4/17 Cubs (Chatwood) vs St. Louis (Wainwright) 7:05 NBCS Chicago

[imb]

extremely well managed

[Bryants Disco Ball]

Wow. I thought that was the ninth inning.

[Schwarber Fan]

At least we have 2-3-4 in the 9th.

[17 Seconds]

how does half of our lineup blow when we had like a million guys

[squally1313]

If we weren't carrying 13 effing pitchers for no good reason at all I guarantee Almora hits for Heyward. Instead Joe just got snookered by Matheny.

Admittedly I didn't think about the Tommy card there. Still, little reason to waste an out on Heyward

Plus Zobrist more or less out for the night.

 

Happ made contact yay. Apparently this same Bud Norris is their closer (lol), so Bryzzontreras to get 2 next inning.

[CyHawk_Cub]

I'm imagining what this team currently looks like sans Javy. :shudder:

[Brian]

need to get Javy up against the racist pos bud norris

[PackLandVA]

Hoe ‘bout Bryzzonterez for the win.

[squally1313]

I'm imagining what this team currently looks like sans Javy. :shudder:

 

The guy who was hitting .191 going into this game? I mean, I'm as excited for him as anyone, but his first two home runs came in a loss, as did (most likely) this one. The highlights are great, and I would give up a whole lot for the idea of Javier Baez, MVP candidate, but this is a good team who has struggled but has still played .500 ball because they are talented across the roster.

[squally1313]

Does the swing and the actual strike like cancel out there?

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I have been feeling a little 90s nostalgic. A season of the Cubs sucking with Javy chasing some kind of HR record would be a nice change of pace from all these playoffs.

[PackLandVA]

Ump has been horrid tonight.

[Cubswin11]

A walk off win would be fun

[Schwarber Fan]

43 and sunny on Thursday. Great baseball weather!

[squally1313]

There's no doubt in mind that Bud Norris somehow has a better season than Brandon Morrow this year. And not because of Brandon Morrow. Then after like May next year we never hear from him again.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Give Javy a chance.

[imb]

schwarber is disappoint

[UMFan83]

Who knows when we play next...snow and cold tomorrow, off Thursday (unless they reschedule game), rain in the forecast for Denver on Friday and Saturday

 

Don’t mean to go all Schwarber Fan on this game thread just sick of inconsistent play sandwiched between rainouts and off days

Edited April 18, 2018 by UMFan83

[17 Seconds]

harper is going from a luxury to a necessity

[Andy]

Those horse crap 2 runs in the 8th are the difference

[Schwarber Fan]

Who knows when we play next...snow and cold tomorrow, off Thursday (unless they reschedule game), rain in the forecast for Denver on Friday and Saturday

 

They’ve gotta move tomorrow’s game to Thursday... we can’t play doubleheaders all summer and lose all our off days.

[squally1313]

Who knows when we play next...snow and cold tomorrow, off Thursday (unless they reschedule game), rain in the forecast for Denver on Friday and Saturday

 

Don’t mean to go all Schwarber Fan on this game thread just sick of inconsistent play sandwiched between rainouts and off days

 

There's not really anywhere else to put tomorrow's game besides Thursday, which looks clear. So worst case we'll play Thursday.

[We Got The Whole 9]

0 ER against Wainwright's corpse is sad AF. Showed no interest in hitting his curve so they just kept calling it over and over.

 

And Chatwood was horsefeathering disturbing.

[squally1313]

Things we can't (really) control: Those two worthless infield singles they got that turned into what were the winning runs.

 

Things we can control: Playing a game with three bench players and then using those three the way that we did tonight.

[r_mack]

Those horse crap 2 runs in the 8th are the difference

I think the difference was the Cubs scoring 1 run off Adam Wainwright