OSS: The Q train keeps on rolling
Three up:
- Jose Quintana put up his third straight fantastic start, striking out seven in seven innings and allowing two runs. One of those at least was due to some bad umpiring so it should look even better. He looks like a completely new pitcher now that he’s started working the changeup more into his pitch mix.
- The Cubs jumped on Maeda early and often, thanks to a bases-clearing double by Contreras in the first and an opposite field HR by Rizzo in the second.
- Javy Baez did Javy Baez things, breaking Dodgers first baseman David Freese’s ankles on a juke while legging out an infield single. Baez added a late HR in the game, and pushed his season line to .315/.351/.640, good for a wOBA of .409 and a wRC+ of 155.
Bonus: The Brewers lost again today, and are now in fourth place in the NL central by win percentage. The Cubs are also up two in the loss column.
Three down:
- The pen struggled a bit after Q left the game in the eighth, with a little help from the BABIP dragon.
- Bryant had another rough game, going 0-3 with a walk.
- Schwarber had the most negative WPA play of the game, striking out with the bases clogged and one out in the first inning.
Next up: Cole Hamels takes on Walker Buehler at 7 CT.
Comments
The rotation has been encouraging to watch. If Darvish were to have a quality start or two, I might even start to believe this team would make the postseason.
andcountingQuote Reply
https://i.imgur.com/amugF0H.gifv
WaLiQuote Reply
WaLi,
Fail. Does imgur not let you direct link?
WaLiQuote Reply
andcounting,
Unacceptable. This team sucks and you’re gonna like it.
Meanwhile the Brewers staff is giving up over 5 runs per game which is worst in the NL. Good thing they already wrapped up the NL Central crown back on 4/1.
JonKneeVQuote Reply
WaLi,
It looks like they’ve obfuscated gifs the same way twitter did, by making them videos. Simple img linking doesn’t know what to do with them.
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
I’ve noticed this is more of a problem when I try to link to an image from my phone than from my computer, fwiw.
berseliusQuote Reply
berseliusQuote Reply
WaLi,
I found an ’embed’ link of one of their gif/videos
berseliusQuote Reply
We are lucky to have Javy Baez on our team, guys.
MylesQuote Reply
In ABQ for work and 95% sure that I just passed Walter White’s car wash
berseliusQuote Reply
Kyle Ryan looked pretty good last night cleaning up for Cishek, who has already appeared in 65 games this season.
It was a game I definitely enjoyed last night.
BVSQuote Reply
berselius,
Are you working on publicly accessible data archiving? That’s an ABQ thing.
BVSQuote Reply
As many concerns as I still have about this team, it’s really awesome that the Brewers basically wasted their hot start.
PerkinsQuote Reply
BVS,
Performance portability on heterogeneous HPC architectures.
berseliusQuote Reply
Perkins,
‘Pissed away’ is probably the best way to characterize it.
berseliusQuote Reply
Gio Gonzalez ——> Beers
berseliusQuote Reply
I’m sorry for your loss, dmick
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ken-kercheval-dead-jr-archrival-cliff-barnes-dallas-was-83-1163963
SKQuote Reply
To-day’s base ball squadron
2B Descalso
3B Bryant
1B Rizzo
SS Baez
LF Schwarber
C Contreras
RF Heyward
CF Almora
P Hamels
berseliusQuote Reply
Beers—–>swept
Too bad it was by the Cardinals, though. Think I’d have preferred to see one of those teams win 2/3.
PerkinsQuote Reply
WaLi,
That was a very poor effort by Freese. Whether or not Javy left the basepaths, he should be called safe on principle.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Lester————> starting tomorrow
berseliusQuote Reply
I don’t love anything as much as Almora loves sliding into first base.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
God, Descalso is slow.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Rizzo the Rat,
Holy shit he was so slow. He should never try to run from 1st to home unless it’s a home run.
WaLiQuote Reply
Rizzo the Rat,
He loves sliding into first as much as Joe loves letting relievers getting an at-bat.
dmick89Quote Reply
What the hell was that?
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Rizzo the Rat,
Trash baseball
WaLiQuote Reply
Javy!!!!!!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
BAEZ!!!
WaLiQuote Reply
Javy!
berseliusQuote Reply
Javy!!!!!!
PerkinsQuote Reply
How do you give Javy anything remotely hittable on 0-2?
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Rizzo the Rat,
That was a terrible pitch.
dmick89Quote Reply
Heyward!!!!!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Heyward!!!!!
PerkinsQuote Reply
J Hey!!
WaLiQuote Reply
(dying laughing), Heyward!
berseliusQuote Reply
Who is this Heyward guy?
dmick89Quote Reply
Maybe Darvish will be good in a couple years.
dmick89Quote Reply
I’m starting to think I might not hate this Cubs team.
PerkinsQuote Reply
I was thinking the same exact thing (dying laughing)
WaLiQuote Reply
That was a bottom of an inning I recently enjoyed.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Tony!
PerkinsQuote Reply
Perkins,
For some reason when you say Tony my mind goes straight to Tony Campana. Little dude was good at stealing bases
WaLiQuote Reply
That AND a Cub fan. You must be an awesome date. (dying laughing)
BVSQuote Reply
I think Cishek is broken.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Shit
WaLiQuote Reply
Perkins,
Me too. And then Tony Fernández, but never Tony Pérez for some reason.
But if Perkins thinks of Anthony Young first when he hears “Anthony” I can see why he uses Tony.
BVSQuote Reply
Perkins,
Dodgers love him. Except one game earlier, he’s been fine, unless I missed something.
BVSQuote Reply
didn’t he have some fairly epic inside-the-park homer?
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
EnricoPallazzo,
yep
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
Tommy La Stella has more home runs than Rizzo and Bryant combined.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
When did Strop start coming in to Enter Sandman?
PerkinsQuote Reply
That was more of a swing than the one Schwarber got called out on a few days ago.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
M————> inverted
berseliusQuote Reply
Hell yeah baby. That was a fun one
WaLiQuote Reply
Game ending DP to seal Cub win?
YES please!
BVSQuote Reply
EnricoPallazzo,
I think you found a fake video, this is the real one
berseliusQuote Reply
There are many many reasons I’d love for Heyward to have 40 HR this year!
BVSQuote Reply
berselius,
this makes me laugh every time
berseliusQuote Reply
http://www.obstructedview.net/cubs-7-dodgers-6/
berseliusQuote Reply
WaLi,
Or directly, like if he legs out a grounder that turns out to be foul and can’t wait to try again.
andcountingQuote Reply