8/18 - Royals (Ragans) vs Cubs (Taillon): 1:20pm, Marquee

[soccer10k]

Come on Nico with the TOOTBLANS. Just take the single.

[Andy]

Good lord, literally everything had to go right to get Nico and of course it all did

[CubinNY]

I like the aggressive baserunning here, but damn it.  

[Irrelevant Dude]

Gotta send him there, just a perfect play...

[CubinNY]

not dead yet

[chibears55]

Let me guess, Barnhart will catch tomorrow and Wisdom will play 3B 🙄

[CubinNY]

I can feel it. 

[s2obed]

Good play. Thought that was an easy double

[chibears55]

Well, it has been awhile since Belli had a big hit and he hasn't had one today 

[CubinNY]

not looking good. This guy is pumping heat

[chibears55]

Come on, back to back walk off

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Dog horsefeathers at bat by Bellinger

[UMFan83]

Pathetic offensive performance after a week of mostly poor offensive performances. Bats need to figure it out quickly. Doesn’t matter what team you are playing, if you can’t hit you’re gonna have a tough time winning. 
 

thank you Morel for saving us from going 0-3 at home against 2 teams a combined 70 games under .500

[CubinNY]

blah

[chibears55]

Oh well...

Go Texas

[soccer10k]

That game was dumb. Better win the next two.

[WhyCantWeWin]

The Royals bullpen is just too elite 

[UMFan83]

Bellinger now in a 2 for 15 stretch

 

our 3 runs were scored on an error and 2 well placed ground balls. That’s the best we could manage hitting against pitchers with ERAs all over 4

Edited August 18, 2023 by UMFan83

[We Got The Whole 9]

They horsefeathers blow offensively right now 

[Irrelevant Dude]

Just now, UMFan83 said:

Bellinger now in a 2 for 15 stretch

I believe one of those was an infield single and the other was the double ahead of Morel's HR, which also wasn't hit overly hard.  It really hurts when you combine that with Dansby's extended funk and Happ's limited contributions.  Getting virtually nothing from 3-5 makes it really hard to sustain any offense.  Hopefully they turn it around really soon.

[Derwood]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say the 13 K's by the Cubs vs. the 4 K's by the Royals might have made a difference

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Can’t lose to the second worst team in baseball in a playoff race. Don’t care if it sometimes happens in baseball.

A couple of terrible at bats by vets this game chasing terrible pitches that would’ve gave them favorable counts to hit with.

[Dfan25]

Keep playing Wisdom at 1B and bad things will happen . Hopefully that’s the last time . Funny thing is they ended up PH for him in the 8th againts a lefty .  Last time Taillon pitched Wisdom a made a mistake as well before a Taillon imploded. What a pitiful performance by this offense . 

[UMFan83]

Slump tracker:

Morel - 4 for his last 44 (.090)

Happ - 5 for his last 32 (.156)

Bellinger - 2 for his last 15 (.133)

Swanson - 3 for his last 32 (.094)

Gomes - 5 for his last 32 (.156)

Madrigal - 2 for his last 18 (.111)

Wisdom - 5 for his last 36 (.139)

Amaya - 3 for his last 21 (.142)

Tauchman - 1 for his last 13 (.076)

Barnhart - 2 for his last 12 (.167)

 

Hoerner, Seiya and Candelario are doing fine

 

Also I realize there are a billion things you can pick apart about this including using a variety of arbitrary starting points for all these slumps, I don't care, I recognize it but I'm not in the mood lol

[Derwood]

2 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

Slump tracker:

Morel - 4 for his last 44 (.090)

Happ - 5 for his last 32 (.156)

Bellinger - 2 for his last 15 (.133)

Swanson - 3 for his last 32 (.094)

Gomes - 5 for his last 32 (.156)

Madrigal - 2 for his last 18 (.111)

Wisdom - 5 for his last 36 (.139)

Amaya - 3 for his last 21 (.142)

Tauchman - 1 for his last 13 (.076)

Barnhart - 2 for his last 12 (.167)

 

Hoerner, Seiya and Candelario are doing fine

 

Also I realize there are a billion things you can pick apart about this including using a variety of arbitrary starting points for all these slumps, I don't care, I recognize it but I'm not in the mood lol

 

fun with arbitrary end points