OSS: Cubs bats wake up on the road, for once.
Three up:
- The Cubs bats actually came up with some big hits on the road, a rare occurrence these days. Javy Baez and Addison Russell both homered off of Marcus Stroman, who is a pretty dang good pitcher.
- The real MVP of this game, however, was Yu Darvish, who continued his second half tear by striking out seven in eight innings, allowing just a solo HR to future ROY Pete Alonso. He did walk his first batter in over a month though, so I guess that contract is back to being a bust.
- Even aside from the homers, the Cubs were hitting the ball all over the yard, as Baez, Caratini, Bryant, and Castellanos all hit doubles. The team strikeout total was right in line with their average from last weekend’s Nats series, but somehow the lazy narrative about putting the ball in play doesn’t come up when you win. Love to see six extra base hits in a game instead of relying on 70% of your ground balls finding holes.
Three down:
- Javy had two TOOTBLANs in this one. The team was a little too aggressive on the basepaths early on and were probably pressing a little bit, understandably.
- No Rizzo again today, and likely tomorrow as well.
- The useless Brewers lost to the Cardinals, and somehow managed to have a rain delay in their domed stadium. Good job, good effort fellas.
Next up: Cyle takes on Thor, at 6 PM CT.
Comments
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Rizzo the Rat,
Not a bad idea for Yu to become one of the best pitchers in baseball again. Not sure why the Cubs didn’t think of that until the last few weeks.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Hasn’t Caratini already run out of fingers to call all of Yu’s pitches?
BVSQuote Reply
BVS,
How absolutely hilarious is it that Kap called him too predictable after his last start? Say he gives up lots of homers, fine. He does. Saying you figured out why and that it’s too little variety in his pitches is pretty Kaplan.
andcountingQuote Reply
https://deadspin.com/christian-yelich-changes-walkup-music-to-own-a-random-t-1837635595
Really wish the Cubs had traded for Yelich a couple of years ago. He seems like a pretty awesome dude, in addition to being really good at sports.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Perkins,
(dying laughing). (dying laughing)
BVSQuote Reply
andcounting,
An advantage to not living in the Chicago area is that I don’t /can’t listen to Kap.
BVSQuote Reply
BVS,
One of the single most horrifying moments of my existence comes at the end of any Cubs game on NBC Sports Chicago when Kap and David De Jesus come on and I can’t find the remote.
andcountingQuote Reply
Fixed.
But you quit that habit, right? (Or maybe it was someone else here.)
BVSQuote Reply
Cardinals lose.
Probably won’t matter with Thor and deGrom up, but at least the Cubs won’t lose any more ground today.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Heyward was doing well this year until he moved to the leadoff spot. Maybe that lineup position is just cursed.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
I’m enjoying the start to this game
WaLiQuote Reply
Holy shit.
andcountingQuote Reply
I guess we got Endgame era Thor tonight.
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
(dying laughing)
andcountingQuote Reply
Heyward avoids going 0-2 in the first.
andcountingQuote Reply
That was a top of the first I recently enjoyed.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Two strikeouts? Smh the cubs need some contact hitters.
berseliusQuote Reply
mEts
berseliusQuote Reply
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
That’s an awful lot of HR for Hendricks to give up.
PerkinsQuote Reply
WTF, Cubs. Get another out.
PerkinsQuote Reply
This game got a lot closer than it should be.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Cubs lose.
andcountingQuote Reply
Just our luck. The only pitch-out that anyone did in 2019 just happened against the Cubs (and it worked).
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Seriously, though, what happened to pitch-outs? They used to be commonplace.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Don’t. Walk. Rajai. Davis.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Jesus.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
M ————> inverted
berseliusQuote Reply
*exhales*
PerkinsQuote Reply
Amazingly, the Cubs’ bullpen allowed no earned runs today.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
That was a 9 run lead not blown.
BVSQuote Reply
Walking Rajai to bring the tying run to the plate with no outs is inexcusable, though.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Road series WIN!
BVSQuote Reply
http://www.obstructedview.net/cubs-10-mets-7/
berseliusQuote Reply