Reds (Lodolo) vs Cubs (Soroka): 8/4/25, 7:05pm

[Derwood]

Don't worry, we can still pick someone up as a waiver tr- OH WAIT

[WhyCantWeWin]

Was the velocity drop injury related then?

[UMFan83]

Just now, Derwood said:

Don't worry, we can still pick someone up as a waiver tr- OH WAIT

Taillon is our trade deadline acquisition

[DYMNO]

Credit where it’s due: that was a nice inning by Brown. Let’s hope he can keep it up. 

[muntjack]

Brown has great stuff and throws a ton of strikes.  You'd certainly think a good career is right there. 

[Jason Ross]

2 minutes ago, WhyCantWeWin said:

Was the velocity drop injury related then?

There's a chance, but it would be a decent coincidence. He had changed his arm slot and the way he was throwing was creating more shape. He was using his fastball, specifically, very different before and after the velocity drop. Those are a lot of very specific changes to occur.

It's almost assuredly that he changed something to help him maximize his pitches. He had a nail issue a few weeks ago. There is a real chance that Lodolo and Soroka got knocked out for similar reasons.

[Randall Simon]

Does Jed call Stro now???

[Geographyhater8888]

The baseball gods really don’t this Ben brown experiment to end and if that means injuries to 4 different starting pitchers then then so be it,

[DYMNO]

I’m here for a Happ hot streak. 

[Soul]

5 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

Lmao, never seen a game where both SP are removed for some type of injury in the second inning...

Cubs better hope Soroka isnt serious 

ChatGPT says this:

”I wasn’t able to find any documented instance in Major League Baseball history where both starting pitchers were forced out by injury in the second inning of the same game. It appears this scenario is essentially unheard of.”

[DYMNO]

DANSBY!!!

[Jason Ross]

1 minute ago, Randall Simon said:

Does Jed call Stro now???

Stroman looks like he's done. He's been among the worst pitchers in all of baseball. 

[chibears55]

There we go.. Swanson 

[Derwood]

My feed went from Dansby standing there to Dansby rounding third. Never saw the swing

[DYMNO]

Man, a 10-1 laugher would SO great right about now. 

[Chicago Al]

1 minute ago, Jason Ross said:

Stroman looks like he's done. He's been among the worst pitchers in all of baseball. 

Along with a ****** attitude.

[Geographyhater8888]

Bottom of the order has really picked up the slack the last couple of weeks.

[chibears55]

2 minutes ago, Jason Ross said:

Stroman looks like he's done. He's been among the worst pitchers in all of baseball. 

Yea, I doubt if he had anything left that the Yankees would just let him go

[Guest]

Brown is throwing well tonight. Would be nice if he could turn the corner soon

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

The Yankees singed Kenta Maeda after they released Str0, lol.

[squally1313]

Happy and Swanson were chasing a combined 76 points of xwOBA going into today. Happ at 104 wRC after the single and Dansby at 98 wRC after the dong. 

[Jason Ross]

Looked at the statcast on Soroka and then the video of him coming off.

He looked to be favoring his right side a little and explaining something to do with his ability to throw the slurve (the way he was gesturing would be a curveball/slurve rotation). Then in the Statcast, he didn't throw another slurve after he hung that pitch bad to Stephenson. Also, fastball was down 2 mph on those pitches and he was suddenly leaving everything up to the arm side. 

Probably not a nail.

[Wilson A2000]

Nice knowing you, Soroka

[chibears55]

Don't like that we still haven't heard why Soroka left the game, something minor, like Lobolo blister would of been mentioned already.

[squally1313]

That's also more HRs than Dansby had last year (in 138 more PAs). The defensive metrics are down, opportunities appear to be the same so could be some decline there from his very elite level, but if he could get back the 25 HR power that would go a long way to aging gracefully.