Chicago Cubs 3 @ San Francisco Giants 2
Starlin Castro was 2-5 and continues his return to form. He's not walking any more than usual of late, so maybe the organization decided to just stop messing with him and let Starlin be Starlin. Unfortunately, despite having the game winning ROE yesterday on a liner right by Brandon Belt, Anthony Rizzo continues to scuffle badly, going 0-4 with a walk yesterday. His line is down to .237/.329/.434 on the year. Might be his turn for a day off. Nate Schierholtz was 1-3 with a double and 2 walks. The Junior Lake Show was 1-5, also reaching on an error on a bunt single. Welington Castillo was 2-3. David DeJesus was 2-5 with a triple, and seems to be doing a good job proving he's healthy.
Edwin Jackson was damn good last night, outdeuling Matt Cain until the 7th, when he got a bit wild and gave up the lead. His final line was 6.2 innings, 4 hits, 2 walks, 5 Ks, and 2 earned runs. James Russell came in to play LOOGY and couldn't handle the OO part, walking the one batter he faced. Matt Guerrier replaced him and was pretty good, working an inning and a third and striking out 2. Kevin Gregg got the save, allowing a hit in the ninth.
Iowa Cubs 6 @ Oklahoma City RedHawks 10
Mike Olt was 1-5. Donnie Murphy was 2-4 with a double. So was Brad Nelson. Edgar Gonzalez was 2-4 with 2 doubles. Jae-Hoon Ha was 2-4 with no doubles. Doubles doubles doubles doubles. Logan Watkins was 1-4 with a walk. I wish he or Donnie Murphy would get called up or otherwise moved out of Arismendy Alcantara's way.
Justin Grimm got the crap kicked out of him. 2 innings, eight hits, two walks, and seven runs. Welcome to the I-Cubs, you'll fit right in. Casey Coleman cleaned up the next 4 innings, allowing 3 runs on six hits, striking out 3. Marcus Hatley walked a guy but was otherwise spotless. Henry Rodriguez didn't walk anybody, gave up a hit, and got out of there without damage.
Tennesee Smokies 8 @ Huntsville Stars 9
Arismendy Alcantara was 1-5. Javier Baez was 1-4 with a walk. More of those please. Christian Villanueva had a big day, going 3-5 with a HR. Rafael Lopez was 3-3 with a double, a homer, and a walk. Justin Bour was 1-5 with a homer. Every starting position player for the Smokies got a hit. John Andreoli was 1-4 with a SB and a walk.
A.J. Morris was terrible. Yeiper Castillo was also terrible, but slightly less. Kevin Rhoderick was his usual self, terrible. Hunter Cervenka was terrible, but didn't allow any runs, so he wins. The final Tennessee pitching line was a combined 8 innings, 11 hits, 9 runs, 10 freaking walks, and 8 strikeouts. Blech.
Dustin Geiger was 1-2 with a 2B and 2 walks. Wes Darvill was 1-3 with a walk. Pin-Chieh Chen was 1-3. Zeke DeVoss was 1-4. Wes Darvill was 1-3. Anthony Giansanti was 1-4.
Matt Loosen continues to be really good against people much younger than him. Cool. 5 IP, 6 hits, 2 walks, 4 Ks in a scoreless outing. Dayan Diaz worked 2 scoreless innings. Unfortunately, he came out for a third, gave up a 2 run homer, and failed to record an out. Whoops. 2+ IP, 3 hits, 2 runs, and a walk for Diaz. Yao-Lin Wang got all three outs in the eighth, allowing a hit and punching out 1. Frank Del Valle worked an inning, struck out 2, walked 1, and allowed 2 hits in a scoreless save.
Kane County Cougars 4 @ Beloit Snappers 1
Albert Almora was 1-4 with a double. So was Gioskar Amaya. Dan Vogelbach was 1-1 with 2 walks. Marco Hernandez was 3-4. Wilson Contreras was 1-3 with a homer and a walk. Reggie Golden was 2-4. Oliver Zapata was 1-4 with a double.
Felix Pena had a really nice start, allowing a run in 6 innings on 4 hits, a walk, and 7 strikeouts. Andrew McKirahan allowed a walk and a hit in the 7th. Stephen Perakslis allowed a hit and struck out one in the 8th. And Michael Hamann worked a perfect 9th to finish it off.
Spokane Indians 1 @ Boise Hawks 9
The big story in this one was Kris Bryant's first professional home run:
He finished the day 1-4 with a walk.
Carlos Penalver had the game of the day, though, going 3-4 with a double and a triple. Lance Rymel was 1-4 with a double and a walk. Yasiel Balaguert was 1-4. Every Hawk reached base at least once.
A lot of the Cubs' recently-drafted pitching talent showed up in this one. Rob Zastryzny got the start, allowing 4 hits, a walk, and a run in 2 innings, striking out 3. The Hawks would not allow a run the rest of the way. Sam Wilson allowed a walk and a strikeout in his two innings. Zack Godley struck out 2 in his perfect fifth and sixth innings. Scott Frazier worked the seventh and eighth without incident, striking out 3. And Tyler Bremer closed it out in the ninth with three strikeouts of his own, allowing a hit.
AZL Cubs 7 @ AZL Angels 8 (Game 1 of DH)
David DeJesus got two PAs, and was 0-1 with a walk. Jacob Hannemann was 0-2. Charcer Burkers was 1-2 with 2 walks. Xavier Batista was 1-2 with a double.
AZL Cubs 4 @ AZL Angels 13 (Game 2 of DH)
Somebody found Brett Jackson, and he went 0-4 with a strikeout. Jeffrey Baez was 2-4. Mark Malave was 2-3. Jesse Hodges was 1-3 with a homer.
Trevor Clifton made his first professional appearance in this one, working a scoreless inning but walking 2.
Comments
*applause*
Rice CubeQuote Reply
I can’t figure out how to get the damn embed to work on the bryant video, if anybody wants to fix it, by all means.
sitrickQuote Reply
Aisle424Quote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
LOWGY
shawndgoldmanQuote Reply
@ shawndgoldman:
I smell a new market inefficiency
sitrickQuote Reply
@ sitrick:
I don’t know why it’s not embedding. All you need to do is copy/paste the link into the editor. No hyperlink. I removed the hyperlink, but it’s still not showing up. The video itself seems to be down so maybe that’s why?
dmick89Quote Reply
Video is embedded now from this link: http://www.milb.com/multimedia/vpp.jsp?content_id=29171647&topic_id=&sid=milb&v=3&tcid=tw_video_
dmick89Quote Reply
dmick89Quote Reply
@ dmick89:
Tried it with the link, without the link, pasting the embed code into the html….none of it worked. I’m sure it was just a funky video. Sorry for the trouble. Thanks for fixing it.
sitrickQuote Reply
Chris Archer with another CG SO.
GBTSQuote Reply
sitrickQuote Reply
@ sitrick:
Can you start a draft when you get a chance and try it with some other youtube link?
dmick89Quote Reply
with youtube vids, I always have to paste the link in the html tab and then publish without switching back to the visual editor. if i edit something afterwards in the visual tab, it disappears.
GWQuote Reply
@ GW:
Weird. I’ll look to see if there’s a different plugin. That shouldn’t happen.
dmick89Quote Reply
Can’t get tweets to embed in comments either. Tried forever to get that Rosenthal tweet to embed and couldn’t.
sitrickQuote Reply
Alvin is really out on the cutting edge of Cubs coverage.
Aisle424Quote Reply
@ sitrick:
Yeah, iframe code is stripped out unless you’re an admin. It’s something I’ve been wanting to change, but the problem is that each time WP is updated, the same changes would have to be made. That’s already done so regular users can post images in comments, but I’d prefer to keep these changes to a core file at a minimum because I forget every time to make those edits. It’s not until someone points out they can’t post an image that I remember.
let me see what else I might be able to do, but I won’t get to it until tomorrow or Monday.
dmick89Quote Reply
@ sitrick:
Would you mind trying that tweet and youtube embed again? You can create a draft to try it out and then click preview to see if it works.
dmick89Quote Reply
@ Aisle424:
It’s funny what interests him.
dmick89Quote Reply
new shit: http://obstructedview.net/news-and-rumors/cubs-listening-to-offers-for-jeff-samardzija.html
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