Time: 1:20 PM CST
TV: NBC Sports Chicago
Radio: 670 the Score
Cubs
Happ CF
La Stella 3B
Bryant 1B
Contreras C
Schwarber LF
Russell SS
Baez 2B
Heyward RF
Yu Darvish SP
Barves
Inciarte CF
Albies 2B
Freeman 1B
Markakis RF
Suzuki C
Tucker LF
Swanson SS
Flaherty 3B
Anibal Sanchez SP
Note: originally Albert Almora Jr. was going to start at CF and lead off today, but he is battling an illness and is unavailable for the game.
Kris Bryant, first baseman! This an interesting lineup for the Cubs. I like the vote of confidence for Tommy La Stella. If you click on Anibal Sanchez, you’ll also know why I am betting today is Addison Russell’s first HR. Sanchez gets absolutely obliterated by righties in the back nine of his career. While that makes it slightly weird that this is the day La Stella gets a start, we can at least take solace in the fact that Sanchez has been horrible for the past few years.
The Braves are well on their way to being the 2015 Cubs. There are absolutely tons of great, young players on this team. Freeman, Swanson, Albies, Inciarte, and (soon) Acuna is an excellent young core of hitters. The Braves only have 2 really good pitchers (Teheran and Newcomb), so that’ll be what the Braves need to grab in FA or through trades. They have a few rounds in the chamber in the minors (Kyle Wright, Luiz Gohara, Mike Soroka), with Gohara being the one in the group that can really end up anchoring a rotation should be put it all together, but none of them are sure things.
Comments
(dying laughing)
mylesQuote Reply
Ugh.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Darvish can remember he’s a strikeout pitcher any day now.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Fewer baserunners would be good.
berseliusQuote Reply
That was strike three.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Love to throw 40 pitches in the first two innings
mylesQuote Reply
Interesting at bat from Schwarber. Would have liked to see him offer at one of those.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Can’t strike out swinging at an ugly pitch if you don’t swing
*points at head*
mylesQuote Reply
13 pitch 3rd inning. Darvish needed it.
mylesQuote Reply
I’d swing away with the defense playing so aggressively.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
TyroneQuote Reply
These umps actually made a right call.
berseliusQuote Reply
Has anybody ever run in that lane on the first base line?
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
berselius,
Yes, but it’s a weird rule.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Another 13 pitch inning.
MylesQuote Reply
Filthy splitter from Darvish
berseliusQuote Reply
Jesus.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
ugh
berseliusQuote Reply
Sigh.
PerkinsQuote Reply
We’re getting shut out by fucking Anibal Sanchez.
mylesQuote Reply
*fart noise*
mobile daveQuote Reply
So glad the Cubs already won a World Series. This is infuriating, but less than it would have been without that.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Chip Caray seems 1000% more chill than when he worked for the Cubs.
berseliusQuote Reply
The umpire still seems to think that if the pitch is in the zone, but the catcher moves his glove a little, it’s a ball.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Bryant is really struggling at first.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Cubs suck?
SKQuote Reply
“Sanchez gets absolutely obliterated by righties in the back nine of his career. ”
Except the 2018 Cubs, apparently.
North Side PatQuote Reply
I’m starting to get impatient. It feels like that was over a century ago.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Rizzo the Rat,
Same here. I love that the Cubs won the World Series in 2016, but it didn’t change how much I was disappointed in how the season ended last year and it definitely doesn’t this year (so far). This team isn’t getting younger and has almost no farm system. They’re also maxed out as far as payroll goes. This and the next couple years is probably it for awhile. I’d like to get at least another championship out of that.
dmick89Quote Reply
#theSecondYearHangoverIsReal
ceruleanQuote Reply
dmick89,
I kind of assume they’ll get their shit together this year; I just hope they do it before the All Star break.
PerkinsQuote Reply
I also want to see them do it again. I just mean that my level of frustration would be through the roof right now instead of just irritated.
The thought of “these fuckers can’t even win a World Series with Theo Epstein at the helm” seems unbearable.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Perkins,
I assume they will too. It just irritates me that they can’t be better to start the season. It’s especially irritating that they’ve kind of sucked against the competition they’ve played.
dmick89Quote Reply
Got us a doozy today!
https://twitter.com/Cubs/status/985162417993912322?s=19
Rice at homeQuote Reply
New Shit
http://obstructedview.net/cubs-gameday-braves-8-5-cubs-6-7-4-14-2018/
mylesQuote Reply