Mariners (Gilbert) vs Cubs (Rea): 6/22/25, 1:20pm

[gflore34]

I know I've said this before however, it appears Happ, Tucker and Suzuki are starting to heat up. I believe a sustained offensive burst is coming and coincidentally, they'll be facing just the type of staff they should mash against.

Edited June 23, 2025 by gflore34

[JHBulls]

21 minutes ago, Derwood said:

And the Cubs are 16-8-2 in series so far this season

Thats not to mention that the biggest positive from today’s game is that none of the players nearly died. 

[PeanutPunch33]

OT - I can't believe the Mets optioned Francisco Alvarez.  I thought that guy would become one of the best players in the league after his rookie year.  Quite the falloff.  But he's still young 

 

[Stratos]

3 hours ago, CubinNY said:

They need pitching at the deadline and right now, as well. 

Needed it on Opening Day too lol.

Cubs pitching was actually very good this month until this weekend.

I'll blame the wind.  Our bats needed to get more balls up into the wind.  Bottom of the lineup has been trash this month.

[731.4life]

3 hours ago, JHBulls said:

To try to alleviate some of the stress on here about that series. If we lose tomorrow’s game to the Cardinals, we will have matched our season high 3 losses in a row, suffered between May 6th-9th (Giants/Mets), and tomorrow is Game 78 of the year.
 

This is a very good and consistent team. The series against the Mariners could have been played five days ago and it would have looked different. They scored 30 runs. Cubs scored 20 runs. The wind was blowing out and the intense heat throughout would have made everyone perform worse than they are capable of. It was a weird series. 

Weird series indeed. Not putting much stock into this series because Seattle does have good pitching, but also the wind isn't going to blow out like that in October. Well, the chances of it aren't.

[NorthsideAvenger]

5 hours ago, JHBulls said:

To try to alleviate some of the stress on here about that series. If we lose tomorrow’s game to the Cardinals, we will have matched our season high 3 losses in a row, 

Nitpicking alert but if the Cubs lose on Monday would that not be 2 L's in a row, not three? 

[Stratos]

Fangraphs projects the Cubs to go 45-41 the rest of the season.  Yikes.  Still good enough to win the division by 6 games they say.

Shota will be a big help, can;t wait until he's back.

[Bertz]

4 hours ago, Stratos said:

Fangraphs projects the Cubs to go 45-41 the rest of the season.  Yikes.  Still good enough to win the division by 6 games they say.

 

Shota will be a big help, can;t wait until he's back.

Projections are inherently conservative.  That's tied for the 5th best in the league with the Tigers, Mets, Mariners, and Astros.

[gflore34]

Weird series indeed, Solano has the game of his career yesterday, probably the series of his career.  Garver on Friday with his game of the season, it's baseball, it happens, even a broken clock is correct twice a day.  The frustrating aspect is they'll never do it again, against the Brewers, Cardinals and Reds they'll revert back to what they are - ineffective below average players.  Sucks their spurts of success came against the Cubs.  Whatever, it's done, no more of this horsefeathers.

I hopeful the Cubs will get on a roll, next 16 games, except for Houston, no more pitching staffs with multiple Cy Young types.  Maybe, they can miss one of Valdez or Brown in Houston and Ryan from the Twins along the way.  Cardinals and Brewers both have had winning streaks of 8+, Cubs are objectively better, it's about time they had their streak of 8+ games.

 

Edited June 23, 2025 by gflore34

[Geographyhater8888]

2 hours ago, gflore34 said:

Weird series indeed, Solano has the game of his career yesterday, probably the series of his career.  Garver on Friday with his game of the season, it's baseball, it happens, even a broken clock is correct twice a day.  The frustrating aspect is they'll never do it again, against the Brewers, Cardinals and Reds they'll revert back to what they are - ineffective below average players.  Sucks their spurts of success came against the Cubs.  Whatever, it's done, no more of this horsefeathers.

I hopeful the Cubs will get on a roll, next 16 games, except for Houston, no more pitching staffs with multiple Cy Young types.  Maybe, they can miss one of Valdez or Brown in Houston and Ryan from the Twins along the way.  Cardinals and Brewers both have had winning streaks of 8+, Cubs are objectively better, it's about time they had their streak of 8+ games.

 

I hope it’s bad luck. I hope it’s their typical early mid season slumps that were delayed thanks to an improved roster and taking advantage of any easy schedule early on.

these ace pitchers don’t exactly have sub 1 ERAs, in the case of Gore Skubal Wheeler Flathery? And Skenes who lowered their ERAs vs this lineup. Time to start manufacturing runs. Shota and Amaya will hopefully reverse the trend of losing series to non cupcakes lately in hopefully what is a funk and not a bigger regression to the mean. 

Edited June 23, 2025 by Geographyhater8888

[Bertz]

8 minutes ago, Geographyhater8888 said:

I hope it’s bad luck. I hope it’s their typical early mid season slumps that were delayed thanks to an improved roster and taking advantage of any easy schedule early on.

these ace pitchers don’t exactly have sub 1 ERAs, in the case of Gore Skubal Wheeler Flathery? And Skenes who lowered their ERAs vs this lineup. Time to start manufacturing runs. Shota and Amaya will hopefully reverse the trend of losing series to non cupcakes lately in hopefully what is a funk and not a bigger regression to the mean. 

The team scored 11 runs in 15 innings this week against Freddy Peralta, George Kirby, and Logan Gilbert.

[Geographyhater8888]

15 minutes ago, Bertz said:

The team scored 11 runs in 15 innings this week against Freddy Peralta, George Kirby, and Logan Gilbert.

Good progress. Still lost 3/4. Wind blowing out helped the offense, of course the pitching staff doesn’t miss enough bats to keep the ball in the yard with the wind conditions. The ability to manufacture runs has been non existent since Amaya hurt his oblique.

 

shotah and Amaya are badly missed, regardless of McGuires power surge. Blame who you want, more losses. 

[gflore34]

6 minutes ago, Geographyhater8888 said:

Good progress. Still lost 3/4. Wind blowing out helped the offense, of course the pitching staff doesn’t miss enough bats to keep the ball in the yard with the wind conditions. The ability to manufacture runs has been non existent since Amaya hurt his oblique.

 

shotah and Amaya are badly missed, regardless of McGuires power surge. Blame who you want, more losses. 

Is Amaya due back anytime soon?  Thought he was still 1+ months away.

[Geographyhater8888]

5 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

Is Amaya due back anytime soon?  Thought he was still 1+ months away.

Around the all star break i heard. May or not be a coincidence they forgot how to manufacture runs when he got injured on May 23rd.

[JHBulls]

11 hours ago, NorthsideAvenger said:

Nitpicking alert but if the Cubs lose on Monday would that not be 2 L's in a row, not three? 

Haha, what a dumb arse I am. For some reason, that series messed with my head so much that I thought we won Game 1 and lost Game 2 and 3.