9/21 Brewers (Peralta) @ Cubs (Hammel) 7:05 PM CSN

[Clem Fandango]

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[Sammy Sofa]

[expletive], I wish they were wearing those throwbacks again.

 

Whomp these meat puppets.

[Schwarber Fan]

Pirates have 4 at Coors Field, and I suspect they're going to have their struggles. Let's sweep and go into that series with the WC lead.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Take our frustration out on these feckless nincompoops. I want seven dongs.

[Sammy Sofa]

feckless nincompoops

 

Love this.

[XZero771679666304]

feckless nincompoops

 

Love this.

 

Yeah, that got a chuckle out of me.

[UMFan83]

Pirates have 4 at Coors Field, and I suspect they're going to have their struggles. Let's sweep and go into that series with the WC lead.

 

Why do you suspect they will have trouble? One of the worst teams in baseball and they are not an NL Central team

[ctcf]

SO GOOD to have Logan graphics back.

 

GO CUBS!!!

[ctcf]

PS - Logan, you better be doing these for every playoff game.

[Clem Fandango]

PS - Logan, you better be doing these for every playoff game.

 

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[Gilby]

Starlin and Rizzo have absolutely crushed Peralta in their careers.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

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[Guest]

Regarding the first tweet, the Cubs just took 7 of 10 from the Cards and Pirates over two weeks. The only game they absolutely deserved to lose was the Pittsburgh game (trailed the whole way, got a bit lucky to even tie it up and after the first inning, were never better than 50-50 to win). According to Fangraphs, the Cubs were at 70.2% chance to win after La Stella's walk in today's game. And the other loss to St. Louis they were a 89.7% chance to win after the first out in the eighth.

 

Out of the 93 innings played in the 10 games, the Cubs led after 62 of them and were tied after 10 more. And out of the 21 innings they trailed, 17 of them came today and the Pittsburgh loss. They won four of the games handily and lost three 1-run games.

 

I know the couple losses were painful, but this was quite the impressive stretch.

[TMan92]

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Absolutely hilarious.

[TMan92]

Looks like the Pirates are lining up Cole, Liriano, and Burnett for our series. Currently showing Haren in Game 1. Is this accurate?

[Banedon]

LOL @ Miggy & Arrieta

[Brian707]

Looks like the Pirates are lining up Cole, Liriano, and Burnett for our series. Currently showing Haren in Game 1. Is this accurate?

 

 

I see it as

 

Friday: Liriano vs Haren

Saturday Cole vs Lester

Sunday Burnett vs Hammel( but maybe Arrieta moves up to this spot because of the off day Thursday?)

[UMFan83]

Regarding the first tweet, the Cubs just took 7 of 10 from the Cards and Pirates over two weeks. The only game they absolutely deserved to lose was the Pittsburgh game (trailed the whole way, got a bit lucky to even tie it up and after the first inning, were never better than 50-50 to win). According to Fangraphs, the Cubs were at 70.2% chance to win after La Stella's walk in today's game. And the other loss to St. Louis they were a 89.7% chance to win after the first out in the eighth.

 

Out of the 93 innings played in the 10 games, the Cubs led after 62 of them and were tied after 10 more. And out of the 21 innings they trailed, 17 of them came today and the Pittsburgh loss. They won four of the games handily and lost three 1-run games.

 

I know the couple losses were painful, but this was quite the impressive stretch.

 

Definitely an impressive stretch and I'm thrilled, just sucks a few key mistakes or strokes of misfortune (likely) cost us a chance to win the division.

[Bruno7481]

Looks like the Pirates are lining up Cole, Liriano, and Burnett for our series. Currently showing Haren in Game 1. Is this accurate?

 

 

I see it as

 

Friday: Liriano vs Haren

Saturday Cole vs Lester

Sunday Burnett vs Hammel( but maybe Arrieta moves up to this spot because of the off day Thursday?)

 

Depending on what, if any, concerns there are about Arrieta's workload I would have to think there is a decent shot of that happening. If so, Arrieta would throw:

 

Tuesday vs. Milwaukee

Sunday v. Pittsburgh (normal rest)

Friday Oct 2nd vs Milwaukee (normal rest)

 

That would give him 4 days (normal rest) for the Wild Card game on Wednesday the 7th.

[jersey cubs fan]

Do they have reservations about sending Arrieta out against the Pirates twice leading up to the likely wild card matchup?

[TMan92]

Do they have reservations about sending Arrieta out against the Pirates twice leading up to the likely wild card matchup?

 

As good as Jake has been, I don't think it matters.

 

 

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[Fred Hornkohl]

I show it lining up like this.............

 

Gm#    Date       Opponent         Score  Starter         Opp Starter
153  Fri 09/25    Pittsburgh         -    Haren           Liriano       
154  Sat 09/26    Pittsburgh         -    Lester          Cole          
155  Sun 09/27    Pittsburgh         -    Arrieta         Happ

 

..... but we all know how fast things can change.

[Brian707]

Looks like the Pirates are lining up Cole, Liriano, and Burnett for our series. Currently showing Haren in Game 1. Is this accurate?

 

 

I see it as

 

Friday: Liriano vs Haren

Saturday Cole vs Lester

Sunday Burnett vs Hammel( but maybe Arrieta moves up to this spot because of the off day Thursday?)

 

Depending on what, if any, concerns there are about Arrieta's workload I would have to think there is a decent shot of that happening. If so, Arrieta would throw:

 

Tuesday vs. Milwaukee

Sunday v. Pittsburgh (normal rest)

Friday Oct 2nd vs Milwaukee (normal rest)

 

That would give him 4 days (normal rest) for the Wild Card game on Wednesday the 7th.

 

 

Also leaving Arrieta to face the Royals on next Monday does not make any sense, that means his next start would not be until October 3rd in Milwaukee and that isn't enough rest for the WC game, unless his start is skipped entirely but would then give him 8 days rest between starts.

[Banedon]

I don't love the Pirates seeing Arrieta this much before the WC game, but I don't think we really have a ton of choices.

[jersey cubs fan]

I don't love the Pirates seeing Arrieta this much before the WC game, but I don't think we really have a ton of choices.

 

If there is consideration for skipping a start, I think it makes sense to do it here and then let him pitch that last weekend so he actually goes into the WC game with normal rest, and not too much rest.