05/24 CUBS (Hammel) @ St. Louis (Wacha) 6:10 CDT, CSN/ESPN

[Butterscup]

OH MY GAWD, THAT'S BUTTERS(CUP)'S MUSIC.

 

Cubs blew it tonight, but the Cardinals are still actual trash. However, I'm here to Make The Cubs Great Again. I jumped back into Game Threads last season and won a crapload of games. Let's do it again.

 

Jason Hammel

5-1, 2.31 ERA, 43 K/18 BB

 

vs.

 

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Michael Wacha

2-4, 4.03 ERA, 44 K/18 BB

 

Enough of this garbage. I am ready for runs and dongs and wins.

[Sammy Sofa]

OH MY GAWD, THAT'S BUTTERS(CUP)'S MUSIC.

 

AS GAWD IS MY WITNESS, THE CUBS' OFFENSE IS BROKEN IN HALF!!!

[Cubswin11]

RIDE THE BUTTERS WAVE

[UMFan83]

I'd rather have any pitcher but Hammel going tomorrow. Oh well we still win

[BigSlick]

butters has the good juju

 

butters give us another 9 game winning streak please brutha

[Ding Dong Johnson]

ballgame

[Butterscup]

butters has the good juju

 

butters give us another 9 game winning streak please brutha

 

too low.

 

sorry in advance to the next game thread starter. see you in july.

[treebird]

FUN FACT i am the next game thread starter after butters.

 

if i'm starting the game thread after tomorrow's game, there will be a fatalism thread to go along with it.

[Butterscup]

FUN FACT i am the next game thread starter after butters.

 

if i'm starting the game thread after tomorrow's game, there will be a fatalism thread to go along with it.

 

you might as well #deleteyouraccount because your services will not be required here for awhile.

[soccer10k]

The Cubs didn't have a 4-9 stretch all of last year. Let's not have one this year either.

[Cubswin11]

Wacha is a reverse splits guy, wouldn't be surprised if we see the same lineup as game 1 and maybe even Ross start over Montero.

[Omar]

Cubs v. Wacha

Name               PA AB  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO   BA  OBP   SLG   OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP missG
Anthony Rizzo      25 24 10  0  0  2   4  1  2 .417 .440  .667 1.107  0  0   0   0         0
Miguel Montero     18 16  2  1  0  0   4  2  5 .125 .222  .188  .410  0  0   1   0         2
Kris Bryant        14 13  5  1  1  2   5  1  5 .385 .429 1.077 1.505  0  0   0   0         0
Dexter Fowler       9  8  2  0  0  0   0  1  0 .250 .333  .250  .583  0  0   0   0         0
Jorge Soler         9  6  3  0  0  1   1  3  2 .500 .667 1.000 1.667  0  0   0   0         0
Addison Russell     8  7  1  0  1  0   0  1  2 .143 .250  .429  .679  0  0   0   0         1
Javier Baez         5  5  2  2  0  0   0  0  2 .400 .400  .800 1.200  0  0   0   0         0
Jake Arrieta        4  4  0  0  0  0   0  0  3 .000 .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Jason Hammel        4  4  1  0  0  0   1  0  1 .250 .250  .250  .500  0  0   0   0         0
David Ross          4  3  0  0  0  0   0  1  2 .000 .250  .000  .250  0  0   0   0         0
Trevor Cahill       3  2  0  0  0  0   0  1  1 .000 .333  .000  .333  0  0   0   0         0
Travis Wood         3  2  0  0  0  0   0  1  2 .000 .333  .000  .333  0  0   0   0         0
Ben Zobrist         3  3  1  0  0  0   0  0  0 .333 .333  .333  .667  0  0   0   0         0
Clayton Richard     1  1  0  0  0  0   0  0  0 .000 .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Total             110 98 27  4  2  5  15 12 27 .276 .355  .510  .865  0  0   1   0         3
Has not faced: Tim Federowicz, Jason Heyward, Tommy La Stella and Matt Szczur & Has not faced pitchers: Justin Grimm, Kyle Hendricks, John Lackey, Jon Lester, Hector Rondon, Pedro Strop and Adam Warren

 

Cards v. Hammel

Name                 PA  AB  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO   BA  OBP   SLG   OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP missG
Matt Holliday        19  16  5  3  0  0   0  2  5 .313 .421  .500  .921  0  0   0   1         0
Matt Carpenter       17  17  3  1  0  0   1  0  7 .176 .176  .235  .412  0  0   0   0         0
Yadier Molina        16  15  7  3  1  0   3  1  1 .467 .500  .800 1.300  0  0   0   0         1
Brandon Moss         12  12  3  1  0  0   1  0  3 .250 .250  .333  .583  0  0   0   0         0
Matt Adams            9   9  4  2  0  0   1  0  1 .444 .444  .667 1.111  0  0   0   0         0
Randal Grichuk        9   9  3  0  1  1   3  0  2 .333 .333  .889 1.222  0  0   0   0         0
Jedd Gyorko           8   8  1  0  0  0   0  0  4 .125 .125  .125  .250  0  0   0   0         0
Kolten Wong           6   5  1  1  0  0   0  0  2 .200 .333  .400  .733  0  0   0   1         0
Stephen Piscotty      5   4  2  0  1  1   2  1  1 .500 .600 1.750 2.350  0  0   0   0         0
Ruben Tejada          5   4  0  0  0  0   0  1  1 .000 .200  .000  .200  0  0   0   0         0
Jeremy Hazelbaker     3   3  0  0  0  0   0  0  1 .000 .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Michael Wacha         3   3  1  0  0  0   2  0  1 .333 .333  .333  .667  0  0   0   0         0
Jaime Garcia          2   2  0  0  0  0   0  0  0 .000 .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Carlos Martinez       2   2  0  0  0  0   0  0  2 .000 .000  .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Total               116 109 30 11  3  2  13  5 31 .275 .319  .486  .805  0  0   0   2         1
Has not faced: Aledmys Diaz and Eric Fryer & Has not faced pitchers: Matthew Bowman, Jonathan Broxton, Dean Kiekhefer, Mike Leake, Tyler Lyons, Seung-hwan Oh, Trevor Rosenthal, Kevin Siegrist and Adam Wainwright

[Little Slide Rooter]

What we could really use is some kind of Bryan LaHair/Jake Fox type beast to emerge and mindless crush fastballs for a few weeks and then galumph off into the sunset.

[Little Slide Rooter]

It's felt like this teams been in a collective slump since the Cole game, but it really hasn't. Over the past 7 games:

 

We've got 2 guys in beast mode-

 

Zobrist: .429/.484/.607

Miggy: .357/.526/.500

 

Some respectable but not spectacular stretches-

Fowler: .241/.371/.448

Bryant: .250/.364/.571

Heyward: .269/.367/.385

Soler: .238/.333/.476

 

And some vomit inducing slumps:

Rizzo: .074/.194/.074

Russell: .083/.154/.125

Baez: .105/.105/.105 (there's something impressive, if not majestic about that, even at such a SSS.)

 

And we've had very solid starting pitching other than Lester the other night.

 

Put it all together, and it's not so much a slump as it is a string of baseball is stupid type close games that didn't go our way.

[wvcbxl]

Put it all together, and it's not so much a slump as it is a string of baseball is stupid type close games that didn't go our way.

 

Which is exactly why I'm not worried.

[bcl412]

There's a small part of me that's like "what if we never put it together again!" but all the math seems to say we're fine and if we end this slump soon it's pretty likely our division lead sky rockets. I hate the stupid cardinals and i hate that games like last night which happened in stupid may almost pissed me off like a playoff lost.

 

Destroy these idiots.

[raw]

Win or I'll become homi/sui/genocidal. Thanks.

[Sammy Sofa]

What we could really use is some kind of Bryan LaHair/Jake Fox type beast to emerge and mindless crush fastballs for a few weeks and then galumph off into the sunset.

 

How dare you.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

WACHA WACHA

[weis21]

Win or I'll become homi/sui/genocidal. Thanks.

HOLD THE DOOR!

[David]

What we could really use is some kind of Bryan LaHair/Jake Fox type beast to emerge and mindless crush fastballs for a few weeks and then galumph off into the sunset.

 

How dare you.

 

Not mention Julio Zuleta? Agreed.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

We're gonna hit the brakes and let 'em fly right by, then blow them out of the sky.

[Omar]

What we could really use is some kind of Bryan LaHair/Jake Fox type beast to emerge and mindless crush fastballs for a few weeks and then galumph off into the sunset.

 

or, you know, Wilson Contreras

[CubInOK]

What we could really use is some kind of Bryan LaHair/Jake Fox type beast to emerge and mindless crush fastballs for a few weeks and then galumph off into the sunset.

 

How dare you.

 

Not mention Julio Zuleta? Agreed.

Maybe Julio Zuleta can get the bad juju out of Soler's bat.

[Clem Fandango]

Some respectable but not spectacular stretches-

Bryant: .250/.364/.571

 

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