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so most people would admit there is no such thing as clutch hitting. If so why are the Cubs so statistically inferior with RISP all season long? Is it just luck? Is Lou changing their approaches once they get runners on? It feels like the hitters are hitting well until a runner gets on third and then all the sudden they are taking strikes down the middle, swinging at balls, not squaring up on pitches, etc. How does this get better, or do we just have to sit back and hope that our luck will turn around?

Most of our offense is pretty much sucking all the time. It doesn't really surprise me that they're sucking in key spots.

 

As truffle pointed out with stats earlier, there is a sizable gap between our hitting stats with no one on base and runners on base. It's not like we are world beaters when there's no one on (somewhere like 15th in MLB) but it's better than 28th with RISP.

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so most people would admit there is no such thing as clutch hitting. If so why are the Cubs so statistically inferior with RISP all season long? Is it just luck? Is Lou changing their approaches once they get runners on? It feels like the hitters are hitting well until a runner gets on third and then all the sudden they are taking strikes down the middle, swinging at balls, not squaring up on pitches, etc. How does this get better, or do we just have to sit back and hope that our luck will turn around?

Most of our offense is pretty much sucking all the time. It doesn't really surprise me that they're sucking in key spots.

 

As truffle pointed out with stats earlier, there is a sizable gap between our hitting stats with no one on base and runners on base. It's not like we are world beaters when there's no one on (somewhere like 15th in MLB) but it's better than 28th with RISP.

Point being, they're not very good, so why would they be very good when the situation demands it?

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What happened?

Michael Bourn fell on his ass on Tal's Hill and caught a Hoff longball that would've been out anywhere else.

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[expletive] this [expletive] team. This is ridiculous. They should be ashamed of themselves.
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It feels like the hitters are hitting well until

 

It feels to me like the hitters aren't hitting well at all. If, by chance, somebody is good enough to get a hit, the guy responsible for driving him in is probably going to be less likely to get a hit, since he won't be a good hitter. This is like the 2005/2006 lineup, a couple decent bats, but a whole bunch of bad ones. When the good ones gets on, the bad ones aren't good enough to be counted on. When you run out Hoffpauir, Fontenot, Hill, Blanco and pitcher for 5/9 of your lineup, you are asking for trouble. When you have a not hitting in any situation Bradley in the middle of the order, he's going to leave people on. When you have Theriot, who has done very little against RHP throughout his career, followed by Fukudome against a LHP for like the 5th time this year, and DLee, who stopped being a dependable middle of the order hitting in May of last year, it shouldn't be a surprise if they leave people on base.

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so most people would admit there is no such thing as clutch hitting. If so why are the Cubs so statistically inferior with RISP all season long? Is it just luck? Is Lou changing their approaches once they get runners on? It feels like the hitters are hitting well until a runner gets on third and then all the sudden they are taking strikes down the middle, swinging at balls, not squaring up on pitches, etc. How does this get better, or do we just have to sit back and hope that our luck will turn around?

Most of our offense is pretty much sucking all the time. It doesn't really surprise me that they're sucking in key spots.

 

As truffle pointed out with stats earlier, there is a sizable gap between our hitting stats with no one on base and runners on base. It's not like we are world beaters when there's no one on (somewhere like 15th in MLB) but it's better than 28th with RISP.

Point being, they're not very good, so why would they be very good when the situation demands it?

 

They are average when no one is on and anemic when runners are on. There is a sizable gap. If the Cubs were hitting as well with runners on we'd probably be in first place.

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[expletive] this [expletive] team. This is ridiculous. They should be ashamed of themselves.

 

If the Cubs don't score today they are on pace for 696 runs compared to 855 last year. Even in the horrible 2006 and 2005 seasons they had 716 and 703 runs respectively. Pathetic doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of describing how bad this offense is.

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