Cubs (Taillon) vs Dodgers (Sheehan): 4/24/26, 9:15pm

[Bobson Dugnutt]

1 hour ago, javy knows my name said:

Holy horsefeathers. This idiot is FURIOUS that the Cubs are winning. Dontrell doing his best to help him dig up, mild respect.

Boog is 200% more impartial covering the Cubs than this horsefeathers is on a national telecast

I didn’t watch, but this strikes me as really strange. Wasn’t it Wayne Randazzo on the call? He’s from Chicago and grew up a Cubs fan.

[BigbadB]

3 hours ago, Bobson Dugnutt said:

I didn’t watch, but this strikes me as really strange. Wasn’t it Wayne Randazzo on the call? He’s from Chicago and grew up a Cubs fan.

Yes it was Randazzo. Dontrelle Willis annoyed me more than Randazzo. Willis likes to shake his head in agreement when there is nothing to even agree with. Very weird. He's like a bobblehead that won't stop bobbing his head.

[BigbadB]

3 hours ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

Yeah I missed most of this. Going back and looking at the replays, I really dont have a problem with either send. The 2nd one in particular was a truly incredible feat by Pages getting in front of the ball and getting it in so quickly. Both plays were amazing defensively. I know Busch is slow but it took a 95 mph missile to get him. 

 

What a win. Our lineup is absolutely mashing right now. I saw someone say Bregman has to get going before the homer. The guy is hitting 315/385/425 over his last 15 games. Theyre a dangerous group. Busch is picking it up. Its a fun ass lineup.

There were some extremely great defensive plays last night. Hoerner's relay from Seiya was primo. The carom off Busch that Hoerner caught bare handed way high up in the air while immediately firing to first to barely beat the runner was incredible. As good as those were, the Pages to Kim to Will Smith relay to get Happ might have been the play of the night. Pages knew he had to be quick and I might have to see it again, but it looked like he turned and winged it while off balance and in air for a perfect strike to Kim, and the throw from Kim was perfect. Absolutely the only way they get Happ. Probably a less than 5% chance of recording an out and 5% might be generous.

[Jason Ross]

5 hours ago, Andy said:

Noticed the park was basically empty when they showed a highlight. Cincinnati is supposed to be a baseball town and the team's in first place. WTF? 

I've lived in Kentucky for over two decades now and the the closest MLB park for me is in Cincinnati (roughly a little over an hour's drive). I've made my way to the GAB many times, mostly to see the Cubs. It does not matter if the Reds are good or the Reds are bad, you can almost always buy a $10 (or so) ticket in the LF bleachers, wander for a hot minute and grab a lower level empty seat because the place has so many empty seats. 

And it isn't as if it's a bad park (it's a nice field, though I don't love-love it) nor is it poorly situated to get in an out of. 

[Geographyhater8888]

What made this particular win satisfying is that our $362 million combined infield free agents Swanson and Bregman were the biggest contributors against the Dodgers of all teams. 

Edited 5 hours ago by Geographyhater8888

[Geographyhater8888]

Ballesteros has a 1659 OPS in his last 26 at bats with a 583 batting average, which he lowered from 600 thanks to only going 2-4. He’s been a machine. 

[Outshined_One]

The Cubs are doing this despite their pitching staff resembling the immediate aftermath of a Civil War battlefield.

What a crazy winning streak.

[cl smooth]

Just woke up and saw the box score:

 

[Andy]

1 hour ago, BigbadB said:

There were some extremely great defensive plays last night. Hoerner's relay from Seiya was primo. The carom off Busch that Hoerner caught bare handed way high up in the air while immediately firing to first to barely beat the runner was incredible. As good as those were, the Pages to Kim to Will Smith relay to get Happ might have been the play of the night. Pages knew he had to be quick and I might have to see it again, but it looked like he turned and winged it while off balance and in air for a perfect strike to Kim, and the throw from Kim was perfect. Absolutely the only way they get Happ. Probably a less than 5% chance of recording an out and 5% might be generous.

Part of what makes that win so cool is that it was really a spectacularly played game on both ends. All those plays you mentioned were highlight reel level impressive.

[BKHoo]

Wow I did not get to see the game - IN REVIEWING IT - what a great bullpen performance, great D, and great clutch hitting.   LFG. 

[CUBDOM4life]

What a fun box score to wake up to this morning. Wow 

[CubUgly]

17 minutes ago, CUBDOM4life said:

What a fun box score to wake up to this morning. Wow 

Exactly, went to sleep in the 3rd thinking we probably ain't winning this one - pleasant surprise. Good for Dansby. 

Anyone else notice the Dodger crowd seems to either have bad sight lines or a collectively poor depth perception as they burst into fairly loud reactions on even routine fly balls as if they are all leaving the park?

[Bertz]

The team winning this game after Craig (correctly) waved the white flag with Rolison is diabolical.  If the Brewers had won this game we'd be shrieking.

[Brian707]

10 minutes ago, CubUgly said:

 

Anyone else notice the Dodger crowd seems to either have bad sight lines or a collectively poor depth perception as they burst into fairly loud reactions on even routine fly balls as if they are all leaving the park?

To be fair, most Doyer fans started following the team at the beginning of this decade.

[CubUgly]

10 minutes ago, Brian707 said:

To be fair, most Doyer fans started following the team at the beginning of this decade.

I'm not privy to the dynamics of the Dodger fan base, I do know everyone says the traffic to and from is horrific hence all the late arrivals and early departures.   Maybe Apple mikes up the crowd noise higher than most broadcasts making it seem louder?  But it jumped out at me how loud they would get on cans of corn. 

[Cubs420psd]

1 hour ago, cl smooth said:

Just woke up and saw the box score:

 

Same.

 

Fell asleep at 4-4.

 

Mo Baller is a beast.

[Bertz]

Didn't realize the Padres were in Mexico City this weekend.  Considering that's basically Coors Field south that feels like good timing for us to get them Monday.

 

[We Got The Whole 9]

4 hours ago, BigbadB said:

There were some extremely great defensive plays last night. Hoerner's relay from Seiya was primo. The carom off Busch that Hoerner caught bare handed way high up in the air while immediately firing to first to barely beat the runner was incredible. As good as those were, the Pages to Kim to Will Smith relay to get Happ might have been the play of the night. Pages knew he had to be quick and I might have to see it again, but it looked like he turned and winged it while off balance and in air for a perfect strike to Kim, and the throw from Kim was perfect. Absolutely the only way they get Happ. Probably a less than 5% chance of recording an out and 5% might be generous.

He did. That absolutely should have been a run, you cant predict that Pages could make a play like that. Id be sending all the way. 

[Rcal10]

2 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

He did. That absolutely should have been a run, you cant predict that Pages could make a play like that. Id be sending all the way. 

Anytime a runner is thrown out at the plate a certain group of people will complain and call it a bad send. But both sends were absolutely was the correct call. Boog and JD touched on this the other day. Any 3rd base coach that never gets a guy thrown out at home is also most likely costing the team more runs by holding runners up than he is if he sent a few more. It’s all about percentages. I would guess on the first send if was a 70% chance of scoring. So send makes sense. If you hold him you have 1st and 3rd with one out. Does that equate to a 70% chance of scoring? Probably not. 
The second send was even a better chance of scoring. Probably 90%. Dodgers made two great throws and Pages made a great play getting to that ball and releasing so quickly. Again, absolutely the right call to send the runner. 

[macarthur31]

8 hours ago, Bobson Dugnutt said:

I didn’t watch, but this strikes me as really strange. Wasn’t it Wayne Randazzo on the call? He’s from Chicago and grew up a Cubs fan.

Yeah - Randazzo and Willis don't necessarily come off to me as anti-Cubs.  I mean, if anything, maybe they're trying to calibrate given they both have deep Cub connections.  For me, I could envision them as the Marquee booth in an alternate timeline.  

During one exchange, Willis mentioned that Randazzo is a Cubs fan.  He also acknowledged that he'll always appreciate the Cubs for taking a chance on him.  When Dansby laid out to snag that line drive, Willis was audibly laughing in awe.

If I was a Dodgers fan, I would be more annoyed - you had Nick Offerman doing the AppleTV promo and if it weren't for the Cubs being so tidy on defense, they would've spent tons more time reflecting on his adoration for the Cubs.

Finally, while it's a bit annoying to find the Cubs on another platform, there's something about Apple TV's "Friday Night Baseball" that's been good to the Cubs.  In addition to last night, which felt like October vibes in late April:

• July 4, the Cubs manifested "Rockets Red Glare" by launching franchise record 8 HRs over the Cardinals.  I think Michael Busch did 1 WAR's worth of production just off of Miles Mikolas.
• May 2, the Cubs romped the Brewers at AmFam, and PCA's last blast gave us this timeless meme - "U mad, brewer bro?" 

Edited 1 hour ago by macarthur31

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

7 minutes ago, macarthur31 said:

• May 2, the Cubs romped the Brewers at AmFam, and PCA's last blast gave us this timeless meme - "U mad, brewer bro?" 

[Crusader]

Rollison coming in and putting up 3 innings of 0s was probably the highlight of his career. Suck it Ohtani.