Brewers (TBD) vs Cubs (TBD): 10/9/25, 8:08pm

[gflore34]

7 minutes ago, ILMindState said:

Boyd has good numbers at home and the wind is blowing in. I like our chances if we can play good defense and don't give them any lucky runs.

Yeah, that nonsense with the infield pop-up can't happen anymore.  I don't think it will, Cubs are too good defensively they won't keep giving runs away.

[Rcal10]

1 minute ago, Brian707 said:

 

 

Me when realizing I can watch the entirety of the game in peace as it starts when the kids go to bed

The real question here is “how do you have no liquor”????

[ILMindState]

2 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

How can you forget the Happ homer? It was talked about for pages because Happ dared to “celebrate” the homer. 😬

That said, I doubt Counsell sits a guy who was a regular all season. The Mo love reminds me of football fans always wanting the back up QB to play. 

I'm not normally a Happ hater and backup QB guy either. I woke up feeling desperate for a win and wanting to see a crazy shakeup. 

[ILMindState]

5 minutes ago, Brian707 said:

 

 

Me when realizing I can watch the entirety of the game in peace as it starts when the kids go to bed

Someone bought me spotted cow and I'm torn because I'm not sure if drinking it would curse the Brewers or support them.

[mul21]

4 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

Yeah, that nonsense with the infield pop-up can't happen anymore.  I don't think it will, Cubs are too good defensively they won't keep giving runs away.

Game isn't starting at 4:00 with blinding sun so that shouldn't be an issue.  Can't catch a ball you can't see.

[Rcal10]

1 minute ago, ILMindState said:

I'm not normally a Happ hater and backup QB guy either. I woke up feeling desperate for a win and wanting to see a crazy shakeup. 

I jut don’t see a shake up in a must win game. I am just as anxious as you, but I don’t expect Counsell to change things. Maybe, if Tucker can play the outfield they play him there and DH Seiya. That is as big a “shake up” as I can see. 

[Rcal10]

2 minutes ago, ILMindState said:

Someone bought me spotted cow and I'm torn because I'm not sure if drinking it would curse the Brewers or support them.

That is a rough decision. Spotted Cow is very good. I live in Arizona and when I come to Chicago I always take a ride to Wisconsin to get spotted cow to bring home with me. 
Now that you mention it, my daughter was over last night and had a spotted cow last night and the Cubs won. So…….. maybe go for it🤷

[Connor McConnor]

6 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

. Maybe, if Tucker can play the outfield they play him there and DH Seiya. That is as big a “shake up” as I can see. 

Too risky, what if he blows a play or hurts himself and then can't bat?   

[Brian707]

11 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

The real question here is “how do you have no liquor”????

[CubinNY]

1 hour ago, Old Style said:

At first I was afraid, I was petrified. 

I was going Bee Gees, but I like what you did there. 

[ILMindState]

8 minutes ago, mul21 said:

Game isn't starting at 4:00 with blinding sun so that shouldn't be an issue.  Can't catch a ball you can't see.

Nico booted a grounder game 1 that cost the Cubs 4 runs. The Brewers always find a way

[Rcal10]

12 minutes ago, Connor McConnor said:

Too risky, what if he blows a play or hurts himself and then can't bat?   

I agree. I wouldn’t play Tucker in the outfield. The point I was making is that is as wild a shake up I could possibly see. I don’t expect it to happen, though. 

[squally1313]

We should put an injured dude who hasn't played the field in a month at a position he hasn't played in 5 years on a windy night at Wrigley to bench a guy with a 116 wRC.

[Hot Sauce]

1 hour ago, CubinNY said:

How is TBD going to pitch for both teams. 

It’s allowed under the “I’m all-time pitcher” rule. 

[Banedon]

It's been announced....Boyd and Peralta starters.

[Jason Ross]

Peralta for the Brewers. 

[Outshined_One]

[Rcal10]

3 minutes ago, squally1313 said:

We should put an injured dude who hasn't played the field in a month at a position he hasn't played in 5 years on a windy night at Wrigley to bench a guy with a 116 wRC.

Ok, let’s take a step back here. No one suggested Tucker should be in left field. One poster suggested maybe sitting Happ because he has sucked against Peralta. His comment was if Tucker can run put him in right, move Seiya to left and DH Mo. I doubted that would happen and said they won’t bench Happ. I further said, IF ANY MOVE was made, if the Cubs felt comfortable with Tucker playing the field, Tucker and Seiya would swap. I also said I didn’t really like that idea, but that would be as crazy a change as I would think they would remotely consider. Basically still the same 4 guys in the line up. So your comment is wrong no matter who it was intended for. If it was for the original post, he didn’t suggest Tucker play right field. If it was for me, I never had Happ out of the line up. I know we are all on edge. But let’s not pick apart each other for things we didn’t say. We all want the same thing. A Cubs win. 

[Rcal10]

4 minutes ago, Jason Ross said:

Peralta for the Brewers. 

It is the right call. I am sure Murphy was hoping Peralta could be saved for the first game of the NLCS. But he has to go for the win now. Remember 1984 Cubs…….and all that nonsense…… 

[Jason Ross]

1 minute ago, Rcal10 said:

It is the right call. I am sure Murphy was hoping Peralta could be saved for the first game of the NLCS. But he has to go for the win now. Remember 1984 Cubs…….and all that nonsense…… 

There's a pathway forward on Peralta. Just finished a deep dive on him. Cubs knocked him around in July but he switched how he pitches, specifically to LHH. He's much better against them now. But I also think there's a pattern the Cubs can exploit and they were close to using it to their advantage game one. 

He's really good but not impossibly good.

[Hot Sauce]

56 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

Yeah, that nonsense with the infield pop-up can't happen anymore.  I don't think it will, Cubs are too good defensively they won't keep giving runs away.

I wasn’t in the game thread and I’m sure it’s already been discussed ad nauseam but I’m fairly confident saying I believe Taillon and Kelly were the only two that could see where the ball was. Busch had no idea. Taillon got out of the way to allow his infielders to make the play on it, which he should. Kelly could track it but he had the most difficult play on it coming forward that far into the infield. That left Nico, who was unable to track it until it was too late.  

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Just scanning game logs, Peralta has not been very good when facing a team twice in a short span.  The one exception is his August start against the Cubs, though that was on 5 days rest and on the heels of the Cubs drubbing him

[I owned a Suzuki]

29 minutes ago, Hot Sauce said:

It’s allowed under the “I’m all-time pitcher” rule. 

Is that similar to the Ohtani Rule

[Jason Ross]

14 minutes ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Just scanning game logs, Peralta has not been very good when facing a team twice in a short span.  The one exception is his August start against the Cubs, though that was on 5 days rest and on the heels of the Cubs drubbing him

I don't want to completely ruin the article I just did on it, but Peralta underwent a pretty significant transformation in how he handled pitching to LHH in between those two weeks. Busch hit a HR, PCA an RBI double and Moises Ballesteros a bases loaded double in that game.

He got much smarter on how he went about it. Cubs seemed to handle the changes a bit better game 1 (I  know it doesn't super feel like they did but they did) and forced him off it a bit. They also chased too much. 

But I think the LHH can find some success still.

[Old Style]

1 hour ago, CubinNY said:

I was going Bee Gees, but I like what you did there. 

I decided to channel my inner Michael Scott.