Cubs (Rea) vs White Sox (Fedde): 5/17/26, 1:10pm

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

what a pitch. horsefeathers you, vargas

[PeanutPunch33]

Milner has been a beast

[Soul]

Well there you go.  At least we got Vargas out there, with the go ahead run on 3rd.

[Geographyhater8888]

11 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

Me too. That was the ridiculous point of the post. I get the idea of taking him out. I was wondering it too. But I also understand it is a 50/50 call on that decision. It isn’t as cut and dry as he should have taken him out. All things considered I am sure he was hoping to get 5 out of him.  Save the pen a bit for the next series. 

Only Imanaga consistently does that. It shouldn’t be this difficult for our starters to go past 5 innings.

Edited 1 hour ago by Geographyhater8888

[PeanutPunch33]

This game has to be a record for number of ABS challenges 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

this catcher is insane

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

nico has been complete dogshit the entire month

[UMFan83]

Ugh that’s an easy sac fly with the wind normal 

[soccer10k]

Shaping up to be a very disappointing inning after how it started unless Busch comes through.

[chibears55]

4 minutes ago, Geographyhater8888 said:

Only Imanaga consistently does that. It shouldn’t be this difficult for our starters to go past 5 innings.

That a bit of the problem Counsell has, he cant keep going to the pen in the 5th inning every game, he has to push these starters to try and get those extra outs in the 5th and sometimes in the 6th, otherwise theres going to be a revolving door of relievers between Iowa and Chicago.

[Soul]

1 minute ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

nico has been complete dogshit the entire month

He actually got under that.  That’s not easy on a ball breaking way down below the zone

Edited 1 hour ago by Soul

[Max Power]

Free outs…

[Soul]

The RISP failure of this offense is just so damn frustrating.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

cool. super cool.

[cl smooth]

swanson is entering jason hayward offensive ineptitude territory

[gflore34]

Sox announcers blabbing about the Sox possible HR's but for the wind. Well, were it not for the wind Busch has, for certain 2, if not 3 today.

[PeanutPunch33]

1 minute ago, gflore34 said:

Sox announcers blabbing about the Sox possible HR's but for the wind. Well, were it not for the wind Busch has, for certain 2, if not 3 today.

Busch would have 4-5 HR this series if it wasn't for the wind lol.  I can remember 2 that were caught right in front of the wall in RF and that one last inning 

Edited 1 hour ago by PeanutPunch33

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

your family's depending on you, phil

[chibears55]

Im just not over the hump with this team as a whole, pitching not exactly reliable,  and the offense,  theyre like good good bad good  bad bad good bad bad bad good good bad bad , etc etc etc, it frustrating. 

[gflore34]

Just now, PeanutPunch33 said:

Busch would have 4-5 HR this series if it wasn't for the wind lol.  I can remember 2 that were caught right in front of the wall in RF and that one last inning 

Think he's heating up, big things are coming from him.

[Rcal10]

6 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

That a bit of the problem Counsell has, he cant keep going to the pen in the 5th inning every game, he has to push these starters to try and get those extra outs in the 5th and sometimes in the 6th, otherwise theres going to be a revolving door of relievers between Iowa and Chicago.

Exactly. Which is why he keeps guys in if they are only at 75 pitches. He has to pick his spots on the pen for fear of overuse.

[Rcal10]

3 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

Im just not over the hump with this team as a whole, pitching not exactly reliable,  and the offense,  theyre like good good bad good  bad bad good bad bad bad good good bad bad , etc etc etc, it frustrating. 

How about, they are good, but not great. All teams have issues. This is a solid team but that doesn’t mean they can’t struggle. Again, it’s baseball. Good teams still lose 40% of the time. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Rcal10

[PeanutPunch33]

LOL 

[muntjack]

Not great.   

[soccer10k]

Well that will do it.