Time: 7:15 PM CT
TV: FOX, FOX Sports Go, ESPN Radio
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Gameday
LINEUPS
(94-67, 2-1)
Rajai Davis, CF
Jason Kipnis, 2B
Francisco Lindor, SS
Mike Napoli, 1B
Carlos Santana, LF
Jose Ramirez, 3B
Brandon Guyer, RF
Roberto Perez, C
Trevor Bauer, P
Bauer Stats
190 IP
7.96 K/9
3.32 BB/9
4.26 ERA
3.99 FIP
4.13 xFIP
2 Death Sticks PSAs |
(103-58, 1-2)
Dexter Fowler, CF
Kris Bryant, 3B
Anthony Rizzo, 1B
Ben Zobrist, LF
Addison Russell, SS
Jason Heyward, RF
Javier Baez, 2B
David Ross, C
Jon Lester, P
Lester Stats
202.2 IP
8.75 K/9
2.31 BB/9
2.44 ERA
3.41 FIP
3.47 xFIP |
Will the Cubs win? What is winning? Who among us can truly be said to be winners? Well, aside from the Yankees I guess.
538 Forecast: 65% chance of winning
Comments
Let’s do the thing, Cubs
berseliusQuote Reply
berseliusQuote Reply
Not enough juice on this wifi to synch up Pat Hughes 🙁
berseliusQuote Reply
Way to get out of the way, dumbass
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
seriously wtf
SKQuote Reply
Wow, Jon has the good stuff tonight
berseliusQuote Reply
I missed it. What happened?
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Flare the down the RF line, some dumbass in the Indians pen was just standing in the middle of it, Heyward had to slide to avoid hitting him.
berseliusQuote Reply
Smokestack Lightning,
Foul ball in Indians’ bullpen, all three Cubs running toward it, two guys in bullpen just stood there and didn’t get out the way as Heyward slid in to attempt a catch.
SKQuote Reply
Nice inning by Lester. Eight more of those, please.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Rizzo the Rat,
I think he had like 5 whiffs that inning
berseliusQuote Reply
May it the moment that gets the Cubs get so weirdly mad that they destroy Cleveland the next three games.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Lester’s like, fine, I won’t throw stuff on the edge so you can call it a ball every time.
SKQuote Reply
And that should have been obstruction, yes?
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
I think Jon’s strategy to counter the Indians’ running game is to strike everyone out.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
SK,
They don’t have to move. The Cubs bullpen wouldn’t help out the opposing team.
dmick89Quote Reply
Runs, please.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
dmick89,
Ah.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
I don’t think it looked deliberate, or that Heyward would have caught it anyway.
berseliusQuote Reply
Looks like we’re back to the patient approach.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Cubs lose. They tried this in game one. Didn’t work.
dmick89Quote Reply
Gotta hit one of those curveballs sometime, fellas. Maybe in 2019
berseliusQuote Reply
Seems like Fowler has struck out on pit xj es in that spot multiple x in the WS
BVSQuote Reply
damn, Rizzo got all of that
berseliusQuote Reply
Damn
WaLiQuote Reply
Lester is throwing smoke tonight.
PerkinsQuote Reply
(dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
Rizzo!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Cubs being cubs (dying laughing)
WaLiQuote Reply
That Ross/Rizzo play is exactly why I want another 2 games of this team.
PerkinsQuote Reply
(dying laughing), Harbaugh brought a glove
berseliusQuote Reply
Fuck.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Oh god.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
berseliusQuote Reply
Should have figured. The wind is blowing in, after all.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Fuck
WaLiQuote Reply
I don’t understand why they keep pitching Ramirez low.
JonKneeVQuote Reply
Nice play by Bryant.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Another shitty throw from Bryant.
dmick89Quote Reply
dmick89,
Channeling Lester throws to 1st
BVSQuote Reply
Nice AB by Addy there.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Should have pinch hit Schwarber (dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
Bauer should throw nothing but curveballs. Every single pitch.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Baez. FUCK
WaLiQuote Reply
Hi, baseball, we haven’t met.
— Cubs bats
RynoQuote Reply
I could strike Baez out.
dmick89Quote Reply
WTF, Javy?
PerkinsQuote Reply
Garbage at-bats by Heyward and Baez there.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Baez. Good grief.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Baez didn’t even have the presence of mind to run to first on the ball on the dirt.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
berselius,
I’d pinch hit Schwarber for Lester. The Cubs don’t have enough outs left to give away before Miller comes in this game.
dmick89Quote Reply
Not sure I agree with whoever said Baez is willing to adjust.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
What a catch.
dmick89Quote Reply
HOLY SHIT THAT WAS AMAZING
WaLiQuote Reply
Heyward!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
(dying laughing), J-Hey fooled by the wind
berseliusQuote Reply
As a guy, I’d feel bad if the foul ball was a few inches higher getting thru Joe West’s legs, but since it’s Joe West, I have to think about it.
BVSQuote Reply
dmick89,
I also don’t want Ross to hit, either.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
I don’t want any of these guys to hit. Can Bauer just pitch to his own team?
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
(dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
I’m all out faith. This is how I feel.
MillertimeQuote Reply
Love how Bauer looks much better on short rest ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
berseliusQuote Reply
Absolute garbage at-bat by Lester.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Fewer garbage at-bats, please.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/happy-halloween-1788389177
GWQuote Reply
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
It’s like Joe doesn’t understand this could be it.
dmick89Quote Reply
berseliusQuote Reply
I know GW has mentioned it, but I think the Cubs desperately need a stat head in the dugout to help the manager. Way too many mistakes by Joe.
dmick89Quote Reply
dmick89,
He has an extra leader in David Ross. Why not an extra strategist who actually knows something about strategy?
GWQuote Reply
Be careful out there, guys
berseliusQuote Reply
It wouldn’t be a Cubs game without two fielders colliding.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
dmick89,
I know Joe likes this D with Lester, but with the issues in O, I would have put Soler or Contreras in left and Zo at 2nd.
BVSQuote Reply
GW,
Joe can still be in charge of organizing the theme road trips.
dmick89Quote Reply
BRYANT
berseliusQuote Reply
Bryant!!!!!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Yes!!!!!
WaLiQuote Reply
BRYANT!!!!
PerkinsQuote Reply
Or Tommy La Stella at 3rd, Bryant in LF and Zo at 2nd. Oops. No TLS, we have Coghlan instead.
BVS,
BVSQuote Reply
dmick89,
You could put cyborg-Bill James in there and it wouldnt matter. Big boys arent hitting.
AND Bryant makes me eat my words.
mcalis2Quote Reply
KOBE!!!!!
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Smokestack Lightning,
ANITA!
berseliusQuote Reply
Joe finally called the hit the dinger play
berseliusQuote Reply
Rizzo doesn’t hustle for the second day in a row.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
RATSO!!!
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
(dying laughing) I’m listening to the espn radio feed and Dan Shulman was describing Andrew Miller doing towel drills. Hopefully thats a Cubs omen
Nate the old recalcitrant one from a long time agoQuote Reply
Just have someone give Maddon a painful electrical shock every time he lets a pitcher bat with the team behind.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Zo!
berseliusQuote Reply
Crowd all over Bauer (dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
This looks a lot like not sucking. I like it.
ceruleanQuote Reply
berseliusQuote Reply
Russell!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Yes! Addy!
berseliusQuote Reply
Bertrand!
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Better than a bunt!!
ceruleanQuote Reply
75 foot RBI single
F YEAH
BVSQuote Reply
Viva la lumpy returns!
ceruleanQuote Reply
Would love to have been in the Fox production meeting where someone suggested that they needed more crotch closeups.
berseliusQuote Reply
Crap.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
That check swing call could have gone either way, as they say at some Cubs blog.
berseliusQuote Reply
If MLB were the premier league, they’d put sponsor patches on the catchers’ inseams.
BVSQuote Reply
That was a good bunt.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
yes Javy!
berseliusQuote Reply
We did that to Kershaw in the pennant clincher. We tried last night, but it failed.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Pinch. Hitter. Now.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
BVS,
I repeat
BVSQuote Reply
Schwarber. Now.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
FOREEEEEEVER YOUNG
berseliusQuote Reply
God damn it, Joe.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
How the fuck is Bauer still in this game
berseliusQuote Reply
Rizzo the Rat,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KoKWf6pLs8
GWQuote Reply
berselius,
Who cares? Let him stay
BVSQuote Reply
Well, I’ll take it.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
(dying laughing), the entire stadium would have collapsed if Ross homered
berseliusQuote Reply
No, don’t let Lester hit.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Absolute total complete garbage at-bat by Lester.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Nice play by Russell and Rizzo.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Wow, I thought the runner would beat that easily. Great play by Russell.
berseliusQuote Reply
Nice pitch, Lester!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
He finally got that call (dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
Whew.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
This is starting to look like the Cubs I remember. Hope they stick around.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Runs, plz.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
The Indians smuggled Jacob DeGrom into this game (dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
Was that the first ball hit to Santana?
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
This game, I believe so. Think he got one in game 3 as well.
PerkinsQuote Reply
This guy’s got a bit of Dance Fever about him too.
berseliusQuote Reply
Cmon Tony, keep it rolling
berseliusQuote Reply
berseliusQuote Reply
all right ‘defense’
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
(dying laughing)
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
dangit, good contact
berseliusQuote Reply
Third this series from what I remember. Two tonight.
dmick89Quote Reply
Ross having a tough time getting the handle on those this postseason
berseliusQuote Reply
Ross has had some trouble getting the ball out of his glove.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
That was partly on Lester for letting the runner get a huge lead. Also Maddon for leaving Lester in to let the runner get a huge lead.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Another big strikeout for Lester.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Nice. Pitch.
ceruleanQuote Reply
Crap. The stolen base leads to a run.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
damn
berseliusQuote Reply
Bring in someone with a pickoff move, please.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Nice stop by Fowler, but dammit.
ceruleanQuote Reply
Ross!!!!!!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Javytag!
berseliusQuote Reply
Suck rocks, Lindor.
PerkinsQuote Reply
ROSSI TO BAEZ!!!!
ceruleanQuote Reply
Pour it on Cubbies! More bundles of runs! Whole fagots of runs even!
ceruleanQuote Reply
Heyward needs to swing at the first pitch at least some pf the time.
PerkinsQuote Reply
If heyward starts next year like this he is going to get “Jacque Jones’d” by the wonderful people who sit the bleachers.
mcalis2Quote Reply
Batting Heyward is giving away outs at this point
Nate the old recalcitrant one from a long time agoQuote Reply
Baez struck out on another ball in the dirt. At least he remembered to run to first this time.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Heyward and Baez are black holes in the field and at the plate
berseliusQuote Reply
Why burn a bench guy now? Ross is a better hitter than montero anyway
mcalis2Quote Reply
mcalis2,
Could be a sign that Lester is done
berseliusQuote Reply
I’ll be alot more comfortable when the Cubs score some more runs
Nate the old recalcitrant one from a long time agoQuote Reply
berselius,
I’m sure it is. But Ross has been been the superior receiver of the two all year. I dont understand why they’d burn monty now
mcalis2Quote Reply
So that’s why that foul ball came back into play earlier despite the wind direction.
Also explains the time dilation around Javy.
ceruleanQuote Reply
Ugh.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Kind of wish this was Strop here
berseliusQuote Reply
(dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
Edwards? Oof.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Nice play by Zo.
ceruleanQuote Reply
No way we hold this lead.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Ugh! Not a good job by Contreras.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Fack
berseliusQuote Reply
I’ve really gotten to dislike Joe’s in-game management. Gimme Dusty any day over a guy who doesn’t even know when to use his best players.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Why not just start the inning with Chapman?
dmick89Quote Reply
Can we talk about what a terrible job Joe is doing with game management right now? Burns Montero to hit for ross… to just replace him with Contreras. Now the pitcher’s spot is up next and he’s going to want to keep Chapman for more than two outs. So chapman either hits or we burn another pinch hitter.
mcalis2Quote Reply
Chapman can lose the game for the Cubs! So then we can blame him for this team’s futility.
#fireTheo
ceruleanQuote Reply
Unmuted to hear Skip Bayless’ voice. The worst.
ceruleanQuote Reply
Chapman is actually in for Ross. Contreras was put in for Lester.
Given how this offense is hitting, Chap probably won’t bat.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
mcalis2,
Joe double switched, so Willson leads off the bottom of the 7th.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Just can’t make anything easy cubs.
SKQuote Reply
Perkins,
Got it, makes a ton more sense now.
mcalis2Quote Reply
Please don’t let Roberto Perez be the hero…
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Chapman replaces Montero/Ross and Contreras replaces Lester. That’s the reason for burning Montero.
EDIT:
What he said.
ceruleanQuote Reply
Willson never seems to be on the same page with these guys.
mcalis2Quote Reply
Good job by Contreras there.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
The ump is certainly happy Willy got that.
ceruleanQuote Reply
RUNS, PLZ
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
*exhales 60 liters of air*
berseliusQuote Reply
I was just bitching to myself about not liking Conteras handling Chapman’s stuff, the he makes that incredible pick (dying laughing). Shut me right up.
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
I think there was a little luck involved in that.
SKQuote Reply
SK,
Better to be lucky than good sometimes. For instance my wife found a square grouper today.
WaLiQuote Reply
Saving Miller for Rizzo? Or War Bear?
berseliusQuote Reply
Seems like an appropriate time for this:
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Damn it, don’t be hurt, Dex.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Don’t tell him what to do.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Cmon Kris
berseliusQuote Reply
Dex!
berseliusQuote Reply
Fowler!!!
PerkinsQuote Reply
Wow, Fowler stole with his sore foot.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Rizzo the Rat,
looked good stealing second
WaLiQuote Reply
Dex!
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Dexter doing a rope-a-dope?
ceruleanQuote Reply
Awful fucking call
berseliusQuote Reply
Yet another terrible zone all night
berseliusQuote Reply
Robot umps, please.
PerkinsQuote Reply
This.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Gameday says it was there.
#robotUmpsAnywayMotherfuckers
ceruleanQuote Reply
Cmon Zo
berseliusQuote Reply
This Fox K-zone has also been fucking awful all series (dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
The inconsistency makes me think that much of the problem is with the top and bottom of the strike zone being poorly defined. Who knows if that was a strike?
ceruleanQuote Reply
They need to get some epistemologists behind the plate.
berseliusQuote Reply
Throw strikes.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Cover first, you idiot.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Well, good on Rizzo saving the double 😐
berseliusQuote Reply
The fuck was that?
PerkinsQuote Reply
what the fuck is chapman doing?
Nate the old recalcitrant one from a long time agoQuote Reply
Cover first base. How hard is it?
dmick89Quote Reply
Davis is completely in Chapmans head. Chapman needs to just strike these dudes out
Nate the old recalcitrant one from a long time agoQuote Reply
Man oh man why does speed loom so large in the post season but seem so second rate in the regular season?
mcalis2Quote Reply
Yes!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Yes!
berseliusQuote Reply
Pinch hitters please
BVSQuote Reply
Since we’re not using Schwarber, can we trade him for Andrew Miller for an inning?
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
runs please
Nate the old recalcitrant one from a long time agoQuote Reply
Schwarber for Heyward please.
ceruleanQuote Reply
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
ceruleanQuote Reply
cerulean,
No. We need defense.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Davis is fast and Chapman got turned around. He should practice running to first just in case if it’s hit over there, but even so, I don’t know that he could have beat Davis to the bag.
ceruleanQuote Reply
Almora exists.
ceruleanQuote Reply
Why is Heyward batting here?
PerkinsQuote Reply
Leverage.
ceruleanQuote Reply
Perkins,
Because they’re up a run. Also, he has a decent hitting projection against RHPs.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
I keep thinking all these foul balls down the RF line are home runs (dying laughing). Is Fox using a different camera?
berseliusQuote Reply
More like that Jason, but fair.
ceruleanQuote Reply
So we could all marvel at that helluva foul ball before the inevitable 4-3.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
cerulean,
He can take Zobrist’s place.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Shut me right up.
PerkinsQuote Reply
(dying laughing) Heyward!
PerkinsQuote Reply
Rizzo the Rat,
Heyward has been ok at plate last couple games. Baez otoh…
BVSQuote Reply
stop swinging at everything javy
Nate the old recalcitrant one from a long time agoQuote Reply
The Cardinals big mistake was not hiring Hardison when they tried to hack the Astros.
berseliusQuote Reply
Hit a dinger, Chapman.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Javy is a menace.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Nate the old recalcitrant one from a long time ago,
Should have batted Schwarber
BVSQuote Reply
I could strike Baez out throwing left handed.
dmick89Quote Reply
😐 😐 😐 😐 😐
berseliusQuote Reply
Javy’s K was as predictable as it was infuriating.
PerkinsQuote Reply
It seems crazy to bat Chapman here.
URKQuote Reply
Smoltz: He looks hitterish. (dying laughing)
BVSQuote Reply
hey look! chapman has better patience than javy
mcalis2Quote Reply
BVS,
I was thinking the same, or even here for Chapman.
Nate the old recalcitrant one from a long time agoQuote Reply
I thought he came off the bag there
berseliusQuote Reply
Hold onto your butts.
PerkinsQuote Reply
It’s not very good for Baez that Chapman looks like a better hitter. (dying laughing)
dmick89Quote Reply
It seems crazy to have batted Chapman there. Especially if he gives up a run next inning
UrkQuote Reply
berseliusQuote Reply
I didn’t know it was possible for someone to go from NLCS MVP to DFA in little more than a week.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Oops, o thought the first comment didn’t post. I’m too goddamn wound up to see straight.
UrkQuote Reply
I also thought it was odd batting Chapman; whatever leverage you gain by pitching him in the 9th you lose by giving away an at-bat in a late and close situation. Plus if you bat Schwarber and he gets Heyward home, you’d think Strop can get 3 outs before giving up 2 runs.
Nate the old recalcitrant one from a long time agoQuote Reply
If you can’t throw your career high in pitches in an elimination game in the WS, you don’t deserve your salary.
BVSQuote Reply
Inverted M
berseliusQuote Reply
Bring on November!
SKQuote Reply
Nice job by Chapman, except for the whole fielding thing.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Gleyber Torres for Aroldis Chapman was a trade I recently enjoyed.
Onward, patient motherfuckers.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Great pitching by Chapman.
dmick89Quote Reply
Cubs lose and Dodgers in five!
ceruleanQuote Reply
THIS TEAM DOESN’T FUCKING QUIT!
Pinch-Running Tom GoodwinQuote Reply
Kenley Jansen is going to get nine figures this offseason (dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
Fuck yeah, Cubs.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Ok, batting Chapman was genius. Pure genius. (dying laughing)
UrkQuote Reply
Better not see Edwards out there in a close game again.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Joe hates the DH. Blow it out your ass, man.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Smokestack Lightning,
I certainly expected to see Strop in that spot instead
Nate the old recalcitrant one from a long time agoQuote Reply
I disagree.
ceruleanQuote Reply
You would.
And you’re probably right, too.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Don’t tell me I’m probably right! (dying laughing)
ceruleanQuote Reply
Edwards is good at missing bats.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
(dying laughing), they just made Pete Rose fly the W.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
https://twitter.com/AnthonyDiComo/status/792932717662867456
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Hell fucking yes!
WaLiQuote Reply
http://obstructedview.net/cubs-3-cleveland-2-world-series-game-5/
berseliusQuote Reply