Marlins (Cabrera) vs Cubs (Hendricks): 4/21/24, 1:20pm, Marquee

[Southpaw19]

I'm sick of this

[Transmogrified Tiger]

One truly well hit ball in 6 hitters and 3 runs across, yeesh

[Derwood]

Gave up 3 runs on like 9 pitches

[Irrelevant Dude]

1 minute ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

One truly well hit ball in 6 hitters and 3 runs across, yeesh

But I think we're beyond the point of chalking it up to bad luck.  He is just getting hit way too often, hard or not.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Just now, Irrelevant Dude said:

But I think we're beyond the point of chalking it up to bad luck.  He is just getting hit way too often, hard or not.

Aside from Sanchez that was ground balls and bloops, and the least charitable interpretation is that 2 of 7 were squared up. If you want to nitpick you hope for more swing and miss but in a just world that is a 0 on the scoreboard and done like 3 hitters earlier.

[spaincubsfan]

Can't pin all that inning on him but he has a tendancy to get hit real hard 2nd-3rd time through the order. This game is not looking good already.

[WhyCantWeWin]

Man horsefeathers this wind

[Southpaw19]

Damn wind.

[PeanutPunch33]

great response, lets go

[Illiterate Scholar]

I love when my team gets garbage hits

[squally1313]

Just now, WhyCantWeWin said:

I also don’t get that foolish notion of needed to push Assad and Brown to the bullpen because it makes the bullpen stronger. It makes the rotation weaker which is way more important. 

It’s the permanence of the decision that is making me lean towards staying the course for right now. That and it still being a small sample size, to me. You can’t get Hendricks back if we run into more injury problems or Assad stops becoming an extreme FIP beater or browns 14 effective innings actually weren’t totally predictive. 

[WhyCantWeWin]

Lmao all this weak contact

[CubinNY]

Babip Gods smiling on the Cubs

[PeanutPunch33]

lol what a weird inning.  battle of the bloops 

[squally1313]

lol can you imagine being on the other side of this 

[Southpaw19]

This is going to be 12-11 isn't it?

[Irrelevant Dude]

Just now, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Aside from Sanchez that was ground balls and bloops, and the least charitable interpretation is that 2 of 7 were squared up. If you want to nitpick you hope for more swing and miss but in a just world that is a 0 on the scoreboard and done like 3 hitters earlier.

I agree in a vacuum, but this is what we have seen start after start with Hendricks.  Guys are putting the ball in play and finding holes, and for whatever reason they often come in bunches.  There is still likely some aspect of that being poorly timed bad luck, but how long can the Cubs try to wait that out?

Well, at least we're getting the BABIP luck on our side now.

 

 

[UMFan83]

Omg he’s gonna come up every big spot in this game isn’t he

[chibears55]

Morel with yet another opportunity 

[Jason Ross]

8 minutes ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

But I think we're beyond the point of chalking it up to bad luck.  He is just getting hit way too often, hard or not.

I think we are getting there, yes. His stuff just isn't good enough for anything less than "very good" command. He's a hittable pitcher when he's not hitting his spots because his stuff just doesn't have the oomph. 

I appreciate a lot of the contact he's giving up isn't hard contact. But when you give up the amount of contact and the lack of stuff he has...we are probably wading into a territory where there's less bad luck at play here and more "this is what happens" when Hendricks is even spotty in his command. Even when it's not hard hit, there's more control coming from hitters due to the lack of stuff/velo what have you.

[Andy]

Good God another out at home

[UMFan83]

Shocker the run on contact play fails again. Every single time. 
 

and I’m not even necessarily pissed about calling that play, just that it always always always blows up in their face

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Chrissy Morel and Kyle Hendricks make me sad

[Transmogrified Tiger]

4 minutes ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

I agree in a vacuum, but this is what we have seen start after start with Hendricks.  Guys are putting the ball in play and finding holes, and for whatever reason they often come in bunches.  There is still likely some aspect of that being poorly timed bad luck, but how long can the Cubs try to wait that out?

Well, at least we're getting the BABIP luck on our side now.

 

 

I mean, Kyle giving up rockets and 460 HR is ominous and bad and going to be bad every time it happens.  Kyle having an inning like last inning will be scoreless most of the time.  From a process perspective he'd be a perfectly fine SP if every inning went like that one.

[SpongeWorthy]

1 minute ago, Ding Dong Johnson said:

Chrissy Morel and Kyle Hendricks make me sad