9/12 Cubs (Hill) @ Astros (Albers) 7:05 CST WGN-9/WGN-720

[SouthSideRyan]

Lee's gotta scoop that.

[TruffleShuffle]

hit? that's a generous ruling.

[Guest]

Nice K on Lee. Nice fielding by Aramis, poor throw and worse fielding by Lee. Damn.

[Butterscup1679666578]

Great scoop Lee!

[weatherdood]

What's that??? A double play TURNED by the Cubs? Wow!

[Guest]

There we go. Limit Rich's PC.

[SouthSideRyan]

how can rich hill suck at the plate SO MUCH? aren't pitchers usually the best hitters in high school?

 

have you seen hill run/field? it's pretty obvious that he's a lousy athlete.

 

it's why I hate the DH in minor league ball. I realize that it helps you develop more hitters, but it atrophies your pitchers hitting ability really badly

 

I love it, pitchers in A ball and lower don't need to waste their time learning how to bunt and whatnot.

 

yeah, but if really good-hitting pitchers from high school and college kept hitting all the way through the system, then their spot in the lineup in the majors wouldn't be an automatic out

 

You don't have to use the DH. If a franchise decided this would be beneficial to their system, then they should have their pitchers bat for themselves.

 

That was a harder scoop, well done Derrek.

[genbar]

Ooo Wee Dee Pee

[E.J.]

Nice scoop by Lee. I can't believe the Cubs were on the good end of a DP for once.

[Fred Hornkohl]

BOTTOM OF THE FOURTH INNING

 

C Lee struck out swinging

Loretta grounded an IF single to third base

Wigginton grounded into a DP, 5-4-3, Loretta out at second

 

0 runs 1 hits 0 errors 0 men left on base

 

                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9              R  H  E
CUBS            0 2 0 1                        3  6  0
Houston         0 0 0 0                        0  2  0

 

Home runs:

CUBS: Floyd (6)

Houston: none

 

CUBS           IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
R Hill        4.0  1  0  0  2  5  0  69

 

Houston        IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Albers        4.0  6  3  3  1  3  1  72

[Omar]

There we go. Limit Rich's PC.

 

They better. Don't want him to get a "Tennis Elbow" like Zambrano.

[Sammy Sofa]

Oh Bob. U so funnay!

 

That said, I want Steve Stone back. He got a call on Boers and Berns asking him if he would come back, and he said something along the lines of "The door is open."

 

Eventually, someone is going to hire Brenly to be a manager and Stone will naturally return to the booth...unless he gets a GM gig somewhere.

 

Never gonna happen.

[SouthSideRyan]

hit? that's a generous ruling.

 

Hard to give Ramirez an error on that, and they pretty much never give an error to a first baseman on a scoop.(which I disagree with, it's part of their job, that's an error on Lee.)

[Fred Hornkohl]

                  CUBS         Houston
P/PA              4.00            4.60

[Derwood]

how can rich hill suck at the plate SO MUCH? aren't pitchers usually the best hitters in high school?

 

have you seen hill run/field? it's pretty obvious that he's a lousy athlete.

 

it's why I hate the DH in minor league ball. I realize that it helps you develop more hitters, but it atrophies your pitchers hitting ability really badly

 

I love it, pitchers in A ball and lower don't need to waste their time learning how to bunt and whatnot.

 

yeah, but if really good-hitting pitchers from high school and college kept hitting all the way through the system, then their spot in the lineup in the majors wouldn't be an automatic out

 

Indeed, but I think they should spend as much of their development time pitching.

 

that's not mutually exclusive. i'm not advocating spending extra time in the cages or batting practice or anything, just let them hit. I guess they're out to protect the pitchers from getting hurt on the bases

[badger1679666666]

I think some of you are too spoiled by Lee's defense. I know the fact that I got irritated by his missed scoop means I am.

[Omar]

Oh Bob. U so funnay!

 

That said, I want Steve Stone back. He got a call on Boers and Berns asking him if he would come back, and he said something along the lines of "The door is open."

 

Eventually, someone is going to hire Brenly to be a manager and Stone will naturally return to the booth...unless he gets a GM gig somewhere.

 

Never gonna happen.

 

He's almost made it crystal clear he doesn't want to GM. Many want him to, though.

 

We better not get Dave Otto or especially Dan Plesac as the color man.

[Butterscup1679666578]

mmm yesssss more pop outs.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Soriano popped out to shortstop

[SouthSideRyan]

Soriano's struggling, he's not comfortable as leadoff man.

[TruffleShuffle]

hit? that's a generous ruling.

 

Hard to give Ramirez an error on that, and they pretty much never give an error to a first baseman on a scoop.(which I disagree with, it's part of their job, that's an error on Lee.)

 

I'd give the error to Ramirez. He made a good play fielding the grounder, but he had enough time to get the runner by a step or two. He made a bad throw, so to me that's an error.

[Derwood]

Dear Soriano,

 

Just because you CAN hit balls around your ankles doesn't mean you HAVE TO swing at every ball around your ankles

 

Regards,

 

EVERYONE

[Guest]

how can rich hill suck at the plate SO MUCH? aren't pitchers usually the best hitters in high school?

 

have you seen hill run/field? it's pretty obvious that he's a lousy athlete.

 

it's why I hate the DH in minor league ball. I realize that it helps you develop more hitters, but it atrophies your pitchers hitting ability really badly

 

I love it, pitchers in A ball and lower don't need to waste their time learning how to bunt and whatnot.

 

yeah, but if really good-hitting pitchers from high school and college kept hitting all the way through the system, then their spot in the lineup in the majors wouldn't be an automatic out

 

Indeed, but I think they should spend as much of their development time pitching.

 

that's not mutually exclusive. i'm not advocating spending extra time in the cages or batting practice or anything, just let them hit. I guess they're out to protect the pitchers from getting hurt on the bases

 

And from getting hurt in the batters box (bunting is pretty dangerous when you have no clue what you're doing).

 

I think they're doing it right, you can weed out quite a few pitchers in A-ball and they need as much time as possible working on pitching at that level.

[badger1679666666]

Dear Soriano,

 

Just because you CAN hit balls around your ankles doesn't mean you HAVE TO swing at every ball around your ankles

 

Regards,

 

EVERYONE

 

:lol:

 

Jock can't walk here can he?

[Butterscup1679666578]

Damn that was a rope!