OSS: Chicago Cubs baseball is on the air!
Three+ up:
- Ian Happ went 3-4 with 2 RsBI, and led all Cubs players with a .351 WPA on the day. Happ hit a ground rule double in the second, and the biggest hit of the day with a tie-breaking two-run double in the 7th inning that gave the Cubs the lead.
- Nico Hoerner gave the Cubs their first lead of the season on a fifth inning laser beam home run to left center off of Brewers starter Corbin Burnes. Burnes didn’t last much longer before being pulled, which was certainly nice to see given how he’s decimated the Cubs lineup in the past.
- Cyle had a solid outing to start the year, striking out seven and allowing just one run over 5.2 innings. He also walked a few but mostly managed to work out of any base clogging situations along the way. His changeup looked like it was in midseason form.
- Seiya Suzuki made his regular season debut, and went 1-2 with two walks looking completely relaxed coming out of the gate.
Three down:
- The bullpen coughed up the lead once and nearly did so again later in the game, but managed to hold on. Bullpens gonna bullpen I guess.
- Rafael Ortega, somehow the opening day DH, capped off the first inning with a TOOTBLAN. It’s not what you want.
- 2021 Legend, somehow, Frank Schwindel had the roughest day at the plate, going 0-4.
Next up: Bob Minocqua* takes on Justin Steele, somehow, in one of the biggest starting pitching mismatches of the season at 1:20 PM. Game 2, feel the excitement!
*I refuse to be embarrassed by this dumb joke
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To-day’s base ball squadron
DH Frazier
2B Madrigal
C Contreras
LF Happ
RF Suzuki
SS Villar
CF Heyward
3B Wisdom
1B Rivas
P Steele
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
False.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Rizzo the Rat,
(dying laughing), I just tuned in to catch the pregame because I’m bad at time zones.
berseliusQuote Reply
Too much new stuff around here. I hadn’t even finished the last post yet. Come on.
dmick89Quote Reply
dmick89,
We just need the Cubs to keep beating the Brewers 5-4 for the rest of the weekend.
berseliusQuote Reply
**I refuse to be embarrassed by not getting your dumb joke
BVSQuote Reply
One of my college friends was from Woodruff, WI, which is near Minocqua, and I always mixed the towns up.
berseliusQuote Reply
Not sure who these guys are, but watching some men in Cubs uniforms beating up on Woodruff is fun.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
berseliusQuote Reply
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
It was a mismatch, though.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
I generally abhor the idea of throwing at players intentionally, but after the past couple years of Brewers pitchers’ throwing at Cubs hitters with abandon, I wouldn’t hate seeing the Cubs just throw at one of their players in the first inning of every start until the Brewers quit throwing inside with no command.
It’s like watching the Ray Searage/Clint Hurdle era Pirates out there. I get the need to go inside, but having guys who can’t command well keep doing so is reckless and irresponsible.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Perkins,
I love that the brewers are acting so shocked that this happened. Punk ass book jockeys.
berseliusQuote Reply
To-day’s base ball squadron
LF Ortega
2B Madrigal
3B Villar
1B Rivas
RF Suzuki
DH Frazier
CF Heyward
C Gomes
SS Hoerner
berseliusQuote Reply
As the President said in Mars Attacks!, 2 out of 3 ain’t bad
Rice CubeQuote Reply
This young man might be in some trouble with the locals
https://twitter.com/CrossingBroad/status/1513662531553923076?t=eL0Yx-D9IsfI9vhdCOKfiw&s=19
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Rice Cube,
Maybe he was just running low on batteries in his apartment and was hoping to snag some for free.
berseliusQuote Reply
To-day’s base ball squadron
DH Frazier
C Contreras
3B Wisdom
1B Schwindel
RF Suzuki
2B Madrigal
CF Hermosillo
LF Happ
SS Hoerner
P Smyly
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
On a related note, the new lineup graphic that @Cubs uses sucks ass. Somehow the most readable thing in the whole lineup graphic are the players uniform numbers.
berseliusQuote Reply
Tuned in just in time for a Suzuki HR 😀
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
They should go back to using the scoreboard
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Suzuki x2!
berseliusQuote Reply
This Seiya Suzuki fellow looks pretty good so far.
PerkinsQuote Reply
M ————> inverted
Berselius ———> not completely embarrassed by first beer league softball experience of the year
berseliusQuote Reply
Lulzy https://twitter.com/Braves/status/1514072277469601797?t=Uu80Za1mJFzhbLewOASL0A&s=19
Rice CubeQuote Reply
New shit
http://www.obstructedview.net/cubs-2-pirates-1/
berseliusQuote Reply
Rice Cube,
(dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply