9/9 Cubs (Lester) @ Cardinals (Martinez) 12:45 PM CST, CSN

[Tryptamine]

Good call pulling Lester.

 

should they just never use the bullpen?

 

Lester has not been pushed at all this year. Making him go 125 one game of the year isn't going to ruin him.

[KatJ]

Sometimes I think Carpenter should just be plunked on principle.

[BigSlick]

lol seriously? thats lame

[snoodmonger]

[expletive]

[Schwarber Fan]

Shoot for the first WC, it is.

[snoodmonger]

[expletive]

[jersey cubs fan]

Fernando Rodney pitches high leverage situations for the Cubs?

[Ski]

WHY DOES THIS [expletive] HAPPEN LIKE CLOCKWORK. WHY IS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO GET AN OUT AGAINST THE CARDINALS LATE IN CLOSE GAMES.

[Sammy Sofa]

Seriously? We get hard hit outs. Leave runners all over the place. They get no good contact all game except for they find a way to bunch all of their good contact into the 1st and the 8th.

I've never seen a team turn the corner as quickly as the Cardinals do. It's some voodoo [expletive].

 

Yeah, it's not like we're fans of a team with a ridiculous amount of walkoff and come from behind wins this year or anything.

[BigSlick]

i hate how this felt like a game of "yeah we definitely should have scored more on 5 different occasions and its gonna bite us" and then it happens

 

ah well.

[Guest]

sigh

 

faint division hopes are over

[TMan92]

Shocking

[Tryptamine]

Throw strikes you [expletive] idiot.

[Old Style]

So much for the first sweep at Busch since (insert date here).

[squally1313]

We're down 1 with the top of the order plus Bryant. Relax.

 

Worst case scenario we went down there and kicked ass in 2 games to take a road series against the best team in baseball without our ace pitching.

[rocket]

we won the series and we probably weren't catching the cards realistically so it isn't really a huge deal, but f this hard

[Ski]

I've never seen a team get so [expletive] lucky on sequencing as the Cardinals this year. Like, major league hitters make outs most of the time except for the Cardinals when they really need runs.

[Andy]

Kinda would've rather pitched Strop than these two.

[snoodmonger]

grimm not available today?

[Irrelevant Dude]

Pat sounds awful.

[abuck1220]

either leave lester in or leave strop in. clayton freaking richard and fernando freaking rodney should be making zero meaningful pitches for this team.

[Sammy Sofa]

It's like this is the moment Ski was dying to have happen. Look how excited he is.

[Guest]

WHY DOES THIS [expletive] HAPPEN LIKE CLOCKWORK. WHY IS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO GET AN OUT AGAINST THE CARDINALS LATE IN CLOSE GAMES.

 

You mean like yesterday when the Cards got one hit total in the eighth and ninth down 3?

[TMan92]

Maddon overmanage

[Old Style]

We're down 1 with the top of the order plus Bryant. Relax.

We still have 2 outs left to get here in the 8th. :banghead: