6/10 Rockies (Hoffman) at Cubs (Butler) 1:20 p.m. ABC

[weis21]

DUKE, USE YOUR POWERS FOR GOOD.

 

This whole team sucks. It is a bag of asses. It won't be long before Bryant and Rizzo join the others in suckitude.

working already

[Sammy Sofa]

Zobrist, if you don't score a run here then GOD IS DEAD.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Zobrist provides such great protection

[Sammy Sofa]

[weis21]

horsefeathers off zobrist

[KrisBryantisaBeast]

Shocking Zobrist failed to get more runners in scoring position in.

[CubinNY]

This is getting frustrating

[Schwarber Fan]

Zobrist will forever be a Cubs legend but he's hot garbage right now. What a horrible lineup concoction.

[Gilby]

Our $180 million FA everyone thinks is back, is a few hitless AB's away from a sub .700 OPS.

[UMFan83]

Getting close to my annual Fire Mallee rant which causes the offense to wake up and do awesome again

[TruffleShuffle]

At some point I feel like the whole RISP thing should start to even out, but we are almost halfway thru the season and have just been consistently pathetic the whole way.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

The Cubs should just clone Bryant and Rizzo.

[Tryptamine]

I just can't recall a team who has under performed as badly as this one has so far. They may end up 20 games worse than last year and the roster should have been slightly better, I just don't get it. Thank god this division is just awful.

[weis21]

i've decided that i've 50 percent meatball personality at the moment and 50 percent teaming up with duke.

 

this team is a bunch of pansies. they suck. they are horrible baseball players and - more importantly - horrible human beings. they don't deserve my attention (and that's saying a LOT because it doesn't take much to get my attention). a disgrace to the game and i hope ken burns makes a documentary about how terrible this team is and how they are the worst team to ever wear a baseball jersey.

 

 

commence the comeback, now.

[weis21]

At some point I feel like the whole RISP thing should start to even out, but we are almost halfway thru the season and have just been consistently pathetic the whole way.

 

Closer to a third of the way (37 percent), but otherwise agree.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

He's out. That umpire should be embarrassed.

[Sammy Sofa]

At some point I feel like the whole RISP thing should start to even out, but we are almost halfway thru the season and have just been consistently pathetic the whole way.

 

Didn't they weirdly have that stick out last year (and not just in the "well, we get a ton of guys on base so we leave a ton of guys on base"-way), too? Or was that 2015?

[weis21]

I think that was 2015 if memory serves

[weis21]

new strategy: get nobody into scoring position so we don't have to quibble about RISP averages

[Transmogrified Tiger]

At some point I feel like the whole RISP thing should start to even out, but we are almost halfway thru the season and have just been consistently pathetic the whole way.

 

Didn't they weirdly have that stick out last year (and not just in the "well, we get a ton of guys on base so we leave a ton of guys on base"-way), too? Or was that 2015?

 

It was 2015(recall the hand wringing about high K guys against the power pitchers/Mets), and they were much better in 2016, the Verducci book talks about how they had an increased emphasis on 'B-hacking', a shorter swing with 2 strikes that cut out some K's and made them less prone to killed rallies. Hard to say if they lost that emphasis, it's statistical noise(even 60 games isn't a ton for this stuff to even out), or if pitchers have a new/better way of attacking some of those hitters.

[Sammy Sofa]

At some point I feel like the whole RISP thing should start to even out, but we are almost halfway thru the season and have just been consistently pathetic the whole way.

 

Didn't they weirdly have that stick out last year (and not just in the "well, we get a ton of guys on base so we leave a ton of guys on base"-way), too? Or was that 2015?

 

It was 2015(recall the hand wringing about high K guys against the power pitchers/Mets), and they were much better in 2016, the Verducci book talks about how they had an increased emphasis on 'B-hacking', a shorter swing with 2 strikes that cut out some K's and made them less prone to killed rallies. Hard to say if they lost that emphasis, it's statistical noise(even 60 games isn't a ton for this stuff to even out), or if pitchers have a new/better way of attacking some of those hitters.

 

Yeah, that sounds familiar now. Thanks.

[CyHawk_Cub]

Butler pitches 6 shutout innings, Cubs win 2-1.

 

I might have just finished eating a special brownie.

 

After becoming one with my couch, and upon further reflection, this was a bad take.

[Schwarber Fan]

We'll probably get shut out with the wind blowing out 30 MPH while Alexi Amarista and some guy named Tapia hit homers.

[weis21]

We'll probably get shut out with the wind blowing out 30 MPH while Alexi Amarista and some guy named Tapia hit homers.

only fake pessimism allowed in this game thread. please observe. thanks

[weis21]

that was a nice half inning