Rays (Baz) vs Cubs (Boyd): 9/12/25, 1:20pm

[Brandon Glick]

Fun fact: Besides Yanier Diaz, no one in today's starting lineups has faced the opposing pitcher before.

[Bertz]

Shane Baz is not as bad as that ERA would tell you.  He's got some Ben Brown to him where when an outing goes sideways it goes *really* sideways.  But it looks like in 11 of his 28 starts he's given up 2 runs or less.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Bryce Elder can't hurt us anymore.

[squally1313]

Ballesteros day

[Bertz]

SUPER encouraging on Palencia 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Simpson is hitting .292 with a .663 OPS. That seems really hard to do.

[Bull]

33 minutes ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

Simpson is hitting .292 with a .663 OPS. That seems really hard to do.

That’s Theriot level.

[Bull]

2 hours ago, Brandon Glick said:

Fun fact: Besides Yanier Diaz, no one in today's starting lineups has faced the opposing pitcher before.

Baz -Boyd. Baz-Boyd

 

whatchu gonna do

[chibears55]

49 minutes ago, Bertz said:

SUPER encouraging on Palencia 

Tucker probably won't be back til the last home stand 

[squally1313]

yeah that's pretty discouraging on Tucker 

[UMFan83]

fWAR updates:

Kyle Tucker - 4.7

Cody Bellinger - 4.6

Cam Smith - 1.0

Isaac Paredes - 2.7

Would still absolutely do the trade in a heartbeat knowing what we did in December, though would be a little less excited about it if you told me that the Bellinger money would mostly not be re-invested.  Just sucks how it turned out in the 2nd half of the season as he was on pace for like 8-9 wins in early July.  Hopefully he get some ABs under him before the playoffs and the rest helps him get past his struggles (that he was already starting to get past).

[mk49]

Morel.  That sucks.  Boyd isn't looking good so far.

[chibears55]

Great start...🤦‍♂️

[soccer10k]

Looks like this is a “check back in 45-60 minutes to see if things changed” situation.

[JHBulls]

Rays have taken an insurmountable lead. 

[CubinNY]

Man, I just turned on the game and it's already 3-0

[chibears55]

Boyd may be pitching himself to the 4th spot of the playoff rotation.

 Imanaga Horton and maybe Taillon at 3 now 🤷‍♂️

[UMFan83]

Kind of sucks when your offense rarely scores more than 4 runs in a game and the opponent scores 3 in the top of the 1st

[CubinNY]

Mo looking good. 

[CubinNY]

fit and trimish

[CubinNY]

tie ball game.

[mk49]

The offense is looking good.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Bunch of ninnies

[chibears55]

New ballgame 

[soccer10k]