4/20 - Cubs (Z) @ Mets (Pelfrey) 6:10pm CT WGN

[chuckywang]

I just got back from the bar. So which Mets scrub is 2 hitting us?

[tfarks]

Z is done. Good luck bullpen.

[Careless]

I just got back from the bar. So which Mets scrub is 2 hitting us?

Well, he does have an ERA under .90 at this point

[NotSoSober]

Good to see Soriano heating up

[Magnetic Curses]

soriano looking good, we need him bad.

[Roast]

Come on fontenot. Just a single would be nice.

[Fred Hornkohl]

We've now hit at least 1 double in each of our last nine games.

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[Sammys Boombox]

Turned it off but checked back on Gameday to see Fukudome's plate appearance. This is what it showed. Green are balls. Red are called or swung at strikes. Look at #5 and #7 (called).

 

http://i763.photobucket.com/albums/xx273/robacjr/FukusAB.jpg

Gameday uses pitchf/x which uses absolute height for strike zones, right? IOW, Miles and Lee have the same size and location strike zones with it. The bottom of the zone needs to be adjusted manually, unless I'm wrong about how they do it.

 

Um, I'm not sure. When a new batter enters the box the height of the strike zone changes, but it doesn't look like the bottom changes much if it does at all, only the top changes significantly.

[Careless]

Ok, I'm just confused at this point: every team before the Astros pitched Alf away and righties all got him out except for a couple of inside mistake pitches. Then the astros decided to boost his BA with a steady diet of inside pitches, we had a lefty yesterday, and Pelfry has thrown inside pitches on all three of Soriano's ABs that have been put in play while he's whiffed at everything outside.

 

How dumb are these people?

[Fred Hornkohl]

Good to see Soriano heating up

 

He has had a real nice week or so.........

 

04/12 - 04/19      AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS  BABIP  P/PA     RC   IsoD   RBI%
Soriano            21    3    9    4    0    0    2    1    4  0.429  0.455  0.619  1.074  0.529  3.59    5.9  0.026  0.667

[Ballgame64]

Ramirez needs to sit next to Lou for a couple of days. He is swinging at everything and is hurting this team more than he is helping. It would be one thing if he was hitting in bad luck, but he has no patience and he is getting himself out quite often.

 

It is unbelievable how this team can't put a few hits together more than one time per week. It is a boring team to watch no doubt about it. Too many high priced players who are not performing anywhere near you would hope.

[Careless]

He looked like he was going to Happy gilmore that pitch

[Careless]

When I was looking up the pitchfx data yesterday I came across a site that just plots all pitches to a batter. Comparing Soriano's plot with a regular hitter's is pretty funny, with colors randomly distributed outside of the strike zone, aside from the tail of swinging strikes that trails all the way off the low/outside corner of the chart

[Cubs Fan Dan]

So Jeff Gray sucks as well?

[Roast]

Wright is going to hit this one about 500 feet

[Careless]

Love watching our coaches yawn as we are down 2 runs in the 7th

[Roast]

Or hit into a double play

[rocket]

who the hell let this clown wear kerry wood's number

[Fred Hornkohl]

CUBS have now GIDP'd 10 times on the season, their opponents have GIDP'd 9 times.

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[NotSoSober]

Nice job to work out of that, now for some runs

[Roast]

Really dumb idea, but it worked. Good.

[Magnetic Curses]

this pitcher looks nervous as hell

[Roast]

Why the hell is Chad Tracy on this team.

[Fred Hornkohl]

What unis are the CUBS wearing tonight ?

[Roast]

What unis are the CUBS wearing tonight ?

Blue tops.