What are these strange things called off….days? Several Cubs spent the day relaxing on their west coast travel day, and they even get one on the way back too. It certainly beats 3+ weeks with no breaks other than the Reds. West coast series suck all around, but at least only one game is a night game. Team Leaders Cubs …
Cubs 5, Marlins 4 (8.3.16)
OSS: Cubs win another weird one. Three up: Just looking over the WPA charts for this one is kind of strange. No Cubs position player had more than one hit, yet the Cubs had five different players on offense who posted a .100 WPA or greater, when usually you only see one or two, and two players who had hugely …
Cubs 3, Marlins 2 (8.2.16)
OSS: The Aprilists wear down a great pitcher and hang on to win. Three up: The top two of the Cubs order set the tone for the day, reaching base six out of six times against Marlins ace Jose Fernandez. Fowler led all Cubs hitters with a .183 WPA, and he and Contreras combined to go 5-7 with a walk, …
Marlins @ Cubs Game Thread
Time: 7:05 PM CT TV: CSN Series Preview Gameday LINEUPS J.T. Realmuto, C Martin Prado, 3B Christian Yelich, LF Giancarlo Stanton, RF Marcell Ozuna, CF Derek Dietrich, 2B Chris Johnson, 1B Adeiny Hechavarria, SS Jose Fernandez, P Dexter Fowler, CF Willson Contreras, C Anthony Rizzo, 1B Ben Zobrist, 2B Jason Heyward, RF Addison Russell, SS Chris Coghlan, LF Javier Baez, 3B Jason …
Cubs 5, Marlins 0 (8.1.16)
OSS: I just checked the calendar to see if it is April again somehow. Three up: Kyle Hendricks threw a complete game shutout, his second CG of the season and first shutout. The last one was against the Phillies, so it was especially nice to see him shut down an actual major league offense. Even more so considering just how …
Series Preview: Miami Marlins (57-48) at Chicago Cubs (63-41)
The bafflingly good-again Marlins took three of four from the Cubs back in late June, smack in the middle of their ice cold streak. It’s even stranger to see them succeeding despite a bad year for Giancarlo Stanton in every category other than HR. Team Leaders Marlins OBP: Ichiro Suzuki (.397) ISO: Justin Bour (.258) HR: Stanton (22) R+RBI: Marcell Ozuna …
Cubs 7, Mariners 6 (7.31.16)
OSS: Three up The Cubs won this game on a walkoff bunt by Jon Lester which was set up by a booming double to lead off the inning by Jason Heyward. That is a sentence I wasn’t planning to write any time in my life (dying laughing). Addison Russell went 1-5 with three strikeouts, but he was the WPA leader …
Mariners @ Cubs Game Thread
Time: 1:20 PM CT TV: CSN Series Preview Gameday LINEUPS Nori Aoki, LF Leonys Martin, CF Robinson Cano, 2B Nelson Cruz, RF Kyle Seager, 3B Adam Lind, 1B Mike Zunino, C Shawn O’Malley, SS Wade Miley, P Dexter Fowler, CF Kris Bryant, 3B Ben Zobrist, LF Javier Baez, 2B Addison Russell, SS Jason Heyward, RF Willson Contreras, 1B Miguel Montero, C Jake Arrieta, P …
Cubs 12, Mariners 1
OSS: The April Cubs are back, and they’ll never lose another game etc etc Three Four up: We all laughed at Chris Coghlan getting the nod at the leadoff spot on the day he was reactivated from the DL, and he rewarded said laughter by leading the team in WPA. This was mostly due to the two run single that …
Series Preview: Seattle Mariners (51-49) @ Chicago Cubs (61-40)
I was never a big fan of interleague play. I couldn’t care less about the White Sox or Royals or Twins, but I’ll admit that I do like it when the Cubs play a team like the Mariners, A’s, Yankees, Red Sox or the teams they don’t face all that often. I’m not in favor of getting rid of it, …