6/13 Cubs (Montgomery) @ Vaunted Brewers (Chacin) 1:10 CDT WGN

[BigSlick]

can someone who is good at computers: can you tell me if the cubs have ever scored a run before the 5th inning

[ScrubMD]

My Turing machine has now run 8 million simulations of this game, and so far there are 0 in which we score a run.

 

UPDATE: In simulation 10,428,619 Justin Wilson hits an inside-the-park home run in the 8th to make the score 5-1.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

It's time like this when that run differential really, really makes me irrationally angry.

thats dumb though? what does the run differential have to do with anything

 

He might be saying that although our RD is really good, it seems like it's built on huge blowouts but in reality we have a weird amount of high crap games where we are just awful on offense and it skews the greatness of our RD.

 

But that's probably not what he's saying and that's just what I'm thinking at the current moment.

Edited June 13, 2018 by Bryant's Disco Ball

[UMFan83]

The Cubs have scored 19 total runs over the first 26 outs of the game in their last 11 games and 15 runs from the 27th out on.

 

I know this is major random sample size and I am not saying anything with this stat other than how frustrating it is to watch the Cubs over the first 2.5+ hours of every game recently.

 

Just for visual sake here are their runs scored over the first 8.2 IP of a game during that stretch:

 

1

2

1

3

4

3

2

1

2

0

0 (so far today)

 

And after 8.2 IP:

6

0

0

4

0

0

0

0

5

0

0

Edited June 13, 2018 by UMFan83

[Sammy Sofa]

It's time like this when that run differential really, really makes me irrationally angry.

thats dumb though? what does the run differential have to do with anything

 

I mean, that's kinda exactly my irrational thought process right there. "This dumb useless stat clearly just padded by insane blowout wins can go and get fucked; this offense obviously sucks."

Edited June 13, 2018 by Sammy Sofa

[BigSlick]

nicely done Mike

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Happ, Schwarber, Baez, and if anyone gets on Gimenez!!

 

That sounds like runs!!

[BigSlick]

I think the run differential shows the Cubs are good, which they are. They just dont like scoring runs in the first 6 innings, for some reason

[BigSlick]

this sucks

[Bryants Disco Ball]

I keep coming here to get that run of happy posts, and like...........it seems they bat and are out of an inning within a minute every time.

[ScrubMD]

This feels like those games when we had like Joe Mather and Matt Szczur as our 3-4 hitters.

[squally1313]

It's time like this when that run differential really, really makes me irrationally angry.

thats dumb though? what does the run differential have to do with anything

 

I mean, that's kinda exactly my irrational thought process right there. "This dumb useless stat clearly just padded by insane blowout wins can go and get horsefeathers; this offense obviously sucks."

 

Yeah, you start questioning all the things that you believe now because of advanced stats. Like, I rationally know clutch doesn't exist, and players don't 'try harder' when it matters, or whatever. But you go down this road that eventually leads to all the morons on twitter being like 'oh who gives about that sweep? It's just the Reds/White Sox/Marlins/Pirates/Padres/Mets/half of baseball'

[Bryants Disco Ball]

I think it would be much more understandable if our offense was like the Mets or something, where you know they suck and it's expected they will suck.

 

It's just so interesting when you have a squad full of what are high level, dynamic offensive players and they just don't do anything for long stretches at a time and even during a five or six game span when they aren't facing anything but middle of the road type pitchers.

[imb]

i really dislike lorenzo cain

[itisallpartoftheplan]

I’d just let Monty bat for himself and save the pen. It’ll be the same result.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Montgomery since the start of 2016: 25 GS, 128.1 IP, 3.36 ERA, 94/36 K/BB, 59% GB%

 

Start Montgomery

[BigSlick]

you have 9 outs to get a run, figure it out you losers

[bcl412]

Cubs/brewers are mostly the same. Low scoring suck fests where the cubs win late because the brewers do dumb things. Let’s get to the dumb brewers part

[Thed Hoyerstein]

Can someone explain why Gimenez is batting still

[TMan92]

Cubs/brewers are mostly the same. Low scoring suck fests where the cubs win late because the brewers do dumb things. Let’s get to the dumb brewers part

 

I am not really confident getting one off of these guys today.

[BigSlick]

please god. i'm on my fuckin knees

 

 

give me one run god. please. baseball god. i beg of you. give me one run

[squally1313]

Can someone explain why Gimenez is batting still

 

One of Maddon's best qualities is managing players for a seven month season, but with this obviously being a Contreras day off after the night game/having to deal with Chatwood and him giving KB this 'mini break', think we're working with a pretty short bench today. Given our odds to make the postseason, I get it, but I'm pretty sure Lester is our third PH off the bench today.

[Sammys Boombox]

This baseball game displeases me.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Heyward is broken again, cobs are back like never before. tank and rebuild

[Sammy Sofa]