9/10 Cubs (Alzolay) vs Reds (Gray) 7:15 MSN

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

So possibly my 5th favorite TV show ever got cancelled this week. Sad stuff. We lost with the best pitcher alive yesterday. Someone needs to put out the fire.

 

 

Queue Alzolay. I like the cut of the guy's gib, but...

 

 

I only have so much juice left at this point in the evening. Too many fantasy drafts. I'll just take the moment to be petty. This is how Tom imagines his posts to read:

 

When in reality...

[Sammy Sofa]

Me every time this dude pitches:

 

[Cubswin11]

Hopefully whatever went wrong for Sonny in his last start lingers in to this one. He was wild and gave up a lot of hits and his velo was down. Win, idiots.

[PackLandVA]

Well at least the Cards will only pick up a half game on Cubs after tonight.

[UMFan83]

Can’t believe we went into the season with this rotation and little depth. I know Q and Chatwood have had injuries but still, this is supposed to be our “window” and we only have quality starters 2 out of every 5 games

 

horsefeathers the Ricketts family

[Omar]

Not a good start guys

[Omar]

Dempster: He (Stephenson) is not going to take that inside pitch

 

*Next pitch: Stephenson Ks looking on an inside pitch*

[Cubswin11]

Can’t believe we went into the season with this rotation and little depth. I know Q and Chatwood have had injuries but still, this is supposed to be our “window” and we only have quality starters 2 out of every 5 games

 

horsefeathers the Ricketts family

I actually liked their depth in a regular 162 game year with what they had going in (pre-injuries) Yu, Hendricks, Lester, Q, Chatwood, Mills being the top 6. In a regular year where guys could’ve developed and had minor leagues Abbott, Marquez and one of the Thompson’s (forget which one is considered the good one) could’ve been August/September SP options. Hell even Adbert or Miller could’ve been better than they’ve shown as SP. though I think Adbert is just a reliever moving forward.

Edited September 11, 2020 by Cubswin11

[PackLandVA]

Happ has horrendous career numbers against Mahle, Bauer and Gray coming into this series. He's had a great season so far, but again, zero career success against those three. Well, so far in the series he's 0-9 and put the ball in play twice.

 

Maybe start someone else in his place at least one of these games.

[PackLandVA]

I'm seeing that completely different than Len and Ryan. I think he beats it with his fingers.

[Cubswin11]

Just getting no breaks here

[PackLandVA]

K number 8 for Happ in his 10 plate appearances this series.

[Cubswin11]

The defense didn’t do Adbert many favors tonight

[PackLandVA]

K number 8 for Happ in his 10 plate appearances this series.

 

Good time for your first hit of the series, an infield single that scores 2!

 

 

 

[UMFan83]

Wow did not expect a 4 run inning off Gray and Gray being pulled after 3.1 IP

[Cubswin11]

What a machine of a team with BA with RISP

[Bertz]

I really want Hoerner to succeed. This team needs a fast guy who's also good at things besides just being fast.

[Bertz]

It would, uh, be nice to get two innings from Colin Rea tonight. No worries, I'm sure Ildemaro Vargas or Dan Winkler will definitely contribute to the the win.

[Omar]

Rain on the camera lenses makes the white uniforms refract, the Cubs look like the ghost players in Field of Dreams

[squally1313]

David Ross might not be very good at this.

[squally1313]

Do we have an official explanation as to where JD is? Twitter search isn’t giving me anything.

[Cubswin11]

Save some RISP for the weekend fellas

[Cubswin11]

Do we have an official explanation as to where JD is? Twitter search isn’t giving me anything.

He hurt his knee earlier in the year golfing, sounded like he already had a knee issue and that made it worse and he missed time with that. Maybe it flared back up or he had a procedure? He did the game last night. I hope it’s not that they’re trying to push him out for Dempster.

Edited September 11, 2020 by Cubswin11

[abuck1220]

the last two innings have been the best two offensive innings of the season

[Brian]

maybe should have gotten more than 12 pitches out of Tepera