Cubs 16, Rockies 5 (4.20.18)

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OSS: The Javy Baez show goes on the road.

Three up:

  1. Javy had a huge day, going 4-6 with a homer, double, and two singles. The double was an easy single that he hustled out to grab the extra base. Just after that, he hustled his way to third on a Theriot Special, but instead of TOOBLANing he slid around the tag and went on to score on a RBI groundout form Rizzo. He also made a nifty defensive snag following a tough ball up the middle that Russell fielded and threw off-line to Javy at second. Javy barehanded the catch to get the out. The crowd full of Cubs fans made themselves heard, chanting Javy's name at several points during the game.
  2. Jason Heyward had a nice game, walking and hitting a long triple to left to kick-start the Cubs seven run rally in the sixth inning.
  3. War Bear also had a 4-RsBI day, mostly thanks to a bomb of a HR to dead center field. Coors is still Coors, but 37 degrees and raining wind the wind blowing in-ish makes it a little tougher.

Three down:

  1. Hendricks was not sharp early, but turned it around a bit to labor his way through five innings. His velocity was down again, maybe it was a temperature thing. Not that it gave Gray any problems though.
  2. Justin Wilson walked two batters in about as low pressure a situation as you can get, a twelve run lead in the ninth.
  3. Rizzo is still off his game working his way back from the back problem. He still picked up 3 R+RBI in this one though so not all bad. It would have been nice if Joe could have swapped him out for Caratini as the run total got high and the rain started falling.

Next up: Yu Darvish takes on Tyler Anderson at 7:10 PM CT, hopefully in better weather conditions.

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  6. North Side Pat

    Javy now 7th in Offensive WAR in all of MLB, tied with Trout.

    That lack of respect for the game, though….

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  7. Senior Rockies Correspondent Berselius

    Also hooray for the super day drunk loud Trump supporters who just sat down at the table next to us.

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  10. dmick89

    I wish time travel existed. For all those who want to MAGA we can just send them back in time to when this country was supposedly great. One way tickets only.

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  15. Senior Rockies Correspondent Berselius

    Rizzo the Rat:
    Rice Cube,

    Isn’t it a little early in the season to start throwing away games?

    The weather is still pretty blah, though I’d rather see him effectively giving a break to one of the IFs, rather than Heyward.

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  16. Senior Rockies Correspondent Berselius

    Sounds like Madden is doing Bote a solid since he is from Denver.

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  18. Senior Rockies Correspondent Berselius

    dmick89,

    He’s also doing a solid for one of his regulars who won’t have to play in 40s and drizzling weather.

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  49. Senior Rockies Correspondent Berselius

    Arenado just missed getting decked by a guy in a tooth costume.

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    berselius

    Shout-out to the Rockies fan in the row in front of me who was shit-talking the Cubs for most of the game and puked on himself in the 8th.

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