Cubs (Rea) vs Dodgers (Glasnow): 4/13/25, 6:10pm

[Brandon Glick]

Colin Rea takes his first start of the season agains the Dodgers on Sunday Night Baseball. Let's win this series, shall we?

 

[Rcal10]

14 minutes ago, Brandon Glick said:

Colin Rea takes his first start of the season agains the Dodgers on Sunday Night Baseball. Let's split this series, shall we?

 

How do we split a 3 game series? 

[Bertz]

Glasnow's actually been pretty bad to start the year.  I presume that won't keep up (it's likely rust after last year's injury?), but hopefully he has one more clunker before righting the ship.

[Geographyhater8888]

Besides the Steele injury and what looks to be another black hole in the lineup at third until Shaw learns how to hit big league pitching (PCA too) they’ve looked encouraging so far.

All of these runs and a bloated run differential for a 10-7 record and 1 game in front of Milwaukee for first. Typical. I’ll take it with this schedule.

Edited April 13, 2025 by Geographyhater8888

[Geographyhater8888]

Cubs have score 10 or more runs 5X in 17 games through April 13, it took them 138 games last season on August 22nd..

[Brandon Glick]

34 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

How do we split a 3 game series? 

I would settle for a tie given the pitching matchup

[Geographyhater8888]

1 hour ago, Rcal10 said:

How do we split a 3 game series? 

Rain out.

[Rcal10]

1 hour ago, Geographyhater8888 said:

Rain out.

Probably a better chance of a tie than a rain out in LA. Like to see Rea go 4 and being Keller in for 3. Maybe they get lucky and steal a series in LA. That would be awesome. 

[CUBDOM4life]

 

[muntjack]

Why is the 40 yr old with the sub-.600 OPS hitting 3rd?

[gflore34]

Once again, lets see one or more of PCA, Shaw, Hoerner and Swanson get on, think they'll be able to have success on the bases vs. Glasnow.   In  all seriousness how do DH's get injured?  Seiya' the Cubs version of Teven Jenkins, made of glass.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

52 minutes ago, muntjack said:

Why is the 40 yr old with the sub-.600 OPS hitting 3rd?

Tucker is hitting 2nd which is basically modern 3 hitter, they don't want Tucker and Busch back to back to make them easy late inning matchups, and 25 PA this year notwithstanding Turner is the better hitter than the other RHH in the lineup.

[Banedon]

Turner DH'ing instead of Amaya surprises me.

[chibears55]

5 hours ago, Rcal10 said:

How do we split a 3 game series? 

By winning either the first 4 1/2 innings or the second 🤷‍♂️😏😏

[chibears55]

3 minutes ago, Banedon said:

Turner DH'ing instead of Amaya surprises me.

Risky to play both catchers at same time

[Andy]

1 hour ago, chibears55 said:

Risky to play both catchers at same time

That's what I was curious about last night when Amaya came in

[PeanutPunch33]

The Cubs really missed an opportunity to get Jesus Luzardo in the offseason.  The Phillies got him for what, the 4th best prospect and 21st best prospect in the system?  That's basically nothing compared to how good he is as a pitcher. 

I'm sure that for a comparable package, the Marlins would have preferred to ship him out of the division.  

[Irrelevant Dude]

1 hour ago, chibears55 said:

Risky to play both catchers at same time

Is it really that risky?  If Kelly were to get injured, Amaya would just switch from DH to Catcher.  That means the Cubs would lose their DH for the remainder of the game, but in this incredibly unlikely hypothetical scenario I don't really think that is much of a risk.

[JHBulls]

National broadcasters are going to go full national broadcasters tonight and remind everyone every chance they get that yesterday’s 16-0 loss was an anomaly and the Dodgers are still great.

[Derwood]

That was a moonshot

[JHBulls]

Hearing Justin Steele is going to miss the year is just brutal to hear. Then PCA homers a minute later. Baseball just keeps on moving. 

[chibears55]

50 minutes ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

Is it really that risky?  If Kelly were to get injured, Amaya would just switch from DH to Catcher.  That means the Cubs would lose their DH for the remainder of the game, but in this incredibly unlikely hypothetical scenario I don't really think that is much of a risk.

That the big risk with having your backup catcher as the DH, if the starter gets hurt early then you lose the DH, and the pitcher is hitting. 

[Hot Sauce]

0/16, 12 K

[Hot Sauce]

Great read by Busch.

[Hot Sauce]

Great work by Rea.