OSS: Craig Kimbrel’s beard was not the source of his weakness.
Three up:
- The Cubs scored early and often, scoring six times in the first two innings to seemingly put this out of reach. In particular, Souza and Bote got a pair of RsBI each in their first starts of the season.
- Jon Lester exceeded the (probably too low) expectations and then some, no-hitting the Reds over the first five innings before exiting. He didn’t exactly blow anyone away, except Aristides Aquino who was his only strikeout.
- After Kimbrel crapped the bed in the ninth, Jeremy Jeffress inherited a bases-loaded, one out, down by one jam and managed to work his way out of it for the save.
Three down:
- Even by the standards of his struggles last year, Craig Kimbrel was awful in this game. Walk, wild pitch, groundout, walk, walk, RBI HBP, RBI walk is not exactly how you want to make your season debut. I guess he needs to grow the beard back.
- The rest of the pen was pretty leaky as well, but meh. Given the abbreviated spring training, there’s no better time to check out some of the back end of the bullpen guys in game situations than when you are up 7-0.
- War Bear went 0-5 with two strikeouts.
Next up: Alec Mills takes on Tyler Mahle at 5:40 PM CT.
Comments
Fuck man. 0.1IP, 0H, 4BB, 1HBP, and allowed 2 ER. Glad I went to sleep when the Cubs were up 7-0.
WaLiQuote Reply
WaLi,
A performance for the ages.
I would have been asleep, but my mom kept texting me about it. Also she hates his cormorant windup.
BVSQuote Reply
BVS,
I found some footage of Kimbrel in the wild
http://imgur.com/aHIM8j8
WaLiQuote Reply
WaLi,
Mom will love that
BVSQuote Reply
Oh Kimbrel
You came and turned into a turkey
uncle daveQuote Reply
And nearly blew the lead away…
PerkinsQuote Reply
4 more Marlins tested positive, and their season is ‘on pause’.
berseliusQuote Reply
To-day’s base ball squadron
1B Rizzo
C Caratini
SS Baez
LF War Bear
CF Happ
RF Heyward
3B Bote
DH Kipnis
2B Hoerner
P Mills
berseliusQuote Reply
Bryant ——> out with a supposedly minor elbow problem.
berseliusQuote Reply
Miles Mikolas ——-> hand surgery, out for the season
berseliusQuote Reply
At some point, these guys are gonna start shooting themselves in the foot to get sent home from the front lines. Like, if I had the slightest twinge of an injury I’d be out in a heartbeat.
uncle daveQuote Reply
uncle dave,
Or…remember when the White Sox tried to trigger mandatory steroid testing by deliberately failing their drug tests (not to be confused with their plan to deliberately lose the World Series)? I wonder if a team (or rogue player) would attempt to deliberately test positive or acquire and spread the disease on their team to undermine the entire MLB season, no wait that’s batshit.
andcountingQuote Reply
Great game by Javy.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
M——>inverted
PerkinsQuote Reply
Brewers lose.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Cardinals lose.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Astros lose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coSL_bN1gQw
WaLiQuote Reply
WaLi,
Lo(dying laughing)ol
berseliusQuote Reply
WaLi,
Pretty good performance by Joe Kelly all around. Delivery, diction, body language, presence, ability to create drama.
Why anyone was swinging at any of his pitches is beyond me.
BVSQuote Reply
BVS,
It’s weird, the Astros typically have such good plate discipline.
andcountingQuote Reply
Yeah, I think the trick is to get hurt so you don’t have to play but don’t have to opt out, either. My guess is that these guys will wind up just going out to get some titties in their faces and fuck everything up, like the Marlins apparently did…
uncle daveQuote Reply
http://www.obstructedview.net/cubs-8-reds-5/
berseliusQuote Reply