Padres-Cubs Wild Card Game One Thread, By The Numbers

[squally1313]

1 minute ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

Let's say the Cubs get a base runner on ahead of Tucker.  Do you pull him here for a right handed batter against Morejon?

He doesn't really have splits, so I wouldn't. 

Call it BABIP luck, call it defensive positioning, call it them just not being as good as defense as we are. I'll take it. 

[Derwood]

Doing our best Brewers impersonation with these seeing eye singles

[UMFan83]

Our turn to BABIP!

[PeanutPunch33]

2 minutes ago, Jason Ross said:

...but why? 

I know he's had a good year.. just a bad gut feeling.  

[Guest]

Oh gawd here comes tucker. Make me eat crow now please

[UMFan83]

The way this game is going, another run would make me a decent amount more comfortable.

[squally1313]

Just now, Pinerider said:

Oh gawd here comes tucker. Make me eat crow now please

Happ first. But Tucker v Miller is going to be fun.

[Jason Ross]

Alright, Tucker. Let's get a big one.

[PeanutPunch33]

Sorry to be the old man, but Ian should lay down a bunt.  This 3rd run is huge

[PeanutPunch33]

horsefeathers Happ 

[Guest]

Gotta have it Kyle

[Hortonhearsawho]

I was hoping for a happ bunt there and that is why 

[Guest]

ugh

[Outshined_One]

Well that was anticlimactic.

[squally1313]

damn

[Derwood]

Happ hit it hard, but bad luck.

Ugh

[UMFan83]

Wow 2 pitches to turn a 1st and 2nd 0 out situation into end of inning.

[squally1313]

Unquestionably bad at bat from Tucker. Happ hit the ball 100 mph.

[UMFan83]

This is not going to help the very fickle Cubs twitter relationship with Ian Happ

[mul21]

1 minute ago, PeanutPunch33 said:

Sorry to be the old man, but Ian should lay down a bunt.  This 3rd run is huge

The only bunt attempt he made all year ended in disaster, so no. He also hit that ball almost 101 mph, so he put a good swing on it.

[Irrelevant Dude]

This is what we all predicted this spring, right?  Drew Pomeranz in critical late innings of playoff games.

[Eeyore]

Sunglasses on the back of his head

[UMFan83]

Remember when we signed Pomeranz and were like 'lolz this dude hasnt pitched in the majors in 2 years, what's he gonna do for us?'  Now he's pitching in the 7th inning of a playoff game protecting a 1 run lead.

[PeanutPunch33]

1 minute ago, mul21 said:

The only bunt attempt he made all year ended in disaster, so no. He also hit that ball almost 101 mph, so he put a good swing on it.

It was still the right thing to do though even if it didn't work out.  Jackson Merrill is 3x the player Happ is and he laid down a bunt just a few innings before, it's time to play winning baseball 

[Jason Ross]

2 minutes ago, mul21 said:

The only bunt attempt he made all year ended in disaster, so no. He also hit that ball almost 101 mph, so he put a good swing on it.

Yeah, he hit it hard. 

Sadly, the recipe for a double play usually includes two good ingredients: someone else had to be on base (a good thing) and someone had to hit the ball hard (a good thing).