Re: 6/25: Orioles (Burres) vs Cubs (Lilly) 7:05pm CSN

[haubrich91]

GEO!

 

3-0.

[Brian]

yay!

[Mizzou]

Nice!

[Careless]

lucky that was a terrible throw

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Soto killed Cintron with the ball.

 

Not really, but go Cubs!

 

3-0!

[17 Seconds]

+3 Cubs

-3 Cards

[tenritsu]

Woo!

[Schwarber Fan]

Geovany Soto

[CubsGM]

Soto!

[BCVM22]

Yeehah.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Hit parade continues...4-0!

[CubsNSkers07]

come on Dero keep her going.

[haubrich91]

Everyone join the fun!

[tenritsu]

The runs keep on coming!

[Guest]

4-0n Cubs!

[CubsNSkers07]

woo hoo Dero! Now your turn FONTE!!! NOT!!!!!!!!!!! at least when Fontenot gets out Lilly will hit a 3 run bomb :)

[chuckywang]

Matt Albers is starting for Baltimore tonight, a rightie, so I imagine Cedeno sits now. Patterson will probably be back in the lineup. Honestly I could see the same lineup as yesterday with maybe DeRosa sitting and Fontenot starting.

 

Albers? Baltimore seems determined to destroy his arm. Earlier this season, he started a game, then went into the bullpen for 2 weeks throwing 10-15 pitches per outing. At the end of that time, he threw 16 pitches one day, 18 pitches the next, then had 2 days rest, and then they let him throw 94 pitches in a game he started.

 

This time it's much less crazy. He threw 36 pitches on the 21st, so he's had 3 days rest. It will be interesting to see how long Baltimore throws him out there though. He is a high walk guy and is only a decent strikeout pitcher, so this is one pitcher the Cubs should absolutely take pitches against. There's a lot of reward and not that much risk.

Note that I'm not saying the Cubs should look at every first pitch. I would never recommend that for any pitcher. But he's exactly the type of pitcher you shouldn't be worried about getting into deeper counts with, so go up there on the first pitch acting like it's a 2-0 or 3-1 count and only swinging if the ball comes into one of your best hitting zones.

 

He's also a pretty good ground ball guy, so the Cubs need to be wary of that with runners on.

 

I do agree that the Cubs will probably go with a very similar lineup tonight as they did last night now unless Lou was very upset with Patterson's adventures out there.

 

You must now feel awfully foolish typing all that up when the dude only pitched for 10 minutes.

[David]

I love this offense. I have no doubt in my mind that a lot of innings that should've gone like this in the past resulted in ground balls early in the count for quick innings several times the past few years.

[haubrich91]

Fontenot is garbage.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

That looked low and away to me.

[Joe_Cub]

Matt Albers is starting for Baltimore tonight, a rightie, so I imagine Cedeno sits now. Patterson will probably be back in the lineup. Honestly I could see the same lineup as yesterday with maybe DeRosa sitting and Fontenot starting.

 

Albers? Baltimore seems determined to destroy his arm. Earlier this season, he started a game, then went into the bullpen for 2 weeks throwing 10-15 pitches per outing. At the end of that time, he threw 16 pitches one day, 18 pitches the next, then had 2 days rest, and then they let him throw 94 pitches in a game he started.

 

This time it's much less crazy. He threw 36 pitches on the 21st, so he's had 3 days rest. It will be interesting to see how long Baltimore throws him out there though. He is a high walk guy and is only a decent strikeout pitcher, so this is one pitcher the Cubs should absolutely take pitches against. There's a lot of reward and not that much risk.

Note that I'm not saying the Cubs should look at every first pitch. I would never recommend that for any pitcher. But he's exactly the type of pitcher you shouldn't be worried about getting into deeper counts with, so go up there on the first pitch acting like it's a 2-0 or 3-1 count and only swinging if the ball comes into one of your best hitting zones.

 

He's also a pretty good ground ball guy, so the Cubs need to be wary of that with runners on.

 

I do agree that the Cubs will probably go with a very similar lineup tonight as they did last night now unless Lou was very upset with Patterson's adventures out there.

 

You must now feel awfully foolish typing all that up when the dude only pitched for 10 minutes.

 

nah, he predicted the injury

[erik316wttn]

You suck, Fontenot.

[Mizzou]

That was a bad call, but so was the one before it... can't take the same pitch twice for two strikes.

[Jon]

Pity strikeout. That should've been a walk.

[weis21]

Wow. Wide Zone had better be there for Ted as well.