6/17: Cubs (Quintana) @ Cards (Flaherty) 7:05 ESPN

[Cubswin11]

We all want to win every game, but taking two of three on the road against the Cardinals in which they had their top three starters going, that is really solid and something to be satisfied with.

Yeah I’m perfectly fine taking a series win. Just pissed that this game was in reach to win and fucked up by stupid decisions. Bullpen usage, Rizzo’s base running, etc.

Edited June 18, 2018 by Cubswin11

[Aaron_Kennelly]

If I had to guess averaging 2 runs a game in losses measures up pretty well vs the rest of the league. I don’t get what Espn was getting at there.

 

No horsefeathers. If we were losing a bunch of games when scoring a lot of runs, that would be even a bigger issue.

[NotSoSober]

Do not run on Schwarber

[itisallpartoftheplan]

I was praying Bader would run. Easy.

[Brian]

Kyle "The Cannon" Schwarber

[Cubswin11]

horsefeathers off Bader

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Rosario should be ahead of Duensing on the depth chart moving forward

 

Javy should be ahead of Duensing.

[Irrelevant Dude]

Can't believe they didn't challenge. I thought he got the hand in first. Great throw either way.

 

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[Schwarber Fan]

Rosario should be ahead of Duensing on the depth chart moving forward

 

It seems like he is.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

 

They have one guy in the lineup that can beat you and that's Ozuna. Bass could have pitched this upcoming inning while not facing the only good hitters in their lineup.

 

Ozuna hit a 40 mph ground ball that the defense botched.

A dumb decision getting a decent result doesn’t make the decision any less dumb

 

We’ve essentially gone from ‘literally anyone but Bass is defensible’ to ‘Bass pitched as well as we could have expected Strop/Cishek to pitch but I’m mad that he was the guy anyway’. I wouldn’t have been angry with Strop or Cishek there but the variables working against it don’t make me think it’s black and white. Yelling about which reliever gets the first out in the 6th inning of a regular season game is basically never going to be a binary good/bad decision.

[NotSoSober]

Kyle "The Cannon" Schwarber

He's better suited for the American League - every dumb horsefeathers announcer around

 

HE's safe. horsefeathers Bader

[Sammys Boombox]

Crappy tag by Zobrist.

[NotSoSober]

LOL @ worthless replay

[Irrelevant Dude]

Oh replay, you will never make sense.

 

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[Brian]

Javy would have got him in the face 5 feet in front of the bag

[dfnowak]

If Bass was the choice that inning if Q got in trouble just let Bass start the inning then. At least give the horsefeathers ass pitcher some margin for error. Don’t make him pitch out of horsefeathers.

Agree

[NotSoSober]

Bryant should have taken that 450 ft. WTF is wrong with him

[Andy]

How in holy horsefeathers is that not a home run

[abuck1220]

 

Yes im sure Farrell(the other RH outside the late inning circle of trust) would’ve been greeted with cheers.

 

Someone from the “late inning circle of trust” should have been used with two on, no out in the 6th inning if 0-0 game. That’s the problem.

 

They need to get at least 3 more innings from the pen tonight and they play 14 consecutive days afterwards. If there’s a time to use someone like Farrell/Bass it’s in a situation against a slew of non-elite RH bats like that. Bass gave up 2 routine ground balls, a line drive, and a K, would you really expect Cishek to do that much better than that?

 

I don’t know if Ozuna is “elite,” but he’s their best hitter and if you’re saving your good pitchers for “elite” opposing batters I guess you won’t use any good relievers against the cardinals.

 

and if you want to give bass credit for inducing an Ozuna routine grounder that found a hole, I guess you have to hold the Molina DP against him cuz it was smoked.

[Brian]

Rizzo nearly dumbed into another out there

[Cubswin11]

Gyorko and Carpenter wouldn’t be good infielders on a beer league softball team

[Transmogrified Tiger]

A-Rod knows the rule is that you have to make a genuine attempt towards second right, and that turning left to go back to the base doesn’t count?

[NOLA]

The Cubs have this really bad habit of running through 1B and staying inside the base path. Some ump is going to call an out at some point if another team catches on.

[Brian]

The 105 mph contact pitcher

[ScrubMD]

I wish one of our good hitters would start hitting the ball good.