Cubs 14, Brewers 8

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OSS: Cubs offense gets ahead of the Cubs pitching, for one day at least.

Three up:

  1. Jason Heyward, of all people, had a big day at the plate, going 3-3 with two homers and two walks. Between this and his garbage time HR yesterday, he has brought his slash line up to .370/.419/.704. Hopefully he manages to gets some more pop and outperform his whopping *five* GIDP on the season. While those seemed inevitable, he actually only had 7 in all of last season somehow.
  2. Victor Caratini had a big day of his own, hitting a go-ahead HR in the middle innings and driving in three.
  3. Cole Hamels had a solid outing, going six innings and allowing two runs. Even more importantly, he didn’t walk anyone. It was not for lack of trying by the Brewers, who racked up his pitch count early, but he gutted out 111 pitches for a reason.

Three down:

  1. Meet the new bullpen, same as the old bullpen. Newly called up Kyle Ryan came out throwing strikes, but after a single and a walk, Allen Webster came in and promptly coughed up a three run homer to Lloyd Braun. Reinforcements! Luckily the offense came back with a seven run inning.
  2. Rosario coughed up another three run homer in the next inning, but it had become a laugher at that point.
  3. KB had a rough day, going 0-5 with four strikeouts, including one with the bases loaded and no outs during the Cubs rally in the seventh inning.

Next up

The Cubs go for the series win at 1:10 PM CT. Kyle Hendricks faces Zach Davies in a matchup of strike-throwing soft contact pitchers, so maybe they get this one in under a cool four hours this time around.

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  4. andcounting

    Games like last night’s are fun every once in awhile, but not so much fun when the bullpen gives up a shit ton of runs literally every game. I was surprised to see they won even after getting to 14 runs.

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    berselius

    To-day’s base ball squadron

    RF Zobrist
    3B Bryant
    1B Rizzo
    SS Baez
    LF Schwarber
    C Contreras
    2B Descalso
    CF Heyward
    P Hendricks

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  7. Rizzo the Rat

    In the “it could be worse” department, the Reds are hitting .165/.231/.278. Matt Kemp is 1 for 20 with a single and no walks.

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  10. andcounting

    I don’t think Christian Yelich and Lorenzo Cain would be friends if they didn’t play on the same baseball team. I’m so sick of them high fiving each other after home runs like they’re best friends. What fake jerks.

    I’m sure it’s that phony friendship that annoys me, not the constant stream of run scoring at the Cubs’ expense.

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  14. andcounting

    I’ll take losing in normal, replacement-level fashion any day over the shit we’ve been watching this season.

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  15. dmick89

    I didn’t think the Cubs had a chance at a top 5 pick in next year’s draft entering this season, but I’m not so sure anymore. I think all it would take to get into the top 5 is a subpar season from Bryant or Rizzo. If both have subpar seasons the Cubs may get the top pick in next year’s draft.

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  17. Rizzo the Rat

    I guess it’s nice to have a non-embarrassing loss, for a change. I don’t even think they played badly. I can’t really blame the hitters for coming up empty against Hader.

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