8/3 Cobs (Hamels) vs Brewers (Gio) 1:20 NBCSCH

[Andy]

The Cobs adopted their Home Cubs persona again and surely all is well now. Now the real question is, can they actually hit for 2 days in a row?

 

 

If this keeps up, we're going to have to ask what exactly the front office did to finally get the offense going.

 

 

To try to stop them, Milwaukee will send out Gio "Mad Dog" Gonzalez.

 

 

But our man Cole Hamels knows how to handle that.

 

 

Go Cobs

[Sammy Sofa]

Still not sure which Cubs team is for real...

 

[Sammy Sofa]

Hey, where was our swell pal Edith for Friday's game?

 

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

Hey, where was our swell pal Edith for Friday's game?

 

I have to assume it was because Addi went 0-3 with 2 bats flung into the crowd (one hitting a woman) in AAA or some such non sense.

[Derwood]

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Hamels is back. Albert in over Schwarber

[squally1313]

I know Heyward has been running hot, but him and Contreras need to switch spots here.

[Sammy Sofa]

Albert in over Schwarber

 

Makes sense. Kyle's only been slashing .286 .474 .714 1.188 over the last week. Can't have too much of a good thing!

 

But seriously, who gives a horsefeathers if it's a LHP starting? Yeah, Schwarber is only hitting .203 .296 .362 .659 against them this year. But Almora is even worse with an abysmal .202 .237 .281 .517. I'd rather chance Schwarber having a good day against a southpaw, and forcing the Brewers to potential have to make real bullpen decisions, as opposed to Almora, who can't horsefeathering hit ANYBODY.

[PackLandVA]

My guess is Joe has Bert in because he's had a couple of hits off Gio in 5 ABs. He's also taken a couple of walks.

[Old Style]

Brach DFA’d to make room for Hamels.

[PosterToBeNamedLater]

Brach DFA’d to make room for Hamels.

[The_Achiever]

Cole Hamels has that substitute teacher who might secretly be a badass type energy.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Yelich was out, wasn’t he?

[Cubswin11]

Castellanos is good

[Cubswin11]

Damn, some hard contact this inning

[We Got The Whole 9]

Hard contact is good but up the middle against these guys it's generally going to lead to frustrating outs

[itisallpartoftheplan]

More lineouts!!

[itisallpartoftheplan]

RJI

 

Run Javied In

[OleMissCub]

Thank you Gio for not breaking Mago's hand.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Everybody murdering the ball

[itisallpartoftheplan]

7 out of the first 9 batters hit the ball 96 mph or more.

 

A Heyward walk and Hamels K are the other 2.

[Cubswin11]

Extend Castellanos

[Old Style]

I like this new guy.

[d_money]

Extend Castellanos

3/$15M?

[We Got The Whole 9]

Rizzo up there hacking like Javy

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Rizzo, take your walk and let Javy bat. 6 pitches out of the zone that at bat and he swung at 4.