8/31 Davies lasts 4.1 innings

[mias_tisg]

Cubs are up 2-1 in the 5th

[PackLandVA]

And Man-Rod comes in and gets the quick DP. Cubs still up 2-1 headed to the top o' the 6th.

[PackLandVA]

Bags jammed, none out, top of 7th.

 

Rivas - K

Chirinos - K

The skinny Romine - K

 

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or something like that.

[PackLandVA]

RoWick with a 1-2-3 9th and the Cubs are victorious.

 

:flythew:

[Bertz]

This game was good affirmation that the bullpen will be good again sooner rather than later. Wick has clearly been knocking off rust, but there's a legitimate closer caliber arm there. Heuer was going through some mechanical issues with the Sox, and you can understand why they couldn't be patient but why Cody's still going to be a good reliever in short order. And then Manny Rodriguez just throws absolute fire and racks up ground balls.

 

Hopefully next year you can add back in Brad Wieck. His heart stuff sounds messy and complicated, but he just had surgery and he hasn't shown many reasons *on the field* he can't be an impact reliever. There's also the three headed monster of Ben Leeper, Brendon Little, and Ethan Roberts down at Iowa. I imagine that's better AAA depth than 27 or 28 other teams will have available to them.

 

It needs a setup caliber lefty, and ideally a grizzled veteran like Jeffress was for us last year, but it's a pretty set group going into next year that I'm already mostly happy with.