Diamondbacks (Kelly) vs Cubs (Boyd): 5/3/26, 1:20pm

[Brandon Glick]

At long last: outright ownership of first place in the NL Central. At least for a day.

	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	TOT
Yacksel Ríos	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ryan Rolison	22	0	0	25	0	47
Phil Maton	0	0	0	11	0	11
Javier Assad	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jacob Webb	0	0	0	36	0	36
Hoby Milner	22	3	0	0	0	25
Corbin Martin	0	19	0	0	0	19
Ben Brown	0	11	0	0	24	35

[PackLandVA]

Mo Baller is 0-18 since the Grand Slam.

Edited 1 hour ago by PackLandVA

[chibears55]

Get the sweep today...

Nico and Palencia are back

Let's go

[CUBDOM4life]

[chibears55]

Nico !!!

[CUBDOM4life]

[Bertz]

I wonder if we get word on Thielbar soon.  It sounded like when they IL'd him they were hoping for something close to a minimum lenth stay, which would have him back next weekend.

[BKHoo]

Let’s get a W today - it would be nice to sweep AZ and then we get an important series here for most of the week. 

[Derwood]

13 minutes ago, CUBDOM4life said:

Did Rios ever see the mound?

[mk49]

26 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Did Rios ever see the mound?

I think he did once, and he pitched very well, if I remember correctly.

[BKHoo]

Never heard of him - what game did he pitch? 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

8 minutes ago, BKHoo said:

Never heard of him - what game did he pitch? 

One of the losses to LA

[Geographyhater8888]

Cubs haven’t swept the diamondbacks since 2015, the longest they’ve gone without a sweep against any national league team.

Edited 35 minutes ago by Geographyhater8888

[731.4life]

My thoughts on the month of April is the Cubs had a similar April as the Brewers did in all of 2025.

Despite starting 2025 with a record of 0-4, Brewers ended up winning a total of 97 regular season games. However, they had a very good luck rate of playing other MLB teams at the right time. They went 8-1 vs the Dodgers and Mariners last season, that just doesn't happen.

For the Cubs, we got the benefit of playing the Mets and Phillies while they were both struggling. Phillies fired Thomson, and swept San Francisco earlier this week. The Mets won 3 of their last 4. But we're pretty fortunate to go 16-5 vs Rays, Phillies (both series), Mets, Dodgers, Padres, and D-Backs.

The May schedule is interesting. It's all about capitalizing opportunities to beat up on mediocre teams. A road trip to Texas and Atlanta (no Acuna and a struggling Austin Riley) and a home series with Milwaukee and Houston will be fun.

[Papa Cub]

I was looking at the over/under and they had it at 11.5 runs! I know both pitchers have a very elevated ERA right now, but they’re either begging people to bet the under, or this will be a game where you should start every fantasy hitter today in your lineup lol.

What do you all think? High scoring affair or do both pitchers show better stuff today?

Also - more importantly, it’s great to see Nico and Palencia back today! 💪

Edited 17 minutes ago by Papa Cub