Cincinnati Reds Events

1919 Oct 1
to 1919 Oct 9
 1919 World Series
The 1919 World Series matched the American League champion Chicago White Sox against the National League champion Cincinnati Reds. Although most World Series have been of the best-of-seve...
1919 Oct 1 1919 World Series, Game 1
The events of the series are often associated with the Black Sox Scandal, when several members of the Chicago franchise conspired with gamblers to throw World Series games. The first g...
1919 Oct 2 1919 World Series, Game 2
Although they had not received their money, the players were still willing to go through with the fix. "Lefty" Williams, the starting pitcher in Game 2, was not going to be as obvious as ...
1919 Oct 3 1919 World Series, Game 3
Rookie pitcher Dickie Kerr, who was to start Game 3 for the Sox, was not in on the plot to fix the series. The original plan was for the conspirators, who disliked Kerr, to lose this game...
1919 Oct 4 1919 World Series, Game 4
Cicotte was again Chicago's starter for the fourth game, and he was determined not to look as bad as he had in the first. For the first four innings he and Reds pitcher Jimmy Ring matched...
1919 Oct 6 1919 World Series, Game 5
The next game was delayed by rain for a day, and when it got under way, both Williams and Reds pitcher Hod Eller were excellent. By the sixth inning, neither had allowed a runner past fir...
1919 Oct 7 1919 World Series, Game 6
Game 6 was held back in Cincinnati. Dickie Kerr, starting for the White Sox, was not as dominant as in Game 3. Aided by three errors, the Reds jumped out to a 4–0 lead before Chicago foug...
1939 Aug 26 The Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers Play the First Televised Major League Baseball Game
It was on W2XBS, later known as WNBC, where Red Barber called the Brooklyn Dodgers-Cincinnati Reds doubleheader on Saturday, August 26, 1939 from Ebbets Field -- the first major-league ba...
1939 Oct 4
to 1939 Oct 8
 1939 World Series
The 1939 World Series featured the three-time defending champion New York Yankees against the Cincinnati Reds, who were making their first Series appearance since the scandal-tainted 1919...
1940 Oct 2
to 1940 Oct 8
 1940 World Series
The 1940 World Series matched the Cincinnati Reds against the Detroit Tigers, with the Reds winning the Series in seven games for their second championship, their first since the scandal-...
1961 Oct 4
to 1961 Oct 9
 1961 World Series
The 1961 World Series matched the New York Yankees (109–53) against the Cincinnati Reds (93–61), with the Yankees winning in five games to earn their nineteenth championship in their last...
1970 Oct 10
to 1970 Oct 15
 1970 World Series
The 1970 World Series matched the American League champion Baltimore Orioles against the National League champion Cincinnati Reds, with the Orioles winning in five games. In this series ...
1972 Oct 14
to 1972 Oct 22
 1972 World Series
The 1972 World Series matched the American League champion Oakland Athletics against the National League champion Cincinnati Reds, with the A's winning in seven games. These two teams wou...
1975 Oct 22 1975 World Series - Game 7: Reds 4, Red Sox 3
Joey Tramontana from Hull, Mass. was chosen by the Jimmy Fund to throw out the first ball in the 7th game of the 1975 World Series.
1976 Oct 16
to 1976 Oct 21
 1976 World Series
The 1976 season witnessed the return of baseball's most successful postseason-dynasty to the Fall Classic. After a twelve year hiatus, the New York Yankees had rebuilt themselves back int...
1989 Aug 24 Pete Rose is Banned From Major League Baseball
August 24, 1989, Thursday, 9 a.m. Giamatti, the commissioner of baseball, steps up to a microphone in New York City. "One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of act...
1990 Oct 16
to 1990 Oct 20
 1990 World Series
The 1990 World Series matched the defending champions and heavily-favored Oakland Athletics against the Cincinnati Reds, with the Reds sweeping the Series in four games. It was the most r...
2005 Jun 13 Boston Red Sox defeat Cincinnati Reds, 10-3
Jason Varitek had one of those whirlwind days. The nice kind. The Red Sox didn't return from Chicago until 2:45 a.m., and Varitek went straight from the airport to the hospital, where ...
2005 Jun 14 Boston Red Sox defeat Cincinnati Reds, 7-0
The temperature was 37 degrees cooler (54) than the night before. The wind was swirling, but mostly blowing in. Fenway Park, in the words of Terry Francona, ''played big." That perf...
2005 Jun 15 Boston Red Sox defeat Cincinnati Reds, 6-1
That booming voice of his -- as it tends to do around the Red Sox clubhouse -- preceded David Ortíz. ''Hey, Terry," said Ortíz as he made his way toward the manager's office before las...
2008 Jun 13 Cincinnati Reds defeat Boston Red Sox, 3-1
CINCINNATI - Minor aggravations, major nuisances, a lousy time had by all. That's how it has been for the Red Sox this spring just about every time they've left Boston, and one night i...
2008 Jun 14 Boston Red Sox defeat Cincinnati Reds, 6-4
CINCINNATI - So, this is what happens when the Red Sox visit here for the first time since 1975 (when Pete Rose Way was a style of play and not the name of a street), the Reds proudly sho...
2008 Jun 15 Boston Red Sox defeat Cincinnati Reds, 9-0
CINCINNATI --Coco Crisp kept Boston's depleted lineup rolling by driving in four runs, and Jacoby Ellsbury homered and stole two more bases for a Red Sox rookie record in a 9-0 victory ov...
2008 Jul 20 New York Mets defeat Cincinnati Reds, 7-5
CINCINNATI - Frank Viola can exhale. Mike Pelfrey's winning streak ended at six games, three shy of Viola's club record, which spanned the 1989 and '90 seasons. "He didn't have to pitc...
2009 Apr 6 New York Mets defeat Cincinnati Reds, 2-1
CINCINNATI - Omar Minaya knew it would be difficult to bring Aaron Heilman and Scott Schoeneweis back to New York in 2009, given the likely fan response the first time they imploded. T...
2009 Apr 8 New York Mets defeat Cincinnati Reds, 9-7
CINCINNATI - Carlos Delgado had one of those games Wednesday night when the ball and the plot lines kept finding him all over the field, beginning to end. He turned on a fat, low insid...
2009 Apr 9 Cincinnati Reds defeat New York Mets, 8-6
CINCINNATI - The Mets were willing to give free agent Derek Lowe a three-year contract over the winter, but would not match the Braves' bid of four years and $60million. So Oliver Perez r...
2009 Apr 13 Cincinnati Reds defeat Milwaukee Brewers, 7-6
The Milwaukee Brewers have a staff infection, and it is manifesting itself in an unacceptable number of bases on balls. For the second consecutive game, a Brewers starting pitcher foun...
2009 Apr 14 Cincinnati Reds defeat Milwaukee Brewers, 6-1
The Milwaukee Brewers are a team completely out of sync. And it took only eight games to get there. Showing little life on offense and once again issuing too many costly walks, the ...
2009 Apr 15 Milwaukee Brewers defeat Cincinnati Reds, 9-3
It seemed like ages ago since the shirt tails had come out. It had been just four consecutive losses, but for a team with high expectations like the Milwaukee Brewers, those days can s...
2009 May 6 Milwaukee Brewers defeat Cincinnati Reds, 15-3
Cincinnati - The game needed a 46-minute delay before it could start. And it needed even less time than that before it was finished. In what resembled a slow-pitch softball game for...
2009 May 7 Cincinnati Reds defeat Milwaukee Brewers, 6-5
Cincinnati - This round was actually competitive. Unlike the game before, this one wasn't decided within the first two innings. And unlike the last one, the Milwaukee Brewers weren'...
2009 May 8 Cincinnati Reds defeat St. Louis Cardinals, 6-4
CINCINNATI - Before Friday night at Great American Ball Park, Joel Piñeiro never had lost to the Cincinnati Reds. Then again, before Friday night Piñeiro never had been paired against ...
2009 May 9 Cincinnati Reds defeat St. Louis Cardinals, 8-3
CINCINNATI - For a second straight start, there was no Great Escape for Calamity Kyle. A season of tumbles from the mound, late-night hospital visits, line drives off the elbow and clo...
2009 May 10 St. Louis Cardinals defeat Cincinnati Reds, 8-7
CINCINNATI - The Cardinals' most important development Sunday might have taken place in their clubhouse rather than on the field during a 10-inning, 8-7 win over the Reds. Pulled after...
2009 May 29 Milwaukee Brewers defeat Cincinnati Reds, 3-2
Braden Looper had incentive to win this game unlike any he's ever had in his career. His grandfather, LaVerne, the man who gave him his first baseball glove and helped raise him, died ...
2009 May 30 Milwaukee Brewers defeat Cincinnati Reds, 9-5
For 10 consecutive games, the Milwaukee Brewers' bats had remained quiet. Over the past seven games, very quiet. The long-awaited explosion finally occurred Saturday night, on one o...
2009 May 31 Milwaukee Brewers defeat Cincinnati Reds, 5-2
MILWAUKEE (AP) The Milwaukee Brewers regained some of their swagger with a three-game sweep of the Cincinnati Reds. Earlier this month, the Brewers had a season-high seven-game winning...
2009 Jun 1 Cincinnati Reds defeat St. Louis Cardinals, 5-3
Starved for runs, the Cardinals had a swift lead and a fortuitous opportunity when the Cincinnati Reds had to absorb the sudden end to Edinson Volquez's start. Volquez left his bullpen ei...
2009 Jun 2 St. Louis Cardinals defeat Cincinnati Reds, 5-2
Nick Stavinoha has had 12 hits in 45 at-bats, a modest .267 clip, since being recalled from Class AAA Memphis about three weeks ago. But already the rookie outfielder, who batted a less-t...
2009 Jun 3 Cincinnati Reds defeat St. Louis Cardinals, 9-3
Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, a recently converted true believer in carrying a 13th pitcher, discovered Wednesday that sometimes even having an extra pitcher isn't the same as having e...
2009 Jun 4 St. Louis Cardinals defeat Cincinnati Reds, 3-1
Chris Carpenter dealt and Albert Pujols cranked Thursday night at Busch Stadium. Suffice to say it was a very good night for the Cardinals. Hours after manager Tony La Russa subtly adv...
2009 Jul 3 St. Louis Cardinals defeat Cincinnati Reds, 7-4
CINCINNATI - Maybe, as they say, Albert Pujols really can do it all. We know what he can accomplish with the bases loaded. His eighth-inning grand slam Friday night merely broke two of...
2009 Jul 4 Cincinnati Reds defeat St. Louis Cardinals, 5-2
CINCINNATI - In Brad Thompson's last three starts, the Cardinals have been outscored 26-2, although Thompson has given up only about half those runs. But, in any event, it isn't good for ...
2009 Jul 5 St. Louis Cardinals defeat Cincinnati Reds, 10-1
CINCINNATI - Righthander Chris Carpenter, for whom the Cardinals had been averaging only 3.1 runs a game in his first 11 starts, received some unexpected largesse Sunday when his team tal...
2009 Jul 12 New York Mets defeat Cincinnati Reds, 9-7
Fernando Tatis had no idea what was - or was not - happening. He had just hit a pinch-hit home run in the bottom of the seventh inning of the Mets' 9-7 win over the Reds on Sunday. Less t...
2009 Jul 16 Milwaukee Brewers defeat Cincinnati Reds, 9-6
Cincinnati — The rest of the Milwaukee Brewers' lineup was well aware that Prince Fielder and Ryan Braun did most of the heavy lifting during the first half of the season. "They're not...
2009 Jul 18 Milwaukee Brewers defeat Cincinnati Reds, 5-1
Cincinnati — Manny Parra's second start since returning from the minor leagues didn't go nearly as smoothly as the first. But, placed in a sink-or-swim position throughout his six-inni...
2009 Jul 19 Cincinnati Reds defeat Milwaukee Brewers, 5-3
Cincinnati — In terms of a springboard for the second half of the season, splitting four games against the Cincinnati Reds wasn't exactly what the Milwaukee Brewers had in mind. "It's ...
2009 Aug 10 St. Louis Cardinals defeat Cincinnati Reds, 4-1
The Cardinals may not have found another gear Monday night against the Cincinnati Reds, but they certainly rediscovered Kyle Lohse. A season almost entirely marked by freakish injury, ...