Cubs (Taillon) vs Brewers (Quintana): 5/3/25, 6:10pm

[Jason Ross]

Just now, chopsx9 said:

This needs to edited.

I already beat you to it. 

[Post Count Padder]

Lt. Dans getting his groove back would be a nice boost to the lineup.

[chibears55]

Swanson loves the 8hole

[Randall Simon]

If only we'd signed Bregman...

[Derwood]

CUB FANS OVER THE WINTER: We need Juan Soto!!!

CUBS FRONT OFFICE: We have Juan Soto at home

 

[Eeyore]

PCA needs to dress up as Flyguy from "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka" and recite the poem for Ricketts.

[WhyCantWeWin]

Step away for a moment and i miss all the dongs 

[JHBulls]

Pay him!

[We Got The Whole 9]

People thought this team would lack power 

[Max Power]

Truly enjoying lighting this bum up.

[Derwood]

If they play "fuck the closer" every game, they'll never lose again

[We Got The Whole 9]

I'm legit thinking they will score 1000 runs this year. When you see how many we banked against that April schedule it's not much of a stretch to fathom. 

[UMFan83]

Guys we get to see PCA bat this inning

[UMFan83]

I keep missing the Brewers batting because I go to do something for a couple mins and come back to see their inning ending

[Tim]

PCA k% down below 20. Up to 23 straight PA without a K

[CubinNY]

If Happ only played NL Central Teams he’d be an inner circle HOFer

[UMFan83]

8 minutes ago, Tim said:

PCA k% down below 20. Up to 23 straight PA without a K

That’s insane. I wonder if pitchers are starting to work him differently given his chase % is still at like the 2 percentile or something. I guess they haven’t yet since he’s not striking out. Or maybe he’s making adjustments 

[UMFan83]

14 straight retired since the Hoskins HR

[CUBDOM4life]

29 minutes ago, Tim said:

PCA k% down below 20. Up to 23 straight PA without a K

Just had to say it didn’t you?

[Dfan25]

Have a feeling PCA is going to see a bunch high fastballs out of the zone  from this point on . 

[cl smooth]

Christ, the cubs are horsefeathers rolling right now. Love it!

[Bertz]

Obviously it's still exceedingly early but if you win tomorrow and go up 6 on the Brewers it kind of feels like the scoreboard watching we do this summer will be much more focused on the NL East than the NL Central.

[UMFan83]

1 minute ago, Bertz said:

Obviously it's still exceedingly early but if you win tomorrow and go up 6 on the Brewers it kind of feels like the scoreboard watching we do this summer will be much more focused on the NL East than the NL Central.

Do we buy what the Reds have been doing? They’re gonna lose tonight but they came into today with the 3rd best RD in the NL behind only the Cubs and Mets. Schedule has been super easy of late but they’re winning them mostly. Perhaps they are our stiffest competition. 

[Jason Ross]

3 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

Do we buy what the Reds have been doing? They’re gonna lose tonight but they came into today with the 3rd best RD in the NL behind only the Cubs and Mets. Schedule has been super easy of late but they’re winning them mostly. Perhaps they are our stiffest competition. 

Hard to tell. They have had a SOS in the bottom of the league and are 14-10 against under .500 teams while being 4-5 over. It's not enough to say for sure they're beating up on bad teams. Hunter Greene looks like he turned a corner, and the pitching is really good.

[Bertz]

2 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

Do we buy what the Reds have been doing? They’re gonna lose tonight but they came into today with the 3rd best RD in the NL behind only the Cubs and Mets. Schedule has been super easy of late but they’re winning them mostly. Perhaps they are our stiffest competition. 

They're solid but I don't think anything more than that.  Their pitching staff had a .229 BABIP allowed coming into tonight.  Regression is gonna hit that group like a freight train.

Add in the schedule like you called out and I don't see anything more than .500 out of them.