4/12 Cubs (Alzolay) @ Brewers (Peralta) - 6:40 PM

[Omar]

The game has started.

 

 

i miss the old Wrigley-scoreboard-themed Cubs twitter lineup image.

[Omar]

3 up 3 down 8 pitches for Alzolay in the first.

 

on pace for a 72 pitch perfect game.

[UMFan83]

Leadoff walk, Javy swings through 3 fastballs in the strike zone, Heyward gets a great pitch to hit on 2-0 and pops it up.

[Omar]

David Bote (batting .100) way late on a 79 mph pitch.

[Omar]

Pederson swung at ball 4

 

I'm just glad he ended up walking.

[Cubswin11]

Really seems like a game Sogard should’ve started with our struggles vs Peralta/VB pitching/Fastballs. If he’s gonna be rostered this seems like a type of matchup and just overall series with Woodruff and Burnes looming he should be playing a lot.

[Omar]

Alzolay's delivery reminds me of Mark Prior's.

 

Hope he doesn't have elbow issues.

[d_money]

Alzolay's delivery reminds me of Mark Prior's.

 

Hope he doesn't have elbow issues.

Good call, very similar. His calves are smaller though.

[Omar]

[Bertz]

Keston Hiura is so bad in both sides of the ball right now

[d_money]

Tough call compared to the amount of money the Cubs saved by not signing Rizzo, Bryant and Baez to extensions.

[CubinNY]

They are comical at the plate. You have to think regression to the mean will result in a big game at some point, but wow.

[Omar]

Maybe the real "Cubs Dynasty" was the friends we made along the way.

[Cubswin11]

Keston Hiura is so bad in both sides of the ball right now

He might just really suck. He’s like a worse version of Javy at the plate with the Ks and contact issues, he walks a touch more but doesn’t have the raw power and obviously brings nothing on defense or base running.

[d_money]

Is this the game Grandpa Rossy loses his horsefeathers and gets tossed?

[Omar]

Well at least Alzolay is looking good.

[Derwood]

Alzolay's delivery reminds me of Mark Prior's.

 

Hope he doesn't have elbow issues.

 

Has anyone reported him doing towel drills?

[Omar]

KB!

[Bertz]

Keston Hiura is so bad in both sides of the ball right now

He might just really suck. He’s like a worse version of Javy at the plate with the Ks and contact issues, he walks a touch more but doesn’t have the raw power and obviously brings nothing on defense or base running.

 

The little bit I've heard out of Milwaukee is that he fell in love with all the dongs he hit his rookie year and is now selling out for fly balls, but at like 5'10" he doesn't really have the power to do that without the rabbit ball. And he was never going to be a contributor on defense.

[Cubswin11]

KB has been legitimately good

[Omar]

[Cubswin11]

Even by Javy standards of just hacking at everything that AB was atrocious

[Bertz]

This Brewers lineup without Yelich is really bad. Even still, what Alzolay is doing tonight is outrageous.

[Omar]

There's something about pointing an active TV camera at a player that makes them suddenly want to spit.

[Derwood]

Javy is legit broken. Does he use Mike Olt's optometrist?