9/4 - Giants (Webb) vs Cubs (Steele): 1:20pm, Marquee

[SOFNR]

Just an amazing ace performance from Steele today. Just what they needed. 

[Rex Buckingham]

Steele is an ace

[Y2J]

Man of Steele! 

[itisallpartoftheplan]

3 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

Pretty sure that was on Labor Day too. At the very least it was Labor Day weekend

Might’ve been weekend, that Lester game was a Friday game I think.

[cl smooth]

balls of steel(e)

[sweetpeteman]

1 minute ago, itisallpartoftheplan said:

Might’ve been weekend, that Lester game was a Friday game I think.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN201609020.shtml

 

Friday, Sept 2nd.

[UMFan83]

1 minute ago, sweetpeteman said:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN201609020.shtml

 

Friday, Sept 2nd.

Got it. So it was Labor Day weekend. I was in Florida for the holiday weekend and remember watching it, just had the day wrong

[Derwood]

Let's play FTC

[Hunter]

Swanson lives.

[abuck1220]

give alzolay another day off 

[abuck1220]

yikes was alzolay not up when it was 3-0?

[UMFan83]

horsefeathers it let’s get cute and try to avoid the high leverage guys

[UMFan83]

Just now, abuck1220 said:

yikes was alzolay not up when it was 3-0?

Clearly Ross is trying to get him as much time as possible to keep him strong for the stretch run. In normal bullpen usage having Alzolay pitch today is a no brainer.  But as was pointed out on Friday Adbert has mostly gotten the job done but hasn’t been as sharp of late. Maybe dealing with dead arm?

[UMFan83]

Nice, stole an extra run 

[SOFNR]

Yah, I was a little skeptical about sending Steele out for the 8th without anybody warming up in the bullpen, but it worked out. This bullpen is pretty gassed. If you've the opportunity to give the high leverage guys some extra rest right now you absolutely want to do it. This was fortunate.

[Hunter]

W

[UMFan83]

Giants haven’t scored in 18 innings and have scored 1 total run their last 3 games. Yikes

Great win! Get to end the night 10 games over

[CubinNY]

Man of Steele

[itisallpartoftheplan]

A nice 2 hour ball game!

[SOFNR]

Dub. Great performance today. Keep winning.

[chibears55]

6 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

Clearly Ross is trying to get him as much time as possible to keep him strong for the stretch run. In normal bullpen usage having Alzolay pitch today is a no brainer.  But as was pointed out on Friday Adbert has mostly gotten the job done but hasn’t been as sharp of late. Maybe dealing with dead arm?

Right, with this stretch now with no days off until next week Thursday,  anytime they can give Leiter,  Merryweather,  and Alzolay a day off is needed, plus it gives a chance for other guys to step in and gain that confidence to finish games..

Was this a 2 hour game ? Holy cow

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Split the next 2 and leave this series at least 4 up on SF and win the tiebreaker.

[UMFan83]

Marlins are idle today so the most the Cubs can increase their playoff cushion today is to 3.5 games. Reds and DBacks have just kicked off their games. 

[UMFan83]

Just now, itisallpartoftheplan said:

Split the next 2 and leave this series at least 4 up on SF and win the tiebreaker.

Worst they can do now is 3-3 H2H. The second tiebreaker is intradivision record. 
 

Cubs are 28-18 against the Central with 6 games left (3 vs PIT, 3 at MIL)

 

Giants are 19-14 against the West with almost all of their remaining games after this series being against the West (outside of 3 vs Cleveland)

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Big boost for Steele’s Cy Young candidacy today. Will pitching games in a playoff race give him a boost to voters?

Pitcher wins are dumb, but outside chance at 20 wins.