Cubs (Steele) vs Pirates (Skenes): 5/11/24, 3:05pm

[Irrelevant Dude]

Steal this base.

[JHBulls]

Mastrobuoni is a boner no more. 

[abuck1220]

are they really not walking bellinger?!

[Irrelevant Dude]

Make em pay Cody.

[UMFan83]

Nice little fake rally to twist the knife even farther

[abuck1220]

so many “how the horsefeathers did they lose that?” games (especially for a team with a good-ish record). just lose some games 6-2 or something, weirdos. 

[Andy]

1 minute ago, UMFan83 said:

Nice little fake rally to twist the knife even farther

Complete with the Pirates inexplicably deciding to pitch to Bellinger even though Madrigal was on deck, a ridiculous decision that karma should've made them pay for making.

This is worse than the Padres loss.

Edited May 12, 2024 by Andy

[UMFan83]

Just now, abuck1220 said:

so many “how the horsefeathers did they lose that?” games (especially for a team with a good-ish record). just lose some games 6-2 or something, weirdos. 

They have what 17 losses?  Maybe 10 of them fall into that category. Wild

[Irrelevant Dude]

Tauchman swinging at the first pitch hurt. Really needed to have PCA get to 2nd with no outs, then he probably would have scored.

[UMFan83]

Just now, Andy said:

Complete with the Pirates inexplicably deciding to pitch to Bellinger even though Madrigal was on deck, a ridiculous decision that karma should've made them pay for making.

This is worse than the Padres loss.

I hear ya. I still think the Padres loss was worse. 8 run lead in the 6th inning is just insane to lose. As is the 6 run lead they blew to the Rockies in the 8th though they managed to win that one.   Everyone is going to have their “favorite” inexplicable loss though since there are so many to choose from so that’s a perfectly fine one to choose 

[17 Seconds]

how in the world is this even close to the padres loss

[gflore34]

Today' loss is certainly frustrating, Pirates lineup is still horsefeathers on a stick meaning there's a good chance the Cubs take two of three.  I think we'd all be OK with such a result.

[Andy]

14 minutes ago, 17 Seconds said:

how in the world is this even close to the padres loss

I'm willing to bet more teams have lost 8-0 leads than lost games in which they drew 6 bases loaded walks (in one damn inning no less). At least San Diego earned their comeback; Pittsburgh desperately tried to hand this game over and the Cubs refused to accept it

[17 Seconds]

8 minutes ago, Andy said:

I'm willing to bet more teams have lost 8-0 leads than lost games in which they drew 6 bases loaded walks (in one damn inning no less). At least San Diego earned their comeback; Pittsburgh desperately tried to hand this game over and the Cubs refused to accept it

the cubs never led by more than 2 runs and the only reason they scored 9 runs is because the opposition sucked so badly. they didn't deserve to win this game, and it never felt close to being in the bag, so it's not exactly heartbreakibg.

this doesn't even rank in the top 5 worst losses of this season for me 

Edited May 12, 2024 by 17 Seconds

[Irrelevant Dude]

Hendricks gets the start tomorrow. I guess that means Taillon back to the IL.

[UMFan83]

Can't believe I'm doing this (everyone at NSBB is rolling their eyes) but wallowing in the misery helps me feel better after losses like this so, I'd say the following losses this year are worse than today's loss:

1. 3/28 - Opening Day, you get a gift run to take the lead in the 9th and immediately blow it

2. 4/8 - What will forever be known as "The Padres loss"

3. 4/16 - Down 4-1, roar back to take 5-4 lead.  Then immediately give up 4 runs to trail 8-5, then score 6 runs in the 7th to take an 11-8 lead but give up single runs in the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th (including a 2 out solo HR that barely got out in the 9th to tie it) to lose to Arizona

4. 4/20 - Leading 2-1 in the 9th, Adbert gives up a 2 run HR to lose to Miami

5. 4/27 - Maybe not quite as painful because it quickly became a "wash our hands of this one" loss early on but losing 17-0 is pretty brutal even if position players pitching was a big part of that

6. 5/2 - This is borderline even with today but blow a 4-0 lead to the Mets, take a 6-5 lead in the 11th with a runner on 2nd and 0 outs, that runner gets thrown out at the plate and it only takes 2 batters in the bottom of the inning to give up 2 runs and lose

So I'll call this the 7th worst loss of the year.  Games that were close but ultimately kept behind today include:

4/28 - Cubs rally to tie Boston in the 9th only to get walked off on a weird bloop that might have been an inning ending double play if caught because the runner at 3rd wasn't tagging

4/30 - Adbert gives up a 3 run HR to DJ Stewart to break a 1-1 tie in the 6th

5/3 - Adbert blows a 1-0 lead in the 8th by allowing a series of increasingly harder hit singles to allow 3 runs and lose to the Brewers

5/8 - Definitely a tip your cap game with Cease going but getting 1 hit is pretty annoying.

Thats 11 of our 17 losses and yes I know I'm weird.

 

 

Edited May 12, 2024 by UMFan83

[Brock Beauchamp]

@Rex Buckingham you have tomorrow’s game thread!

[UMFan83]

4 minutes ago, 17 Seconds said:

the cubs never led by more than 2 runs and the only reason they scored 9 runs is because the opposition sucked so badly. they didn't deserve to win this game, and it never felt close to being in the bag, so it's not exactly heartbreakibg.

this doesn't even rank in the top 5 worst losses of this season for me 

Plus it was blown in the 5th inning, so while frustrating the Cubs couldnt do anything on offense until the 9th, it wasn't the gut punching late inning type of loss that we've had several times this year.

[Andy]

9 minutes ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

Hendricks gets the start tomorrow. I guess that means Taillon back to the IL.

Wonder who gets called up for Morel when he inevitably gets IL'd.

I never thought I'd see a run of injuries to top 2004 but this season is going to do it.

[UMFan83]

Apparently Kyle Hendricks is starting tomorrow....

Edit: nevermind already mentioned

Edited May 12, 2024 by UMFan83

[UMFan83]

16 minutes ago, Andy said:

Wonder who gets called up for Morel when he inevitably gets IL'd.

I never thought I'd see a run of injuries to top 2004 but this season is going to do it.

Always happens when someone starts an injury thread.  I learned my lesson in 2004.  Initially we got nothing but good news once someone started it this year but apparently it was just setting us up for wave 2 of the injuries

[muntjack]

If Kyle gets shelled by PIT tomorrow, I'm afraid it's finally time to move on.  

[ToolDRT]

I can’t remember a season with this many heartbreaking losses…and it’s may 11th. It’s just weird, it feels like the team actively tries to lose at times. Obviously that’s not really happening, but damn I cannot figure out how we even have the record we have sometimes. 

[Brian707]

9 hours ago, Andy said:

Wonder who gets called up for Morel when he inevitably gets IL'd.

I never thought I'd see a run of injuries to top 2004 but this season is going to do it.

1985 was bad too with the rash of injuries. 

[javy knows my name]

10 hours ago, UMFan83 said:

Can't believe I'm doing this (everyone at NSBB is rolling their eyes) but wallowing in the misery helps me feel better after losses like this so, I'd say the following losses this year are worse than today's loss:

1. 3/28 - Opening Day, you get a gift run to take the lead in the 9th and immediately blow it

2. 4/8 - What will forever be known as "The Padres loss"

3. 4/16 - Down 4-1, roar back to take 5-4 lead.  Then immediately give up 4 runs to trail 8-5, then score 6 runs in the 7th to take an 11-8 lead but give up single runs in the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th (including a 2 out solo HR that barely got out in the 9th to tie it) to lose to Arizona

4. 4/20 - Leading 2-1 in the 9th, Adbert gives up a 2 run HR to lose to Miami

5. 4/27 - Maybe not quite as painful because it quickly became a "wash our hands of this one" loss early on but losing 17-0 is pretty brutal even if position players pitching was a big part of that

6. 5/2 - This is borderline even with today but blow a 4-0 lead to the Mets, take a 6-5 lead in the 11th with a runner on 2nd and 0 outs, that runner gets thrown out at the plate and it only takes 2 batters in the bottom of the inning to give up 2 runs and lose

So I'll call this the 7th worst loss of the year.  Games that were close but ultimately kept behind today include:

4/28 - Cubs rally to tie Boston in the 9th only to get walked off on a weird bloop that might have been an inning ending double play if caught because the runner at 3rd wasn't tagging

4/30 - Adbert gives up a 3 run HR to DJ Stewart to break a 1-1 tie in the 6th

5/3 - Adbert blows a 1-0 lead in the 8th by allowing a series of increasingly harder hit singles to allow 3 runs and lose to the Brewers

5/8 - Definitely a tip your cap game with Cease going but getting 1 hit is pretty annoying.

Thats 11 of our 17 losses and yes I know I'm weird.

 

 

I fear for the mental health of anyone who reads this whole thing