Jay Bruce

Cincinnati’s Big Red Machine roared through Major League baseball in the 1970s and remains one of the best teams in the history of professional baseball. From 1970-76, the Reds won five National League Western division titles, four National League...

CINCINNATI — Dusty Baker had a lot to think about on his flight from California to Arizona to open spring training, managing a Cincinnati team coming off a breakthrough season. The Reds broke their long drought of misery last season, pulling off...

PHILADELPHIA — Oh, the glory of baseball. You just never know what you’re going to see.  After going 0-for-3 with runners on base Friday, Ryan Howard’s infield single, followed by him tagging up at home on a shallow fly ball to...

MIAMI — As far as starts go, the Marlins got off to a pretty good one Thursday in their bid to salvage a game from the Cincinnati Reds. Juan Pierre hit a rare leadoff homer. Jose Fernandez was sharp and efficient. The finish was predictable....

The bogeyman for Cubs starter Edwin Jackson is known to him as that "big inning." Real or imagined, the bogeyman got the better of Jackson and the Cubs again Sunday as the Reds swept the three-game series with a 7-4 victory at Wrigley Field. The...

No one starts out looking for little victories. Yet when that's all you have, you celebrate them. The Cubs lost to the Reds 6-5 on a wet, raw Friday afternoon but headed to dinner knowing it could have been worse. They were down four runs before...

All games on WGN-AM 720. Season series: Reds 2-1. Friday: 1:20 p.m. CSN. RH Mike Leake (1-1, 4.34 ERA) vs. RH Carlos Villanueva (1-1, 2.29). Saturday: 12:05 p.m. CSN. LH Tony Cingrani (2-0, 1.50) vs. RH Jeff Samardzija (1-4, 3.35). Sunday: 1:...

CINCINNATI — Dale Sveum can look disheveled standing in the Cubs' dugout with his perpetual five o'clock shadow. During the Cubs Convention, a fan complained to Chairman Tom Ricketts that Sveum looked like he "slept under a bridge." "I think...

CARDINALS-NATIONALS Molina, Miller lead Cardinals past Nationals 3-2 WASHINGTON (AP) — Yadier Molina drove in the go-ahead run in the sixth inning, backing Shelby Miller's strong start Monday night, and the St. Louis Cardinals returned to the site...

CINCINNATI — As week three of the regular season culminated on Sunday, Giancarlo Stanton finally removed one of those unsightly zeros from his stat line. "Oh my, gosh, hallelujah," Stanton said dismissively, fully aware his first RBI of 2013 only...

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Ian Desmond slapped his hands together as hard as he could when he approached home plate, about to score the go-ahead run in the 11th inning. His rough day was ending with a very good moment. Desmond made two errors that helped the Cincinnati Reds...