10/7 - NLDS GAME 1 - Cubs (Lester) vs. Giants (Cueto) 8:00 PM CST FS1

[Old Style]

I can't think straight

 

Fred will guide us

Win it for Fred.

 

:flythew:

[Brian707]

Cubs open at -175 for tomorrow's game.

[squally1313]

These last two nights were a good tune up after not having had much emotional investment in baseball over the last month or so. Going to be a long time until tomorrow night (that 7:00-8:00 hour tomorrow is going to be torture and I'll probably just be drinking continuously).

 

I know this is meatbally, but Cueto has basically been the anti-Bumgarner in the playoffs so far in his career. Crowd should be plenty rowdy and can hopefully get in his head.

 

[Boris]

I fell asleep on the couch last night right before the Giants won. I woke up this morning and checked the score. Immediately, I was a little disappointed because they were last on my list to face in regards to the Mets and Cardinals. But horsefeathers it. I'm tired of waiting for the other shoe to drop with this team. THIS IS IT. DON'T GET SCARED NOW.

[Buster]

Need some Cueto chants tomorrow. He definitely gets rattled easy. I'm nervous as hell already for this postseason. Going to load up on alcohol tomorrow. Pray for me.

[UMFan83]

Need some Cueto chants tomorrow. He definitely gets rattled easy. I'm nervous as hell already for this postseason. Going to load up on alcohol tomorrow. Pray for me.

 

Perhaps the Pirates can help us create some doozies

[UMFan83]

I know this is meatbally, but Cueto has basically been the anti-Bumgarner in the playoffs so far in his career. Crowd should be plenty rowdy and can hopefully get in his head.

 

 

His postseason last year was strange. He had 2 great starts, one mediocre start and 1 disastrous start.

 

9 IP 1 ER, 2 H, 3 BB in the World Series was pretty damn good. Also even though the combined numbers suck (5.40 ERA in 4 starts last year) his OPS against was only .588 during those starts.

 

I look at Cueto is a very good sometimes great pitcher, but he doesn't scare me in the way that Bumgarner does. We can hit him. It might only be a couple of runs but if we can get him out of the game early enough and Lester is on, I'm not terribly concerned with facing him.

 

Normally I'd be a little concerned with the potential of losing 1 of the first 2 games at home, especially with Bumgarner on the mound in game 3, but I love the pitching matchup in game 4, so at worst we should get to game 5 barring standard baseball randomness, and again I am not particularly intimidated facing Cueto in that game.

[squally1313]

I know this is meatbally, but Cueto has basically been the anti-Bumgarner in the playoffs so far in his career. Crowd should be plenty rowdy and can hopefully get in his head.

 

 

His postseason last year was strange. He had 2 great starts, one mediocre start and 1 disastrous start.

 

9 IP 1 ER, 2 H, 3 BB in the World Series was pretty damn good. Also even though the combined numbers suck (5.40 ERA in 4 starts last year) his OPS against was only .588 during those starts.

 

I look at Cueto is a very good sometimes great pitcher, but he doesn't scare me in the way that Bumgarner does. We can hit him. It might only be a couple of runs but if we can get him out of the game early enough and Lester is on, I'm not terribly concerned with facing him.

 

Normally I'd be a little concerned with the potential of losing 1 of the first 2 games at home, especially with Bumgarner on the mound in game 3, but I love the pitching matchup in game 4, so at worst we should get to game 5 barring standard baseball randomness, and again I am not particularly intimidated facing Cueto in that game.

 

Yeah, .588 is pretty good, but it seems like it was driven largely by a .206 BABIP, which I can't see him repeating. Ks were down, walks were up, fly balls and home runs up a little. Again, small sample size, but if we're going to give Bumgarner credit for stepping his game up in the postseason (when in 2014 and last night his peripherals actually look worse than his career numbers), we can maybe say Cueto takes a small step back come October.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I'm not excited to be facing at least a slightly better pitcher three times out of five.

[Banedon]

I'm not excited to be facing at least a slightly better pitcher three times out of five.

 

Good thing that's not the case.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I'm not excited to be facing at least a slightly better pitcher three times out of five.

 

Good thing that's not the case.

 

FIP disagrees

[Buster]

Need some Cueto chants tomorrow. He definitely gets rattled easy. I'm nervous as hell already for this postseason. Going to load up on alcohol tomorrow. Pray for me.

 

Perhaps the Pirates can help us create some doozies

In the 5th inning EVERYONE MAKE PIRATE SOUNDS LIKE ARRRGH!

[David]

I'm not excited to be facing at least a slightly better pitcher three times out of five.

 

Good thing that's not the case.

 

If you go strictly xFIP or FIP, which is obviously what he's doing, Cueto > Lester.

[Brian707]

I'm not excited to be facing at least a slightly better pitcher three times out of five.

 

 

And having an offense that is a lot better than the Giants 5 times out of 5. I like the Cubs chances.

[UMFan83]

We may be playing for a pennant or a title in later series, but this series is important because it determines which team has the coconuts, and I like coconuts so I hope its us.

[UMFan83]

I'm not excited to be facing at least a slightly better pitcher three times out of five.

 

 

And having an offense that is a lot better than the Giants 5 times out of 5. I like the Cubs chances.

 

And a pen, and a defense......

[David]

I'm not excited to be facing at least a slightly better pitcher three times out of five.

 

 

And having an offense that is a lot better than the Giants 5 times out of 5. I like the Cubs chances.

 

And a defense that is much better than the Giants also very good defense.

[Gilby]

Ugh, I still wish we were set up to face Colon and Gisellman or whatever the horsefeathers his name is.

 

Please grind these starters hard and get to the pen.

[bcl412]

The giants pitching gives me a "if we take this series we will get to the world series" feel to me. I really want the Giants are experienced and dangerous thing to get smashed and I'd love to sweep this thing with Madbum giving up 4 in two innings in game 3.

[bcl412]

This could kinda end up being a team of the decade matchup later on like the braves and yankees in 99 was billed as.

[MUCubsfan]

I'm not excited to be facing at least a slightly better pitcher three times out of five.

I'm super excited to have the better offense, better defense, better bullpen and better baserunners five times out of five.

[David]

The giants pitching gives me a "if we take this series we will get to the world series" feel to me. I really want the Giants are experienced and dangerous thing to get smashed and I'd love to sweep this thing with Madbum giving up 4 in two innings in game 3.

 

Really?

 

I find the Dodgers wayyyyyyy scarier than the Giants (even though it's playoffs so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ regardless of opponent)

[Cubswin11]

The only thing that worries me is the stupid inning that their offense will put together of 2-3 weak hits that find holes topped off by a Hunter Pence bloop double down a line that scores a run or 2. Hopefully it's insignificant towards the outcome of the game.

[David]

Giants are +215 for this series

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I'm not excited to be facing at least a slightly better pitcher three times out of five.

 

 

And having an offense that is a lot better than the Giants 5 times out of 5. I like the Cubs chances.

 

And a pen, and a defense......

 

And manager