5/3 Phillies (Eickhoff) @ World Champion Chicago Cubs (Arrieta) 7:05 CSN

[CubinNY]

Philly bullpen is hot garbage

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Next time Maddon's bullpen usage slightly annoys us, let's remember he's possibly the only manager in MLB who pinch hits WIllson in that situation.

[Andy]

I just love that Jason Heyward is good enough now that Joe could turn him loose on 3-0.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

lol at our catcher being able to do that

[Derwood]

Contreras tweaked something

[mikeyt34]

That throw by Galvis...

[CubinNY]

I think Schwarbs is broken

[Sammys Boombox]

Good inning. Was really hoping KB would bat with runners on when Schwarber was up 2-0 and 3-1.

[Bobson Dugnutt]

i'm worried about schwarbs

[17 Seconds]

something is amiss with kyle

[gobigred]

Kyle needs a day or 3 off

[Derwood]

Kyle, I find your lack of dongs disturbing

[mikeyt34]

Koji, Strop, Wade...Let's do this!

[BigSlick]

I don't like that we keep going down in the first inning, but I do like that we keep coming back and ripping the heart out of other teams

[TruffleShuffle]

just watched the replay, wtf was willson doing coming home on that grounder by szczur? i mean, it's cool that galvis hesistated a long time and then chucked the ball into the back of the mound, but if galvis played that properly willson would've been out by 30 feet.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

just watched the replay, wtf was willson doing coming home on that grounder by szczur? i mean, it's cool that galvis hesistated a long time and then chucked the ball into the back of the mound, but if galvis played that properly willson would've been out by 30 feet.

 

There's 2 outs and he assumed Galvis was going to try to make a play at 1st, which is what happens in most of those cases. He still had time to stop but pressing the issue with 2 outs isn't the worst thing, bad throws happen more often than we think on such plays.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

kinda get the feeling Bryant was aiming for Neshek there

[David]

i feel like they have caught so many well hit balls (not that that was an especially hard play) in the OF in this series

[TruffleShuffle]

just watched the replay, wtf was willson doing coming home on that grounder by szczur? i mean, it's cool that galvis hesistated a long time and then chucked the ball into the back of the mound, but if galvis played that properly willson would've been out by 30 feet.

 

There's 2 outs and he assumed Galvis was going to try to make a play at 1st, which is what happens in most of those cases. He still had time to stop but pressing the issue with 2 outs isn't the worst thing, bad throws happen more often than we think on such plays.

 

yeah i guess it's probably a better shot than i give him credit for; taking into account the likelihood of a wild pitch/passed ball/hit or some combination of events (like walk then another walk) is probably not much lower probability than galvis screwing up the throw home.

[David]

i missed the 3rd run, but having seen the griping on here about zobrist from when i wasn't watching, is it safe to say it might be 5-0 or 5-1 if heyward were in right?

[David]

it makes me so happy to see hector be awesome again

[Transmogrified Tiger]

i missed the 3rd run, but having seen the griping on here about zobrist from when i wasn't watching, is it safe to say it might be 5-0 or 5-1 if heyward were in right?

 

I'm not sure Heyward gets to Herrera's line drive in the first, but I'm very sure he throws out the guy at the plate the play before, so probably.

[17 Seconds]

i missed the 3rd run, but having seen the griping on here about zobrist from when i wasn't watching, is it safe to say it might be 5-0 or 5-1 if heyward were in right?

 

probably, but we would have been kind of lucky to get so many hard hits balls close enough to heyward

[David]

lol that was a big middle finger to my last two posts

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Zobrist makes that play...