The red-hot Cubs come rambling into Pittsburgh for a 3-game skirmish this weekend (note: Cubs not actually red-hot). The Pirates are a really, really interesting team considering that they don't have an offensive standout this year, but they don't have any offensive black holes. From top to bottom, the OPS+ of the 8 position players is 122, 114, 106, 103, …
Cubs 10, Marlins 2 (6.6.17)
OSS: The Cubs offense is waking from its deep slumber. Three Four up: The big play of the game was a three run bomb by Anthony Rizzo in the fifth inning that put the Cubs up 3-1. They never looked back the rest of the way. Rizzo also knocked in a run and scored as a part of the Cubs …
Cubs 3, Cardinals 2 (6.2.17)
OSS: What strange new world is this? Three up: The key play of the game was Anthony Rizzo taking third base on a groundout in the eighth inning to set up the go ahead run on a sac fly from Heyward. His double preceding that helped too I guess. Heyward also drove in the Cubs second run with a double …
Cubs 5, Giants 4 (5.24.17)
OSS: Rizzo hits two homers into the wind and the Cubs hang on to win Three up: Rizzo was the easy WPA leader in this game, hitting two game-tying solo shots in the first and fourth innings and added a single and IBB in his other two PAs. It's nice to see him finally heating up, and his season line …
Cubs 9, Brewers 7 (4/18/2017 Recap)
OSS: The bats are alive! Three Four Up 1. Miguel Montero had a very nice day, with a basket homer and two other singles. Nice to see him heat up after a relatively cold start to the season. I'm not opposed to him getting 55 starts or so this year, just to help preserve Contreras. 2. Jason Heyward is still routinely …
How The Cubs Went 124-33 Last Year (sort of)
If you want to be technically correct (the best kind of correct), the Cubs went 103-58-1 last year in the regular season. That said, I was curious what their record was in each 7 game tranche (as that's the number of games in the World Series. The Cubs won the World Series in 7 games last year.), and since it's …
Dodgers (4-3) @ Cubs (4-2) Game Thread (4/10/17)
Time: 7:05 PM CT TV: ESPN Series Preview Gameday LINEUPS (4-2) Kyle Schwarber, LF Kris Bryant, 3B Anthony Rizzo, 1B Ben Zobrist, RF Addison Russell, SS Willson Contreras, C Jason Heyward, CF Javy Baez, 2B Jon Lester, P Lester ZiPS 189.7 IP 8.92 K/9 2.14 BB/9 3.08 ERA 3.34 FIP (DODGERS LOGO.png) (4-3) Logan Forsythe, 2B Corey Seager, SS Justin Turner, 3B …
4/5/2017, I mean 4/6/2017 Thread World Series Champion Cubs (1-1) @ St. Louis Cardinals (1-1)
Time: 12:45 PM CST TV: WGN, MLBN Radio: 670 the Score Cubs Lineup Schwarber LF Bryant 3B Rizzo 1B Zobrist 2B Russell SS Heyward RF Montero C Lackey P Jay CF Cards Lineup Fowler CF Diaz SS Carpenter 1B Molina C Adams LF Grichuk RF Gyorko 3B Wong 2B Lynn P Will the Cubs Win? 56% Will the …
4/4/2017 Gameday Thread- Reigning World Series Champion Chicago Cubs (0-1) @ Reigning NL Central Runners-up Cardinals (1-0)
View PostThe 25: Jon Lester
Previous programming note from Myles: Now that the season is fast approaching, and I've started to get the itch to talk baseball again, I'm hoping to pick up the pace. Hopefully I can convince the other writers to do the same. I'm going to take a look at the 2017 Cubs, starting with the best players and taking a descending …