6/8 Cubs (Lackey) @ Phillies (Velasquez) - 12:05 pm CST (CSN)

[haubrich91]

[highlight=#0000BF]Chicago Cubs[/highlight] (40-17) @ [highlight=red]Philadelphia Phillies[/highlight] (29-30)

 

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John Lackey

2016: 6-2, 2.88 ERA

Career vs. Phillies: 4-4, 2.89 ERA in eight starts. 53 IP, 34 K, and 18 BB.

 

http://i.imgur.com/P6ziuP8.png

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/images/players/mugshot/ph_592826.jpg

Vince Velasquez

2016: 5-2, 3.67 ERA

Career vs. Cubs: 0-1, 13.50 ERA in one start. 4.2 IP, 6 K, 2 BB.

 

http://i.imgur.com/To0Ctvd.png

[UMFan83]

Velasquez has good stuff. We destroyed him last time around but we aren't swinging the bats quite as well as we were 2 weeks ago. Really interested to see what adjustments he makes and what adjustments we make. We might only win this one by 3-4 runs.

[Omar]

Almora woo

 

[Schwarber Fan]

I have a feeling we're going to score a lot of runs today.

[BigSlick]

Wanna see Almora join the Dong Parade

[CubInOK]

Put Russell at SS and move Javy to 2nd and Ill start expecting no hitters every start.

[UMFan83]

Happy Almora is in but would rather him hit lower than 6th

 

I dare the Phillies to hit anything to the OF

Edited June 8, 2016 by UMFan83

[muntjack]

Feel like the Phillies might get slapped with a Baez dong today.

[David]

Happy Almora is in but would rather him hit lower than 6th

 

I dare the Phillies to hit anything to the OF

 

Don't really have a problem with him hitting ahead of those two guys.

[UMFan83]

Happy Almora is in but would rather him hit lower than 6th

 

I dare the Phillies to hit anything to the OF

 

Don't really have a problem with him hitting ahead of those two guys.

 

It's not completely ridiculous or anything but Baez at least is clearly a better hitter. Montero was until he injured his back.

 

AKA I am not particularly high on Almora the hitter (although using nothing but B-R to form my opinion) and hope to be proven wrong.

[David]

Happy Almora is in but would rather him hit lower than 6th

 

I dare the Phillies to hit anything to the OF

 

Don't really have a problem with him hitting ahead of those two guys.

 

It's not completely ridiculous or anything but Baez at least is clearly a better hitter. Montero was until he injured his back.

 

AKA I am not particularly high on Almora the hitter (although using nothing but B-R to form my opinion) and hope to be proven wrong.

 

I'm not certain about that at all. Montero is the one I was iffy on.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Happy Almora is in but would rather him hit lower than 6th

 

I dare the Phillies to hit anything to the OF

 

Don't really have a problem with him hitting ahead of those two guys.

 

It's not completely ridiculous or anything but Baez at least is clearly a better hitter. Montero was until he injured his back.

 

AKA I am not particularly high on Almora the hitter (although using nothing but B-R to form my opinion) and hope to be proven wrong.

I hope he dongs twice just to make you look silly

[Omar]

>Having to research who the Phillies beat writer is to get their line-up because @Phillies is too slow to retweet

 

[UMFan83]

 

Don't really have a problem with him hitting ahead of those two guys.

 

It's not completely ridiculous or anything but Baez at least is clearly a better hitter. Montero was until he injured his back.

 

AKA I am not particularly high on Almora the hitter (although using nothing but B-R to form my opinion) and hope to be proven wrong.

I hope he dongs twice just to make you look silly

 

Me too! He has 23 HR in 1623 professional PA, so hitting 2 in 4-5 PA would be amazing.

[Omar]

This talk about Almora reminds me of this scene from Moneyball (Up to 1:30)

[UMFan83]

Sounds like there might be delays here, but only early on, should get this in eventually.

 

Philly is under a severe thunderstorm warning. Hopefully they just let the rains clear before starting so we don't have to yank Lackey after a delay.

[Cubbie Swagger]

Almora woo

Cubs woo!!!

[Omar]

http://i.imgur.com/kFxNR8J.png

 

how 'bout we just play at 7pm when its sunny?

[Flames24Rulz]

http://i.imgur.com/kFxNR8J.png

 

how 'bout we just play at 7pm when its sunny?

 

Both teams have off days tomorrow, so, sure.

[UMFan83]

http://i.imgur.com/kFxNR8J.png

 

how 'bout we just play at 7pm when its sunny?

 

Honestly it makes absolutely no sense why this is a day game. Both teams have off days tomorrow. Cubs have a short flight to Atlanta, Phillies an even shorter trip to DC. You'd think the Phillies would like to sell more tickets by having a night game given those circumstances.

[BigSlick]

I don't know if I can get myself to care about lineup construction at all, even with Heyward bumbling around at the 2 spot.

 

The only thing I care about lineup construction is making sure to not have two oft-time hackers like Javy and Soler (when he was alive) back-to-back because it made the situations when they came up in rallies into me wanting to break dishware moments

 

But thats for my own mental wellbeing and not like, sound lineup construction

[Sammy Sofa]

Hopefully we don't have to yank Lackey

 

Understatement of the year.

[halplm]

Is this game so early just so it can be on MLB network?

[UMFan83]

Sweet. 12:20 first pitch

[haubrich91]

Holy crap.