05/25 CUBS (Arrieta) @ St. Louis (Martinez) 12:45 CDT, ABC7

[Stu]

In that photo, Martinez looks like he was just informed he has to face Arrieta.

 

Or, he's been told that his container load of Valtrex has been lost at sea.

 

 

Thanks, now there's a record of me searching for "Valtrex" on my work computer!

[Tim]

lol @ the dye job

[Agony and Ivy]

Nice hair Carlos.

[Agony and Ivy]

Completely anecdotal but I feel like we don't hit Martinez well. Also, when do teams start putting all 8 defenders at 2B when facing Heyward?

 

Edit: mainly because he's a pretty good pitcher with a questionable sexual history and even more questionable Twitter history. ****For anyone at work do not google carlos martinez twitter****

Edited May 25, 2016 by Agony and Ivy

[UMFan83]

OK Heyward is stealing the '4-3' nickname away from Juan Pierre.

[UMFan83]

Completely anecdotal but I feel like we don't hit Martinez well. Also, when do teams start putting all 8 defenders at 2B when facing Heyward?

 

In the 6 games against the Cardinals in September 2015, the Cubs went 4-2. Those 2 losses were both games started by Carlos Martinez, although I will say in neither game was he particularly great.

 

He's never lost to the Cubs as well.

[David]

Completely anecdotal but I feel like we don't hit Martinez well. Also, when do teams start putting all 8 defenders at 2B when facing Heyward?

 

In the 6 games against the Cardinals in September 2015, the Cubs went 4-2. Those 2 losses were both games started by Carlos Martinez, although I will say in neither game was he particularly great.

 

He's never lost to the Cubs as well.

 

Was Martinez the pitcher in that awful game at Busch last year when we scored like 5 runs in the first and then lost?

[illiniguy]

Completely anecdotal but I feel like we don't hit Martinez well. Also, when do teams start putting all 8 defenders at 2B when facing Heyward?

 

In the 6 games against the Cardinals in September 2015, the Cubs went 4-2. Those 2 losses were both games started by Carlos Martinez, although I will say in neither game was he particularly great.

 

He's never lost to the Cubs as well.

 

Was Martinez the pitcher in that awful game at Busch last year when we scored like 5 runs in the first and then lost?

Yep. I think.

[UMFan83]

Completely anecdotal but I feel like we don't hit Martinez well. Also, when do teams start putting all 8 defenders at 2B when facing Heyward?

 

In the 6 games against the Cardinals in September 2015, the Cubs went 4-2. Those 2 losses were both games started by Carlos Martinez, although I will say in neither game was he particularly great.

 

He's never lost to the Cubs as well.

 

Was Martinez the pitcher in that awful game at Busch last year when we scored like 5 runs in the first and then lost?

 

Yep

[Agony and Ivy]

Completely anecdotal but I feel like we don't hit Martinez well. Also, when do teams start putting all 8 defenders at 2B when facing Heyward?

 

In the 6 games against the Cardinals in September 2015, the Cubs went 4-2. Those 2 losses were both games started by Carlos Martinez, although I will say in neither game was he particularly great.

 

He's never lost to the Cubs as well.

 

Was Martinez the pitcher in that awful game at Busch last year when we scored like 5 runs in the first and then lost?

 

I think he was and we had Wood on the mound right?

[Agony and Ivy]

What if Rizzo never dongs again?

[Fred Hornkohl]

CUBS are 8-2 (.800) when they score in the first inning.... 22-12 (.647) when they don't

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[Sammy Sofa]

Completely anecdotal but I feel like we don't hit Martinez well. Also, when do teams start putting all 8 defenders at 2B when facing Heyward?

 

In the 6 games against the Cardinals in September 2015, the Cubs went 4-2. Those 2 losses were both games started by Carlos Martinez, although I will say in neither game was he particularly great.

 

He's never lost to the Cubs as well.

 

Was Martinez the pitcher in that awful game at Busch last year when we scored like 5 runs in the first and then lost?

 

There's no way such a game happened. Why would your brain be so cruel to you and actually remember something like that?

[David]

 

In the 6 games against the Cardinals in September 2015, the Cubs went 4-2. Those 2 losses were both games started by Carlos Martinez, although I will say in neither game was he particularly great.

 

He's never lost to the Cubs as well.

 

Was Martinez the pitcher in that awful game at Busch last year when we scored like 5 runs in the first and then lost?

 

There's no way such a game happened. Why would your brain be so cruel to you and actually remember something like that?

 

There are two regular season losses I remember well from last year. That one, and Strop at Wrigley (also vs. that terrible team).

[Omar]

Nsbb panic attack: begin

[UMFan83]

Ugh, a perfectly placed soft single, 2 ground balls and another perfectly placed grounder and Jake has given up a run

[David]

oh god damnit

[Agony and Ivy]

Baseball sucks again

[Fred Hornkohl]

CUBS are 25-12 (.676) when they don't allow any first inning runs.... 5-2 (.714) when they do

CUBS are 17-3 (.850) when they score first in the game.... 13-11 (.542) when they don't

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[Banedon]

Nsbb panic attack: begin

 

Nah, no hard contact yet.

[rocket]

dammit jake

[rocket]

this game is on MLB Network with Len and JD, fyi

[UMFan83]

dammit jake

 

What is that 4 straight starts giving up an ER? What the hell is wrong with him?

 

Edit: and 5 of 6!!!

[Fred Hornkohl]

P/PA through 1 inning(s)....

 

CUBS: 5.25

St. Louis 2.40

 

 

 

Go CUBS !!

[UMFan83]

It was 361 days between 1st inning runs allowed by Jake