4/15 Rockies (Bettis) @ Cubs (Hendricks) 1:20 MLBN, CSN

[soccer10k]

Another day, another win. Five straight wins for the Cubs and with the Baltimore loss, they now have the best record in the league.

 

Chad Bettis takes the mound for the Rockies and he is, well, not good decent. Regardless, I don't expect tomorrow's game to go very well for him.

Edited April 15, 2016 by soccer10k

[Tryptamine]

Bettis is actually pretty decent(3.85FIP,3.89xFIP), which is why I expect this to be the only game of the series the Cubs don't put up 7 or more.

[soccer10k]

Those damn Rockies pitchers and their home/road splits. Should have looked at his numbers a little closer. Just looked at his overall numbers last year without considering the team he played for. He had a nearly 5 ERA at home but a 3.35 ERA on the road.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Those damn Rockies pitchers and their home/road splits. Should have looked at his numbers a little closer. Just looked at his overall numbers last year without considering the team he played for. He had a nearly 5 ERA at home but a 3.35 ERA on the road.

 

His road ERA for 2016 is about to look very bad.

[Andy]

Ride that soccer10k wave

[UMFan83]

Bettis is actually pretty decent(3.85FIP,3.89xFIP), which is why I expect this to be the only game of the series the Cubs don't put up 7 or more.

 

Sooo, 6 then?

[Omar]

Not liking Hendricks's numbers against the Rockies hitters, but [insert some random phrase about dongs here, etc.]

 

Rockies v. Hendricks

Name               PA AB  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO   BA  OBP  SLG   OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP missG
Nolan Arenado      10  9  1  0  0  0   0  1  1 .111 .200 .111  .311  0  0   0   0         0
Charlie Blackmon   10  8  3  0  0  0   1  2  1 .375 .500 .375  .875  0  0   0   0         0
Carlos Gonzalez     9  8  3  1  0  1   3  1  1 .375 .444 .875 1.319  0  0   0   0         0
DJ LeMahieu         8  7  3  0  1  0   5  1  2 .429 .500 .714 1.214  0  0   0   0         0
Gerardo Parra       4  4  2  0  0  0   0  0  1 .500 .500 .500 1.000  0  0   0   0         0
Mark Reynolds       4  4  3  0  0  0   0  0  1 .750 .750 .750 1.500  0  0   0   0         0
Jorge De La Rosa    2  2  0  0  0  0   0  0  2 .000 .000 .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Jordan Lyles        2  2  0  0  0  0   0  0  1 .000 .000 .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Ben Paulsen         2  2  1  0  0  0   0  0  0 .500 .500 .500 1.000  0  0   0   0         0
Nick Hundley        1  1  0  0  0  0   0  0  1 .000 .000 .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Total              52 47 16  1  1  1   9  5 11 .340 .404 .468  .872  0  0   0   0         0
Has not faced: Cristhian Adames, Brandon Barnes, Ryan Raburn, Trevor Story and Tony Wolters & Has not faced pitchers: Christian Bergman, Chad Bettis, Miguel Castro, Tyler Chatwood, Jason Gurka, Boone Logan, Jake McGee, Justin Miller, Chad Qualls and Chris Rusin

 

Cubs v. Bettis

Name              PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO    BA   OBP   SLG   OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP missG
Jason Heyward      6  5 1  0  0  1   2  1  1  .200  .333  .800 1.133  0  0   0   0         0
Ben Zobrist        3  2 1  1  0  0   0  1  0  .500  .667 1.000 1.667  0  0   0   0         0
Miguel Montero     2  1 0  0  0  0   0  1  0  .000  .500  .000  .500  0  0   0   0         0
Tommy La Stella    1  1 1  0  0  0   1  0  0 1.000 1.000 1.000 2.000  0  0   0   0         0
Total             12  9 3  1  0  1   3  3  1  .333  .500  .778 1.278  0  0   0   0         0
Has not faced: Kris Bryant, Dexter Fowler, Munenori Kawasaki, Anthony Rizzo, David Ross, Addison Russell, Jorge Soler and Matt Szczur & Has not faced pitchers: Jake Arrieta, Trevor Cahill, Justin Grimm, Jason Hammel, Kyle Hendricks, John Lackey, Jon Lester, Neil Ramirez, Clayton Richard, Hector Rondon, Pedro Strop, Adam Warren and Travis Wood

[wvcbxl]

Finally a game at a decent time for me to watch live. :-D

[UMFan83]

No off days!

 

[Fred Hornkohl]

Maddon has used 9 different lineups in 10 games

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[sneakypower]

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[CubInOK]

No off days!

 

There will be dongs today.

 

Actually we'll probably walk like 10 times again.

[CubinNY]

Let the wrecking ball continue to wreck. Cubs win 12-3. Rizzo, Bryant, and Heyward all go deep. I've never had this much confidence in a Cubs team.

[Brian]

It worked yesterday so...

 

The Rockies were so scared of us destroying all their pitchers they signed Jerome Bettis to pitch?

[UMFan83]

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[Brian]

Caesar is spared execution and the mascot is sent away

[Omar]

for some reason i keep thinking jerome bettis

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Surprised to see Montero in there. To be honest, I'd almost prefer he not be in there since one of his biggest risks(injury/wearing down) is magnified with Schwarber not catching 30 games.

[CubinNY]

Surprised to see Montero in there. To be honest, I'd almost prefer he not be in there since one of his biggest risks(injury/wearing down) is magnified with Schwarber not catching 30 games.

I was thinking about that this morning. I thought for sure Ross would catch today.

 

Also, odds on Baez getting an AB today 2:1.

[Cubswin11]

Surprised to see Montero in there. To be honest, I'd almost prefer he not be in there since one of his biggest risks(injury/wearing down) is magnified with Schwarber not catching 30 games.

I wonder if we will see Contreras come up for a few weeks once we get to about June/July to catch some games in order to keep Montero fresh? There's a stretch of 20 straight games from end of June into the first weekish of July, that wouldn't be a bad time to bring him to start maybe 5 of those games.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Surprised to see Montero in there. To be honest, I'd almost prefer he not be in there since one of his biggest risks(injury/wearing down) is magnified with Schwarber not catching 30 games.

I wonder if we will see Contreras come up for a few weeks once we get to about June/July to catch some games in order to keep Montero fresh? There's a stretch of 20 straight games from end of June into the first weekish of July, that wouldn't be a bad time to bring him to start maybe 5 of those games.

 

I'm sure Contreras will be up by September, but one of the problems is one of roster spots. All the players at the bottom of the roster need to pass through waivers to be sent down(Szczur, Ramirez, Richard, etc) so you risk losing that guy for good if you do it. There are worse fates than letting Szczur go, and injuries/performance might open a more obvious spot by summer, but at the moment I'm not comfortable being certain that tradeoff will work itself out.

[UMFan83]

Surprised to see Montero in there. To be honest, I'd almost prefer he not be in there since one of his biggest risks(injury/wearing down) is magnified with Schwarber not catching 30 games.

I was thinking about that this morning. I thought for sure Ross would catch today.

 

Also, odds on Baez getting an AB today 2:1.

 

I'd say perhaps they want to start Ross when Jake is pitching just because Jake gives us the best chance of winning with less offense but do you really start Ross two straight games throughout the season? Maybe it doesn't matter much.

[Old Style]

Can someone post the lineup? Whatever site hosting the picture that was posted which I assume contains today's lineup is blocked for me at work. Thanks.

[Old Style]

Never mind. I found it on ESPN.com.

[wvcbxl]

I'm sure Contreras will be up by September, but one of the problems is one of roster spots. All the players at the bottom of the roster need to pass through waivers to be sent down(Szczur, Ramirez, Richard, etc) so you risk losing that guy for good if you do it. There are worse fates than letting Szczur go, and injuries/performance might open a more obvious spot by summer, but at the moment I'm not comfortable being certain that tradeoff will work itself out.

 

Didn't the Cubs clear a spot when the Marlins claimed Jokisch yesterday?