5/9 Snakes (Haren) vs Cubs (Lilly) 1:20PM WGN TV/Radio

[inari]

And everyone has a long drawn out at bat except for Soriano.

[17 Seconds]

 

And the crowd boos. Lovely.

 

Yeah, how dare they expect runs.

[brinoch]

Johnson grounded out to shortstop, DeRosa to second.

 

Another hit and run?

 

I'm getting quite tired of hit and run attempts.

[UMFan83]

Soriano is quite the run producer, eh?

[jersey cubs fan]

And the crowd boos. Lovely.

 

Sounded fairly tame on the radio. But the team has been playing horribly, they are losing early in game 1 of a homestand against a team that embarrassed them in the playoffs. They wasted a leadoff hit, and a completely frozen stiff Soriano made another out. I think there was a lot too boo about if somebody was prone to the booing.

[erik316wttn]

Jackson walks. Upton up now.

[erik316wttn]

Jackson steals 2nd.

[Outshined_One]

Awesome job holding a speed demon like Conor Jackson, Lilly.

[chuckywang]

And the crowd boos. Lovely.

 

Sounded fairly tame on the radio. But the team has been playing horribly, they are losing early in game 1 of a homestand against a team that embarrassed them in the playoffs. They wasted a leadoff hit, and a completely frozen stiff Soriano made another out. I think there was a lot too boo about if somebody was prone to the booing.

 

Take the worst 20 game stretch for any player and most would have a BA of under .200.

[erik316wttn]

Oh great, it's the 4th inning. I guess we know what this means...

 

Upton k's. 1 out.

[Outshined_One]

Holy crap that was a horrific throw to 2nd.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

And the crowd boos. Lovely.

 

Sounded fairly tame on the radio. But the team has been playing horribly, they are losing early in game 1 of a homestand against a team that embarrassed them in the playoffs. They wasted a leadoff hit, and a completely frozen stiff Soriano made another out. I think there was a lot too boo about if somebody was prone to the booing.

 

Take the worst 20 game stretch for any player and most would have a BA of under .200.

 

And most would be booed.

[erik316wttn]

Lilly nearly throws it into CF on a pickoff attempt. Nice snare by DeRosa.

[Rob]

Soriano either HR, Ks, rolls over it, or pops it up. Has he hit a line drive this year?

 

Coming into today he had a LD% of 20.6% (the highest of his career). He also had a nice .200 BABIP, when, with neutral luck, you'd expect that BABIP to be somewhere around .325

 

It's just been bad luck.

[Outshined_One]

I honestly felt booing wasn't merited there. Reynolds corralled the ball on an inbetween hop better than most 3Bs would. If it gets past him, it's a hit.

 

It wasn't the hardest hit ball in the world, but Reynolds made a nice play on it.

[erik316wttn]

Reynolds K's. 2 out.

 

6 K's for Lilly today.

[17 Seconds]

I love it when the Cubs are losing 1-0 early in the game and I already stop caring about bad things happening because I'm so confident they're going to lose.

[E.J.]

Lilly is pitching well so far, minus that one brain fart to Young.

[erik316wttn]

I love it when the Cubs are losing 1-0 early in the game and I already stop caring about bad things happening because I'm so confident they're going to lose.

 

I'm pretty sure that 1 run is all they'll need.

[Outshined_One]

89 on the gun for Lilly on the 2-0 pitch.

[Banedon]

I honestly felt booing wasn't merited there. Reynolds corralled the ball on an inbetween hop better than most 3Bs would. If it gets past him, it's a hit.

 

It wasn't the hardest hit ball in the world, but Reynolds made a nice play on it.

 

It wasn't like Soriano strategically decided to give it a bad hop though. It was still just a grounder to 3rd.

[Outshined_One]

Soto is one handsome man.

[E.J.]

I honestly felt booing wasn't merited there. Reynolds corralled the ball on an inbetween hop better than most 3Bs would. If it gets past him, it's a hit.

 

It wasn't the hardest hit ball in the world, but Reynolds made a nice play on it.

 

Our $130 million man is hitting below the mendoza line and has looked awful in the field as well. I think people are just getting sick of him.

[17 Seconds]

I honestly felt booing wasn't merited there. Reynolds corralled the ball on an inbetween hop better than most 3Bs would. If it gets past him, it's a hit.

 

It wasn't the hardest hit ball in the world, but Reynolds made a nice play on it.

 

Yeah, they should be cheering Soriano- he clearly was aiming the ball to make it get to Reynolds on an inbetween hop. Tremendous piece of hitting.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Id like to say I cant wait until this series is over so we can play the ice cold Padres, but they're probably saying the exact same thing.