Cubs (Imanaga) vs Brewers (Ashby): 10/6/25, 8:08pm

[BigSlick]

Good night boys 

[Caesar]

Isn’t it amazing how the Brewers have no issue hitting 100 plus fastballs but the Cubs can’t touch that? There’s your difference!

[Jason Ross]

I try to be pretty optimistic and find the good when everything feels dark...

But that feels like it's curtains.

[Derwood]

I can't with this team. Brewers can just score at will. Literally nothing bad ever happens to them

[SpongeWorthy]

1 minute ago, Jason Ross said:

Well, for a lot of reasons. First, you can't just "fix" an arm-slot immediately. Arm slots aren't like levers where you just pull it and poof. Biomechanics are deep and to change an arm slot you're tinkering with a lot of things. It's a near impossible change to make at the end of the season - by tweaking on thing, you can create new issues. And the last thing the Cubs wanted is that. And frankly, he wasn't terrible for much of the run - up until his last start of the season he was pitching really well. But that's not kept.

Secondly, Craig Counsell is the manager, he isn't the pitching guy. Tommy Hottavoy and Tyler Zombro are two of the big pitching gurus in the Cubs system. They'd make the changes.

I do think they did change this into the season, though. The Cubs in general have lowered a lot of arm slots - to the benefit of the pitcher. It creates extra run to the arm side and actually is a less violent arm action to aspects of the arm. For Shota, my guess is that they hoped it helped create extra arm side movement on his splitter or to create extra sweep on the sweeper. Sadly, it's also created an issue where the fastball cannot sit as high as you'd want it and he's struggled because of it. 

end of the season? he’s given up 22 home runs since the all star break

 

[Cuzi]

4 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

Don’t normally comment on announcers, but could these guys be any further up the Brewers ass than they are. In both games they said Turang was the best fielding second baseman in baseball. Today all they are talking about is how amazing the brewers are to have gotten this far either all their pitching injuries. Talked about Woodruff being out now. What about Horton? Havent heard him being out mentioned yet. What about Steele all year? Really annoying. 

This is how every fan feels when their team is losing. Announcers generally don't praise the team getting their ass kicked.

[Dfan25]

There is nothing they can do . They have no answers againts their lineup . This series is over .  Thought it would be more competitive tbh .  
 

It was still a good season overall , but getting kick in the ass in the playoffs by Milwaukee doesn’t feel good 

Edited October 7, 2025 by Dfan25

[Soul]

Just now, JHBulls said:

Can’t believe I am about to say this about the Dodgers. It’s going to be satisfying as horsefeathers when they sweep Milwaukee. 

Assuming nothing changes I’m rooting for the Brewers.

[s2obed]

Just bad. Up 0-2 and throw one down the pipe. Idc if you throw 100+, that’s just idiotic. 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Just now, Soul said:

Assuming nothing changes I’m rooting for the Brewers.

Gross.

[Wilson A2000]

Pete jumped for that homer and it was 50 feet over the wall lol 

[Stratos]

9 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

I was looking at Cots, they just show

15/15/ option 

They'll definitely pick up 2026 and 2027

It's a very complicated contract.

[s2obed]

Just now, Soul said:

Assuming nothing changes I’m rooting for the Brewers.

 No, thanks. I will never root for a rival. 

[Irrelevant Dude]

Maybe this will light a fire under Tom and Jed's asses.

Who am I kidding?  Stay the course, win 90 games, and try to eek into the playoffs again.

[Soul]

Just now, s2obed said:

 No, thanks. I will never root for a rival. 

Alternate team fight!  I fart in your general direction!

[Wilson A2000]

At the very least, the Cubs young players got a taste of the postseason and Jed knows how much better he has to make the team to be a World Series contender

[Soul]

Just now, Irrelevant Dude said:

Maybe this will light a fire under Tom and Jed's asses.

Who am I kidding?  Stay the course, win 90 games, and try to eek into the playoffs again.

It maximizes profit.

[Derwood]

Brewers, who were like 40th out of 30 teams in homers, just parking pitch after pitch over the wall

[Cuzi]

Just now, Irrelevant Dude said:

Maybe this will light a fire under Tom and Jed's asses.

Who am I kidding?  Stay the course, win 90 games, and try to eek into the playoffs again.

Going back to 80 wins when we let Tucker walk and hope Caissie becomes a 5 WAR player.

[Illiterate Scholar]

did Craig know that Palencia was only on 3 days rest

[gflore34]

Oh well, I'll take some schadenfreude in watching the Dodgers roll over these guys.

[mk49]

The 3rd HR really hurts.

[Irrelevant Dude]

2 minutes ago, Dfan25 said:

 This series is over .  Thought it would be more competitive tbh .  

Especially after how well the Cubs played in the last series against the Brewers.  But the stakes are a bit difference this time around.

[Jason Ross]

3 minutes ago, SpongeWorthy said:

end of the season? he’s given up 22 home runs since the all star break

 

Between July 30th and September 19th he had a 3.69 ERA, and a 3.79 xFIP. He faced the Brewers twice in that span, to be clear and was just fine. Yes, there were home runs surrendered in there, but Shota is always going to be a bit of a HR merchant; his fastball will do that. But it wasn't really an issue. He was doing everything else pretty well. There is nothing there outside of a  bit of a too high HR/FB% rate in there (and to be clear, his HR/FB% of 17.2% is high, but it's not like, impossibly high either. It's about 5% higher than league average). But no where near enough to say "strip it down and completely change this dude's mechanics". 

[PeanutPunch33]

this is hard to watch