6/4 diamondbacks (escobar) @ cubs (hammel) 120 cdt, wgn

[treebird]

welcome to gam thread i am treymon

 

cubs pretended like they might not dominate but that was a joke

 

now time for the real nachos everyone pick a fancy cheese

[Aaron_Kennelly]

We are going to dong the hell out of this chump.

[Omar]

Cubs v. Escobar

Name          PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO    BA   OBP   SLG   OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP missG
Ben Zobrist    1  1 1  1  0  0   1  0  0 1.000 1.000 2.000 3.000  0  0   0   0         0
Total          1  1 1  1  0  0   1  0  0 1.000 1.000 2.000 3.000  0  0   0   0         0

 

D'Backs v. Hammel

Name                 PA AB  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO   BA  OBP  SLG   OPS SH SF IBB HBP GDP missG
Michael Bourn        20 19  4  2  0  0   1  1  2 .211 .250 .316  .566  0  0   0   0         0
Jean Segura          18 17  3  1  0  0   0  0  4 .176 .176 .235  .412  1  0   0   0         0
Paul Goldschmidt     12 11  4  1  0  1   4  1  2 .364 .417 .727 1.144  0  0   1   0         0
Rickie Weeks          9  8  3  1  0  0   0  1  1 .375 .444 .500  .944  0  0   1   0         0
Josh Collmenter       6  5  2  0  0  0   1  0  1 .400 .400 .400  .800  1  0   0   0         0
Nick Ahmed            5  4  1  0  1  0   0  1  1 .250 .400 .750 1.150  0  0   0   0         0
Chris Owings          5  5  1  0  0  0   0  0  1 .200 .200 .200  .400  0  0   0   0         0
Zack Greinke          4  2  0  0  0  0   0  1  0 .000 .333 .000  .333  1  0   0   0         0
Welington Castillo    3  2  0  0  0  0   0  1  2 .000 .333 .000  .333  0  0   0   0         0
Philip Gosselin       2  2  1  0  0  0   0  0  0 .500 .500 .500 1.000  0  0   0   0         0
Jake Lamb             2  2  0  0  0  0   0  0  0 .000 .000 .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Robbie Ray            2  2  0  0  0  0   0  0  1 .000 .000 .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Yasmany Tomas         2  2  0  0  0  0   0  0  1 .000 .000 .000  .000  0  0   0   0         0
Total                90 81 19  5  1  1   6  6 16 .235 .287 .358  .645  3  0   2   0         0
Has not faced: Brandon Drury and Chris Herrmann & Has not faced pitchers: Jake Barrett, Silvino Bracho, Archie Bradley, Tyler Clippard, Patrick Corbin, Zac Curtis, Randall Delgado, Edwin Escobar, Daniel Hudson and Brad Ziegler

[badger]

We are so good I don't even know how to behave around my non-Cubs friends. I think I've already thoroughly annoyed them . :shrug:

[Sammys Boombox]

We are so good I don't even know how to behave around my non-Cubs friends. I think I've already thoroughly annoyed them . :shrug:

 

Likewise

[weis21]

anyone else read tree's gam thread posts with the voice of the Sasha Vujacic "The Machine" videos in your head?

 

 

I think it makes me loves the gam thread posts even more (if that is possible).

[UMFan83]

Hate to be the Rondon Fan here but expect delays today

[NOLA]

Hate to be the Rondon Fan here but expect delays today

Weather Channel makes it look like the last of it will move through at 1pm.

[UMFan83]

Hate to be the Rondon Fan here but expect delays today

Weather Channel makes it look like the last of it will move through at 1pm.

 

Strange, yahoo weather (on iphone) has the rain starting at 1 and going until 10 pm

 

Or weather channel online:

 

[NOLA]

Hate to be the Rondon Fan here but expect delays today

Weather Channel makes it look like the last of it will move through at 1pm.

 

Strange, yahoo weather (on iphone) has the rain starting at 1 and going until 10 pm

I was mostly looking at future radar while waking up and drinking coffee. Your forecast is probably more accurate.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

 

3 game winning streak nachos, back to normal.

[UMFan83]

[CubInOK]

 

3 game winning streak nachos, back to normal.

I was think more like these.

http://www.grubgrade.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/nachos.png

[raw]

It's at the point now, where I look at the schedule and have a hard time finding games the Cubs could potentially lose. Obviously, they have 5 of the best starters and the best offense on earth right now, so it's not like I'm looking for a non-favorable pitching matchup or a better scoring offense. But at this point, the Cubs only basically lose if they face a pitcher with the potential to dominate, actually dominates, and does so longer or as well as the Cubs' starter. Their last losses have come against starters who at least have some history of putting together at least the occasional dominant performance. Kazmir, Wainwright, Bumgarner, Cole, and apparently Pomeranz has that ability now. Bradley yesterday was probably the best chance I see for a guy to dominate the Cubs hitters (and he did) until they see Scherzer on the 13th. And obviously, the Cubs destroyed him a few weeks ago.

 

So, basically the Cubs should continue to win a lot of games unless their starters implode. This is pretty much how I imagined this team when I saw how it was constructed. Run-of-the-mill pitchers do not have success against them. And fortunately, the league is full of those types of guys.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I am at a high school softball tournament. I have in fact already eaten nachos this fine morning

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I should have put nachos in quotation marks

[David]

Weather Channel makes it look like the last of it will move through at 1pm.

 

Strange, yahoo weather (on iphone) has the rain starting at 1 and going until 10 pm

I was mostly looking at future radar while waking up and drinking coffee. Your forecast is probably more accurate.

 

nah, what he's showing is what weather channel had last night...accuweatehr just had a storm maybe in the middle of the game. now both are showing it that way.

[David]

It's at the point now, where I look at the schedule and have a hard time finding games the Cubs could potentially lose. Obviously, they have 5 of the best starters and the best offense on earth right now, so it's not like I'm looking for a non-favorable pitching matchup or a better scoring offense. But at this point, the Cubs only basically lose if they face a pitcher with the potential to dominate, actually dominates, and does so longer or as well as the Cubs' starter. Their last losses have come against starters who at least have some history of putting together at least the occasional dominant performance. Kazmir, Wainwright, Bumgarner, Cole, and apparently Pomeranz has that ability now. Bradley yesterday was probably the best chance I see for a guy to dominate the Cubs hitters (and he did) until they see Scherzer on the 13th. And obviously, the Cubs destroyed him a few weeks ago.

 

this is kind of silly. the cubs are going to be favored in every game short of maybe a hammel vs kershaw type matchup where a good team has a great starter going against one of our lesser ones, but they can potentially lose literally any game, and it wouldn't be unlikely enough to be considered at all shocking. this is baseball.

[UMFan83]

 

Strange, yahoo weather (on iphone) has the rain starting at 1 and going until 10 pm

I was mostly looking at future radar while waking up and drinking coffee. Your forecast is probably more accurate.

 

nah, what he's showing is what weather channel had last night...accuweatehr just had a storm maybe in the middle of the game. now both are showing it that way.

 

I posted a picture taken at 8:30 this morning of the forecast. I guess it changed

[UMFan83]

[David]

I was mostly looking at future radar while waking up and drinking coffee. Your forecast is probably more accurate.

 

nah, what he's showing is what weather channel had last night...accuweatehr just had a storm maybe in the middle of the game. now both are showing it that way.

 

I posted a picture taken at 8:30 this morning of the forecast. I guess it changed

 

yeah i'm sure twc was showing the same thing then that i saw at like 2 or whenever i went to bed

[Agony and Ivy]

According to my weather report there should be a 3 hour window from midnight to 3am to get this one in

[NOLA]

I've loved everything about Maddon and this team so far. Please do not let this be a thing.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

 

I can only imagine what Fedorowicz's is.

[Bull]

 

I can only imagine what Fedorowicz's is.

I always call him Federal Offence