8/20 Cubs (Germano) @ Brewers (Rogers) - 7:10 pm CT, WCIU

[haubrich91]

Chicago Cubs (47-73) @ Milwaukee Brewers (54-66)

 

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Justin Germano

2-2, 3.91 ERA

Career vs. Brewers: 1-1, 4.61 ERA in three games (two starts). 13.2 IP, 16 K, and 2 BB.

 

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Mark Rogers

0-1, 4.94 ERA

Career vs. Cubs: 0-0, 0.00 ERA in one game (no starts). 1.0 IP, 1 K, and 0 BB.

[Smack]

Cubs are finally back in town and I get Germano/Rogers and Rusin/Estrada. Yeesh.

 

On the flip side I get to see Rizzo, Jackson, Vitters in person for the first time.

 

Also, I got upper deck tickets for tonight's game for $.40 each. 4 tickets including stub hub fees = $12.05. Tomorrow night I got 11 rows behind home plate for $24 per ticket.

[sneakypower]

i can't wait to see more freakouts when Valbuena, he of the .342/.479/.579 line for August, is in the lineup again

[CincyCubsFan]

The freak outs are more related to Vitters getting called up and then riding the bench a majority of the time.

[Gilby]

Rogers doesn't have huge splits and Sveum seems more willing to start Vitters against bad teams. It wouldn't surprise me if Vitters is in the lineup tonight.

[Cubswin11]

Maybe Valbuena will be at 2B tonight with Vitters at 3B? Barney has sucked the last 2 weeks.

[Guest]

Barney's OPS has dropped from .693 to .687 since August 5.

[Cubswin11]

Barney's OPS has dropped from .693 to .687 since August 5.

He has a slash line of .238/.289/.333 (.622 OPS) over the last 2 weeks (12 games).

[Guest]

Which is like 1.5 singles from his season performance. He's a middle infielder, and a defense-first one at that. The whole point is a silly one I admit, but sucked is pretty strong language for someone who's been pretty close to what you'd expect in such a short timeframe.

[haubrich91]

RF DeJesus

3B Vitters

1B Rizzo

LF Soriano

SS Castro

C Castillo

CF Jackson

2B Barney

P Germano

 

RF Aoki

2B Weeks

LF Braun

3B Ramirez

1B Hart

C Lucroy

CF Gomez

SS Segura

P Rogers

[javy knows my name]

I'm pretty sure I like that lineup.

[Magnetic Curses]

Maybe Valbuena will be at 2B tonight with Vitters at 3B? Barney has sucked the last 2 weeks.

 

barney is too valuable in the field.

[javy knows my name]

Rowdy in here.

 

Vitters with 1 AB, one embarrassment.

[Irrelevant Dude]

Vitters looks terrible...

[davell]

How bad was his error?

[haubrich91]

How bad was his error?

 

Not bad. It was hit really hard right at him. He stopped it and couldn't get a handle on the ball.

[El Duderino]

.086 for Vitters. Ouch, babe.

[UMFan83]

Ugh, I havent watched too many of the recent Cubs games, I didn't realize that Rizzo's season OPS is down to .803. It seemed to me like he has been hitting ok from the box scores I saw.

[El Duderino]

Ugh, I havent watched too many of the recent Cubs games, I didn't realize that Rizzo's season OPS is down to .803. It seemed to me like he has been hitting ok from the box scores I saw.

 

He has, he's just been hitting like Ichiro.

[UMFan83]

Ugh, I havent watched too many of the recent Cubs games, I didn't realize that Rizzo's season OPS is down to .803. It seemed to me like he has been hitting ok from the box scores I saw.

 

He has, he's just been hitting like Ichiro.

 

Damn, in his last 9 games, he had 0 walks and 0 extra base hits. Took care of both of those in his first 2 PAs tonight though,

[bigkid66]

I can see what Sveum means when he says Jackson has a "lazy head" (or whatever he said). On that last curve he didn't seem to be tracking the pitch at all. He seemed to be gazing out at the pitcher at the end of the swing.

[Schwarber Fan]

VITTERS!!

[haubrich91]

Josh Vitters!

[El Duderino]

Hey hey!

 

Nice bat flip.

Edited August 21, 2012 by El Duderino

[Cubswin11]

VITTERS \:D/