OSS: Nothing like a low stress win. Three up: Three down: Next up: The Cubs go for a sweep against the second(?) best team in baseball at 1:20 PM CT. Ben Brown takes on fifth starter/KBO career resurrectee Kyle Hart.
Series Preview: San Diego Daddies (7-0) vs Chicago Cubs (5-4)
The Cubs are on their fourth, and last, opener of the season as they play their first series at Wrigley in 2025. The weather looks slightly cooler than what they had in Phoenix/Sacramento, hopefully it doesn’t cool off the bats as well. Though if the bats cooled down to only scoring say 8 runs a game I guess that would …
Cubs 4, Dbacks 3
OSS: TOOTBWIN Three up: Three Down: Next up: The Cubs go for the series win at 3:10 PM CT on Sunday. New Cub Matthew Boyd takes on Eduardo Rodriguez. Don’t pitch to Geno. Or do. I can’t tell you what to do. Unless that thing to do is to extend PCA. Do that please.
Cubs 10, E-Backs 6
OSS: Cubs offense wakes up with a little help from the Dbacks defense Three up: Three down: Next up: Jameson Taillon takes on Merrill Kelly at 8:40 PM CT, with yours truly in attendance. Let’s get a streak going, fellas.
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (0-2) at Arid Zone Diamondbacks (0-0)
We are back again! And not at 4am! Hopefully the results are a little better than Tokyo. The Cubs face a less daunting task than they did against the Dodgers, but the Dbacks are also a very good team. Somehow the Dbacks lined things up such that their big free agent signing, Corbin Burnes, is *not* starting in this four …
Series Preview: Los Angeles Dodgers of Los Angeles (0-0) “at” Chicago Cubs (0-0)
Baseball! It’s back! At 4am (my time)! It’s been a pretty cool vicarious experience to see the Cubs in Japan, maybe I should try to spend less than a decade before I return next time*. Everyone seems to be enjoying themselves, including Shota and Seiya in their unofficial roles as hosts. Both teams were shut out by the Hanshin Tigers …
Series Preview: Cubs (75-71) at Rockies (55-92)
I’m on mini-vacation to catch this series, so I figure the least I could do was actually write a post for once (dying laughing). The Rockies were eliminated some time ago, obviously, but at least I still get some vaguely relevant Cubs baseball. Since it’s pretty much just the Barves and Mets that the Cubs are chasing now, here’s the …
Cubs 5, Cardinals 1
OSS: The newly resurgent Cubs win their fifth in a row. Three up: Three down: Next up: Doubleheader tomorrow, Hayden Wesneski and TBD (Assad?) in some order face Lance Lynn and Kyle Gibson, also in some order, at 1:15 and 7:15 PM CT.
Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers (19-11) at Chicago Cubs (19-13)
It’s our first divisional series, more than a month into the year! Grumble grumble. The Cubs and Beers have both been peppered with injuries but are succeeding despite it – maybe it’s Pat Murphy magic that Counsell inherited? It’s been fun seeing the Brewers-Cubs rivalry ramp up from where it was when I lived in Wisconsin *mumble* years ago, but …
Cubs 3, Mets 1
OSS: Cubs break up a no-hitter, Mets be Metsing Three up Three down Next up Game two of the four game series kicks off at 6:10 CT, with Javier Assad facing Sean Manea.