Marlins 2, Cubs 1 (17 innings)

In Postgame by berselius23 Comments

OSS: The most annoying kind of loss.

Three up:

  1. Despite eventually blowing the lead, the new look Cubs bullpen was pretty good in this one. The Pen pitched 10+ innings of shutout baseball, including seven innings from Eddie Butler who posted a whopping .898 WPA in this one.
  2. Kyle Hendricks looks pretty good, and was hitting 88 or so on the gun. Certainly a lot better than what we saw at this time last year. The run that the Marlins scored off of him felt more like sequencing luck than anything else.
  3. Kris Bryant hit his first homer of the year, a solo shot in the third inning that ended up as the Cubs lone run.

Three down:

  1. Javier Baez had an absolutely brutal day at the plate, going 0-7 with two strikeouts. His bunt to try to move ahead the runners in the sixteenth inning was the Cubs second biggest negative WPA play of the game.
  2. That negative play was more than doubled by Jason Heyward hitting into a double play with the bases clogged to end the fifteenth inning. Oy.
  3. Despite the pen praise above, Carl Edwards Jr nearly gave up the game in regulation with one of his bouts of wildness. As dm pointed out in the game thread, it's baffling that batters would swing at anything he throws.

Next up: Yu Darvish faces….someone… at 6:10 PM CT. The Marlins burned Saturday's starter Despaigne in extras so it is unclear who will end up pitching.

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  1. Berselius is too lazy to log in on his phone

    baturkey,

    I switched to something else around the 12th inning, so I guess that’s my answer.

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  2. Perkins

    Yu Darvish faces….someone… at 6:10 PM CT. The Marlins burned Saturday’s starter Despaigne in extras so it is unclear who will end up pitching.

    Ryan O’Malley

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  3. dmick89

    baturkey,

    My preference would be to play the 10th as innings 1-9 are played and then begin the 11th with a runner on 2nd. The 12th starts with men on 2nd and 3rd. Baseball is the only sport that about half the paid fans leave by the time the game is well into overtime. Nobody leaves a close football game or basketball game or hockey game. I’m also guessing the television viewership numbers are probably about the same way.

    I’d also guess that just about everyone who sticks around to the 12th or 13th sticks to the very end of the game.

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  4. dmick89

    I’d be fine with a tie, but I don’t think most fans would be.

    Last night’s game was boring as hell and cost the Cubs a reliever for about a week. Justin Wilson won’t be available today either. Who knows how many pitches Morrow threw warming up? He was up at least three or four times. We’ve played two fucking games and bullpen management is going to be an issue the rest of the weekend.

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    berselius

    I’m guessing it’s just Morrow, Duensing, and Strop available today. Maybe Morrow depending on how many pitches he threw warming up yesterday.

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  6. cerulean

    Fun fact: Kyle Hendricks hasn’t given up more than 8 hits in a game since June of 2015, when he gave up eleven, the single time he gave up double digit hits in his career. His active streak is a Cubs’ all-time record, and even though much of it is a product of the era—shorter outings with quicker pulls—it’s pretty impressive.

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  7. Berselius is too lazy to log in on his phone

    To-day’s base ball squadron

    Happ
    Bryant
    Rizzo
    Contreras
    Schwarber
    Russell
    Zobrist
    Heyward
    Darvish

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