4/20 CUBS (Hendricks) @ cards (Martinez) 12:45 CSN/MLBN

[sweetpeteman]

Alright, lets sweep these chumps.

 

 

However, to do it, the offense might need to help as well.

[RammyFanny]

Win on my birthday, superCubs.

[NOLA]

Ugh. At work for this one. Let's go offense.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

hash tag shameless birthday plug

[Sammy Sofa]

Give me dongs or give the Cardinals death.

[fallacy]

If Heyward will stop being as useless at the plate as he is amazing in the field, that would make me happy. Rizzo too

[Omar]

Cubs v. Martinez

Name              PA AB  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO    BA   OBP   SLG   OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP missG
Anthony Rizzo     15 12  3  1  0  1   5  2  1  .250  .333  .583  .917  0  1   1   0         0
Dexter Fowler     14 12  4  1  0  0   2  2  3  .333  .429  .417  .845  0  0   0   0         0
Kris Bryant        9  7  1  0  0  0   0  2  3  .143  .333  .143  .476  0  0   0   0         0
Miguel Montero     9  7  2  1  0  0   3  2  4  .286  .444  .429  .873  0  0   0   0         1
Addison Russell    9  9  3  0  0  0   0  0  1  .333  .333  .333  .667  0  0   0   0         0
Tommy La Stella    7  6  2  1  0  0   1  1  0  .333  .429  .500  .929  0  0   0   0         0
David Ross         7  7  1  0  0  0   0  0  0  .143  .143  .143  .286  0  0   0   0         0
Jon Lester         5  5  2  0  0  0   0  0  1  .400  .400  .400  .800  0  0   0   0         0
Javier Baez        3  3  2  0  0  0   0  0  1  .667  .667  .667 1.333  0  0   0   0         0
Jason Hammel       2  2  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  .000  .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Jason Heyward      2  2  1  0  0  0   0  0  0  .500  .500  .500 1.000  0  0   0   0         0
Travis Wood        2  2  1  0  0  0   1  0  1  .500  .500  .500 1.000  0  0   0   0         0
Jorge Soler        1  1  1  1  0  0   0  0  0 1.000 1.000 2.000 3.000  0  0   0   0         0
Total             85 75 23  5  0  1  12  9 15  .307  .376  .413  .790  0  1   1   0         1
Has not faced: Matt Szczur and Ben Zobrist & Has not faced pitchers: Jake Arrieta, Trevor Cahill, Justin Grimm, Kyle Hendricks, John Lackey, Neil Ramirez, Clayton Richard, Hector Rondon, Pedro Strop and Adam Warren

 

Cards v. Hendricks

Name               PA AB  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO   BA  OBP   SLG   OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP missG
Matt Carpenter     14 12  7  0  0  2   4  2  0 .583 .643 1.083 1.726  0  0   0   0         0
Matt Holliday      14 14  6  0  0  2   4  0  1 .429 .429  .857 1.286  0  0   0   0         1
Kolten Wong        12 11  3  1  0  1   1  1  1 .273 .333  .636  .970  0  0   0   0         2
Matt Adams         11 10  0  0  0  0   0  1  1 .000 .091  .000  .091  0  0   0   0         0
Yadier Molina       9  8  1  0  0  0   1  0  2 .125 .222  .125  .347  0  0   0   1         1
Mike Leake          5  5  0  0  0  0   0  0  3 .000 .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Randal Grichuk      3  3  2  1  0  1   1  0  0 .667 .667 2.000 2.667  0  0   0   0         0
Jedd Gyorko         3  3  0  0  0  0   0  0  1 .000 .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Ruben Tejada        3  3  0  0  0  0   0  0  2 .000 .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Brandon Moss        2  2  0  0  0  0   0  0  2 .000 .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Stephen Piscotty    2  2  1  0  0  0   0  0  1 .500 .500  .500 1.000  0  0   0   0         0
Adam Wainwright     2  2  0  0  0  0   0  0  0 .000 .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Tyler Lyons         1  1  0  0  0  0   0  0  0 .000 .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Total              81 76 20  2  0  6  11  4 14 .263 .309  .526  .835  0  0   0   1         4
Has not faced: Aledmys Diaz, Eric Fryer and Jeremy Hazelbaker & Has not faced pitchers: Matthew Bowman, Jonathan Broxton, Jaime Garcia, Seth Maness, Carlos Martinez, Seung-hwan Oh, Trevor Rosenthal, Kevin Siegrist and Michael Wacha

[David]

If Heyward will stop being as useless at the plate as he is amazing in the field, that would make me happy.

 

did you watch either of the last two games?

[BigSlick]

I look forward to Kyle Hendricks' bases clearing 3 run double

[bukie]

I look forward to Kyle Hendricks' bases clearing 3 run double

...to cap off an 8 run first.

[Bote McBoteface]

Cards are 0-5 against the only 2 good teams in this division. Lets make it 0-6.

[David]

oh damnit...this is a day game? horsefeathers

[fallacy]

If Heyward will stop being as useless at the plate as he is amazing in the field, that would make me happy.

 

did you watch either of the last two games?

 

Yeah. He's been a bit unlucky. It's more me expecting more out of a 180 million dollar player. After watching Soler try to move around in the outfield I am very thankful for his defense.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

The Cardinals are still tied for second in MLB in run differential and we can send them under .500 tomorrow. Let's do that.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I don't want to overstate the importance of a single game in April, but this would be a really important game for the Cards not to lose. To fall 5 back, with your best pitcher on the mound against one of the Cubs' worst, to get swept against the team you're chasing at home when they don't throw either of their top 2 starters, would be bad news.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

I don't want to overstate the importance of a single game in April, but this would be a really important game for the Cards not to lose. To fall 5 back, with your best pitcher on the mound against one of the Cubs' worst, to get swept against the team you're chasing at home when they don't throw either of their top 2 starters, would be bad news.

 

Yeah, especially when the team that would be 5 up on you is also a better baseball team.

[Cubswin11]

I don't want to overstate the importance of a single game in April, but this would be a really important game for the Cards not to lose. To fall 5 back, with your best pitcher on the mound against one of the Cubs' worst, to get swept against the team you're chasing at home when they don't throw either of their top 2 starters, would be bad news.

I agree

 

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[MWV]

To echo TT, I know the season is less than 10% complete, but I want this one sooooo horsefeathering bad.

Sweep the cardinals. Sweep their Piscottys. Sweep their Hazelbakers. Sweep all their production conjured from nothing.

Sweep them.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

And, after the Pirates loss, we are starting play tomorrow four games clear in the division.

[Cubswin11]

Guessing Montero starts this game, even tho it's day game after a night game with Martinez's L/R splits and Ross will be starting the next 2 games in Cincy with facing a LHP and then Lester starts.

[Thusly Boned]

I don't want to overstate the importance of a single game in April, but this would be a really important game for the Cards not to lose. To fall 5 back, with your best pitcher on the mound against one of the Cubs' worst, to get swept against the team you're chasing at home when they don't throw either of their top 2 starters, would be bad news.

 

Yeah, coming into this series, I was prepared for the Cubs to lose two of three, given the pitching matchups. If this ends in a sweep, it will feel like a bonus for the Cubs, but it would have to be at least moderately demoralizing to the Cards. And really, the series has been already, since they seemed to have gained some confidence in their offense (which was a huge question coming in to the season and after the Pittsburgh series) whilst beating up on awful teams.

 

That confidence has to have been shaken a tad by these last two games. The Cubs could be five up, and they haven't even started hitting yet.

[raw]

Jason Heyward- .220 avg, .474 OPS

Anthony Rizzo: .163 avg

Ben Zobrist: .224/.625

Addison Russell: .222/.632

Jorge Soler: .200 avg

Kyle Schwarber hurt after 5 plate appearances

 

Yet the Cubs are 11-3.

[ScrubMD]

I wonder if Cardinal fans are still upset that the Cubs haven't played any good teams.

[Omar]

lets sweep these [expletive]

[ScrubMD]

5 games up is better than 3 games up. I want to be 5 games up. Give me what I want, Cubs.