A water main break outside Coors Field on Aug. 16 led to Dylan Axelrod being sent to the Minors after a strong start in his Reds debut the next day. But there were no such external forces in his way on Thursday afternoon. Axelrod tossed five scoreless innings to pick up his first win in […]

Fired up and still seething, Reds ace Johnny Cueto didn’t feel he was beaten only by the Cubs on Tuesday night. He also felt defeated by the fickle science that is meteorology. It started pouring minutes into Cueto’s start in the first inning. Anthony Rizzo hit a solo home run to right field three batters […]

Remember the red-hot Reds team and that red-hot pitcher you saw in mid-July? If you time your visits to the ballpark just right, you can still see them. Alfredo Simon earned his first victory since July 9 and Cincinnati survived a tense final inning to outlast Atlanta, 5-3, on Sunday at Great American Ball Park. […]

Having returned home from a poor road trip, the struggling Reds placed a couple of challenges in front of freshly called-up spot starter David Holmberg on Thursday. No. 1: Pitch well enough vs. the Braves to keep his team in the game and try to halt a losing streak. No. 2: Work deep enough to […]

It was a Reds road trip that will be remembered for bullpen breakdowns, walk-off losses and even a postponement caused by a water-main break. Wednesday’s conclusion brought something that hasn’t happened often: a misstep by Johnny Cueto. In a 7-3 loss to the Cardinals, the club’s 10th defeat in its last 12 games, it was […]

While Reds manager Bryan Price is running low on fresh-armed relievers, his bullpen is not running out of creative ways to deliver heartbreaking defeats on this road trip. The struggling J.J. Hoover hit Jon Jay with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, and that’s how the Cardinals walked off to hand the […]

It wasn’t enough that the Reds showed up ready to play after being swept in gut-wrenching style during Sunday’s doubleheader at Colorado. They had to get off the mat with a win Monday night vs. the Cardinals. That didn’t happen. Despite Jay Bruce’s four-RBI effort and a couple of comebacks, the Reds lost for the […]

With hardly any time to digest the Rockies’ five-run, ninth-inning rally from Game 1, the Reds came out of the gates blazing for the second act of Sunday’s day-night doubleheader. But there would be no revenge, as the bullpen blew another large lead to seal the Reds’ third straight series defeat with a 10-5 loss […]

Remember Reds pitcher Alfredo Simon? He won 12 games in the first half and was a 2014 National League All-Star. That dude sure seems to be missing of late. Well, that’s mostly true. Simon has been making all of his starts for the Reds and remains a 12-game winner. But he is also winless in […]