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

[Irrelevant Dude]

2 minutes ago, muntjack said:

Is this the part where we shut them down but it's too late? 

It honestly felt like the Cubs just had to escape that first inning with the lead and then settle in, but they couldn't do it.

[Rcal10]

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. 

[Western Baseball Fan]

100.9 from Daniel Palencia to strike out Blake Perkins on that last one

[Rcal10]

1 minute ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

It honestly felt like the Cubs just had to escape that first inning with the lead and then settle in, but they couldn't do it.

Yep. Two weak hits and a homer and they didn’t get out of the inning. 

[Jason Ross]

2 minutes ago, SpongeWorthy said:

ok so why hasnt Counsell et al fixed it by now, this game was pretty important 

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. 

[JHBulls]

Losing sucks. Losing to a team with so many cringey celebrations sucks even more. 

[muntjack]

This feels so horsefeathers inevitable.

[Irrelevant Dude]

Just now, 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. 

They have been doing it both ways. They were also really overselling the Cubs offense as if the second half of the season never happened.

[Rex Buckingham]

turning it off. 

[squally1313]

horsefeathers Joey Ortiz continuing the inning 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Well, see y'all next year.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Man am I glad I dont have to deal with Brewers fans. Holy horsefeathers baseball sucks.

[ILMindState]

horsefeathers horsefeathers

[muntjack]

Just now, muntjack said:

This feels so horsefeathers inevitable.

I typed that before it happened, for the record. 

[soccer10k]

[Western Baseball Fan]

Middle Middle Fastball from Palencia there, and Chourio didn't miss it

[Jason Ross]

6 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

I was looking at Cots, they just show

15/15/ option 

They'll definitely pick up 2026 and 2027

Not how it works. It's confusing.

At the end of this year multiple things happen.

First: the Cubs will chose whether to accept or decline the option. If they accept it, his contract will slide to 5 years. 

Secondly, if they decline it, Shota has an option. He can either accept the original 4 year contract or immediately opt out and become a FA.

 

[Wilson A2000]

That was a meatball no matter how fast he threw it

[cl smooth]

Not ideal. 

[Irrelevant Dude]

Who ya got now Craig?

[muntjack]

When it got to 2 strikes,  it felt even more certain. Like 2003.

[JHBulls]

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

[Illiterate Scholar]

They have to be like 20/20 with RISP

[chibears55]

Game...

Brewers are amped, cubs just going through the motions 

[Soul]

They might actually be the team of destiny this year.