Braves (Morton) @ Cubs (Assad) - 5/21/24 6:40 CST - TBS/Marquee

[squally1313]

Repeat of the game from last Wednesday, let's hope we get the same result. In the meantime both teams struggled, with the remains of the Cubs roster dropping three of four to Pittsburgh and their annoyingly good pitching and the Braves having the same results at home against San Diego. Tomorrow we'll see Steele and Fried, and I don't think anyone has any idea who is going on Thursday (FG and ESPN has Hendricks vs TBD). We'll see on Hendricks and it looks like the Braves just called up something named Darius Vines, who has made two mediocre starts for them in spot duty already this year and has been similarly mediocre in AAA. 

Cubs pen is pretty well rested after the day off yesterday, would assume only Brown is unavailable, though they'd probably like to avoid Wesneski as well. The Braves are a different story coming off a doubleheader yesterday that had their top four relievers all throwing, though none of them threw on Sunday so it's possible they're all likely for game 1 of this series. Even if that's the case, important to get to the pen today because it could open up the underbelly in games 2 and 3. 

It looks like the final roster moves yesterday are Dansby and Vazquez up, Miles and PCA down. Probably not the place to get too in the weeds on those, but would guess Vazquez gets a start or two at second here assuming Dansby can hit the ground running. 

Generally pretty optimistic about the state of things, but....been a rough stretch here and the Braves remain Very Good and Scary. Hoping the warm weather in Chicago can wake up the bats and we can figure out a way to get two out of three here before this Cardinals/Brewers road stretch coming up here. Go Cubs.

[KCCub]

 

[Brian707]

Might need double digits to win tonight. I don't have any faith in the offense

[Bertz]

Night day from the lineups the last couple weeks

 

[squally1313]

4 minutes ago, Bertz said:

Night day from the lineups the last couple weeks

 

Batting order doesn't matter, but, um, what is that

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Interesting that Dansby comes back to hitting 8th, probably not overly meaningful and more of the unintended consequence of Tauchman leading off and balancing L/R and contact throughout.

[chibears55]

Did they activate Vazquez?

[UMFan83]

30-40 mph gusts directly from the south. Hope Javier keeps the ball on the ground as much as possible. I fear for his sparkling ERA

Edited May 21, 2024 by UMFan83

[chibears55]

Just found out that Brennen Davis dad is former bull Reggie Theus...

👀

[UMFan83]

14 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

Just found out that Brennen Davis dad is former bull Reggie Theus...

👀

He’s never been a part of his life though

[DYMNO]

Maybe Happ needs a phantom IL stint.

 

[WhyCantWeWin]

Happ should be hitting 9th

[DYMNO]

Just now, WhyCantWeWin said:

Happ should be hitting 9th

Happ should be hitting.

[DYMNO]

That's gonna come back and bite us, isn't it?

[UMFan83]

I'm trying to be as patient as I can be with Happ but its so hard to not be frustrated.  If we weren't also suffering through massive slumps by Busch, Gomes, Amaya, Madrigal and probably Swanson it would be easier to ride this slump out but there's just too many black holes in the lineup right now.

[DYMNO]

Yup. Big 'ol bite.

[CubinNY]

Boom 

[Derwood]

100 year old Charlie Morton is just too much for this lineup

[CubinNY]

Picked a bad time to have control problems 

[We Got The Whole 9]

Well that sucks 

[Derwood]

50 pitches through 2 innings seems suboptimal

[chibears55]

We might see Hendricks tonight if Assad can't find the strike zone 🙄

[JHBulls]

Time to retire if you manage to pitch a 4 pitch walk against Amaya? 😂 

[DYMNO]

Way to go, Mike. 

[JHBulls]

That was an ugly half swing from Seiya. Very unlike him.