8/14 - Road Cubs (Hamels) @ Phillies (Nola) - 6:00 CT NBCSCH/ESPN

[squally1313]

12 years on this board (jesus christ, 12 years?), and finally getting into the game thread business. Since the pretty half assed attempt at Sunny gifs didn't seem to work out too well yesterday, we're going in a different direction.

 

 

Hamels takes the mound in what looks like his first start in Philly since he pitched for them back in 2015 (the start before he no hit us). Aaron Nola on the other side, who has been surprisingly...not as good as I thought he would be? Home runs are up, BABIP has normalized from last year...he's still very solid, but an ace?

 

 

If we continue to be Road Cubs, we risk falling into a tie for first place again, so let's not do that. We're going up against Cubs legend Drew Smyly and his 6.96 (nice) ERA tomorrow, so a win today and we would be in danger of actually winning a road series. Maybe see how that goes.

 

Rumors of Modzilla floating around (gee, I wonder why that could be?), so I'll leave you with a suggestion.

 

 

Go Cubs.

 

[Sammy Sofa]

Road Cubs

 

[soccer10k]

They’re definitely losing this one but will win tomorrow. Just have to hope they don’t lay an egg in Pittsburgh.

[NOLA]

They’re definitely losing this one but will win tomorrow. Just have to hope they don’t lay an egg in Pittsburgh.

The Pirates have given up. Their playing as badly as anyone in baseball right now.

[Sammy Sofa]

They’re definitely losing this one but will win tomorrow. Just have to hope they don’t lay an egg in Pittsburgh.

The Pirates have given up. Their playing as badly as anyone in baseball right now.

 

Even the Road Cubs?!?

 

[GaryWoods]

They’re definitely losing this one but will win tomorrow. Just have to hope they don’t lay an egg in Pittsburgh.

The Pirates have given up. Their playing as badly as anyone in baseball right now.

 

Even the Road Cubs?!?

 

The Road Cubs aren't playing all that badly right now.

 

Of course, they aren't playing at all right now because the game doesn't start for another 5 hours and 20 minutes. But I'll take what I can get.

[CyHawk_Cub]

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[badger]

That's as good of a lineup that we can have until Willson gets back.

[Banedon]

[bcl412]

Kemp at leadoff is weird

[UMFan83]

Why the horsefeathers do umps hate Tony Kemp?

[Schwarber Fan]

Here we go with the clownshow behind the plate again.

[Derwood]

Nice start, blue

[NotSoSober]

Nola is incapable of throwing a ball it appears

[TMan92]

Nice start Cobs

[Schwarber Fan]

Does every road game start the same?

[TMan92]

Game over

[Schwarber Fan]

Game. Hamels hasn’t been good for awhile now, we should probably worry about that.

[OleMissCub]

Sucks to know the game is already over

[BigSlick]

I swear to god the cubs have given up first inning runs in approximately 80 games so far

[HawkeTrackler]

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[Derwood]

Game. Hamels hasn’t been good for awhile now, we should probably worry about that.

huh?

 

Earned runs in starts since beginning of June:

 

0

0

0

1

3

1

0

4

[Schwarber Fan]

Nothing good happens on the road. Literally nothing.

[Schwarber Fan]

Game. Hamels hasn’t been good for awhile now, we should probably worry about that.

huh?

 

Earned runs in starts since beginning of June:

 

0

0

0

1

3

1

0

4

 

Where was his injury? After the 3rd zero, right? He’s been sharp in maybe one start since.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Game. Hamels hasn’t been good for awhile now, we should probably worry about that.

huh?

 

Earned runs in starts since beginning of June:

 

0

0

0

1

3

1

0

4

 

Where was his injury? After the 3rd zero, right? He’s been sharp in maybe one start since.

 

After the 2nd 1