5/5 San Francisco (Lincecum) @ Cubs (Marshall) 1:20 (CT) CSN

[TruffleShuffle]

bobby scales joins will ohman in the "cubs i thought had difference racial characteristics" club.

[jersey cubs fan]

Any chance we send Gathright down Friday and not scales?

 

That's my longshot bet.

[jersey cubs fan]

bobby scales joins will ohman in the "cubs i thought had difference racial characteristics" club.

 

The Reggie Cleveland All Stars?

[CubColtPacer]

It's hard to ground into a DP on a hit and run. The only way you really can is if the hit ball goes directly to the guy covering the bag. It does make the lineout DP and strike-em-out-throw-em-out more likely though.

 

The hit and run forces hitters to make contact with bad pitches. The lead runner is never going at full speed on the hit and run (always has to slow down and look back) and any relatively well-hit ball to the left side should be able to get the lead runner. Lee's problem is that he always ends up pulling garbage on a hit and run right to the SS or the 3B to start the double play. He doesn't have the speed to make it a close play at 1B, either.

 

A ground ball on a hit and run is very rarely turned into a DP. It's very difficult to pull off. Most of the time they won't even try to get the lead guy, they will just throw to first.

 

Yeah. I'm not sure I've ever seen a grounder to 3rd be turned into a DP off a hit and run (I'm sure there have been a few). Grounders to SS are usually only even attempted if the fielder is either playing in slightly or if the ball is to his left. The same thing happens at 2nd..unless it is to his right and the ball leads the fielder right to the bag, there won't be a DP attempted.

[David]

bobby scales joins will ohman in the "cubs i thought had difference racial characteristics" club.

 

 

i can see bobby scales, but why will ohman?

[TruffleShuffle]

bobby scales joins will ohman in the "cubs i thought had difference racial characteristics" club.

 

 

i can see bobby scales, but why will ohman?

 

i dunno, i just always imagined will ohman was black until i saw him pitch in a game.

[Butterscup1679666578]

ugh.

[Guest]

bobby scales joins will ohman in the "cubs i thought had difference racial characteristics" club.

 

 

i can see bobby scales, but why will ohman?

 

i dunno, i just always imagined will ohman was black until i saw him pitch in a game.

 

Haha, that's weird.

[Schwarber Fan]

We're done if a 4th run crosses.

 

well here's the BP

 

it's over anyway

[cubswin2009]

Jesus @ our bullpen

[Butterscup1679666578]

my god

[TruffleShuffle]

come on samardzija you ugly bastard.

[C.C.]

Leave it to our pen to ruin a good game today...

[UMFan83]

Well so much for that.

[Keener98]

Samardja lol

[cubswin2009]

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[Butterscup1679666578]

samardzija blows

[TruffleShuffle]

good thing we dumped vizcaino to get that lights out reliever up from iowa.

[UMFan83]

I'm telling you, I don't think Shark is ready to be a full time major leaguer yet. He was brought up too early for the Cubs, and after an initial period of success last August he's been pretty bad since then.

[cubswin2009]

Deja Vu from Thursday

[Sammy Sofa]

Nuts. This is turning into a blowout.

[Soul]

Horrible.

[ctcf]

Shark needs to be demoted ASAP

[TruffleShuffle]

can we trade samardzija to the nfl and get our 10 million back?

[nick23]

It's tough to blame him when he goes from starting every 5 days to throwing about 10 pitches a week. Just an all around dumb move to bring him up.