11/1 World Series Game 6 Cubs (Arrieta) @ Cleveland (Tomlin) 7:00 CDT Fox

[Aaron_Kennelly]

99% of me is screaming internally and pulling my hair out at the stupidity of this. The other 1% really wants to see him mow them down tonight and then come back and mow them down for 3 innings tomorrow night, at which point the Gleyber trade goes down as the best in franchise history.

[Irrelevant Dude]

This is crazy.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

If lead holds at 5 I think we can trust Strop in the 9th.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Get him a bloody sock.

[CoolHandLuke]

Dumb dumb dumb dumb.

 

Joe better know that Chapman is available for at least two tomorrow, even with the long game tonight.

[Brian]

i will feel so much better if this is clean and they take him out.

[Careless]

Heyward DP that wasn't 4-3!

Hey, he also had two fly ball outs tonight. He's been a different hitter! Still useless, though

[ScrubMD]

Chapman is going the distance. Quit fretting over it and enjoy the high probability that we're going to game 7.

[UMFan83]

I can understand disagreeing with the decision but not to the level people on Twitter are. I am completely in the boat of "do everything to win game 6". 5 run lead is not enough to disregard that.

 

The only thing that sucks about this is that once you bring him in, it is very difficult to take him out until the game is over unless he's ineffective

[LeonDurham]

I not second guess maddon. I'm thinking that he still thinks chapman can go tomorrow. And he may take him out after this inning after he goes through heart of the lineup. I'm curious to see who pitches the ninth if the score holds.

[Geech]

Indians got a hit. Better bring in Lester, now.

[bcl412]

99% of me is screaming internally and pulling my hair out at the stupidity of this. The other 1% really wants to see him mow them down tonight and then come back and mow them down for 3 innings tomorrow night, at which point the Gleyber trade goes down as the best in franchise history.

 

It's October. Stuff like that happens.

[DurbanJer]

oh ffs. Why can't we just coast to a GD win!?!

[Bote McBoteface]

I like this move just fine, the more i think about it. Hendricks, Lester, montgomery, and strop if necessary can get us into the 8th tomorrow. Chapman can get us 5 outs tomorrow.

[Guest]

This is the worst i've felt in a 5 run game in the 8th inning all year.

[Billy_Buck]

I keep jumping back and forth between thinking, "this is crazy", and "surely Joe & Bosio have a plan for game 7". But the latter is probably some combination of Lackey-Lester-CJ-Strop-Chap... which could work, but seems to needlessly narrow the margin for error.

 

I hope to heck they know what they're doing.

[Irrelevant Dude]

Holy horsefeathers Javy

[Brian]

YES!!!!!!!

[Cubswin11]

Ride him like a rented mule

[Tim]

Jesus, Javy

[imb]

baez cant hit but that was nice

[ScrubMD]

Wow

[davell]

horsefeathers YEAH JAVY

[CaliforniaRaisin]

So I assume Strop is hurt.

[UMFan83]

Oh thank God