9/12 - Cubs (Assad) vs Rockies (Flexen): 7:40pm, Marquee

[Irrelevant Dude]

1 minute ago, UMFan83 said:

Tauchman PH for Gomes?  Hmmm.  I know he walks a lot so maybe a good call

I'm assuming this guy has some L/R splits with his release.

[UMFan83]

104.1 MPH lineout straight at the CF

[UMFan83]

Yikes PCA

[Transmogrified Tiger]

yeah that's the PCA kryptonite for now, hard and above the belt

[Andy]

The Rockies are throwing strikes and getting positive results out if it, there's no way that's legal

[UMFan83]

OK Morel here's your chance.

pitching coach is telling their pitcher "he's gonna swing for the fences 3 times, don't throw him anything near him"

Edited September 13, 2023 by UMFan83

[Rex Buckingham]

Morel has no shot

[squally1313]

Great AB

[Transmogrified Tiger]

awfully close to a balk on that bluff to 2nd

[abuck1220]

a dropped fly ball away from playing to avoid a sweep tomorrow 

😬

[UMFan83]

Great decision Nico, take strike 3 with the game on the line lol

 

 

[Andy]

Cmon Nico, swing the frickin' bat

[UMFan83]

1 minute ago, abuck1220 said:

a dropped fly ball away from playing to avoid a sweep tomorrow 

😬

A dropped fly ball away from being 1-5 in our last 6 games.  This team is not playing good baseball right now as a whole.

Edited September 13, 2023 by UMFan83

[Derwood]

Can't take that pitch, Nico

[Irrelevant Dude]

Tough strike 3 pitch to Hoerner.  Oh well, win tomorrow and then enjoy the day off.

[squally1313]

1 minute ago, abuck1220 said:

a dropped fly ball away from playing to avoid a sweep tomorrow 

😬

A 56 mph check swing bloop away from maybe going for a road sweep tomorrow 

[abuck1220]

have to be rooting for the brewers to sweep the marlins, right? winning the central seems extremely unlikely at this point. 

[UMFan83]

PHI 1.5 GA

CHC --

ARI 2.0 GB

---------

CIN 3,.0 GB

SF 3.5 GB (if they finish their loss otherwise 2.5 GB)

MIA 3.5 GB

Edited September 13, 2023 by UMFan83

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Hopefully Taillon can give us something good tomorrow. Sucks to not take advantage of a bunch of NL WC contenders losing tonight. Hopefully the Guardians can hang on and make it only the Reds as winners tonight.

[Irrelevant Dude]

It's not going to be pretty from here on out.  Fortunately the lead is still fairly comfortable, so we just have to hope the Cubs can hang on.

[UMFan83]

3 minutes ago, squally1313 said:

A 56 mph check swing bloop away from maybe going for a road sweep tomorrow 

While true, you put yourself in that situation by walking or hitting the bases loaded.  But yeah easily could have struck out and maybe they score 0 runs that inning.

Either way, we're not playing good baseball right now and its frustrating as hell as we hit the final stretch.

Edited September 13, 2023 by UMFan83

[Irrelevant Dude]

2 minutes ago, abuck1220 said:

have to be rooting for the brewers to sweep the marlins, right? winning the central seems extremely unlikely at this point. 

Yes. The division is a lost cause.

[abuck1220]

6 minutes ago, squally1313 said:

A 56 mph check swing bloop away from maybe going for a road sweep tomorrow 

not even remotely similar what-ifs.
 

but the point is the cubs look very bad right now. 

[Irrelevant Dude]

The optimistic part of me still says just get to the playoffs and anything can happen.  The other part says are these guys going to have anything left when they get there?  It's really hard to imagine any substantial playoff run right now.

[UMFan83]

I'm chalking this up as one of those "we're a good team not a great team" losses.  Sometimes your taped and cobbled together pitching staff struggles to hold a bad offense down (obviously the offense needs to do more too).

I see people on twitter saying the Dodgers or Braves would have rolled over Colorado.  They probably would have.  We're not the Braves or Dodgers.  We might be able to beat one of them in a short series if hot but they are clearly superior teams.

Edited September 13, 2023 by UMFan83