OSS: Darvish loses the handle in the fifth.
Three up:
- The Cubs started this one with a bang, hitting to solid singles to lead off the game and then were inches away from a three run homer by Contreras.
- Denver local David Bote hit a double in his first MLB plate appearance, so good for him. The Rockies fans around me spent a good 20 minutes arguing which high school he would have gone to once they saw that he was form Longmont.
- No runs allowed by the bullpen, and Luke Farrell actually looked kind of good in his Cubs debut.
Three down:
- Darvish was cruising to start the game, no-hitting the Rockies for the first few innings. But then things fell apart in the 5th and suddenly it was 5-2. It looks like a narrative is emerging that he can't bounce back from adversity mid-start, so that's great for a guy three starts into his Cubs career.
- Rizzo's back may be feeling better, but his bat isn't there yet. He did not look good again in this one, and IIRC he even tried to bunt for a hit without a significant shift on.
- Shoutout to the Rockies fan in the row in front of me who showed up late, shit-talked the Cubs for most of the game, and puked on himself in the eighth but stuck around until the end of the game.
Next up: The Cubs go for the series win at 2:10 CT with Quintana facing off against German Marquez. Hopefully I'll get some kind of radio reception as I had back through the mountains.
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That Rockies fan is a true warrior.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
To-day’s base ball squadron
CF Almora
SS Baez
3B Bryant
1B Rizzo
2B La Stella
LF War Bear
C Caratini
RF Heyward
P Quintana
Senior Rockies Correspondent BerseliusQuote Reply
Manaea ended up with a triple-digit game score. Against the shitty offense of the Red Sox.
ceruleanQuote Reply
Name the only two pitchers who have played for the Cubs to have triple-digit gamescore performances.
ceruleanQuote Reply
cerulean,
Don’t tell me what to do.
Senior Rockies Correspondent BerseliusQuote Reply
Senior Rockies Correspondent Berselius,
Also, Wood and Arrieta.
Senior Rockies Correspondent BerseliusQuote Reply
Senior Rockies Correspondent Berselius,
False.
ceruleanQuote Reply
One of these pitchers is currently on the Cubs. (Also, the performance was not with the Cubs.)
ceruleanQuote Reply
(FTR—I don’t understand how Manaea scored 100 and Arrieta only scored 98 against the Dodgers when he K’ed more and walked the same amount. Maybe I misread something.)
ceruleanQuote Reply
cerulean,
Probably Tyler Chatwood since the Cubs seem to find ways to suck against sucky pitchers.
dmick89Quote Reply
Wait a second — MLB gamescore is not BBRef gamescore. Manaea only got a 95 in BBref.
ceruleanQuote Reply
dmick89,
Not Chatwood. He has actually been good for the Cubs, if underused.
ceruleanQuote Reply
To-morrow of yesteryear. Maddon was on the losing side (dying laughing)
ceruleanQuote Reply
MLB has been using Tango’s Game Score 2.0, which has different weights. By Bill James’s version (the original), Wood is the only Cubs pitcher to get a 100 in a 9 inning game (it was a 105, the highest ever mark for a 9 inning game).
And Morrow got a 100 when he was with TOR, back in 2010.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Uh oh.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
That looked awful. Fuck
WaLiQuote Reply
La Stella!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Schwarber!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Caratini!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Almora!!!!!!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
“SMH Javy had no respect for that baseball.”
— Clint Hurdle
North Side PatQuote Reply
Baez is incredible.
MylesQuote Reply
Again!!!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Why did two coaches get ejected after the Bryant HBP?
PerkinsQuote Reply
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Almora —> not interested in sitting on the bench ever again
North Side PatQuote Reply
Perkins,
I think they were arguing about a warning that the umpires issued.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Jesus. Heyward is having a rough year defensively.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Have I mentioned I hate this stadium?
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
What are the odds the Cubs hold what was a 6-0 lead? Not very good IMO.
dmick89Quote Reply
6 runs isn’t going to be enough in this park. And it would be nice to see Q go longer than 6 innings today.
North Side Pat can’t login via his mobileQuote Reply
I don’t care how long he goes. There’s an off-day tomorrow. Just win this damn thing.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Is heyward back or what?
joshQuote Reply
I don’t know why Happ didn’t come in in the first place (he could play second and move La Stella to third.)
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Rizzo the Rat,
Didn’t realize they had tomorrow off. I retract my request and will ban myself. (dying laughing)
North Side Pat can’t login via his mobileQuote Reply
Rizzo once again fails with a runner on third and less than two outs.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Ugh.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
fack
ceruleanQuote Reply
This game is cursed.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Hey, Rizzo, when you crowd the plate like that, you have no right to complain when you accidentally get hit.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Caaaarl
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Rizzo the Rat,
The yogurt is also cursed.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Rice Cube,
That’s bad.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Almora is okay in center, methinks.
ceruleanQuote Reply
I guess I had no right to hope for a 1-2-3 inning in this game.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
I have a bad feeling about this
ceruleanQuote Reply
Bad feelings continue to be had.
ceruleanQuote Reply
I never doubted him for a second.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
I am calling (un)safe. Pretty sure.
ceruleanQuote Reply
(dying laughing)
ceruleanQuote Reply
Very stupid baserunning there. If I were the manager, I’d be pissed off.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Why take that risk when the tying run is on second and the winning run on first? Asinine.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Javy Baez would have been safe.
ceruleanQuote Reply
I think Heyward’s back is alright. Zobrist’s and Rizzo’s have been acting up lately though.
ceruleanQuote Reply
Note that the antecedent of *He* is not Tyler Chatwood but Brandon Morrow. And today *he* was used but not very good, but all is well that ends well in this version of reality. (Those alternate realities are fucked though.)
ceruleanQuote Reply
Coors should be banned.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Rice Cube,
I can’t believe any free agent pitcher would sign there. If it was me, I’d pay money to not pitch there.
dmick89Quote Reply
dmick89,
Remember when Mike Hampton signed a huge contract with the Rockies with some of the motivation being that any diminishing value on the pitching side he would make up with the bat? That worked out pretty well for all parties involved (well…save for Hampton and the Rockies).
ceruleanQuote Reply
New shit
http://obstructedview.net/cubs-9-rockies-7/
berseliusQuote Reply
MLB should have at least three different kinds of balls — juiced with low seams for the Marlins, Padres, and Giants; unjuiced with high seams for the Rockies; and normal for everybody else.
ceruleanQuote Reply