Cubs (Taillon) vs Pirates (Chandler): 5/27/26, 5:40pm

[Gjfificifjdej]

Man if they can just hang around .500 until Steele, Boyd and Cabrera come back…

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Small sample and all but Ethan Roberts hasn't given up a barreled ball all year

[squally1313]

1 minute ago, Gjfificifjdej said:

Man if they can just hang around .500 until Steele, Boyd and Cabrera come back…

Athletics giants Rockies giants Rockies after the cardinals series. Based on current records, after the cardinals we don’t play an over 500 team until 6/26 (in Milwaukee)

[chibears55]

Wasn't 12-3, but close enough 

Finally got win number 30

Guess we just needed to start talking about firing Hoyer and Counsell on a game thread to get them motivated again and break the streak 😂😂😂

[jersey cubs fan]

[SparkMark1]

The last three winning streaks were roughly a 3 to 1 win to loss ratio.  I expect a 30 game winning streak forthcoming. 

[JHBulls]

They won?
 

[chibears55]

Who would of guessed theyd end the streak in a game that Taillon and Maton pitched 

😂😂😂

[Papa Cub]

Life is simpler now - Skenes tomorrow, but thank goodness the bats came alive.

Jo-boo awakened bats 

[Gjfificifjdej]

43 minutes ago, squally1313 said:

Athletics giants Rockies giants Rockies after the cardinals series. Based on current records, after the cardinals we don’t play an over 500 team until 6/26 (in Milwaukee)

Thats cool and all but from the perspective of every other team in baseball, we are the “easy win”. Hard to get super excited about a “soft” stretch that way. 

[squally1313]

30 minutes ago, Gjfificifjdej said:

Thats cool and all but from the perspective of every other team in baseball, we are the “easy win”. Hard to get super excited about a “soft” stretch that way. 

The difference between our team and those teams is that we’ve won more games than we’ve lost, and they haven’t. 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Only team on that list that really scares me is the Giants. They beat the piss out of us last year

[JHBulls]

7 hours ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

Aaron Bummer has pitched 15.1 innings this year with an 8.62 FIP. This is what it's come to

What a bummer that they even signed this guy. 😞

[Stratos]

8 hours ago, Jason Ross said:

What I am arguing against is the idea that a managerial change is anywhere near the top-10 reasons why the Philadelphia Phillies, or any team, begins winning. Whatever slight psychological change it creates is entirely masked by things like data regressing to the means, schedules, etc. 

Psychology in sports is not quantifiable, no statcast measurements for it.   It does matter, but we have no idea how much or often even when it happens and we'll never know.

I don't think firing Counsell or Hoyer at this point is worth whatever change for change's sake it would result it.  At a certain point it's on the players to perform.  To their credit they were busting their arses all game today.

[Stratos]

7 hours ago, Derwood said:

Mo Baller has lost his MoJo

They seem to be throwing Mo a lot of high fastballs out of the zone and he chases them a lot.

[Geographyhater8888]

2 hours ago, Stratos said:

Psychology in sports is not quantifiable, no statcast measurements for it.   It does matter, but we have no idea how much or often even when it happens and we'll never know.

I don't think firing Counsell or Hoyer at this point is worth whatever change for change's sake it would result it.  At a certain point it's on the players to perform.  To their credit they were busting their arses all game today.

Also, in an anonymous player survey, Counsell ranked ranked 4th among all MLB managers as the person players would most want to play for. The only evidence we have is that he’s a positive clubhouse presence.

Edited May 28 by Geographyhater8888

[Geographyhater8888]

Taillon has a 6.57 FIP. He’s unpitchable. They’d have to be decimated with injuries if he’s not DFAd by the trade deadline at the latest.

Edited May 28 by Geographyhater8888

[CubUgly]

10 hours ago, chibears55 said:

Wasn't 12-3, but close enough 

Finally got win number 30

Guess we just needed to start talking about firing Hoyer and Counsell on a game thread to get them motivated again and break the streak 😂😂😂

Thank goodness that nightmare is over.  Worst stretch of baseball I can remember since the 11-game losing streak that led to the sell off back in 21. 

[Derwood]

25 minutes ago, CubUgly said:

Thank goodness that nightmare is over.  Worst stretch of baseball I can remember since the 11-game losing streak that led to the sell off back in 21. 

While that is more recent, nothing will be worse than starting the season 0-16 in 1997

[Gjfificifjdej]

2 hours ago, Geographyhater8888 said:

Taillon has a 6.57 FIP. He’s unpitchable. They’d have to be decimated with injuries if he’s not DFAd by the trade deadline at the latest.

Taillon getting starts is my biggest argument about adding 2 expansion teams. Absolute crime that he is in the major leagues. 

[CubUgly]

5 hours ago, Derwood said:

While that is more recent, nothing will be worse than starting the season 0-16 in 1997

Wow - I don't recall that - must have blocked it out.

But this most recent losing skit was just so hard to watch.  Over the last 10 years, every year we go through these prolonged slumps where everyone stops hitting at once.  I guess maybe every team has these but it seems ours last longer.  I was cutting games off in the 4th inning knowing we'd not score enough runs to win.