6/24 - Cubs (Steele) vs Cardinals (Wainwright): 12:10pm, FOX

[Brock Beauchamp]

The Cubs kick off the London series against the desiccated corpse of Adam Wainwright. Given that they have Justin Steele on the mound, this is an opportunity to win going away, they need to take advantage of it.

[Derwood]

Cincy is now at a dozen straight wins (and still have a negative RD). 
 

time for them to crash

[Nolansomebody]

 

Back to the regular lineup today.

[Brock Beauchamp]

13 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Cincy is now at a dozen straight wins (and still have a negative RD). 
 

time for them to crash

BaseRuns, which I feel is more accurate than pythag, has them even worse at 34-42. What we're seeing is smoke and mirrors. Those wins are banked but unless the Reds get their pitching staff in order, regression is coming for them in a big way.

https://www.fangraphs.com/depthcharts.aspx?position=BaseRuns

[UMFan83]

Wainwright seems to always put on a vintage performance against us. Hopefully being on a different continent throws him off

[Nolansomebody]

3 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

Wainwright seems to always put on a vintage performance against us. Hopefully being on a different continent throws him off

C'mon Jet Lag!

[UMFan83]

9 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

BaseRuns, which I feel is more accurate than pythag, has them even worse at 34-42. What we're seeing is smoke and mirrors. Those wins are banked but unless the Reds get their pitching staff in order, regression is coming for them in a big way.

https://www.fangraphs.com/depthcharts.aspx?position=BaseRuns

They’re 20-6 in their last 26 games. Here’s the spread of their margin of victory/defeat in those games:

One run win: 9

Two run win: 5

Three run win: 3

4+ run win: 3

One run loss: 1

Two run loss: 1

Three run loss: 1

4+ run loss: 3

Edited June 24, 2023 by UMFan83

[Brock Beauchamp]

5 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

They’re 20-6 in their last 26 games. Here’s the spread of their margin of victory/defeat in those games:

One run win: 9

Two run win: 5

Three run win: 3

4+ run win: 3

One run loss: 1

Two run loss: 1

Three run loss: 1

4+ run loss: 3

Yeah, exactly. Look at yesterday's win. They beat Atlanta by scoring 11 runs on nine hits. They also had six walks but teams just aren't going to regularly score 75% of their baserunners, especially against the Braves.

And they won by one run.

[Nolansomebody]

Well, everybody. Get your beverage of choice and watch the Cubs get back to 3.5 GB!

[Brock Beauchamp]

Me upon realizing I'm going to be forced to listen to John Smoltz for the next three hours

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Golden opportunity for Arenado to answer the "what's different about this game" question with "well Ken normally I don't have to do interviews while I'm warming up before an inning"

[Brock Beauchamp]

The batting helmets have advertisements?

[UMFan83]

Happer!  NL Central dominator

Edited June 24, 2023 by UMFan83

[Brock Beauchamp]

That's a start, more please.

[Brock Beauchamp]

*not the double play

[Andy]

That's two hot shots today that didn't look like post shift restriction baseball

[Brock Beauchamp]

Made Wainwright work a bit that inning, I'll take it.

[EricG]

I see "Advocate Health Care" patches on left sleeve and London Series on right sleeve. no cub bear and C logo

[Andy]

Ump squeezed Steele against Carlson and then called a pitch 3 inches high as a strike, so that's interesting

[Brock Beauchamp]

Just now, EricG said:

I see "Advocate Health Care" patches on left sleeve and London Series on right sleeve. no cub bear and C logo

Ick.

[Andy]

Just now, EricG said:

I see "Advocate Health Care" patches on left sleeve and London Series on right sleeve. no cub bear and C logo

Yeah, supposedly that's a London thing (Yankees and Red Sox did it in 19) but a potential preview of the ads the Ricketts will inevitably sell on the regular jerseys

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Smoltz saying he watches too much golf to start watching Ted Lasso is a level of Smoltziness previously thought to be unreachable

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 minute ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Smoltz saying he watches too much golf to start watching Ted Lasso is a level of Smoltziness previously thought to be unreachable

I'm okay if he plays more golf. Play all the golf.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Ian Happ is havin' himself a game.

[Nolansomebody]

Happ absolutely destroying Wainwright today.