4/12 Cubs (Villanueva) at Cards (Wainwright) 1:15 CSN

[soccer10k]

Go Cubs.

[gscool89]

Bunt to victory

[ctcf]

Ricky needs to chill the [expletive] out.

[treebird]

let's have ricky not do anything offensively except pinch hit for the next five days and see if he learns anything

[DiamondMind]

Veras, for you...

 

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[Hairyducked Idiot]

Run differential status: Neutral

[ctcf]

lol lake leading off

 

Lake LF

Valbuena 3B

Rizzo 1B

Schierholtz RF

Sweeney CF

Castro SS

Barney 2B

Baker C

Villanueva P

[sneakypower]

Lake has a career .405/.436/.649 line in the leadoff spot

[mul21]

Lake has a career .405/.436/.649 line in the leadoff spot

 

Ok neely

[Guest]

Lake has a career .405/.436/.649 line in the leadoff spot

 

 

whats his career line off wainwright?

[sneakypower]

i was just saying, it hasn't exactly hurt the team in the past to put him there (also, he's .350/.381/.538 career with bases empty, vs. .167/.248/.255 with men on...it may just be that when pitchers focus a more concerted effort on retiring him, they have had a relatively easy time with it)

 

regardless, i feel like his offensive skillset is best suited to the top of the order, considering the lack of better options in this lineup

[Guest]

I wish Castro weren't quite that far down.

[ctcf]

Rusin up and Schlitter to AAA

[Guest]

Rusin up and Schlitter to AAA

 

=D>

[Crack Wilson]

No action on this game....Wainwright is just too tuff early in the season and he has 2 no decisions so far in well pitched games. Gotta get to the pen after he reaches his limit.

 

Milwaukee 8 2 .800 - W 7

Pittsburgh 6 4 .600 2 L 1

St. Louis 5 5 .500 3 L 2

Chi. Cubs 4 6 .400 4 W 1

Cincinnati 3 7 .300 5 ?

 

I know it's early, but the Brews are on fire. Seven strait. Cincy scuffling, still losing those one run games. Go Cubbies.

[Guest]

Meanwhile, at GRB, someone is bitching that they DIDN'T have Molina bunt...rofl

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

3 lefties in the pen? bah gawd

 

the front office must know something about rosscup we don't.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I don't have a problem with the move, but it strikes me as odd. I didn't see Rusin as next in line, especially to replace a righty, especially when Wright hasn't been used in a week.

[ctcf]

Aaaaaaaaaand Veras is out as closer. In other news, my NL Only ESPN team is screwed.

[Guest]

I don't have a problem with the move, but it strikes me as odd. I didn't see Rusin as next in line, especially to replace a righty, especially when Wright hasn't been used in a week.

 

Is something wrong with Wright? Velocity down from years past?

[sweetpeteman]

3 lefties in the pen? bah gawd

 

the front office must know something about rosscup we don't.

 

 

3? Rusin, Russell and who? Don't say Wright since he apparently doesn't exist anymore.

 

 

 

 

Seriously, is Wright injured or something? He hasn't been used since April 4th.

 

 

ETA: Dammit. Spent too long trying to figure out if he was before posting.

[Omar]

Cubs v. Wainwright

                      PA  AB  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO   BA  OBP   SLG   OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP missG
Starlin Castro        29  25  7  1  1  0   3  2  3 .280 .345  .400  .745  0  1   1   1         2
Darwin Barney         26  26  8  2  0  1   5  0  4 .308 .308  .500  .808  0  0   0   0         0
Nate Schierholtz      16  16  4  2  0  0   0  0  4 .250 .250  .375  .625  0  0   0   0         0
Anthony Rizzo         14  13  3  0  0  0   0  1  3 .231 .286  .231  .516  0  0   0   0         2
Welington Castillo     9   8  1  0  0  0   1  0  2 .125 .111  .125  .236  0  1   0   0         0
Luis Valbuena          9   8  3  2  0  0   0  1  0 .375 .444  .625 1.069  0  0   0   0         0
Emilio Bonifacio       8   7  1  0  0  0   0  1  1 .143 .250  .143  .393  0  0   0   0         0
John Baker             7   7  1  1  0  0   0  0  2 .143 .143  .286  .429  0  0   0   0         1
Jeff Samardzija        7   6  0  0  0  0   0  0  1 .000 .000  .000  .000  1  0   0   0         0
Ryan Sweeney           6   6  2  1  0  1   2  0  1 .333 .333 1.000 1.333  0  0   0   0         0
Carlos Villanueva      6   6  0  0  0  0   0  0  4 .000 .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Travis Wood            6   5  2  0  0  1   1  0  1 .400 .400 1.000 1.400  1  0   0   0         0
Junior Lake            5   5  2  1  0  0   1  0  2 .400 .400  .600 1.000  0  0   0   0         0
Edwin Jackson          3   1  0  0  0  0   0  1  1 .000 .500  .000  .500  1  0   0   0         0
Total                151 139 34 10  1  3  13  6 29 .245 .277  .396  .673  3  2   1   1         5
Has not faced: Ryan Kalish, Mike Olt and Justin Ruggiano

 

Cards v. Villanueva

                   PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO    BA   OBP   SLG   OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP missG
Emilio Bonifacio    3  3 0  0  0  0   0  0  2  .000  .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Ryan Kalish         3  2 1  0  0  0   0  1  1  .500  .667  .500 1.167  0  0   0   0         0
Nate Schierholtz    3  3 0  0  0  0   0  0  1  .000  .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         1
Ryan Sweeney        2  2 0  0  0  0   0  0  0  .000  .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
John Baker          1  1 0  0  0  0   0  0  0  .000  .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Starlin Castro      1  1 0  0  0  0   0  0  1  .000  .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Justin Ruggiano     1  1 0  0  0  0   0  0  0  .000  .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Luis Valbuena       1  1 1  1  0  0   0  0  0 1.000 1.000 2.000 3.000  0  0   0   0         0
Total              15 14 2  1  0  0   0  1  5  .143  .200  .214  .414  0  0   0   0         1
Has not faced: Darwin Barney, Welington Castillo, Junior Lake, Mike Olt and Anthony Rizzo 

[ConstableRabbit]

Kap has picked Barney as his key player of the game, guys!

[Guest]

Lake!!!!

[PrimeTime]

Lakeeeeeeeeee.[expletive] ya!