NLDS: Gm 1 Cubs (Z!) @ DBacks (Webb), 9:07pm, TBS, WGN Radio

[Fred Hornkohl]

Snyder walked

[Post Count Padder]

Ugh

[E.J.]

marmol is pitching like crap.

[dbeider]

horrific move by lou....who sacrifices game 1 in order to "save z for game 4"....wow....amazing. no one's fault by lou. the guy has 8 K's with minimal pitchcount and he gets yanked for a miserable bullpen.

 

horrific.

 

Miserable bullpen? Seriously?

[TMan92]

Howry please.

[Roast]

Ok, seriously. WHY the %^&* did he take out Z with only 85 pitches?

[Derwood]

d-backs aren't chasing that slider, so quit throwing it

[Exile on Waveland]

Before we jump to conclusions about stupid decisions and such, let's find out if Zambrano suffered from cramps again. Lou talked before the game of letting him go 100-110 pitches.

 

If that's the case he obviously had no choice. Otherwise, it was a poor decision.

[AramisRamirez]

that comment about "can you gurantee z wouldnt have given up a homer" was the dumbest comment ive ever read in my entire life. literally the dumbest.

[Handlebar McSkullet]

carlos marmol was the best reliever on the team this year right... assuming he didnt get hurt... was it really that bad of a move?

[Brian]

WTF commercial break when there isn't a pitching move waaaaahhhhhhhh????

[Have a seat, Neifi]

At least Webb's out of the game. Oh wait, but their bullpen is outstanding. Well this is sweet.

[Guest]

Z wouldn't have done that.

 

Way to pitch for game 4, Lou.

 

So you can see the future too? Well that's swell.

 

Youre being unreasonable. Z was pitching great. If he gave up the home run, fine that sucks. But he had 85 damn pitches. It was a terrible decision to take him out regardless of what Marmol did.

 

I'm being unreasonable? Not exactly.

 

If Marmol comes in and goes 1-2-3, nobody says anything.

 

If Lou leaves Z in and he gives up runs, people would be complaining that Z should have been removed just like they're complaining that he was removed.

[justin23iu]

WTF commercial break when there isn't a pitching move waaaaahhhhhhhh????

 

Weird.

[E.J.]

Looks like Webb's night might be done.

[third eye]

Kinda dont want a DP here, b/c they would PH for Webb. Though the Dback pen is nasty too...

[CubsBears29]

MarMOLE is looking like ass tonight.

 

And now my prediction for Ojeda to do something we won't be able to recover from is now perfectly positioned to do just that.

[Careless]

And THAT is why you don't pull Z.

 

Brilliance.

 

So you can see the future and GUARANTEE ME that Z wouldn't have given up any runs that inning? Interesting.

 

if he did no one would have been saying "stupid lou, you should have taken z out when he was cruising!"

 

No, but if Lou leaves Z in and he gets 100+ pitches and then melts down in Game 4, then people would have ripped into Lou and would call him Dusty for leaving Z in for too long in Game 1.

right, it's exactly the same as leaving prior in with a gigantic lead in 2003. You cracked the code. Congratulations.

[Guest]

Z wouldn't have done that.

 

Way to pitch for game 4, Lou.

 

So you can see the future too? Well that's swell.

 

That's not seeing the future, technically. But yes, I can't guarantee Z wouldn't struggle. But not a good decision to go to the pen when Z could have handled another dozen pitches w/ limited negative effect.

 

Not a fan of playing for a future game that might not exist when this game is for the winning. Especially when Marquis is on the roster.

 

Marquis isn't even starting a game, what does that have to do with it?

[Smack]

Ojeda doubles. Are you serious?

[moorecg]

I would like to get out of this inning w/o another run please....Carlos is a bit excited...we need him to settle down and be good and not give up another god damn run.

[da bears]

Absolutely wonderful.

[Roast]

Oh god.

 

 

Get howry in there. marmol has nothing.

[Brian]

miserable

[third eye]

Oh crap.