Rangers (Corbin) vs Cubs (Taillon): 4/8/25, 6:40pm

[JHBulls]

1 minute ago, UMFan83 said:

Nice PCA!  Good work getting hung up so the second run scored too

Aha, I didn’t consider the strategy of it. 

Edited April 9, 2025 by JHBulls

[Thusly Boned]

Yeah, I thought Dansby was a dead duck there. No idea why Jung cut that off.

[BigbadB]

Fun game. 

[cl smooth]

6 minutes ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

My God, it hurts to watch Bruce Boche walk out to the mound.

Nothing wrong with his leg, he’s just b-boy limpin’.

[CUBDOM4life]

Good god what a start to the year for Dansby

[JHBulls]

8 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

Especially since this ump been calling them balls most of night 

Baseball umpires messing up calls in the late innings, obviously trying to finish up quickly reminds me of this referee who blew for full time 5+ minutes early.

 

Edited April 9, 2025 by JHBulls

[UMFan83]

He’s out but they’ll call him safe 

 

edit: or not!

Edited April 9, 2025 by UMFan83

[Irrelevant Dude]

The Rangers have gone completely baseball stupid.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Even if he's safe what exactly is Semien doing there, you can't be that afraid of a DP to risk one of 2 outs to spare when you're down 4.

[chibears55]

Cubs bullpen and clean inning just dont go together 😅😅😅

[Irrelevant Dude]

I'm with JD.  Overturned because the runner deserves it.

[chibears55]

W

[JHBulls]

Brutal April schedule, so every W counts. 

[Derwood]

Marcus Semien's batting line is painful to look at

[We Got The Whole 9]

They are playing exceptionally well. Padres still have only 2 losses, the Rangers came into the series 9-2. 2 huge blown leads have tarnished an otherwise fantastic start to the season.

[Soul]

It’s a beautiful thing to see.  The offense is like a freight train.

Love love love.

[WhyCantWeWin]

Thank god for these bats, this bullpen is painful 

[gflore34]

Haven’t looked but, is Pressly getting some bad luck on batted balls?  Seems nearly every ball finds a hole of course, this probably due to the inability to get any swing and miss.

[Dfan25]

Only thing I can say about Pressly is that he is throwing ground balls at the least . Needs to cut down on the walks .  Would be really nice to sweep tomorrow because next road trip will be pure hell .

[Dfan25]

1 minute ago, gflore34 said:

Haven’t looked but, is Pressly getting some bad luck on batted balls?  Seems nearly every ball finds a hole of course, this probably due to the inability to get any swing and miss.

He is just walking too many guys in general .

[UMFan83]

2 minutes ago, JHBulls said:

Brutal April schedule, so every W counts. 

I just did the math, the Cubs opponents for the first 29 games added up have a combined record of 73-37 and that includes 2 series against uncharacteristically mediocre Arizona.  Thats a .664 winning % and 108 win pace. Somehow we’re 9-5 halfway through that stretch, leading the majors in RD and should probably be 10-4 or 11-3. Good stuff. 

[We Got The Whole 9]

Hodge has very quietly blown consecutive appearances. We just do not have lockdown relievers. Merryweather got rocked too. Really frustrating.

[JHBulls]

13 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

I just did the math, the Cubs opponents for the first 29 games added up have a combined record of 73-37 and that includes 2 series against uncharacteristically mediocre Arizona.  Thats a .664 winning % and 108 win pace. Somehow we’re 9-5 halfway through that stretch, leading the majors in RD and should probably be 10-4 or 11-3. Good stuff. 

Runs scored is 94, next best is 78

Run diff is +32, next best is +22

[UMFan83]

13 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

Hodge has very quietly blown consecutive appearances. We just do not have lockdown relievers. Merryweather got rocked too. Really frustrating.

Eh not like Hodge got rocked either time. 
Last time he gave up a walk and a single. This time he gave up a bloop single and a fly ball that’s an out in any other ballpark in baseball but at Wrigley became an RBI triple. 

I mean he probably shouldn’t be your most trusted reliever and walks are going to be an issue most likely but he’s fine as a late inning setup guy imo

[Randall Simon]

33 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

Cubs bullpen and clean inning just dont go together 😅😅😅

I wouldn't call that a clean inning, but no runs scored, so I'll take it!