4/26 Cubs (Russell) vs Rockies (De La Rosa) 7:05 WGN

[Cubswin11]

That was one of the more puzzling things I've seen. You've got a reliever making a spot start, he's thrown 80 pitches and isn't really looking good, the wind's blowing out, he's facing 3-4-5 hitters of the opponent in the 5th, you're batting and you've got a guy on first with one down, and you send the pitcher up there to hit. Not only that, he shows bunt on pitch one, but not on pitch two. Pitch 3, when he's up 2-0, he doesn't show bunt and now it's 2-1 as the heater down the middle is a strike. Then you trade showing bunt and not, and wind up having him bunt with two strikes only to K after fouling the last pitch off swinging? To top it off, he throws four (?) pitches to the first batter and gives up a dinger, then you pull him.

 

Quade, are you [expletive]?

This

[Fred Hornkohl]

TOP OF THE FIFTH INNING

 

Helton homered to center field

Berg in (9th) to pitch for the CUBS

Tulowitzki flied out to right field

Lopez grounded out to third, 5-3

Wigginton doubled to left field

Spilborghs struck out swinging

 

1 runs 2 hits 0 errors 1 men left on base

 

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

 

Home runs:

Colorado: Helton (2 & 3), Wigginton (2)

CUBS: none

 

Colorado       IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
De La Rosa    4.0  5  2  1  0  4  0  71

 

CUBS           IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Russell       4.0  5  4  4  3  4  3  82
Berg          1.0  1  0  0  0  1  0  12

[Fred Hornkohl]

Barney singled to right center field

[Sammy Sofa]

That was one of the more puzzling things I've seen. You've got a reliever making a spot start, he's thrown 80 pitches and isn't really looking good, the wind's blowing out, he's facing 3-4-5 hitters of the opponent in the 5th, you're batting and you've got a guy on first with one down, and you send the pitcher up there to hit. Not only that, he shows bunt on pitch one, but not on pitch two. Pitch 3, when he's up 2-0, he doesn't show bunt and now it's 2-1 as the heater down the middle is a strike. Then you trade showing bunt and not, and wind up having him bunt with two strikes only to K after fouling the last pitch off swinging? To top it off, he throws four (?) pitches to the first batter and gives up a dinger, then you pull him.

 

Quade, are you [expletive]?

This

 

Pretty much. Quade is really doing his best to show he's a typically crappy MLB manager.

[Fred Hornkohl]

         Colorado        CUBS
P/PA          3.76        3.74
RBI%          0.10        0.08
R/BR          0.40        0.33
BA           0.286       0.278
OBP          0.400       0.316
SLG          0.810       0.278
OPS          1.210       0.594
ERA           1.80        7.20
BB/9          0.00        5.40
K/9           7.20        9.00

[nick23]

Umm...why was Russell batting with a man on if he was only pitching to one batter the next inning?

 

Pretty obvious the plan wasn't for him to only pitch to one batter in the 5th.

How was it obvious? He threw three pitches.

 

The fact that he started the inning makes it pretty clear Quade was trying to sneak one more inning out of him. Then he overreacted and yanked him after giving up a monster home run. One terrible manager decision begats another.

I think i hate Quade.

[Sammy Sofa]

Umm...why was Russell batting with a man on if he was only pitching to one batter the next inning?

 

Pretty obvious the plan wasn't for him to only pitch to one batter in the 5th.

How was it obvious? He threw three pitches.

 

The fact that he started the inning makes it pretty clear Quade was trying to sneak one more inning out of him. Then he overreacted and yanked him after giving up a monster home run. One terrible manager decision begats another.

I think i hate Quade.

 

I think I agree.

[Fred Hornkohl]

NY Mets        6
Washington     4  9

San Francisco  1  7
Pittsburgh     2

LA Dodgers     2  9
Florida        4

St. Louis      3  6
Houston        1

Cincinnati     2
Milwaukee      2  6

Philadelphia   0
Arizona        0  8:40

Atlanta        0
San Diego      0  9:05

white sox      3
NY Yanks       2  9

[Guest]

I hope Barney never stops hitting.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Byrd struck out swinging

[Schwarber Fan]

Arambomb here

[Guest]

Byrd has a .452 OPS (47 PA's) in his last 11 games and that's before today's 0-3.

 

Also, his .696 OPS for the season is even better than it should be considering his .360 BABIP and 25% LD%.

Edited April 27, 2011 by soccer10k

[Sammy Sofa]

Dammit, just a bit to your right, Aramis.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Ramirez struck out swinging

[Sammy Sofa]

Bah.

[Fred Hornkohl]

BOTTOM OF THE FIFTH INNING

 

Barney singled to right center field

Byrd struck out swinging

Ramirez struck out swinging

Baker flied out to left field

 

0 runs 1 hits 0 errors 1 men left on base

 

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

 

Home runs:

Colorado: Helton (2 & 3), Wigginton (2)

CUBS: none

 

Colorado       IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
De La Rosa    5.0  6  2  1  0  6  0  89

 

CUBS           IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Russell       4.0  5  4  4  3  4  3  82
Berg          1.0  1  0  0  0  1  0  12

[Fred Hornkohl]

         Colorado        CUBS
P/PA          3.76        3.87
RBI%          0.10        0.06
R/BR          0.40        0.29
BA           0.286       0.273
OBP          0.400       0.304
SLG          0.810       0.273
OPS          1.210       0.577
ERA           1.80        7.20
BB/9          0.00        5.40
K/9          10.80        9.00

[Fred Hornkohl]

NY Mets        6
Washington     4  9

San Francisco  1
Pittsburgh     2  7

LA Dodgers     2
Florida        4  F

St. Louis      3  6
Houston        1

Cincinnati     2
Milwaukee      2  6

Philadelphia   1
Arizona        0  1

Atlanta        0
San Diego      0  9:05

white sox      3
NY Yanks       2  9

[Fred Hornkohl]

Iannetta grounded out to short, 6-3

[Fred Hornkohl]

De La Rosa struck out swinging

[Fred Hornkohl]

TOP OF THE SIXTH INNING

 

Iannetta grounded out to short, 6-3

De La Rosa struck out swinging

Fowler flied out to shallow left field

 

0 runs 0 hits 0 errors 0 men left on base

 

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

 

Home runs:

Colorado: Helton (2 & 3), Wigginton (2)

CUBS: none

 

Colorado       IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
De La Rosa    5.0  6  2  1  0  6  0  89

 

CUBS           IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Russell       4.0  5  4  4  3  4  3  82
Berg          2.0  1  0  0  0  2  0  23

[Fred Hornkohl]

         Colorado        CUBS
P/PA          3.75        3.87
RBI%          0.10        0.06
R/BR          0.40        0.29
BA           0.250       0.273
OBP          0.357       0.304
SLG          0.708       0.273
OPS          1.065       0.577
ERA           1.80        6.00
BB/9          0.00        4.50
K/9          10.80        9.00

[Fred Hornkohl]

NY Mets        6
Washington     4  F

San Francisco  1
Pittsburgh     2  7

LA Dodgers     2
Florida        4  F

St. Louis      3
Houston        1  6

Cincinnati     2
Milwaukee      2  7

Philadelphia   1  2
Arizona        0

Atlanta        0
San Diego      0  9:05

white sox      3
NY Yanks       2  9

[Fred Hornkohl]

Soto popped out to shortstop

[Fred Hornkohl]

Soriano lined out to shortstop