9/19- Pirates (TBD) vs Cubs (Assad): 6:40pm, Marquee

[UMFan83]

Belli 1 for his last 14. I bet he’d really like his season OPS to be over .900 for FA purposes but he’ll have to heat up now to get there. 

[Irrelevant Dude]

A little more urgency please Yan.  Geeze.

[Irrelevant Dude]

The bad news is Smyly is going to be hugely overpaid next year. The good news is this version of him does actually have SOME value and is worth having in the pen.

[Derwood]

I'm not mad about that Assad start. Got himself into trouble, but got himself out. That's what you want for the playoffs

[UMFan83]

So the Marlins won, Reds lost and Diamondbacks are winning 5-2. If we finish this game we’d be in WC3 0.5 games ahead of Miami, 1 game ahead of Cincinnati and 0.5 games behind Arizona (assuming they win)

[Rcal10]

Just now, Irrelevant Dude said:

The bad news is Smyly is going to be hugely overpaid next year. The good news is this version of him does actually have SOME value and is worth having in the pen.

What is his option? Is there any chance his agent convinced him he could get a 3 year $20M total? Would he take that over the one year with the Cubs? 

[UMFan83]

Just now, Derwood said:

I'm not mad about that Assad start. Got himself into trouble, but got himself out. That's what you want for the playoffs

Typically not sustainable to get into trouble and out of it repeatedly lol. The results were good and even more impressive for me was how he battled back and got in a bit of a grove his last 2 innings. 

[Derwood]

1 minute ago, UMFan83 said:

Typically not sustainable to get into trouble and out of it repeatedly lol. The results were good and even more impressive for me was how he battled back and got in a bit of a grove his last 2 innings. 

 

I'm not hoping for him to get into trouble, but typically you'll need to win a few games like this in the postseason, and it's nice to see a young-ish pitcher do it

[Irrelevant Dude]

I don't know if I have ever seen that before, but sure seems like it should be interference.

Edited September 20, 2023 by Irrelevant Dude

[UMFan83]

Oof, Canario commits an out without even being up to bat.

[Irrelevant Dude]

That's one way to make up for it!

[UMFan83]

The ball explodes off Canario's bat

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Canario’s bat interfered the horsefeathers outta that ball.

[Andy]

Almost certain I've never seen the guy on deck force an interference call before.

[Irrelevant Dude]

Does anyone range further to his right than Bellinger at 1B?  Occasionally it has caused a problem, but it was the only chance there and a really nice play.

[Irrelevant Dude]

Bellinger needs to get going again. Way too many ground ball outs right now.

[UMFan83]

Damn, at least 1 person in the 8th needs to get a hit to get PCA up.  Of the Cubs could blow it but I'd rather them not go that route.

Edited September 20, 2023 by UMFan83

[UMFan83]

PCA walks to bring up Canario *sniff* its so beautiful

[UMFan83]

Great job leaving him on the bench for 3 weeks Ross.  GRAND SLAM

[s2obed]

Canario! Riding the bench but still hits a grand slam!

[Derwood]

We would've caught the Braves if Canario had started every day.

Prove me wrong.

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Hell Yeah!!

[Irrelevant Dude]

Back to the bench you go tomorrow kid!

[Irrelevant Dude]

Is there a part of David Ross who didn't want Canario to do this tonight because it makes him look like an idiot?

[squally1313]

These guys needed this game a lot