Red Sox (Crochet) vs Cubs (Horton): 7/20/25, 1:20pm

[UMFan83]

Couple of hard hit balls to end the inning.  108.1 and 109.2

[Irrelevant Dude]

2 minutes ago, NorthsideAvenger said:

If it is the end for Ryno, I am going to cry. As a kid, he was my guy. I played 2B because of him. I hope this is not the end.

I'm still holding out hope that he is just going through a rough stretch of treatment and everyone in the Cubs organization wants to show their support while he fights though it.  But it doesn't really feel that way...

[Hot Sauce]

That Ryno was able to see his statue dedication and receive the love from the fans that day was a blessing. 

[Irrelevant Dude]

3 minutes ago, Hot Sauce said:

That Ryno was able to see his statue dedication and receive the love from the fans that day was a blessing. 

And the players too. How they lined up along the railing for him to watch the ceremony was the ultimate sign of respect and one of the coolest things I have seen at an MLB ballpark.

[Hot Sauce]

Man! On another day that ball is 5 rows into the bleachers,

[chibears55]

WTF was CFer doing there, lucky it didn't end up badly for them

[UMFan83]

That might have been gone if the wind wasn't blowing in yet again.  Or if the CF tried a Peanut punch to jar the ball free.

It's really weird that 2 years in a row we've gotten a significant percentage of games with the wind blowing in.  Historically its split pretty evenly between out, in and crosswind.

Edited July 20, 2025 by UMFan83

[Derwood]

LF took a rib shot for no good reason

[Hot Sauce]

1 minute ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

And the players too. How they lined up along the railing for him to watch the ceremony was the ultimate sign of respect and one of the coolest things I have seen at an MLB ballpark.

Yes! I had forgotten about the players coming out to watch. That was an incredible moment. 

[Derwood]

I don't think Jed goes out of his way to send that message to Sandberg unless Ryno is in a bad way

[Hot Sauce]

3 minutes ago, Derwood said:

LF took a rib shot for no good reason

Is there ever a good reason to give your teammate a rib shot? 😂

[Hot Sauce]

He got him!

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I’ll be a little nit picky about 2 BBs, but this is the Cade Horton I pay to see.

[UMFan83]

Looks pretty out to me.  Thought so live too

Edited July 20, 2025 by UMFan83

[Ding Dong Johnson]

He’s out

[We Got The Whole 9]

Horton is missing the zone by a mile

[UMFan83]

that was probably a 5 star attempt, you just expect him to make those at this point and its shocking when he doesn't catch it

[Hot Sauce]

PCA frustrated that he didn’t catch a ball that maybe nobody else in the league even gets a glove on. 

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Not used to seeing PCA letting something leave his glove. Hell of an attempt.

[UMFan83]

3 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

Horton is missing the zone by a mile

Yeah im not liking his command at all this inning, especially against the bottom of the order.  Has given up some hard hit balls today too.

Edit: By no means criticizing the performance, just that he's gotten a bit lucky while in general pitching effectively.  For instance the 3 hardest hit balls and 6 of the top 9 have been hit by the Red Sox and only 1 has been a hit

Edited July 20, 2025 by UMFan83

[Bobson Dugnutt]

Cade looked really good early on, but that should probably be it for him for the day with the top of the order coming up and the hard contact he’s given up the last two innings

[Irrelevant Dude]

With the loss of control and the contact the Red Sox are making, I would take the 5 scoreless from Horton and go to the pen.

[UMFan83]

That's 20 straight scoreless innings by the Cubs against the Red Sox 

[Geographyhater8888]

That’s an error for PCA. Relativity.

[BigSlick]

Cade’s been really good the last month or so - very impressed with how he’s hung in there when it’s been difficult 

that should be his day and we should scratch a few more across