8/19 - Royals (Singer) vs Cubs (Steele): 1:20pm, Marquee

[UMFan83]

6-4....just like last Saturday Ross pulls Fulmer with 2 outs and 1 on, brings in Leiter who immediately gives up a run.

Don't care about matchups or whatever, Fulmer was pitching fine, give him the inning.

Edited August 19, 2023 by UMFan83

[chibears55]

How about a couple of insurance runs here, got a little too close for the 9th

[Tryptamine]

The offense completely shut things down the last 4 innings.

[Brock Beauchamp]

The key to cruising to an easy victory is to not allow the other horsefeathers team back into the game one run at a time.

[UMFan83]

Just drives me nuts that we led the team with the 2nd worst record in the majors 6-1 in the 5th inning and ended up having to use every single one of our high leverage relievers to (hopefully) finish off the game.  We are in game 2 of a stretch of 27 games in 27 days.  This is absolutely a game we should have been able to avoid pitching all of Merryweather, Fulmer, Leiter and Alzolay.

13 straight Cubs retired by the terrible Royals pen

[chibears55]

2 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

The offense completely shut things down the last 4 innings.

Yea so much for a bad Royals bullpen..

Said a few times, this offense relies too much on Bellinger and Swanson 

[UMFan83]

Don't let anyone on.  Witt Jr is due up 3rd

[chibears55]

Can't let Witt bat as tying or go ahead run

[Tryptamine]

None of the relievers can get ahead in the count

[chibears55]

Nice pitches to Witt to get him, let finish this

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Adbert's composure/mentality is unbelievable

[UMFan83]

Not the prettiest but we win

[We Got The Whole 9]

Can't complain. They finally scored 5 runs again, Steele was really nasty, and the pen was leaky but held it together to get the job done. Badly needed W.

[UMFan83]

Dodgers come back and beat the Marlins 3-1 in game 1, pulling them even with the Cubs again and 0.5 back of the Reds for WC3. 
 

Brewers up 2-1 vs Rangers in the 5th, Diamondbacks up 6-3 against the Padres. 
 

Reds, Phillies, Giants and Game 2 of the Marlins are later today

[Irrelevant Dude]

I'm late to the party, but the timing of the Barnhart move seems strange to me.

I'm all for getting rid of him, and I suppose there's no wrong time to do it, but what changed that finally forced the move?

[itisallpartoftheplan]

The Rangers are not our friends 

[UMFan83]

8 minutes ago, itisallpartoftheplan said:

The Rangers are not our friends 

To be fair they also let us beat them twice 

[CubUgly]

2 hours ago, UMFan83 said:

Of course Witt comes through.  He's 5-8 with a HR, 3 RBI, 3 runs scored and 2 SB this series. 

Now the Royals are a single from a 1 run game

And your throw him an 0-2 cement mixer instead of a pitch out of the zone.   Alzolay showed how it's done.

[Andy]

2 hours ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

I'm late to the party, but the timing of the Barnhart move seems strange to me.

I'm all for getting rid of him, and I suppose there's no wrong time to do it, but what changed that finally forced the move?

Others have pointed out that he was catching Stroman a lot, and that does not appear to be needed the rest of the season.

[Andy]

I was at the game and just now found out Ben Zobrist was there and shown on the LF board. Minor complaint maybe but I wish they'd show this stuff on the RF board too. I was in the LF bleachers and had no idea what the ovation was for.

[UMFan83]

2 minutes ago, Andy said:

I was at the game and just now found out Ben Zobrist was there and shown on the LF board. Minor complaint maybe but I wish they'd show this stuff on the RF board too. I was in the LF bleachers and had no idea what the ovation was for.

They should have played his old walk up music so everyone would know who it is

[UMFan83]

Reds lose. Cubs temporarily back in WC3.  If the Marlins win tonight (they’re up 1-0) the Cubs will be 0.5 behind. 
 

giants also have a 5-4 lead on Atlanta. If the Braves come back the Cubs would be 0.5 GB Giants for WC2. 
 

I don’t care if anyone reads these updates it just helps me organize all the moving parts 😂

[chibears55]

40 games left, im thinking if they go 25-15 and finish with 88 wins, that should be enough for the division,  of course winning at least 4 of 6 remaining versus the Brewers will help too.

[UMFan83]

Giants do lose, Cubs now just 1/2 game behind them for WC2

Diamondbacks on track to sweep the Padres today and be 1/2 game behind the Cubs

Miami is losing 2-1 to LA 

If scores hold....

WC1 PHI +3.5

WC2 SF +0.5

WC3 CHC --

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 CIN --

MIA -0.5

ARI -0.5

[UMFan83]

Marlins lose, Cubs will again end the night in a playoff spot