Rockies (Quantrill) vs Cubs (Little): 4/3/24, 6:40pm

[Outshined_One]

Outs, please.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

pretty salty about that 0-1 call, not hard to see that being the difference in Bryant being on base or not

[Tryptamine]

I think we all know how this ends.

[chopsx9]

Morel makes that play.

[Outshined_One]

2 minutes ago, chopsx9 said:

Morel makes that play.

Makes it into a two base error, sure.

[JHBulls]

W!

[Outshined_One]

Good win.

Let us never speak of it again.

[chibears55]

All good, just had to make it a little exciting at the end...

😰

[UMFan83]

The Cubs have won 6 straight games at Wrigley Field, all of them coming against the Rockies.

(yes I'm milking that weird schedule oddity)

[squally1313]

Just watched the cubs sweep in 18 degree weather with Assad and Luke little starting the last two games, four in a row total, like 6 of our hitters are on fire, time to go scroll through the game thread and read all the posts talking about how awesome we are. 

[UMFan83]

Clearly they just wanted to give Adbert some high leverage work.

 

But seriously we won so yay but stop giving me September 2023 vibes!  Bullpens are going to have rough games over the course of a season but I'm still scarred from the end of last season.

[PeanutPunch33]

12 minutes ago, PackLandVA said:

What exactly did Mastro do that has you bent?

 

What has he ever contributed?  He was terrible last year and he just doesn't seem to be a big league player.  

[UMFan83]

1 minute ago, squally1313 said:

Just watched the cubs sweep in 18 degree weather with Assad and Luke little starting the last two games, four in a row total, like 6 of our hitters are on fire, time to go scroll through the game thread and read all the posts talking about how awesome we are. 

Well sir the game thread was almost all positive.  Are people supposed to cheer the nice effort when the team blows an 8th inning 8-2 lead?

[squally1313]

Just now, UMFan83 said:

Well sir the game thread was almost all positive.  Are people supposed to cheer the nice effort when the team blows an 8th inning 8-2 lead?

Just looking for a little levelheadedness when one inning in a bullpen game in these conditions goes sideways (aided by some very uncharacteristic defense), but hey, relitigating 2023 and the offseason decisions works too. 

[UMFan83]

3 minutes ago, PeanutPunch33 said:

 

What has he ever contributed?  He was terrible last year and he just doesn't seem to be a big league player.  

He was worth 0.5 wins last year in 149 PA and give the Cubs adequate defense at 6 different positions.  I mean I don't love Mastro but for a 26th man he's perfectly cromulent.

Edited April 4, 2024 by UMFan83

[SOFNR]

Ben Brown looked good. Good offense. Sweeps are pretty sweet. 4-2.

[Outshined_One]

Just now, squally1313 said:

Just looking for a little levelheadedness when one inning in a bullpen game in these conditions goes sideways (aided by some very uncharacteristic defense), but hey, relitigating 2023 and the offseason decisions works too. 

You've been here nearly 20 years. You know how we do.

[Rob]

5 minutes ago, PeanutPunch33 said:

 

What has he ever contributed?  He was terrible last year and he just doesn't seem to be a big league player.  

He is, ostensibly, a super utility player capable of playing decent defense at a number of positions, being a high percentage basestealer, and being a lefty bat with juuuust enough power to keep pitchers from throwing him meatballs and daring him to do something with them.

The tools and the stats all suggest the above to be true. But I still have trouble buying that narrative.

Edited April 4, 2024 by Rob

[PackLandVA]

3 minutes ago, PeanutPunch33 said:

 

What has he ever contributed?  He was terrible last year and he just doesn't seem to be a big league player.  

Just seemed like a weirdly timed take for a guy who despite a presumably a bad call, got on base, went first to third on a single, had enough speed/jump to force a hurried throw, and then scored the winning run.

He’s a versatile bench player and nothing more.

[Rob]

4 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

Well sir the game thread was almost all positive.  Are people supposed to cheer the nice effort when the team blows an 8th inning 8-2 lead?

Yes.

It would be easy for the players to get upset and a bit fatalistic after blowing a lead like that. We have all watched Cubs teams do exactly that over the years, phone in their effort or blame each other for the issues, and watch the team blow the game. It shows good team character that they stuck with it tonight and managed to quickly recover for the win.

[Crusader]

W!

[We Got The Whole 9]

Glad to pull out the W/sweep but Neris and Almonte are having some seriously shaky starts to their Cubs career, including spring. The lack of velo is concerning.

[Bertz]

Sloppy win but hard not to contribute some of that to the weather

Sweep is huge, gives the team a bit of cushion to falter during this stretch coming up.  Go 5-7 or better during these next 12 and you're at least .500 with one of the Dodgers series and half your west coast games already behind you.

[squally1313]

6 minutes ago, Rob said:

Yes.

It would be easy for the players to get upset and a bit fatalistic after blowing a lead like that. We have all watched Cubs teams do exactly that over the years, phone in their effort or blame each other for the issues, and watch the team blow the game. It shows good team character that they stuck with it tonight and managed to quickly recover for the win.

Is this even really a thing anymore at all, much less specifically a cubs thing? Since the beginning of 2015 (this is the 10th season in that run), we have the 6th most wins in baseball, have had one season that was wholly uncompetitive, and went from what is universally regarded as the most loved cubs core of all time, even including the pretty disappointing ending, to this current iteration, which I genuinely enjoy pretty much across the board (even Morel!), and who has very much not reached their ceiling.
 

In spite of Tom Ricketts, who sucks and should be blamed directly or indirectly for most bad things in the world, this team has been a pretty enjoyable follow for a while now. Maybe not compared to the dodgers, but especially compared to the 10-80 years before that. 

[JHBulls]

They almost Picasso’d the hell out of that one by turning something that was supposed to be beautiful into something that looked ugly as horsefeathers. But they got there in the end. 

Edited April 4, 2024 by JHBulls