Cubs 15, Beers 2

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OSS: Jake Marisnick leads the offense in a blowout

Three up:

  1. The whole offense was straight fire today, but Jake Marisnick was the big standout with a 5 RBI day. He got things going with a bases-clearing double in the first, knocked in the elusive runner on third in the second inning, and added a solo shot for good measure in the fourth inning. Not too shabby, especially when you consider that most of this was off of right handed pitching, and he was mostly kept around to face lefties.
  2. Every other member of the starting lineup got at least one hit (sorry Cyle, you don’t count here). I’m kind of shocked to see in the box score that the Cubs hit only four dingers – they were certainly crushing the baseball all day. Contreras, Rizzo, and Baez joined Marisnick in the homer party, while KB remains scorching hot at the plate.
  3. After a disaster of an outing on Sunday, Cyle righted the ship with a solid, Cyle-like six innings today.

Three down:

  1. I’m not gonna complain about a double digit win, (dying laughing).

Next up:

The Cubs will take another crack at solving Three True Outcome Machine Freddy Peralta tomorrow. He faces Adbery Alzolay at 1:20 PM CT. We’ll see if I’m awake enough when my second covid shot kicks in tomorrow morning (dying laughing).

Also, ICYMI, Pat Hughes is doing the tv play-by-play on Sunday’s game, which should be a treat!

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    berselius

    Goddamn, deGrom’s pitching line tonight. Good thing they pushed back his start, he would have thrown a 27k game (dying laughing)

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    berselius

    To-day’s base ball squadron

    CF Happ
    C Contreras
    1B Rizzo
    LF Bryant
    3B Duffy
    RF Heyward
    2B Sogard
    SS Hoerner
    P Alzolay

    Not surprising to see Javy get a day off vs Peralta – he would find a way to strike out five times in four plate appearances if he got the start.

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  6. andcounting

    Oh, Ian. You’d think by the 10th pitch of the at-bat you’d abandon the hope of just watching and hoping you get the call.

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  14. SK

    Pat Hughes and Jim Deshaies is a nice combo. From what I’ve heard of the new guy, he’s all right too, but I could get used to this.

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  16. SK

    SK,

    however, Pat, I would assert that the sporting goods bit was the main hustle and the baseball playing was just a means to world domination

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    berselius

    To-day’s base ball squadron

    SS Hoerner
    C Contreras
    1B Rizzo
    LF Bryant
    CF Happ
    3B Bote
    RF Heyward
    2B Sogard
    P Davies

    Baez —-> day to day with hamstring issue

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  41. Rizzo the Rat

    Kris Bryant’s right biceps is “starting to bark a little bit,” Cubs manager David Ross said. “I’m going to try to rest him. He’s available off the bench to hit. But I’m going to try to stay away from him and see if we can calm that bicep down and see how he presents tomorrow.”

    — Patrick Mooney (@PJ_Mooney) April 27, 2021

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  47. Rizzo the Rat

    Let’s face it, we all knew Hendricks couldn’t keep fooling hitters with 86 mph fastballs forever.

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  60. Rizzo the Rat

    I thought the point of TV screens getting larger was so that we could get a better view of the game, not so that TV networks could clutter the screen with interviews and commercials.

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  68. Ryno

    berselius,

    Relieved af. Lance made so much more sense than Jones, but all the smoke was concerning.

    Love Lance, but CHI fans should be really excited. Fields is a 1.1 talent and his “fall” has shades of Watson-like overthinking.

    And GB just refuses to help Rodgers, huh? There were two WRs and one OL I liked in the first when they picked. And they didn’t even pick the right Georgia CB.

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    berselius

    Ryno,

    To be fair though, given most glaring hole in the Packers roster in the NFC championship game, I always figured they were going to go for a CB.

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  71. andcounting

    berselius,
    My son, who’s thirteen and suddenly a football news freak and a 6’ linebacker, was running all these trade rumors and crazy scenarios (most of them involving the Bears getting Justin Fields and the Packers trading Aaron Rodgers) past me for the past three months. Finally I told him, “Look, the Bears aren’t getting Fields and the Packers aren’t trading Aaron Rodgers. That’s not how life works.”

    Now he thinks you get what you want in life and I don’t know how to prove to him, other than by example, that it just ain’t true.

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  73. Ryno

    berselius,

    I guess it’s odd given their choices last year. Especially in the first round. Plus, I don’t think Stokes was the best CB in any sense.

    Besides, defensive coordinator was their biggest need and I think they handled that.

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    berselius

    Ryno: Besides, defensive coordinator was their biggest need and I think they handled that.

    The homer in me is still disappointed that Jim Leonhard turned them down.

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    berselius

    To-day’s base ball squadron

    C Contreras
    RF Bryant
    1B Rizzo
    SS Baez
    3B Duffy
    CF Marisnick
    2B Bote
    LF Hoerner
    P Carrieta

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  81. andcounting

    berselius,

    I was a full-grown adult with two kids when I first saw Joey Votto against the Cubs. Watching him regress toward retirement will make me feel truly ancient.

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  88. Smokestack Lightning

    It would appear whatever wormhole 2016 Kris Bryant disappeared into, this is where it dropped him.

    Too bad it brought the 2012 Cubs along as well.

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    berselius

    To-day’s base ball squadron

    CF Happ
    LF Bryant
    SS Baez
    1B Rizzo
    3B Duffy
    RF Heyward
    2B Hoerner
    C Wolters
    P Williams

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  97. Rizzo the Rat

    I’m seeing some criticism of the overturned call, but it does look as though his foot was hovering over the plate before he was tagged.

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  98. Rizzo the Rat

    I think stealing home was a good idea (there were two outs and he wasn’t being held), but poorly executed. He didn’t get a lead aggressive enough.

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  103. Perkins

    Bryant was better than I remembered in 2019, but this looks like it could be his best season since 2017.

    Sounds about right for him to get great again just before departing in free agency.

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  104. andcounting

    Perkins,

    It will be hard to accept if they neither trade him or sign him. If he were to get hurt at any point this season, it would be a really sad outcome all around, but especially for him.

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  105. Rizzo the Rat

    Sour grapes, given the scoreboard, but these home run derby-style games aren’t much fun.

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  109. Rizzo the Rat

    This game is making me more aware than ever that the announcers are not seeing the game directly.

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  114. Perkins

    This Cubs team feels like one of those middling 2005 or 2009 ones that has a great chance of sweeping a team like the Dodgers after dropping a bunch of games to other shitty NL Central teams because nothing has to make sense and they’re going to win around eighty games.

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    berselius

    Chili Davis is a FA again. Maybe the Cubs can hire him then fire him again to get the offense moving.

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  116. Rizzo the Rat

    Cubs with lots of roster moves:

    RHP Jake Arrieta goes on 10-day IL, right thumb abrasion

    INF Nico Hoerner 10-day IL, left forearm strain

    RHP Dan Winkler, 10-day IL, right triceps tendinitis

    LHP Kyle Ryan recalled

    RHP Keegan Thompson recalled

    INF Ildemaro Vargas selected

    — Meghan Montemurro (@M_Montemurro) May 4, 2021

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    berselius

    Perkins:
    This Cubs team feels like one of those middling 2005 or 2009 ones that has a great chance of sweeping a team like the Dodgers after dropping a bunch of games to other shitty NL Central teams because nothing has to make sense and they’re going to win around eighty games.

    bump (dying laughing)

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    berselius

    All the Cubs needed to jumpstart their offense was to *checks notes* face Clayton Kershaw.

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  125. Rizzo the Rat

    Crazy:

    This is just the 2nd time over the last 2 seasons that the Dodgers have trailed by 6 runs at any point in a game. Every other team has trailed by 6 runs in at least 7 games over that span.

    — Jesse Rogers (@JesseRogersESPN) May 4, 2021

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  129. Author
    berselius

    To-day’s second base ball squadron

    LF Pederson
    CF Bryant
    1B Rizzo
    3B Bote
    RF Heyward
    2B Vargas
    SS Sogard
    C Wolters
    P Thompson

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  134. Author
    berselius

    Fingers crossed that the clubhouse guys hung a bunch of drones from the ceiling of the visitors locker room.

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    berselius

    Strange to think that it’s not just tumbleweeds behind Alzolay on the pitching front. Thompson looked….kind of decent?

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  143. andcounting

    Not sure how God didn’t swing at that ball down the middle, but what can you say against the player of the week?

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  150. Smokestack Lightning

    Perkins:
    This reminds me of another Kyle Hendricks/Clayton Kershaw matchup I recently enjoyed.

    Doesn’t seem so recent anymore.

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