Diamondbacks (Gallen) vs Cubs (Rea): 5/1/26, 1:20pm

[chibears55]

Getting one would be nice , 2 would be better...

Insurance time

[Outshined_One]

[soccer10k]

[JHBulls]

The bullpen was fantastic after Rollison’s meltdown. 

[We Got The Whole 9]

Wow it freaking worked! Great job Webb.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Let's go Jacob, nice outing. I didn't doubt you at all when you walked the lead-off guy.

[Old Style]

Fly it!

[chibears55]

Fuk yeh..

W number 20

Keep it rolling 

[Illiterate Scholar]

Heck of a time for what seems like Webb's only 2 quality innings of the season.

[CubUgly]

1 minute ago, Illiterate Scholar said:

Heck of a time for what seems like Webb's only 2 quality innings of the season.

He got ALOT of swing and miss today. 

[BKHoo]

That last pitch was filthy. A change-up? It seemed to back up. 

[Jason Ross]

Nice to see Maton and Webb lock this down. They've not been great so far, but you can see glimpses of what they can be for the pen. 

[BKHoo]

I LOVE winning 1 run games and especially love winning games where we are outhit. 

[mk49]

4 minutes ago, BKHoo said:

That last pitch was filthy. A change-up? It seemed to back up. 

Yeah, I kept saying "changeup, changeup.....", before that pitch.  He threw the changeup, and struck him out.  Great feeling.

[BKHoo]

4 minutes ago, Jason Ross said:

Nice to see Maton and Webb lock this down. They've not been great so far, but you can see glimpses of whahey can be for the pen. 

I don’t care what their ERAs are - both those guys should be part of the best version of our bullpen. 

[mk49]

4 minutes ago, Jason Ross said:

Nice to see Maton and Webb lock this down. They've not been great so far, but you can see glimpses of what they can be for the pen. 

Yeah, same here.  I told my brother that was very rare clean inning by Maton and Webb.  Then, Webb came back for the 9th.  We won, and I'm very happy.😁

[Papa Cub]

1 hour ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

Taking Rea out to avoid Tony Tawa was odd in itself. 

💯 

[Papa Cub]

Nice to see the bullpen close that game out the last three innings! Maton and Webb dealing today. Good W

[Jason Ross]

6 minutes ago, BKHoo said:

I don’t care what their ERAs are - both those guys should be part of the best version of our bullpen. 

Oh, fully agree! But we hadn't seen them be effective yet (I always expected them to be good). Nice to see what it should look like. 

[Tryptamine]

Got to keep winning to keep pace with what seems to be the greatest division in the history of baseball.  Still so salty we're about 1/5 of the way through the season and every damn team is .500 or better in the NL Central.

[mk49]

Rolison and Bregman made the game more interesting.  If the game ended with 6-1, it wouldn't have been as fun to see them win.

[CubUgly]

23 minutes ago, Papa Cub said:

💯

I think he was at 102 pitches, that's probably the reason.  

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

6 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

Got to keep winning to keep pace with what seems to be the greatest division in the history of baseball.  Still so salty we're about 1/5 of the way through the season and every damn team is .500 or better in the NL Central.

The Reds have a ridiculous record on the road and have had a really easy schedule. Hopefully that catches up to them.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Any of you season-ticket holders have 2 tix for the any of the games in the Brewers series in a couple weeks? 

Edited 13 hours ago by We Got The Whole 9

[Rcal10]

6 minutes ago, CubUgly said:

I think he was at 102 pitches, that's probably the reason.  

I think that had Rea not allowed a baserunner he would have been allowed to pitch thru 6. He was at 92 pitches going into the 6th. So 3 up and 3 down shouldn’t be more than 15 more pitches. I think Craig would have been okay with 107. But when someone got on, that is when he pulled him. I figured that was going to happen.