5/1 Braves (Teheran) @ Cubs (Lackey) 1:20 WGN

[bukie]

People are getting so starved for things to complain about they decided to be miserable for the majority of a 6-1 game. Ski and Rondon Fan were falling over themselves to try to be the first to declare the ballgame over, but it was not to be. What we got instead was 7 innings of 1-run baseball pitched by Lester and the offense scoring 6 of 12 base runners over 8 innings.

 

Next up we turn to NSBs favorite whipping boy, John Lackey, hoping that he can hold a historically bad offense at bay until a historically good offense gets going.

Edited April 30, 2016 by bukie

[Ding Dong Johnson]

wasn't I first?

[Omar]

Braves v. Lackey

Name               PA  AB  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO   BA  OBP   SLG   OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP missG
Nick Markakis      77  68 23  6  1  0   6  8 14 .338 .416  .456  .871  0  0   0   1         2
A.J. Pierzynski    56  52 11  2  0  0   3  3  8 .212 .250  .250  .500  0  1   1   0         2
Kelly Johnson      23  23  5  1  0  0   2  0  6 .217 .217  .261  .478  0  0   0   0         2
Erick Aybar        12  12  3  0  0  0   0  0  2 .250 .250  .250  .500  0  0   0   0         0
Jeff Francoeur      6   6  1  1  0  0   0  0  0 .167 .167  .333  .500  0  0   0   0         0
Tyler Flowers       3   3  1  0  0  0   0  0  1 .333 .333  .333  .667  0  0   0   0         1
Freddie Freeman     3   3  1  1  0  0   0  0  1 .333 .333  .667 1.000  0  0   0   0         0
Daniel Castro       2   2  0  0  0  0   0  0  0 .000 .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Adonis Garcia       2   2  1  0  0  1   1  0  0 .500 .500 2.000 2.500  0  0   0   0         0
Drew Stubbs         2   2  0  0  0  0   0  0  1 .000 .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Total             186 173 46 11  1  1  12 11 33 .266 .312  .358  .670  0  1   1   1         7
Has not faced: Jace Peterson and Mallex Smith & Has not faced pitchers: Aaron Blair, Hunter Cervenka, Jhoulys Chacin, John Gant, Jason Grilli, Jim Johnson, Bud Norris, Eric O'Flaherty, Alexi Ogando, Julio Teheran, Arodys Vizcaino, Matt Wisler and Chris Withrow

 

Cubs v. Teheran

Name              PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO   BA  OBP  SLG   OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP missG
Anthony Rizzo     14 13 2  1  0  1   2  1  4 .154 .214 .462  .676  0  0   0   0         0
Dexter Fowler      9  6 2  0  0  0   0  3  0 .333 .556 .333  .889  0  0   0   0         1
Kris Bryant        3  2 0  0  0  0   0  1  2 .000 .333 .000  .333  0  0   0   0         0
Jason Hammel       2  2 0  0  0  0   0  0  1 .000 .000 .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Kyle Hendricks     2  2 0  0  0  0   0  0  0 .000 .000 .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Addison Russell    2  2 1  0  0  0   0  0  0 .500 .500 .500 1.000  0  0   0   0         0
Jorge Soler        2  2 1  0  0  0   2  0  0 .500 .500 .500 1.000  0  0   0   0         0
Travis Wood        2  2 0  0  0  0   0  0  1 .000 .000 .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Total             36 31 6  1  0  1   4  5  8 .194 .306 .323  .628  0  0   0   0         1
Has not faced: Javier Baez, Tim Federowicz, Jason Heyward, Tommy La Stella, David Ross, Matt Szczur and Ben Zobrist & Has not faced pitchers: Jake Arrieta, Trevor Cahill, Justin Grimm, John Lackey, Jon Lester, Neil Ramirez, Clayton Richard, Hector Rondon, Pedro Strop and Adam Warren

[Schwarber Fan]

Rainout

[Omar]

another day for chinese food

 

http://i.imgur.com/MwhV8xm.png

[CubInOK]

I guess rain is the only thing that can stop the Cubs.

[Omar]

Double header Sunday?

[TruffleShuffle]

yeah, this game is not happening, unless they move first pitch forward to like 8am.

[Tim]

Honestly, Atlanta should just forfeit. They don't have a chance, anyway.

[Thusly Boned]

April baseball in the north sucks. There's nothing to be done for it, but it still blows.

[UMFan83]

If it's cancelled I hope they do play a DH Sunday. Really want Lester and Jake both pitching in the Pirates series

[bukie]

If the Cubs can just maintain this pace for the rest of the year, they will break the winning percentage record of the 1906 Cubs and finish with 125 wins.

[weis21]

wtf. horsefeathers rain

[Transmogrified Tiger]

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[Liam Neeson]

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[bcl412]

Double header tomorrow woulda been way cooler

[UMFan83]

So Arrieta, Lester, Lackey becomes Hammel, Hendricks, Arrieta for the Pittsburgh series. It's nice to have 5 pitches you are quasi confident about

[UMFan83]

Nevermind...

 

https://twitter.com/carriemuskat/status/726437442019008512

 

I really don't see the point of skipping Hendricks so early in the season when extra rest would surely benefit our top 3

[Cubbie Swagger]

Selfishly, I'm kinda okay with this. I have a ton of horsefeathers to do today and I didn't want to have to miss a game.

[KaiserCesar]

Maybe playing matchups with Hendricks. Pittsburgh hit him about as hard as anyone last year.

[David]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/CarrieMuskat/status/726445022468403202[/tweet]

[Clem Fandango]

Damn. If I'm not mistaken, a win today would've been a franchise record for most wins in April. Stupid rain.

[BigSlick]

Two postponements in a week makes me a sad Cub.

 

Avoiding Hendricks is smart, provided it's not too much on Lester and Arrieta this season (and Jake got an extra day this week too)

 

That Pirates lineup is nasty, 1-8 they all have OPS+ over 100. Polanco and Marte both turned a corner and are scary good right now. Weirdly their pitching like totally collapsed though, so some slugfests may be incoming.

[UMFan83]

Two postponements in a week makes me a sad Cub.

 

Yeah plus an off day on Monday. 3 off days this week.

 

That Pirates lineup is nasty, 1-8 they all have OPS+ over 100.

 

Yeah but their BABIP is ridiculous and unsustainable.

[Clem Fandango]

Polanco and Marte both turned a corner and are scary good right now.

 

Marte has been pretty great for 3 years running now. Polanco I hadn't noticed. He's got a 12:16 K:BB ratio right now. That's nuts considering last year he ended with a ratio of 121:55. He's also the 6th best player by fWAR standards. but it's cool, Dex is still #1.