Cincinnati Reds News

Roy Halladay is one of the last pitchers in baseball capable of regularly pitching a complete game.

Edinson Volquez struck out a career-high 10 in seven innings, Brandon Phillips homered twice and the Cincinnati Reds roughed up Barry Zito in a 10-1 win over the San Francisco Giants on Sunday. Volquez (4-0) allowed one run and five hits to win his third consecutive start, and Ryan Freel’s two-run single keyed a six-run [...]

Paul Bako hit a solo home run and added an RBI single, Brandon Phillips doubled and drove in two runs and the Cincinnati Reds snapped a three-game skid with a 10-9 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Saturday night. Matt Belisle (1-1) won in his second start of the year after losing to the [...]

Jonathan Sanchez dominated the Cincinnati Reds in Dusty Baker’s Bay Area return. Sanchez pitched into the ninth and matched his career high with 10 strikeouts, outdueling Reds ace Aaron Harang and keeping Ken Griffey Jr. at 597 career home runs in the San Francisco Giants’ 3-1 victory Friday night. Sanchez (2-1) retired 16 straight during [...]

Dusty Baker has been gone from the Bay Area baseball scene for five years, though you would never know it. Baker returned to San Francisco as new manager of the Cincinnati Reds on Friday night and received the same kind of love he did during a 10-year stint managing the Giants that ended after the [...]

A statistical analysis helps explain the often perplexing contracts doled out during the offseason.

When Ken Griffey Jr. joined his hometown team in 2000, great things seemed to be right around the corner. Jack McKeon had just been chosen NL Manager of the Year for leading the Cincinnati Reds to within one victory of the playoffs. General manager Jim Bowden was talking about champagne celebrations in the near future.

Lance Berkman hit his 18th homer at Great American Ball Park — the most by any visiting player — and drove in three runs Thursday, leading the Houston Astros to their fifth straight win, 5-3 over the Cincinnati Reds. Berkman had a two-run homer and a run-scoring double off rookie Johnny Cueto (1-2), whose 96 [...]

Kazuo Matsui sparked Houston’s seven-run rally with a two-run single, and the Astros coasted to their fourth straight victory Wednesday night, 9-3 over the unsettled Cincinnati Reds. Houston has won four in a row for the first time since last May, getting 36 runs out of a lineup producing top-to-bottom.

Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 597th career homer in the first inning Wednesday off Houston’s Chris Sampson. The solo shot was his fourth of the season and his first in a span of 22 at-bats. He needs three to become only the sixth player in major league history to reach 600, joining Barry Bonds, Hank [...]