6/27 - Alzolay @ Kershaw

[Derwood]

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Boo Sogard

[BigSlick]

It would be cool to salvage a split here.

 

West Coast trips are always so miserable, the games always happen so late and almost always are death marches. Will be nice to be back on the central time zone

[Derwood]

Kershaw is throwing a perfect game, book it

[Derwood]

Big yikes

[TMan92]

Well, the Milwaukee series just got a little more important for a series in June.

[BigSlick]

Ugh. Embarrassing

[CubinNY]

Over before it really gets started. Edited June 28, 2021 by CubinNY

[Derwood]

Time to play some Assassin's Creed

[UMFan83]

The Cubs are in the middle of a stretch where they play 21

Road games and 8 home games and 23 of the 29 games against above .500 teams. Those road games involved them going to the west coast and then the next weekend on the east coast and then the weekend after that back on the west coast.

 

How many off days do they have with all that traveling? 2

 

Tonight the Cubs play on the west coast and then have to travel to Milwaukee for a game tomorrow.

 

It’s not a big reason why the Cubs aren’t good right now but it’s certainly not helping

 

 

After this road trip they will have 42 home games left and just 33 road games. Their next 30 games after the Milwaukee series will be against teams at or below .500 and 62 of the final 78 against at or below .500 teams. (7 vs MIL, 6 vs CWS, 3 vs SF). 10 of those 16 above .500 games will be at Wrigley.

 

Maybe I’m just saying all this to make me feel better about a flawed team but whatever. This has been an extremely difficult stretch while our chief division rivals are playing AAAA teams. There’s hope even if there are clear issues with the team

[UMFan83]

If anyone is still following, I guess Rizzo left the game with back issues so I wouldn’t expect to see him play in the Brewers series. When it rains it pours

[PackLandVA]

Three runs or less…..again. This offense is just not good too often.

[UMFan83]

Three runs or less…..again. This offense is just not good too often.

 

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11th time in 14 games scoring 2 runs or less. In the other games they scored 3, 4 and 7. That’s….really bad

[Derwood]

You mean striking out in half of your AB's is bad?

[PackLandVA]

You mean striking out in half of your AB's is bad?

 

Unfortunately, baseball in general seems to be mostly reduced to HRs and Ks. Not a lot of “singles/doubles” hitters anymore. Guess that’s frowned upon.

[UMFan83]

It’s crazy though. I’ve seen some bad Cubs teams before. I’ve seen plenty of cubs offenses that lack talent. I’ve never seen anything like this Cubs core the last few years that goes on multiple stretches per year where they go into a complete team wide unrelenting tailspin.

 

Like even in the game they scored 7 runs, they faced a starter with an ERA over 10 and had 1 baserunner through 5 innings of that game before the floodgates somewhat opened up.

 

Last years Cubs team started the season on fire offensively then went into a 2 month tailspin that continued into the playoffs. This years team had a historically awful first 3 weeks, then scored the most runs in baseball over a 5 week stretch and then is back to being near historically awful. I’ve never seen anything like it.

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peralta, woodruff, and burnes should put this at 4 gb, if not 6. ptr is lovin it

[BigSlick]

[Schwarber Fan]

This is why you have to find a way to win games like Friday and Saturday. Because you can’t bank on beating Kershaw. Hard to fault them too much though because they have a great record in one run games.

 

Need to win 2 of 3 in Milwaukee.

 

If Rizzo is out, we probably get to see Wisdom strike out 15 times this week.

[CyHawk_Cub]

Some fans I know IRL tell me the offense would just just fine if only we had **checks notes** Matt Duffy available.

[Andy]

This has been an extremely difficult stretch while our chief division rivals are playing AAAA teams. There’s hope even if there are clear issues with the team

The problem with all that optimistic schedule stuff that was earlier in this post is if they don't get their horsefeathers together in like the next 2 weeks, it won't matter because Ricketts is begging to sell, and frankly I think Jed would like to as well if he gets an excuse.

[UMFan83]

Because I’m a glutton for punishment.

 

First 12 games of the season:

.163/.254/.307/.561

 

Next 32 games:

.269/.350/.450/.800

 

Last 34 games:

.199/.266/.379/.645

[Soul]

This has been an extremely difficult stretch while our chief division rivals are playing AAAA teams. There’s hope even if there are clear issues with the team

The problem with all that optimistic schedule stuff that was earlier in this post is if they don't get their horsefeathers together in like the next 2 weeks, it won't matter because Ricketts is begging to sell, and frankly I think Jed would like to as well if he gets an excuse.

 

Also, even the crappiest teams have a good week or two. Catch them at the wrong time and the Cubs won't necessarily win as many of those games as they should.

 

The opposite is also true.