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

[dew1679666265]

Quade needs to go. Cedeno was around 3rd before the LF even got to the ball. This is happening way too much.

 

If he was the tying run, I would have been fine with taking the chance. Right now, though, his run alone isn't meaningful enough.

 

And he scored anyway...good job Kosuke!

[Fred Hornkohl]

Fukudome flied out to center field , Cedeno scored, Soriano holding second

[CubsGM]

:lol:

Good arm

[Careless]

Aww, fuk!

[imb]

bases loaded, no outs

 

two pitches later, first and second, two outs

 

me :(

[Andy]

Two pitches, one run...Fukudome did nothing wrong there but down three we could've really used a knock there.

[BigSlick]

morgan is whining about a play where cedeno would have been thrown out easily even if it was johnny damon in left field

 

You couldn't possibly be more wrong.

ugh who cares, but it isn't a no doubt play

[sneakypower]

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.

well if thats the way you meant it what a whiny and obnoxious thing to say

 

we'll win the division by at least 5 games and the sniveling complainers such as yourself will bitch about every bad thing that happens on the way

did you even read my post? Wow

 

You have all the subtlety and reading comprehension of a Cro Magnon, hyuck hyuck

yeah it's an incredibly moronic thing to say during the course of a baseball season

 

"we're 3-7 in our last 10, if we keep at this pace we'll win 48 games!"

 

if you're going to be ridiculous, why not just draw from a larger sample size and extrapolate our 18-12 record?

[Fred Hornkohl]

CUBS are 6-2 when they hit a sacrifice fly.... 12-10 when they don't

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[TruffleShuffle]

morgan is whining about a play where cedeno would have been thrown out easily even if it was johnny damon in left field

 

You couldn't possibly be more wrong.

 

and you couldn't possibly be more wrong about sending home a runner home with no outs, the middle of the lineup coming up, and down three runs.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Franklin in to pitch for St. Louis

[bcl412]

Dear DeRo

 

Home Run Please

 

Thanks

[BigSlick]

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.

well if thats the way you meant it what a whiny and obnoxious thing to say

 

we'll win the division by at least 5 games and the sniveling complainers such as yourself will bitch about every bad thing that happens on the way

did you even read my post? Wow

 

You have all the subtlety and reading comprehension of a Cro Magnon, hyuck hyuck

yeah it's an incredibly moronic thing to say during the course of a baseball season

 

"we're 3-7 in our last 10, if we keep at this pace we'll win 48 games!"

 

if you're going to be ridiculous, why not just draw from a larger sample size and extrapolate our 18-12 record?

you also took out half my post

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

LaRussa making another pitching change. The wheels are always turning with him.

[JoshiQ]

So did Morgan just say Cedeno did the wrong thing by tagging up for too short a time?

[Laura]

Joe Morgan thinks that Cedeno should have waited longer after tagging and running home.

[Little Slide Rooter]

come on Tony, do you really need a double switch to get Mark DeRosa out? If your not the Cincinatti Reds, he tends to take care of that himself.

[Garage Party]

A boy is keeping score. Clearly, one of the best fans in baseball.

[dew1679666265]

a lot of soriano's ABs he has been behind 0-2, but most of the pitches have been strikes. if that's how they're approaching him he has to swing obviously, but he has to start hitting those early in the count pitches so that they can't throw him the 0-2 junkball that he'll either strike out on or roll over and ground out to third.

That last ab was a good sign though. I like seeing him hit it hard through the middle like that.

 

agreed. everyone is grumpy at him for getting down 0-2 every AB, but from what i've seen the last two days, a lot of the problem has been that he's missing first pitch and second pitch strikes, not that he's just hacking at complete garbage. the garbage hacks have generally been coming when he's trying to protect with two strikes.

His hitting will come around. I know this. I am more worried that playing left field is going to get into his head. He doesn't look right at all out there at this point.

 

Hopefully any issues in the field are a result of taking his hitting struggles with him. When he gets right offensively, I'm hoping an improvement in the field will follow.

 

Ryan Franklin in to face DeRosa with two down.

[cubscausestress]

dero isn't seeing the ball well. this won't be good. over/under on number of pitches seen?

[Rob]

Two pitches, one run...Fukudome did nothing wrong there but down three we could've really used a knock there.

 

Lee saw two pitches.

[CubsGM]

A boy is keeping score. Clearly, one of the best fans in baseball.

:lol:

[Careless]

So did Morgan just say Cedeno did the wrong thing by tagging up for too short a time?

yes

[17 Seconds]

come on Tony, do you really need a double switch to get Mark DeRosa out? If your not the Cincinatti Reds, he tends to take care of that himself.

 

In your delusional mind maybe.

[ChiCubsFan]

Quade needs to go. Cedeno was around 3rd before the LF even got to the ball. This is happening way too much.

 

The LFer was barely deeper than the SS when he picked it up. Moises Alou throws him out at home in that situation.

 

And we're down three with the heart of the order coming up. NO reason to EVER send him unless the outfielder literally falls down before the ball gets to him.

 

He was at least 20-30 feet from the edge of the infield. He also wasn't even charging the ball hard. He was flat footed waiting for the ball when he picked it up. There definitely wouldn't have even been a throw to the plate.

 

It turned out to not matter, but with the way DLee has been hitting the past few days there's no guarantee that you are going to get runs in that situation.