4/13 Cubs (Lester) vs Reds (Leake) 7:05 CSN+

[DiamondMind]

great crowd tonight

[Cubswin11]

is jumbo diaz pitching to brayan pena one of the fattest batteries in baseball history?

The answer is Bartolo and whoever he is paired with always and forever

[SouthSideRyan]

We have our best relievers available

That is a nice way of saying Schlitter has already been used.

 

Not really sold on Motte either.

[treebird]

ROSS BETTER NOT BE ON DECK

[Guest]

c'mon alcantara, just give ross a chance

[kujay]

Didn't care for contra swinging 3-0 there.

[UMFan83]

I bet Ben Zobrist never started a season 0-16

[Guest]

hmm....

 

instead of murderer's throw, how about an avengers theme for the young bats?

[Guest]

Didn't care for contra swinging 3-0 there.

 

Like the idea(Diaz was going to throw his straight fastball there), but that wasn't a pitch to drive

[Guest]

hmm....

 

instead of murderer's throw, how about an avengers theme for the young bats?

 

Let's start an injury update thread while we're at it

[KaiserCesar]

Little worried about Coghlan over at 3b in this game now. He had 3 fielding errors on 23 chances back in 2013 when he played there.

[TruffleShuffle]

alcantara seems to be juan pierre-ing a lot.

[Fred Hornkohl]

CUBS are undefeated when they hit 3 dongs in a game.

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[mul21]

We have our best relievers available

That is a nice way of saying Schlitter has already been used.

 

Not really sold on Motte either.

 

He was horrible in the spring but he's been fantastic since the start of the season. I was feeling the same way until he got into games that counted.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

hmm....

 

instead of murderer's throw, how about an avengers theme for the young bats?

 

Alcantara is Squirrel Girl or something.

[Guest]

I'm borderline impressed that Price is going to use Chapman in the 9th, but also entertained that it's going to be total overkill for 7-8-9.

[treebird]

i assume i am not the only one who puts his hat on askew when strop comes in

[Guest]

Jumbo was throwing some really fat pitches that inning*. He got pretty lucky.

 

*No pun intended.

[KaiserCesar]

Very satisfying to see that awkward swing after fouling off so many.

[DiamondMind]

Strop is filthy.

[ctcf]

It's p cool that Motte has been good so far.

[DiamondMind]

lol, rizzo looked at coghlan in the IF huddle like 'what the hell are you doing here?'

[ctcf]

lol coghlan

[KaiserCesar]

Ross is going to hit a walk-off against Chapman.

[Gilby]

I'd have no problem with Price wasting Chapman next inning. Hopefully our bottom of the order at least fouls some off before striking out so he can't pitch the 10th.