Orioles (Sugano) vs Cubs (Boyd): 8/2/25, 1:20pm

[Hot Sauce]

10 minutes ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

The Cubs really need to figure out a way to keep McGuire on the roster until the September expansion.  He is a solid backup and really good insurance for another catcher injury down the stretch.  Can they afford to DFA Berti to keep McGuire?

Yes. Berti has contributed nothing. Castro can spell Shaw, Swanson, or Nico. Ideally, you’d like to have another strong bench option outside of the catcher position but that just isn’t happening, so go with your best collective bench and if that means we carry three catchers so be it.

[chopsx9]

Boog almost horsefeathered a lung when Taylor told him not to move her shampoo bottle.

Edited August 2, 2025 by chopsx9

[DYMNO]

Today is not Pete's day. Yikes. 

[Tryptamine]

Good lord pca

[BigSlick]

I’m gonna need PCA to try not to strike out on balls near at his eyeball 

[UMFan83]

ugh, gotta live with these things with PCA, but swinging at ball 4 above his eyes when a walk would have made bases loaded and 1 out 

[Derwood]

I thought the Brewers had a harder schedule after the break, but this week disproves that

[BKHoo]

2 minutes ago, DYMNO said:

Today is not Pete's day. Yikes. 

Just one day but terrible ABs. 

[Irrelevant Dude]

1 minute ago, Derwood said:

I thought the Brewers had a harder schedule after the break, but this week disproves that

It gets a lot tougher for them after this weekend.

[BKHoo]

How many LOB? 

[Tryptamine]

Just now, BKHoo said:

How many LOB? 

Yes

[Chicago Al]

You know what the Brewers are doing? Going out there everyday not giving a you know what about what the Cubs are doing everyday. They play competitive baseball and they’re disciplined. 

[Tryptamine]

So um, throw strikes maybe?

[BigSlick]

4 pitch walk where none of the pitches were even vaguely near the zone isn’t exactly how you want to start this inning 

[BigSlick]

Pull him now 

[UMFan83]

uh oh

[Tryptamine]

Well this got terrifying real quick

[squally1313]

2 minutes ago, Derwood said:

I thought the Brewers had a harder schedule after the break, but this week disproves that

Braves and Mets after this, and then just the Pirates and Reds but they're getting the gauntlet of pitchers in the same way we used to (Heaney, Skenes, Keller, Burns, Greene, Lodolo) going into our 5 game set. 

[Geographyhater8888]

39 consecutive Inning shutout streak vs the orioles In jeopardy.

[UMFan83]

Just now, BigSlick said:

Pull him now 

That would break the rules

[squally1313]

1 minute ago, BigSlick said:

Pull him now 

Need one more hitter to hit the minimum. But otherwise, don't disagree. 

[Soul]

Get this clown out of the game before it’s too late.

[DYMNO]

Get him out of there!

[Tryptamine]

Thank you babip gods

[WhyCantWeWin]

Second straight weak outing for Brasier. Maybe move him back to low leverage