Cubs (Boyd) vs Brewers (Misiorowski): 7/28/25, 6:40pm

[Derwood]

8 straight balls, then gets 3 outs in 7 pitches.

Just like how we imagined

[Wilson A2000]

Shaw, you playa!

[Chicago Al]

Now there’s a ball player right there!

[Eeyore]

Shaw is telling them to save their prospects for pitching 

[PeanutPunch33]

Hopefully Boyd is settled in now and we get 5 more innings of great pitching 

[Jason Ross]

1 minute ago, squally1313 said:

A. Yes, it is dumb. 
 

B. It’s so the defense can’t manufacture a double play right? Similar to infield fly. 

I would assume that might be the idea? Pretend to drop the pitch, throw to first then get a tag out? 

From a personal view I just hate the idea that as a hitter, you can swing at a pitch so egregiously bad and still get 1st.

(Until some kid with a good sweeper gets me to swing wildly at it off the plate in my next adult game. Then I deserve first)

[Hortonhearsawho]

Well that certainly worked out. Hopefully Boyd will settle in now after the first. 

[cl smooth]

Big Dick Energy by Matt Shaw that inning!

[UMFan83]

The Brewers have 3 lefties in their pen, but one threw 19 pitches yesterday. Just trying to game out how the rest will go if this is a shorter outing. 

[squally1313]

2 minutes ago, Jason Ross said:

I would assume that might be the idea? Pretend to drop the pitch, throw to first then get a tag out? 

From a personal view I just hate the idea that as a hitter, you can swing at a pitch so egregiously bad and still get 1st.

(Until some kid with a good sweeper gets me to swing wildly at it off the plate in my next adult game. Then I deserve first)

Well if you had to run, then theoretically the guy on first would also have to run, so it’s a pretty easy 1-6-3 DP on a blocked ball or if catchers just learn how to drop it immediately. And if you don’t have to, then it’s a weird judgment on leaving the box I guess?

I think I’m with you that a strikeout is just a strikeout and you shouldn’t have a chance to get first, but if you’re going to make that an option you want to avoid the sort of defensive manipulation I’m talking about. 

[DYMNO]

I would’ve loved to see him throw more than 16 pitches that half.

[Tryptamine]

Well, 56 pitches through 2.

[Derwood]

Bases loaded, 0 outs. Catcher can drop strike 3, step on the plate, then around the horn for a triple play. That's why it's a rule

[Jason Ross]

1 minute ago, squally1313 said:

Well if you had to run, then theoretically the guy on first would also have to run, so it’s a pretty easy 1-6-3 DP on a blocked ball or if catchers just learn how to drop it immediately. And if you don’t have to, then it’s a weird judgment on leaving the box I guess?

I think I’m with you that a strikeout is just a strikeout and you shouldn’t have a chance to get first, but if you’re going to make that an option you want to avoid the sort of defensive manipulation I’m talking about. 

Yeah, I guess I kind of get it. From a practical point, I don't think it's much different, however, than like dropping a popup with a runner on first to throw him out at second and still getting a shot at 1st. But baseball rules are so weird that who knows what the origins of the rule comes from. Some times it's just some weirdo from 1876 with big sideburns said this was the way and sometimes it's from a practical point.

[Jason Ross]

2 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Bases loaded, 0 outs. Catcher can drop strike 3, step on the plate, then around the horn for a triple play. That's why it's a rule

But it's also the rule when here's 0 outs and just a runner on first. So that certainly makes it a thing with the bases loaded, but that wouldn't change the previous thing, either.

[Stratos]

4 hours ago, KCCub said:

Good time to get the deal done before any big TDL moves have been made. 

Was thinking of something like this yesterday.  Good for Jed.  And good to do it before he feels desperate to trade prospects at the deadline just to save his job.

I'm fairly happy with his performance.  We can complain about the results on the field but if you look at all the moves he's made and not made (FAs he's avoided) he's done quite well IMO.  And had he resigned Rizzo/Bryant/Baez this franchise would be toast.

I don't think he's signed any bad contract 3 years or longer, in fact he's knocked most of them out of the park.

Edited July 29, 2025 by Stratos

[squally1313]

Boyd getting more lucky than good here

[WhyCantWeWin]

Boyd looks awful today. Get 5 out of him hopefully 

[DYMNO]

Ok, boys. Knock this kid out of the game.

[Hortonhearsawho]

The command is definitely not there today. Luckily no runs have scored yet. 

[chibears55]

Boyd bending but not breaking, bats going to need to put up some more runs just in case

[squally1313]

Going to give Boyd a little grace and say that it probably threw him off his routine a little sitting through that top of the first. 
 

Hopefully he can grit his way through it with some help from a mediocre offense. 

[PeanutPunch33]

PCA has never seen a first pitch he doesn’t like 

[Tryptamine]

PCA has zero chance against Misiorowski

[Hortonhearsawho]

They are doing a horrible job of making him throw pitches after the first inning.