Diamondbacks (Kelly) vs Cubs (Taillon): 4/20/25, 1:20pm

[Derwood]

Worst BABIP luck ever on that 112mph liner

[Jason Ross]

Good spot for Tucker to tie it all himself. Jameson lets up tons of hard contact in Triple-A. 

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I was bored with this game anyway

[WhyCantWeWin]

Need Tucker to slap a dick here

[chibears55]

Game over , at least they won the series, sucks they had plenty of opportunities for sweep 

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Inexcusable with Tucker on deck to get doubled off. 

[Jason Ross]

Just now, Derwood said:

Worst BABIP luck ever on that 112mph liner

xBA of .690. Yep.

[Jason Ross]

Just now, itisallpartoftheplan said:

Inexcusable with Tucker on deck to get doubled off. 

Nothing he could do. Ball was hit so hard he'd never have gotten back unless it was slow-pitch-softball and Berti wasn't allowed to take a lead.

[abuck1220]

well that was extremely annoying. just lose 6-1 next time. 

[Rex Buckingham]

for the record, the game should still be 1-1 and continuing

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Cubs lead the league in dumb Sunday losses.

[JHBulls]

L.

But the real losers today are those poor souls that were inside Wrigley field for five hours watching that.

[Cubs206]

This was on the offense but wicks sucks. 

[Brian707]

3 minutes ago, itisallpartoftheplan said:

Inexcusable with Tucker on deck to get doubled off. 

[gflore34]

I'll be glad when the Cubs are done with the Dodgers in the regular season this week.  I'm so horsefeathers sick of the Dodgers, Padres and Diamondbacks, they can all go bye-bye.

Edited April 20, 2025 by gflore34

[We Got The Whole 9]

If I were Luvallo and the Cubs and DBacks face each other in the NLCS I am using Kelly in G1, 4 and 7. 

[Rcal10]

2 hours ago, Cubs206 said:

This was on the offense but wicks sucks. 

Odd time to criticize Wicks. I mean the first run in the 10th shouldn’t have even happened. They should have won 2-1. 

[Ding Dong Johnson]

1 minute ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

If I were Luvallo and the Cubs and DBacks face each other in the NLCS I am using Kelly in G1, 4 and 7. 

If I’m the Cubs I wouldn’t mind being Corey Kluber’d again.

[Stratos]

6 hours ago, SpongeWorthy said:

dansby should hit the ball better imo 

He's been complete trash vs non-fastballs.  Which is normal but more extreme so far.

[Stratos]

Wicks has 1 good pitch plus a bunch of arse.  If he wants to succeed he'll have to command the fastball like a boss, Taillon-style.

[JD94]

12 hours ago, gflore34 said:

I'll be glad when the Cubs are done with the Dodgers in the regular season this week.  I'm so horsefeathers sick of the Dodgers, Padres and Diamondbacks, they can all go bye-bye.

Same. Ready to be done with those teams. Tough 17 game stretch upcoming (outside of Pittsburgh / unless we draw Skenes), but then the schedule lets up finally. Hope we just continue to hang around and I expect them to go on a run. Been a few frustrating losses so far, but overall, and especially considering the schedule, they’ve done about all we could hope for. 

[gflore34]

10 minutes ago, JD94 said:

Same. Ready to be done with those teams. Tough 17 game stretch upcoming (outside of Pittsburgh / unless we draw Skenes), but then the schedule lets up finally. Hope we just continue to hang around and I expect them to go on a run. Been a few frustrating losses so far, but overall, and especially considering the schedule, they’ve done about all we could hope for. 

Agreed, regarding the Pirates, since he's come up when haven't the Cubs drawn Skenes?

[Derwood]

8 hours ago, Stratos said:

He's been complete trash vs non-fastballs.  Which is normal but more extreme so far.

He's up there completely guessing. He watched several meatballs yesterday for strikes because he was guessing breaking pitches. He currently has a 28.8% K rate and a 5.8% walk rate, both of which are career worst

[CubUgly]

18 hours ago, itisallpartoftheplan said:

Inexcusable with Tucker on deck to get doubled off. 

I don't know I think I agree with JD there, he could have frozen right there and still got doubled off that ball was hit so hard and in such a fortuitous spot for the defense to turn that DP. 

[WhyCantWeWin]