8/6 Cobs (Lester) vs A's (Anderson) 7:05 NBCSCH+

[Cubswin11]

 

Not really

Started the inning with a flyball that should’ve been caught, a K and soft contact to RF.

 

Unless he's somehow throwing his voice and creepily ASMRing in Lester's ear, I'm pretty sure the bulk of this is on the pitcher.

Almora horsefeathering up completely changed the completion of the inning, Jon still made some bad pitches and ultimately horsefeathers the bed. But he had a good first, Almora makes that catch the inning is completely different in all likelihood.

[Edith Cox]

Getting far more bad outings than good with Lester these days. Came in with a 5.15 his last 14 starts after starting the year on fire.

Last 8 starts he has a 3.5 era, 3.5 FIP, 3.8 xFIP. Gone at least 5.2 in all but one start every start, 6+ in 5 and given up 0-3 runs in 6 of them. He has these clunky blowups every now and then and he more than keeps them in most games. Almora horsefeathers this whole inning up.

 

Given up 4 ER or more in 8 of his last 15 starts, with 3 more game at 3 ER with 2 of those less than 6 inning. 5 QS in 15 attempts with one of those QS a over 4.00 ERA QS.

 

14 games before this one his slash line against was .301/.342/.502/.843, its going to go up a great deal in this one.

[Sammy Sofa]

Started the inning with a flyball that should’ve been caught, a K and soft contact to RF.

 

Unless he's somehow throwing his voice and creepily ASMRing in Lester's ear, I'm pretty sure the bulk of this is on the pitcher.

Almora horsefeathering up completely changed the completion of the inning, Jon still made some bad pitches and ultimately horsefeathers the bed. But he had a good first, Almora makes that catch the inning is completely different in all likelihood.

 

Sure, but by the time that, say, the 5th run of the inning has crossed the plate, it rings pretty hollow to hang it on the first out that might have been.

[Derwood]

JD has clearly never seen Karate Kid

[Hawk4Hall]

4.31 ERA for Lester.

[Edith Cox]

The ball Almora didn't catch had a .700 xBA

[Transmogrified Tiger]

The ball Almora didn't catch had a .700 xBA

 

He was under it and whiffed like a little leaguer

[Edith Cox]

Bote has started 111 games heading into that DP and he has a .698 OPS, I would rather they pick up Joe Panik and see if an upgrade in hitters park could get him to bounce back.

[Derwood]

I blame all of this on Lester's mangey neckbeard

[Edith Cox]

The ball Almora didn't catch had a .700 xBA

 

He was under it and whiffed like a little leaguer

 

He was leaping for it about to crash into a brick wall.

[TMan92]

Pirates tied it up

[Sammy Sofa]

BORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRING.

[Edith Cox]

Brett Anderson took a shot at the Cubs on the way out and then we let him come back and knock our dicks in the dirt.

[Derwood]

The ball Almora didn't catch had a .700 xBA

 

He was under it and whiffed like a little leaguer

 

He was leaping for it about to crash into a brick wall.

 

Not really

[Cubswin11]

The ball Almora didn't catch had a .700 xBA

 

He was under it and whiffed like a little leaguer

 

He was leaping for it about to crash into a brick wall.

Except he didn’t crash in to the wall, he jumped for no reason other than to make the play look cooler or harder because he does that a lot or had no idea where he was on the field.

[Cubswin11]

Brett Anderson took a shot at the Cubs on the way out and then we let him come back and knock our dicks in the dirt.

I think the Cubs came out on the better overall end of the relationship, regardless of tonight.

[Edith Cox]

They are so bad on the road just packing for the 10 game trip today caused them to play bad.

[Sammy Sofa]

Who the horsefeathers is Brett Anderson and what is this brouhaha with the Cubs you guys keep yammering on about. Was he some rando Theo bust they actually got rid of?

[Edith Cox]

Do you guys think Heyward catches that ball? Edited August 7, 2019 by Edith Cox

[Derwood]

Do you guys then Heyward catches that ball?

 

Are you having a stroke?

[Cubswin11]

Who the horsefeathers is Brett Anderson and what is this brouhaha with the Cubs you guys keep yammering on about. Was he some rando Theo bust they actually got rid of?

He made like 2 appearances in 2017 and gave up like 10 runs then was all pissy when he was cut because it was the Cubs fault for not unlocking the genius, CY Young pitcher in him. He did the same thing the following year with the Dodgers when he sucked and they cut him too. He’s a pansy.

[Sammy Sofa]

Who the horsefeathers is Brett Anderson and what is this brouhaha with the Cubs you guys keep yammering on about. Was he some rando Theo bust they actually got rid of?

He made like 2 appearances in 2017 and gave up like 10 runs then was all pissy when he was cut because it was the Cubs fault for not unlocking the genius, CY Young pitcher in him. He did the same thing the following year with the Dodgers when he sucked and they cut him too. He’s a pansy.

 

Jesus; I completely blocked that out. What a dork.

[Cubswin11]

Do you guys think Heyward catches that ball?

Yes and if he doesn’t it still sucks but Heyward is good at other things so it’s a little forgivable. If Almora is gonna play he needs to catch everything he can remotely get close to because that’s all he’s potentially valuable at.

[Cubswin11]

At least we’ll get a look at Underwood tonight, who’s been intriguing as a RP in Iowa and Pedro probably gets in so will be interesting to see where the FB velo is.

[GaryWoods]

Do you guys think Heyward catches that ball?

 

Hell, I think Schwarber catches that ball.