7/26: Cubs (Hendricks) @ VB's (Gio) 7:10 NBCSCH

[Cubswin11]

Well this is the start of 9 pretty important games for us, it would be a wise strategy to win more of those 9 games than lose IMO. However we used our 1 allotted road win per month on Wednesday so the boys are really going to have dig deep to win this one. The last time Hendricks faced Gio in a game the Cubs and Nats almost literally broke the game of baseball, while we should look to avoid some of the dumbness of that affair the same outcome would be desirable.

[PackLandVA]

Make the VBs sellers!

[BigSlick]

Don’t lose.

[minnesotacubsfan]

win Cobs win

[Schwarber Fan]

I assume with a LHP on the mound we’ll get Almora and Bote in the lineup... eyeroll

[Cubswin11]

Win idiots

 

[Cubswin11]

Really like Willy leading off vs LHP, he makes a lot of sense there looking at numbers. Also like Javy out of the 2 spot and back behind the OBP guys.

[Sammy Sofa]

I...actually like that lineup.

[Cubswin11]

I...actually like that lineup.

It seems like the first lineup in forever that some thought and information was put in to forming it, vs just going with what Joe felt like.

[jersey cubs fan]

all that talk about moving Willy to left field and joe just puts him in center

[Old Style]

I...actually like that lineup.

I'd rather have Garcia at 2B but other than that it looks pretty good.

[minnesotacubsfan]

all that talk about moving Willy to left field and joe just puts him in center

 

 

and he made some guy with a name meaning Lov-a in Spanish* the Catcher-Fahhkker

 

 

 

*my interpretation of Spanish

[TMan92]

So Zobrist is coming back.

[UMFan83]

So Zobrist is coming back.

 

Good. Hopefully he can come back refreshed and be in top form in Sept/Oct. At his age this is perfect for him assuming his head is in the game

[Cubswin11]

horsefeathers Lorenzo Cain

[UMFan83]

Of course he caught it.

[Schwarber Fan]

That’s about right.

[BigSlick]

I feel like we’ve hit into an inordinate number of double plays from line outs and such, and it’s not just poor baserunning it’s just bizarre outrageous luck

[Andy]

Thanks for not telling him it was caught, blue. Between that and Johnson calling anything in the state a strike that was a pretty horsefeathering lousy inning of umpiring

[Andy]

Lol so this is gonna be how it is. Literally just gave those pitches to Gio

[Andy]

Oh horsefeathers off with this. Now he's calling our strikes as balls too

[Schwarber Fan]

Wow. Absolutely absurd zone being given to Hendricks.

[Cubswin11]

This is a trash horsefeathering zone

[Schwarber Fan]

I refuse to believe Moustaukas and Hosmer aren’t the same person.

[Old Style]

This home plate umpire is pissing me off already.