Re: 5/4 Cubs (Marquis) @ Cardinals (Wellemeyer) 7:05pm CDT, ESPN

[BigSlick]

If this team keeps playing like this, they deserve nothing and will almost certainly take 3rd place.

ridiculous and wrong

They'll be like 3-7 in their last 10 games so yeah, I guess you're right, they'd do worse than 3rd place if they continued on that pace.

 

Thanks for correcting me.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

This is a pretty average lineup without A-Ram and Soriano still in a semi-funk.

 

to be fair, most lineups become average when you remove arguably their best hitter and turn their third or fourth-best hitter into a lesser version of neifi perez.

 

Never compare Alfonso Soriano to Neifi Perez. Neifi did great things for this team.

 

While playing for the Rockies, yes.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Schumaker grounded out to the pitcher, unassisted, Ludwick to third

[JoshiQ]

Marshall gets to pitch to two hitters! Yay! Oh, they are both left handers.

[bcl412]

This is a pretty average lineup without A-Ram and Soriano still in a semi-funk.

 

to be fair, most lineups become average when you remove arguably their best hitter and turn their third or fourth-best hitter into a lesser version of neifi perez.

 

Never compare Alfonso Soriano to Neifi Perez. Neifi did great things for this team.

 

While playing for the Rockies, yes.

 

His first week with the Cubs was so good it warranted starting for two years

[ctcf]

This is a pretty average lineup without A-Ram and Soriano still in a semi-funk.

 

And when DLee and Kosuke are slumping.

 

I'm pretty sure what sori is going thru is more than a "semi-funk"

[Flames24Rulz]

Ballgame.

[CubsGM]

Ballgame.

Cubs lose another series

[17 Seconds]

Not really. The comments are that the throw beat him so that = out in Umps mind. The replay is clear that his foot in on the base. But it is done so the issue really is, why not take it out on the ump and not on the player who plays for the team that you want to win

 

It was a dumb play no matter what happened. If you spend your entire paycheck on scratch off tickets instead of paying bills and end up winning 100 grand, it was a still a dumb idea.

[BigSlick]

Hahahhahaha "Kennedy delivers in the clutch"

 

Yeah great job to make pathetic contact

 

I hate annoucners

[Fred Hornkohl]

Kennedy singled to left field , Ludwick scored

[Andy]

Another run handed to STL by Lou's idiocy. If Marshall starts the inning that double may not have happened.

[illiniguy]

Nice route to that one Alfonso.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Marshall gets to pitch to two hitters! Yay! Oh, they are both left handers.

 

And he gave up a blooper. When Eyre gets healthy, he is *so* going to Iowa.

[ELCABALLO45]

Adam Kennedy.. give me a break. The Cards can come back to earth anytime now.

[JoshiQ]

Marshall gets to pitch to two hitters! Yay! Oh, they are both left handers.

[hawkcub]

WTH was that Soriano.

[Little Slide Rooter]

David Eckstein, Austin Kearns, Aaron Miles, Scott Podsednik, Adam Kennedy. Cubs pitchers need to learn to pitch to gritty white guys.

[ChiCubsFan]

I wonder how many runs a game we cost ourselves by not having DeRo and Fuku in front of Lee and Soto?

 

Lee has looked pretty bad tonight with theriot on base. Although I don't judge Lee's ability to hit (particularly with runners on) by one game.

 

That said, I think it has been shown that lineup order does not affect total run production all that much. And the most runs are predicted by a lineup which has the best hitter batting first, second best hitting second, etc. so that the better hitters get more ABs over the course of a season.

[E.J.]

Marshall pitching to Albert??

[Butterscup1679666578]

Nice route to that one Alfonso.

 

I don't think a good route or a healthy Soriano was getting that one.

[TruffleShuffle]

I wonder how many runs a game we cost ourselves by not having DeRo and Fuku in front of Lee and Soto?

 

haven't the cubs been going with fukudome then derosa then soto for almost the whole season?

[BigSlick]

DeRosa at 3rd is bleh. If he could have made that play earlier this wouldn't have been a problem, and on the replay he could have possibly done something with Pujols' "double"

[Rob]

Nice route to that one Alfonso.

 

You have to be kidding me... how does Soriano get blamed for that?

[mhuber92211]

Not really. The comments are that the throw beat him so that = out in Umps mind. The replay is clear that his foot in on the base. But it is done so the issue really is, why not take it out on the ump and not on the player who plays for the team that you want to win

 

It was a dumb play no matter what happened. If you spend your entire paycheck on scratch off tickets instead of paying bills and end up winning 100 grand, it was a still a dumb idea.

 

Ha, ha... Good analogy