Cubs (Rea) vs Pirates (Skenes): 5/1/25, 11:35pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

[gflore34]

I'll be optimistic the Cubs will win today, Rea will keep them in the game and they'll get to the Pirates bullpen.

[chibears55]

27 games in May with a much easier schedule opponents wise, be nice if they can win 18 again like they did in April. 

Hopefully we'll see a return of Shaw soon and he can put up decent numbers and take control of 3B the rest of year

[Soul]

Feels like it’s a pattern with the Cubs playing down to the level of opponents.  I can accept the “that’s baseball“ explanation if it’s happening occasionally.

So get to this guy and win the damn game.  He’s good but so are we.

[BigbadB]

6th different offering at 3b now. Shaw, Turner, Berti, Workman, Brujan and Lopez. 
 

Cool! 

[We Got The Whole 9]

Man what could have been with Bregman... and Flaherty... and Scott.

 

Edit: Just looked at Scott's numbers. Came into the season with a career walk rate of 12, it was a major concern of ours... and he has not walked a batter in 15 innings this year with LA. That's crazy. K's are down and he has given up a ton of hard contact, however,

Edited May 1, 2025 by We Got The Whole 9

[chibears55]

Gonna get a 2 hit game from Nicky Lopez today

[ToolDRT]

Where has Boog been? 

[chibears55]

1 minute ago, ToolDRT said:

Where has Boog been? 

Im not a Boog fan, so I'm good with him being gone. I like Cohen 

[ToolDRT]

1 minute ago, chibears55 said:

Im not a Boog fan, so I'm good with him being gone. I like Cohen 

Really? I’m the exact opposite. Something about Cohen is driving me nuts 🤣

[Hot Sauce]

32 minutes ago, BigbadB said:

6th different offering at 3b now. Shaw, Turner, Berti, Workman, Brujan and Lopez. 
 

Cool! 

It’s like we’re back in the pre-Aramis days again.

[JHBulls]

15 minutes ago, ToolDRT said:

Where has Boog been? 

It seems like Boog and JD don’t travel a lot and this series, it’s Boog’s turn not to travel. 

[UMFan83]

1 hour ago, chibears55 said:

27 games in May with a much easier schedule opponents wise, be nice if they can win 18 again like they did in April. 

Hopefully we'll see a return of Shaw soon and he can put up decent numbers and take control of 3B the rest of year

Next 9 are gonna be tough though with MIL/SF/NYM having a combined winning percentage of .602 which is on average harder than the first 27 games where we didn't play a team under .500

Edited May 1, 2025 by UMFan83

[UMFan83]

48 minutes ago, BigbadB said:

6th different offering at 3b now. Shaw, Turner, Berti, Workman, Brujan and Lopez. 
 

Cool! 

Always fun when a perceived hole that everyone wanted the GM to fill in the offseason is exposed so frequently so soon into the season.

[javy knows my name]

Ohhhh superfuck this game already

[chibears55]

WTF, walks bases loaded and next guy swings at first pitch.. DP

[Andy]

I know I shouldn't be mad because he hit it hard, but it always irks me when a guy swings at the first pitch after a 4-pitch walk, especially against a good pitcher. At least give it one shot to see if he's losing his control.

[abuck1220]

three walks to load the bases, first pitch swinging GIDP. fantastic stuff.

[soccer10k]

Walks three straight hitters so of course Busch GIDP on the first pitch.

[abuck1220]

shoulda ph turner for busch there. he would have at least made skenes throw like 5 pitches before k'ing.

[gflore34]

The first pitch DP pisses me off however, Skenes is up to 54 pitches, which is good, driving up the pitch count will make his exit that much sooner.

[chibears55]

Watch Skenes don't give up a baserunner now and goes 7

[UMFan83]

They said on the SNB broadcast that the Cubs came into the game with just 8 double plays all season.  They’ve had 6 double plays in the 4 games since. 

[BigbadB]

Rea is not getting the same strike zone as Skenes. 

[profisme]

Also fun when the ump is giving Skenes pitches off the plate and then not calling actual strikes for Rea.