OSS: iCarly Simon does it again
Three up
- Anthony Rizzo homered twice and drew a walk, and was the Cubs WPA leader on the day, thus breaking Hammel's streak of being the leader on both sides of the ball in his starts. Because both of his hits were homers, his BABIP remains laughably low.
- Speaking of players heating up, Jason Heyward's flurry of line drives are starting to not be hit directly at defenders. He had 4 hits today and his slash line has risen to .260/.365/.315. Hopefully we'll start seeing more doubles soon.
- Jason Hammel struck out seven in six innings, allowing no runs. Whatetver mechanical tweak they figured out seems to be working quite well. He's not as good as his 0.75 ERA, but he's been surprisingly solid this year, and has almost washed the bad taste of his end to the 2015 season out of our mouths.
Three down
- I shit you not, Thom Brennaman complained that this Cubs team wasn't "home grown". Sounds like we're going to be drinking a lot of Brennaman tears this season.
- Alfredo Simon managed to last longer than his last start, giving up eight runs in 2.2 innings, topping the five runs in 0.2 innings of his previous start. I half expected Brian Price to leave him out there to throw 175 pitches, given how gassed the Reds bullpen is, followed by a DFA tomorrow. But alas, Reds management has no plans to demote him at this time.
- The Cubs won't play the Reds again until June 27.
Next up: The Cubs have a day off then return home for games against the Brewers and the Barves. Even if you made a single team out of the best players on both squads the Cubs would probably beat them soundly. Hendricks v Nelson at 7 pm CT on Tuesday.
Comments
I think he might be the only person who thinks that.
dmick89Quote Reply
dmick89,
i(dying laughing)’d
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Rice Cube,
hahhah the Macro still works
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Also, who gives a shit if they are homegrown or not? They don’t give out medals to the team with the most homegrown players.
dmick89Quote Reply
dmick89,
Nah, they should have totally held on to Clevenger, Samardzija and Cashner. What did they gain by trading them?
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
He better not be trying to comfort himself with the idea that this hot mess the Reds call a roster is homegrown either. Most of it was constructed the same way the Cubs built the bulk of their roster as well. Except for, you know, the being historically good part.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
Wow, this Nats/Twins game is crazy.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Also, Dodgers/Rockies.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Pirates/D-Backs, too.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Rizzo the Rat,
Two or three different pitchers had to hit in extras. I think Miller had to play OF!
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Rizzo the Rat,
I checked in on the Nats game and noticed Harper wasn’t in the lineup and they were down one in the ninth. That was an easy fix. (dying laughing)
ceruleanQuote Reply
I tuned in when it was in extras and was confused as hell that Harper wasn’t in the game.
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
Was his day off, he just made a cameo.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
http://atmlb.com/1rtpY1p
Rice CubeQuote Reply
I guess they needed to get bullpen work in.
I am surprised that we wasn’t double switched into the game. The game would probaby have been over in the 11th. But Dusty, like most managers, excels at bullpen usage, so depleting the pen on getaway day won’t really matter.
ceruleanQuote Reply
Hah—I didn’t realize Heisey took the spot where Harper pinch-hit, and then hit the walkoff homer in the 16th.
ceruleanQuote Reply
According to fWAR, in 81 PA Dexter Fowler has pretty much already paid for his 2016 salary.
Twice.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
RynoQuote Reply
Ryno,
What do you think about Lawson assuming Buckner is gone?
JonKneeVQuote Reply
(dying laughing), deflategate just won’t die
berseliusQuote Reply
Speaking ridiculous scandals ending in -gate, I am surprised that political pundits haven’t yet coined the coming delegategate. (And then the eventual scandal for the trumped-up non-scandal scandal to distract from what’s really going on that is more interesting but never catches the media’s fancy called delegategategate.)
EDIT: Using the word *trump* when talking about politics is bad joojoo. Also, our manifest destiny.
ceruleanQuote Reply
berselius,
The integrity of the NFL is saved!
MillertimeQuote Reply
Cubs have scored more runs than the Angels and Barves combined.
JonKneeVQuote Reply
Reds are 9-10 with a -40 run differential (dying laughing)
JonKneeVQuote Reply
The Reds are 8–4 with a healthy differential excluding the Cubs.
ceruleanQuote Reply
The Brewers have yet to play the Cubs and are probably worse, though they did get beat up by some other NL central division team that has a surprisingly good offense (with great and wonderful fans that would surely be too modest to proclaim themselves the best in all of baseball).
ceruleanQuote Reply
JonKneeV,
Just think how many runs they’d be scoring if they took batting practice.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Boston leads the American League with 90 runs scored. That would be good enough for eighth place in the National League.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
NL runs per game: 4.58
AL runs per game: 3.95
That’s just weird.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Cubs schedule needs more today
Suburban kidQuote Reply
The Braves as a team have fewer home runs than Anthony Rizzo and Kris Bryant. They have exactly as many as Dexter Fowler.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
In yesterday’s game, the Cubs hit as many home runs as the Braves have all year.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
http://obstructedview.net/series-preview-milwaukee-brewers-8-11-at-chicago-cubs-14-5/
berseliusQuote Reply