4/7 Cubs (Samardzija) @ Braves (Hudson) 12:35 p.m. CT, CSN

[Southpaw191679666239]

I was going to go all out for my debut Game Thread, but then the Cubs do what they did tonight, and have exhausted all my creativity.

 

So instead...

 

Cubs send Jeff Samardzija (1-0, 0.00 ERA)

 

against...

 

Atlanta's Tim Hudson (0-0, 6.23 ERA)

 

 

Viewer Tip: If the Cubs have a 3 run lead or less going into the 9th, turn it off.

[Sammy Sofa]

Starting pitching looking pretty damn good besides Feldman...offense waking up? Ignore Marmol going forward and things just might be OK.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Samardzija starting means we have a great chance at a 3-3 road trip filled with more angst than I thought the fan base was capable of over this team.

[bcl412]

At least it's an early start tomorrow so the taste of that garbage ending can, hopefully, get washed away.

[kujay]

Go Cubs?

[THISisTHEyear09]

Fujikawa replaces Marmol as Closer

[rawaction]

Starting pitching looking pretty damn good besides Feldman...offense waking up? Ignore Marmol going forward and things just might be OK.

I thought Feldman Looked decent. A lot of movement on his fastball. He doesn't typically walk people like he did the other day so not support worried about that.

[Sammy Sofa]

Starting pitching looking pretty damn good besides Feldman...offense waking up? Ignore Marmol going forward and things just might be OK.

I thought Feldman Looked decent. A lot of movement on his fastball. He doesn't typically walk people like he did the other day so not support worried about that.

 

That's true; I think they mentioned that giving up home runs was his problem before.

[coldsteel]

Bring back Jim Hendry

[bcl412]

Win today and it's still a fine road trip.

[davell]

Ball is definitely carrying today. Castro doesn't have much to show early-on but he has hit the ball on the nose quite a bit.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

We never get the runner home with productive outs!

 

Except that time.

[bcl412]

Pitch a shutout Jeff.

[Sammy Sofa]

I just turned it on; how did they score?

[davell]

I just turned it on; how did they score?

DeJesus double off bottom of RF wall, Castro line out to deep CF, Rizzo groundout to first.

[CubmanPi]

DeJeebus dbl off the wall, moved to third on SF from Castro, groundout RBI from rizzo.

[Tryptamine]

Nice throw Navarro. Not even within 5 feet of 2B.

[davell]

Nice FB Jeff.

[DrCub]

Wow. That was a nasty pitch.

[CubmanPi]

I like watching Shark play baseball.

[davell]

Braves fans(and beat writets) think Gattis some uberstud power hitter. It'll be nice when he LaHairs his way to Japan fairly soon.

[KaiserCesar]

Shark is (and always has been) pretty awesome.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

He's going to win the Cy Young, isn't he? We could get an epic prospect haul at the deadline.

[Andy]

He's pretty good.

[DrCub]

So the Cubs will be worth watching at least every fifth game; so we've got that going for us.