5/23 Phillies (Nola) @ Cubs (Lester) 1:20 CDT, ABC

[Schwarber Fan]

DO NOT SWING CHATWOOD

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Swung at ball 4 and 5

 

5 and 6. Ump called ball 4 a strike

[Schwarber Fan]

I know it’s a meatball thing to say (which makes it shocking that I am saying it), but the umps have had a MASSIVE impact on this series.

[Schwarber Fan]

SWING BABY SWING

[bcl412]

Chatwood for mvp

[HawkeTrackler]

Maddon making me eat my words literally as I was typing out my comment wondering why the hell Chatwood is taking that AB

[We Got The Whole 9]

Chatwood smoked that!

[itisallpartoftheplan]

DO NOT SWING CHATWOOD

 

Oops

[BigSlick]

lmao wut

[UMFan83]

Fitting that a blown strike call changes the inning

[abuck1220]

so glad that was russell and not KB

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Russell is batting where Bryant would be...

[bcl412]

Caratini walkoff time as positive karma for me rooting for Russell to fail

[BigSlick]

lmao russell strikes out on a ball that could not be more down the middle, good god doofus

[TMan92]

Welp. That sucked.

[We Got The Whole 9]

My heart hurts

 

horsefeathering Heyward's AB ruined it

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Would’ve been nice if the Ump called ball 4 to Heyward.

[Schwarber Fan]

For as many absolute studs as we have on this roster right now, we have just as many black holes.

[abuck1220]

guys don’t worry that 3/4 day off Bryant got will translate to like six wins later.

[UMFan83]

Can’t be mad at a loss like that. Didn’t give in and kept fighting until the end

[abuck1220]

at least maddon got to do a lot of kooky stuff like having a pitcher ph and playing catchers at weird positions so I consider that a win

[squally1313]

Lot of weird blame going around for a terribly played defensive game that we lost by against one of the best pitchers in baseball.

[17 Seconds]

The 3 lefties in the rotation are looking iffy lately

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Lot of weird blame going around for a terribly played defensive game that we lost by against one of the best pitchers in baseball.

 

Equal blame.

Lester was bad.

D was bad.

Umps were bad.

Maddon should’ve kept in Bryant.

[17 Seconds]

at least maddon got to do a lot of kooky stuff like having a pitcher ph and playing catchers at weird positions so I consider that a win

 

the funny thing is that Joe probably thinks his wheeling and dealing was the only reason the game became close. I can imagine him winking at people in the dugout after different moments of the game when the Cubs did something good like he's herb Brooks.