4/3 CUBS (Jackson) @ Pit (Rodriguez) 6:05 CSN

[Irrelevant Dude]

Wow, this lineup...

[Guest]

Damn.

[DrCub]

I was wrong. This offense will be just fine.

[haubrich91]

We were 3 feet away from at least tying it. Couldn't even get one.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

"We can't get runners home with less than 2 outs" is now going to be a thing all season, even if they never fail at it again.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

"We can't get runners home with less than 2 outs" is now going to be a thing all season, even if they never fail at it again.

 

I don't even know where to look these numbers up, but I'd bet that it's been a problem the last few seasons.

[Guest]

"We can't get runners home with less than 2 outs" is now going to be a thing all season, even if they never fail at it again.

 

You don't have to look any further than all the bitching and whining that happened in 08 game threads to know that's true.

[Guest]

"We can't get runners home with less than 2 outs" is now going to be a thing all season, even if they never fail at it again.

 

I don't even know where to look these numbers up, but I'd bet that it's been a problem the last few seasons.

 

 

Coincidentally, having lots of bad hitters has been a problem the last few seasons.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

"We can't get runners home with less than 2 outs" is now going to be a thing all season, even if they never fail at it again.

 

I don't even know where to look these numbers up, but I'd bet that it's been a problem the last few seasons.

 

Every set of fans in baseball would say the same thing.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Every team ever thinks they have a problem with getting runners home with less than 2 outs. It's like the Godwin's law of baseball.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

By the way, I agree with everyone that all fans think their team has problems scoring with a runner on third and fewer than two outs.

 

But I really do think our team has struggled with it as much as anybody the past few seasons. However, as somebody said, it's probably because we haven't had many good hitters.

[Schwarber Fan]

Nice patience by Navarro and Castro

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I hope the power and defense are there for Castro this season, because he definitely does not have an improved approach.

[Mark Priors Calves]

JD sounds like Dan Roan.

[Guest]

Wake me up when we get to the fake rally.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Wake me up when we get to the fake rally.

 

We already had it.

[Sammy Sofa]

This game actually put me to sleep, and now I feel like ass.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

It was about as good (or bad) as fake rallies get.

[Irrelevant Dude]

JD sounds like Dan Roan.

But smarter.

[DrCub]

This game actually put me to sleep, and now I feel like ass.

 

 

That's better than those of us who stayed awake feel.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Two hits on 19 BIP isn't helping, or whatever it is.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Well that settles that. The platoon plan is officially a failure.

[Elrhino]

I think we're in the dog days of the first week of April.

[neely crenshaw]

I know it's cold and it's early but....

 

The right handed order may be one of the worst line-ups this side of Houston.

 

As for getting guys in with less than 2 outs, if you can't hit with the bases empty, why should we think they will hit with people on?

We had 2 hits. We sent up Hairston, Castillo, Lillibridge and Gonzalez...expectations? yes, putting the ball in play would be nice but you have one semi-proven major league hitter in that lot and that was Hairston, and he has a career ob% of .300 and strikes out about 1 out of every 4 at bats.

Pitching and defense may keep us close but offensively if castro, rizzo and soriano don't do it, it probably isn't getting done.

[weis21]

Lillibridge and Gonzalez are playing because of injuries. Hairston, in the situation you reference (our RH lineup), has a .325 OBP. Anyway, I'm not sure why you pulled his overall OBP because his strength isn't in getting on base. It's slugging. As a platoon player when he has a 122 OPS+ against LHP.

 

Castillo is the most bizzare inclusion of all. In his limited playing time last year he put a line of 467/532/667 (1.199 OPS) in 42 AB vs LHP. Forty-two at bats is hardly a measuring stick, but to single him out for ONE game is ridiculous.