Cubs Beat Sabathia (orattheveryleastgettothepen) 7-28 7pmCSN

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Ack, my bad

[javy knows my name]

Just wanted to rub it in that I was at the game. Had great seats, sat next to a ton of [expletive] Brewers fans. This game definitely cracks my top five.

[98navigator]

Ok, Sorry if I sounded stupid. In my opinion it felt like the Brewers gave away to many chances in that game. Weeks HAS to make that play. The Cubs deserved to win the game however, and You have got to remember that I was probably talking from my ass after a hard loss. My bad. I hate my life

 

No offense, but almost anytime you lose a close game with numerous close plays, it feels that you gave away too many chances. Had the Brewers won, we would have felt the same thing about Lee cutting off the throw home, Quade sending Lee when he should have held him, and the numerous other plays where the Cubs gave away chances.

 

Both teams made mistakes. Both teams had some things go their way. The better team won tonight.

 

Thing was, the Brewer mistakes have been right in line with what they're known for.

 

Bad defense? Check.

Bad relief pitching? Check.

Stupid manager? Check.

 

It's not as if these things haven't been plaguing them all year. If you're normally a one of the best fielding teams in the league and you make a couple errors that cost you the game, then you gave away the game. If you have a back end of the bullpen like Houston in 2003 (with Lidge, Dotel and Wagner) and they combine to give up a few runs, then you gave the game. But that's not who the Brewers are which is why I have a hard time believing that they gave this one away.

 

 

Conversely, the Cubs did what they have been known for this season; get on base via walks (and hits). I was reading a number of posters at Brewerfan complaining about the 6 walks Brewers pitchers surrendered to the Cubs, but they have to know that the Cubs lead the Majors in walks and OBP, are second in runs scored, and lead the NL in BA. Unless they are slumping, they will grind down a pitcher.

 

Frankly, I never thought CC would have the opportunity to pitch a complete game against them... Making Sabathia work and getting into their bullpen had to be apart of the game plan. Also, the traffic on the bases forces the opposition's defense to be sharp and we already know it isn't a strong suit of the Brewers.

[Vanilla Ice]

does anybody have video of the cedeno/DeRo handshake and the Z/Fontenot thing from last night?

[Laura]

Jon posted this on p. 64:

 

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u310/nucubs/zfontenotpregame2.gif

[cubbyvirus00]

Any way to get a slower replay of those moves? haha.......or maybe the entire thing?