, reprehensible. To make it even worse, they replaced it with an alcoholic beverage advertisement. Clemente was one of the all-time best, ever, and the Pirates recognized him by building the wall 21 feet tall in honor of his number 21 and had the 21 on the wall. Fortunately, the outcry from fans and Roberto Clemente Jr. made the Pirates realize their ignorance and put the ‘21’ back in its rightful place.
McCoy: Greene finally gets run support as Reds sweep Pirates

1 week ago | daytondailynews.com | Hal McCoy

In his seven previous starts against the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Reds lost all seven games…through no fault of Greene. They never scored more than one run, were shut out four times and were no-hit once. Greene, though, is as hard to discourage as a used car salesman and took it all in stride. When the Reds scored two runs in the third, it was like gold against the woebegotten Pirates and when they scored two more in the fifth it was pure platinum.
Reds: Terry Francona showing his approach with the lineup

1 week ago | daytondailynews.com | Hal McCoy

Around MLB these days, a lot of managers don’t make the lineup on a daily basis. Assistant coaches and front office members run this process on many teams as analytics become more prevalent. But this scene last week — every other coach and member of the front office was on the field during batting practice — showed that the Reds’ lineup is truly authored by Francona. It’s been a poor start to the season for the Reds’ offense.
McCoy: Elly delivers epic grand slam on De La Cruz Bobblehead Night

1 week ago | daytondailynews.com | Hal McCoy

The script would have De La Cruz hitting a dramatic grand slam home run on Elly De La Cruz Bobblehead Night. But it happened. It was live and in vivid color, a grand slam home run off Pittsburgh’s Andrew Heaney. And, of course, it came on a 3-and-2 count with two outs. It launched the Reds to a 5-2 victory that clinched their second straight series win and was their fourth win in five games and fifth win in seven games.
McCoy: Reds grab early lead, hang on to beat Pirates 5-3

1 week ago | daytondailynews.com | Hal McCoy

This time, though, it wasn’t the potent Giants. It was the weak and injury-ravaged Pittsburgh Pirates and the Reds held on for a 5-3 victory. The Pirates put out a lineup card with hitters batting .000, .120, .125, .158, .176 and .198. It was a Battle for the Bottom as both teams were 5-and-8 and scraping the bottom of the National League Central standings. And how the Reds scored those five runs was bizarre to the Nth degree. They did it with one hit.
McCoy: Yastrzemski’s HR lifts Giants to 8-6 extra innings victory

2 weeks ago | daytondailynews.com | Hal McCoy

And it didn’t happen in the worst way for the Reds. San Francisco’s Mike Yastrzemski drowned a two-run home run into McCovey Bay in the 10th inning for an 8-6 walk-off win. What made it more painful for the Reds was that they led 5-0 after three and 6-1 in the sixth. But the Giants scored four in the bottom of the sixth to draw within one. Then Wilmer Flores led the eighth with a home run, his third against the Reds this season.