8/10 Cubs (Gorzelanny) @ Rockies (De La Rosa) 7:40CT CSN

[cubstitlelives]

congrats Troy

 

you can thank Jake Fox

 

And Soriano for the usual bobble.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Hawpe doubled to left center field , Tulowitzki scored

[Schwarber Fan]

If this isn't hell, it's gotta be close

[Irrelevant Dude]

Get Miles up in the pen.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Atkins grounded out to second, 4-3 , Hawpe to third

[dew1679666265]

What about all the moves Hendry made that made our bullpen go from a strength to a weakness?

 

I might be forgetting something, but weren't the only bullpen moves made in the offseason basically swapping out Wood/Howry for Gregg/Heilman, adding in Guzman and then swapping Gaudin for Patton?

 

If so, Gregg has been an improvement at the closer's spot over what Wood has done this year and Guzman has been very good. Patton hasn't been in that many key situations this year and Howry has been better than Heilman. Marmol's struggles have hurt the pen the most.

[bcl412]

Yeah, the Cubs can pretty much kiss my ass. That's all I got.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Barmes struck out swinging

[webjim25]

Fellas, Aaron Miles has very little to do with the Cubs performance, good or bad. He's a bench player, he shouldnt even get enough playing time to effect the team either way. He's the third or fourth infielder, right? If he was hitting along the lines of his career norms, he still wouldnt effect your wins and losses.

 

Earlier in the season I made a post that you all wouldnt care about the loss of DeRosa if the current players were performing as expected. Everyone here agreed with that, as its an obvious fact. As far as bullpen's go, they are fickle. Marmol goes from perhaps the best BP arm in baseball to pitching below average. Franklin goes from horrible to studly. BP's are fickle like that. You've been ravaged by injuries and Soriano's is sucking, thats all. Players like Miles and Thurston shouldnt be counted on to help a team succeed. I mean, what do you expect to get out of players like that? So you overpaid for Miles, thats like Gates overpaying for a pair of socks, you can afford it.

[Schwarber Fan]

yeah, lets bring in a guy that we probably should be putting in our rotation after tonight

[Fred Hornkohl]

Marshall in to pitch for the CUBS

[cubstitlelives]

yeah, lets bring in a guy that we probably should be putting in our rotation after tonight

 

But Lou is a good manager. :-)) These are the type of moves I am talking about. I would just let Heilman get lit up here.

[webjim25]

Fellas, Aaron Miles has very little to do with the Cubs performance, good or bad. He's a bench player, he shouldnt even get enough playing time to effect the team either way. He's the third or fourth infielder, right? If he was hitting along the lines of his career norms, he still wouldnt effect your wins and losses.

 

 

I dont think I said this like I meant it. What I mean is, every team has an Aaron Miles. AKA a below average to crappy middle infielder who rides the bench. In fact, most NL teams have two of these, but always at least one.

[Fred Hornkohl]

BOTTOM OF THE SEVENTH INNING

 

Tulowitzki tripled to down the left field line

Hawpe doubled to left center field , Tulowitzki scored

Atkins grounded out to second, 4-3 , Hawpe to third

Barmes struck out swinging

Marshall in to pitch for the CUBS

Torrealba popped out to shallow center field

 

1 runs 2 hits 0 errors 1 men left on base

 

                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9              R  H  E
CUBS            0 0 0 0 0 1 0                  1  5  1
Colorado        2 4 0 2 0 0 1                  9 13  0

 

Home runs:

CUBS: Soto (9)

Colorado: Tulowitzki (21), Barmes (16)

 

CUBS           IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Gorzelanny    1.3  6  6  6  0  1  2  35
Caridad       5.3  7  3  3  1  4  0  78
Marshall      0.3  0  0  0  0  0  0   5

 

Colorado       IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
De La Rosa    7.0  5  1  1  4 10  1 109

[Fred Hornkohl]

              CUBS    Colorado
P/PA          3.63        3.37
RBI%          0.00        0.33
R/BR          0.11        0.60
BA           0.200       0.394
OBP          0.310       0.429
SLG          0.320       0.758
OPS          0.630       1.186
ERA          11.57        1.29
BB/9          1.29        5.14
K/9           6.43       12.86

[Hall7810]

Fellas, Aaron Miles has very little to do with the Cubs performance, good or bad. He's a bench player, he shouldnt even get enough playing time to effect the team either way. He's the third or fourth infielder, right? If he was hitting along the lines of his career norms, he still wouldnt effect your wins and losses.

 

 

I dont think I said this like I meant it. What I mean is, every team has an Aaron Miles. AKA a below average to crappy middle infielder who rides the bench. In fact, most NL teams have two of these, but always at least one.

 

And they're paid accordingly, not 5mm over 2 years.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Houston        6
Florida        8  F

Cincinnati     1  9
St. Louis      4

[Irrelevant Dude]

Fellas, Aaron Miles has very little to do with the Cubs performance, good or bad. He's a bench player, he shouldnt even get enough playing time to effect the team either way. He's the third or fourth infielder, right? If he was hitting along the lines of his career norms, he still wouldnt effect your wins and losses.

As has been said many times, his signing has had an indirect impact on the Cubs performance. The fact is that the Cubs are paying $2.5M for a position that could be filled (and almost certainly better) for the league minimum. I sure would have liked to see that extra $2M+ spent somewhere else where it could have mattered.

[Fred Hornkohl]

CUBS are 0-4 when they trai by 8 runs or mre at the end of the 7th inning.

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[Fred Hornkohl]

Fox                AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS  BABIP  P/PA   IsoD   RBI%
Leading off        17    4    6    2    0    2    2    0    1  0.353  0.389  0.824  1.212  0.286  2.78  0.036  0.000
bases empty        61    8   17    5    0    3    3    3    8  0.279  0.323  0.508  0.831  0.280  3.66  0.044  0.000
Late (7th on)      48    4   15    3    0    2   10    5   10  0.313  0.368  0.500  0.868  0.361  3.74  0.056  0.242
0 outs             35    5   12    3    0    2    5    0    3  0.343  0.342  0.600  0.942  0.333  3.13 -0.001  0.188
CUBS trailing      45    4   10    2    0    2    5    1   10  0.222  0.265  0.400  0.665  0.242  3.24  0.043  0.107
This series         7    0    2    1    0    0    0    0    2  0.286  0.375  0.429  0.804  0.400  2.75  0.089  0.000
last 20 games      37    6   10    2    0    4   12    2    8  0.270  0.326  0.649  0.974  0.240  3.26  0.055  0.286
August             15    2    3    1    0    1    1    1    4  0.200  0.333  0.467  0.800  0.200  3.11  0.133  0.000
Road               67    9   21    5    0    5   14    3    9  0.313  0.360  0.612  0.972  0.302  3.37  0.047  0.205
Nite               51    5   11    1    0    3    5    4   10  0.216  0.293  0.412  0.705  0.211  3.66  0.077  0.061
vs Left            29    2    8    4    0    1    8    2    3  0.276  0.324  0.517  0.841  0.280  3.74  0.048  0.269
vs. Colo            7    0    2    1    0    0    0    0    2  0.286  0.375  0.429  0.804  0.400  2.75  0.089  0.000
Jim Reynolds        9    2    4    1    0    1    2    0    1  0.444  0.444  0.889  1.333  0.429  3.33  0.000  0.143

season totals     118   15   35    9    0    8   26    7   18  0.297  0.346  0.576  0.922  0.293  3.61  0.049  0.231

[Soul]

Just knew this was gonna be a disaster. On Friday, I knew.

 

It came from Cubbie hell, and suddenly I knew. "We're gonna suck in this series."

[Fred Hornkohl]

Fox singled to left field

[Fred Hornkohl]

Soto               AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS  BABIP  P/PA   IsoD   RBI%
runners on        105    7   24    3    0    2   21   24   20  0.229  0.368  0.314  0.683  0.265  3.95  0.140  0.146
Late (7th on)      82    7   17    3    0    3    8   11   22  0.207  0.301  0.354  0.655  0.246  4.10  0.094  0.111
0 outs             82    6   16    3    0    2    4    8   22  0.195  0.267  0.305  0.572  0.241  4.24  0.072  0.080
CUBS trailing      98    8   21    6    0    3    4   12   30  0.214  0.300  0.367  0.667  0.277  4.12  0.086  0.021
This series         7    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    5  0.000  0.125  0.000  0.125  0.000  4.38  0.125  0.000
last 20 games       7    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    5  0.000  0.125  0.000  0.125  0.000  4.38  0.125  0.000
August              7    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    5  0.000  0.125  0.000  0.125  0.000  4.38  0.125  0.000
Road              117    9   24    4    1    4    9   13   35  0.205  0.288  0.359  0.647  0.256  4.16  0.083  0.077
Nite              117   10   32    4    1    5   13   16   32  0.274  0.363  0.453  0.816  0.338  3.96  0.089  0.123
vs Left            46    5    9    0    0    3    7   13    9  0.196  0.383  0.391  0.775  0.176  4.18  0.188  0.125
vs. Colo           11    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    5  0.000  0.083  0.000  0.083  0.000  4.58  0.083  0.000
Jim Reynolds        7    0    1    0    0    0    1    0    3  0.143  0.125  0.143  0.268  0.250  3.13 -0.018  0.333

season totals     224   19   50   10    1    8   27   35   54  0.223  0.330  0.384  0.713  0.259  4.02  0.106  0.146

[Fred Hornkohl]

Soto called out on strikes

[Fred Hornkohl]

Soriano            AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS  BABIP  P/PA   IsoD   RBI%
runners on        140   21   37    6    0    9   39   17   33  0.264  0.346  0.500  0.846  0.286  3.74  0.082  0.166
Late (7th on)     127   14   32    6    0    7   19   14   38  0.252  0.326  0.465  0.791  0.305  4.01  0.074  0.226
1 out             106   19   33    7    0   11   26   13   22  0.311  0.402  0.689  1.090  0.301  3.66  0.090  0.246
CUBS trailing     139   22   38    9    0    8   21   11   40  0.273  0.331  0.511  0.842  0.330  3.85  0.058  0.181
This series        12    0    3    2    0    0    1    0    2  0.250  0.250  0.417  0.667  0.300  3.17  0.000  0.125
last 20 games      74    9   24    5    0    4   13    7   17  0.324  0.383  0.554  0.937  0.377  3.69  0.058  0.209
August             31    2    6    2    0    0    1    2    8  0.194  0.242  0.258  0.500  0.261  3.48  0.049  0.056
Road              221   30   53   13    0   13   29   17   56  0.240  0.299  0.475  0.774  0.263  3.61  0.059  0.170
Nite              215   29   53   14    0   12   28   18   56  0.247  0.309  0.479  0.788  0.279  3.63  0.063  0.172
vs Left            83    9   15    4    0    2    7   11   28  0.181  0.277  0.301  0.578  0.245  4.23  0.096  0.135
vs. Colo           20    1    6    2    0    0    1    1    4  0.300  0.333  0.400  0.733  0.375  3.62  0.033  0.071
Jim Reynolds        9    0    2    0    0    0    0    0    2  0.222  0.222  0.222  0.444  0.286  4.33  0.000  0.000

season totals     420   60  105   24    0   19   49   37  103  0.250  0.315  0.443  0.757  0.289  3.81  0.065  0.166