Pirates (Falter) vs Cubs (Imanaga): 5/18/24, 1:20pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Sites are a mess this morning, cannot upload images or embed anything like tweets AND we're getting hammered with DDOS attacks. A perfect weekend, in other words.

At least posting text comments still works fine.

[Illiterate Scholar]

So they're just gonna wait until Dansby returns to put Hoerner on the IL or something? Going a week with 0.5 healthy shortstops on the roster is really strange.

[spaincubsfan]

I must admit, it's been an incredibly bad year (or unlucky) for injuries. Just have not been healthy.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

37 minutes ago, Illiterate Scholar said:

So they're just gonna wait until Dansby returns to put Hoerner on the IL or something? Going a week with 0.5 healthy shortstops on the roster is really strange.

I think they're dealing with an imprecise science, there were permutations where Hoerner was good to play Thursday or yesterday, so the duration he's out is not written in stone.  Also, the guy they would roster instead of Hoerner would not start over Mastrobuoni except for maybe against LHP, so the opportunity of having Hoerner back 2-5 days earlier than an IL stint is greater than the cost of having a short bench where Vazquez maybe gets a couple of platoon ABs but doesn't play otherwise.

[NorthsideAvenger]

Lovelady to the Rays.

[profisme]

Bad sign.  First pitch, top of the zone called a ball.  How come we can't get a Skenes zone for our ace?

[Derwood]

Why won't MLB.TV let me watch this?

[profisme]

That splitter is a tough pitch today.  Wow.  Already 4 whiffs on that.  

[Derwood]

6 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Why won't MLB.TV let me watch this?

Because I was logged in with the wrong email. I'm an idiot

[profisme]

Ugh.  This lineup is going to make Falter look good. 

[profisme]

Where the horsefeathers did the patience at the plate go?  

[Derwood]

Pop up pop up pop up.

Bellinger pops it up a ton. That loopy swing taketh and it giveth away

[profisme]

Lol at that strike call.

[profisme]

Wow.  Morel got lucky on ball 3.  Let's get some runs now.

[UMFan83]

Leadoff man gets on, immediately a DP is hit.  Just how things are going for our Cubs right now...

[WhyCantWeWin]

Tauchman is having a pretty rough time lately. And yes I know he has a good +wrc on the season, don’t attack me Mike Tauchman fan club

[profisme]

1 minute ago, UMFan83 said:

Leadoff man gets on, immediately a DP is hit.  Just how things are going for our Cubs right now...

Only thing decent about that is it was hit solidly and he went with the pitch and didn't roll over on it.  Happ just looks so lost right now and RH is his worse side so a day off would have been ok too.

[CubinNY]

I wonder why they are doing this military stuff before Memorial Day weekend 

[LBiittner]

Because they're in cardinal territory next weekend

[gflore34]

A Cubs pitcher not throwing batting practice and, guess what, Pirates lineup is terrible, who would have thought?  Disappointed in the Cubs vs Falter so far, they hit him pretty hard last time out.

[CubinNY]

1 minute ago, LBiittner said:

Because they're in cardinal territory next weekend

That makes no sense. It’s both teams. 

[profisme]

For every ball Madrigal hits that goes above 15 feet above the ground, he should be benched for 1 future game.  He needs to get the extreme Willie Mays Hayes treatment.  

[LBiittner]

1 minute ago, CubinNY said:

That makes no sense. It’s both teams. 

A way to honor America at home?

[profisme]

Jesus this lineup is terrible.

[chibears55]

8 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

I wonder why they are doing this military stuff before Memorial Day weekend 

Armed force day