7/9/18 3-Time WS Champion Giants (Cy Suarez) @ DESPIcubLES (HRendricks) 9:15P CST NBC Sports Chicago

[Sammy Sofa]

This dumb game made me fall asleep really early on the couch, and then wake up to watch the suck, and then not fall back asleep until almost 2 AM. BE BETTER.

[UMFan83]

[expletive] I like waking up to see that we won. Oh well offense was due for a bad game and Kyle pitched great. I’ll take that

[Bertz]

I'll take the loss considering the good signs from Kyle. I'd gladly make the same trade tonight with Quintana.

[UMFan83]

I'm sure this was discussed but how is it possible that the Cubs allowed a runner to score from first on a botched pickoff/SB attempt due to a Cubs fielder potentially trying to goad the runner into running home by half assing it to the ball in two consecutive games? I usually trust the Cubs fielding instincts but I'm not sure I agree with the strategy there if it was intentional.

 

(but probably would be praising it if it worked out either time)

[Andy]

I'm sure this was discussed but how is it possible that the Cubs allowed a runner to score from first on a botched pickoff/SB attempt due to a Cubs fielder potentially trying to goad the runner into running home by half assing it to the ball in two consecutive games? I usually trust the Cubs fielding instincts but I'm not sure I agree with the strategy there if it was intentional.

 

(but probably would be praising it if it worked out either time)

It seemed obvious Almora was goading the runner on Sunday but I'm not sure Javy was. Looked like he just didn't go hard and assumed the runner would stop. That doesn't seem like Javy, of course.

[UMFan83]

I'm sure this was discussed but how is it possible that the Cubs allowed a runner to score from first on a botched pickoff/SB attempt due to a Cubs fielder potentially trying to goad the runner into running home by half assing it to the ball in two consecutive games? I usually trust the Cubs fielding instincts but I'm not sure I agree with the strategy there if it was intentional.

 

(but probably would be praising it if it worked out either time)

It seemed obvious Almora was goading the runner on Sunday but I'm not sure Javy was. Looked like he just didn't go hard and assumed the runner would stop. That doesn't seem like Javy, of course.

 

If that's true I won't fault him for it. Everyone has their mental lapses from time to time, and it seems to happen less with Javy than other guys. It just sucks that it happened in a 1 run loss.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

This dumb game made me fall asleep really early on the couch, and then wake up to watch the suck, and then not fall back asleep until almost 2 AM. BE BETTER.

 

My power went out for almost 5 hours so we had to take a 2 year old and a 3 week old to my mother in law’s house. My 2 year old was yelling about the “kitty” the whole time so the 3 week old couldn’t sleep. It sucked, haha.

 

We get home and about 5 minutes later they get the power back on, turn on the game to see Pence’s goofy ass get a triple. We get out of it giving me hope only to be let down.

 

4 hours later it was time to drive to work. Not a fun night. Need the power to stay on and a rebound game.