4/26 Brewers (Nelson) @ Cubs (Hendricks) 7:05 CSN

[Brian]

Len definitely had the start preparing your syringe voice

[Aaron_Kennelly]

And God-mode is going tomorrow to pitch another no-no.

[Schwarber Fan]

Conditions conducive for Arrieta to pull a Vander meer Edited April 27, 2016 by Schwarber Fan

[Little Slide Rooter]

A little less wind and a little younger Aaron Hill, and I've had gone to bed angry.

[Brian]

Conditions conducive for Arrieta to pull a Vandermere

 

except for the threat of rain off and on through the evening

[David]

pretty disappointed in strop costing us that spot in the top 5 all time run differentials

[Little Slide Rooter]

Middle aged white men should never do what those two did again.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Conditions conducive for Arrieta to pull a Vandermere

 

except for the threat of rain off and on through the evening

 

5 no-hit innings and they call the game. And he will be nice and fresh to get a third consecutive no-no his next start.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

pretty disappointed in strop costing us that spot in the top 5 all time run differentials

 

The good thing is that we are good enough that we will have a chance to hit that benchmark at several different intervals this season.

[BigSlick]

A little less wind and a little younger Aaron Hill, and I've had gone to bed angry.

We also would have had like 4 more runs from a Dex and a Rizzo homer each

 

Good game to grit out, even against a garbage team

[soccer10k]

A little less wind and a little younger Aaron Hill, and I've had gone to bed angry.

 

A little less wind and Fowler has a grand slam earlier so that would have cut the lead to 2 or 3.

[Cubswin11]

A little less wind and a little younger Aaron Hill, and I've had gone to bed angry.

Fowler and Rizzo both had balls held up too that if they weren't HRs both would been rbi doubles or triples.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

We didn't reach 10 games over .500 until August 2nd last year.

[soccer10k]

pretty disappointed in strop costing us that spot in the top 5 all time run differentials

 

The good thing is that we are good enough that we will have a chance to hit that benchmark at several different intervals this season.

 

The top-5 RDs after 21 games are 91, 86, 84, 73 and 71.

[chuckywang]

pretty disappointed in strop costing us that spot in the top 5 all time run differentials

 

The good thing is that we are good enough that we will have a chance to hit that benchmark at several different intervals this season.

 

The top-5 RDs after 21 games are 91, 86, 84, 73 and 71.

 

This sucks. You guys got me as concerned about RD as wins-losses. We could win rest of the games from here on out, but if the RD isn't historic, I won't be satisfied.

[soccer10k]

Second best 20-game start for the Cubs since 1900. Only one better was 1907, when they started 16-4. They've started 14-6 on six occasions.

 

Related note, I was wondering when the 1906 team got so hot, since they also started 14-6, so I looked up the schedule. At one point, they were 68-30, which was a pace of 105.4 wins. They then finished 48-6, including a stretch of 37-2 with winning streaks of 11, 14 and 12.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Second best 20-game start for the Cubs since 1900. Only one better was 1907, when they started 16-4. They've started 14-6 on six occasions.

 

Related note, I was wondering when the 1906 team got so hot, since they also started 14-6, so I looked up the schedule. At one point, they were 68-30, which was a pace of 105.4 wins. They then finished 48-6, including a stretch of 37-2 with winning streaks of 11, 14 and 12.

 

I remember when the 2016 Cubs started 15-5 only to finish 135-7 to finish the season. It was a really terrible first 20 games.

[weis21]

What happened to the other 20 games?

[Andy]

What happened to the other 20 games?

We played them. "Finish with a 135-7 stretch" is what he was going for there.

[weis21]

What happened to the other 20 games?

We played them. "Finish with a 135-7 stretch" is what he was going for there.

Aye. I'm slow - thanks.

[Careless]

That Baez slide is one of my favorite things so far this season