Cubs (Boyd) vs Mets (Peralta): 6/25/26, 6:10pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

I have fantastic news for all of you: the Cubs are still playing the Mets.

	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	TOT
Tyler Ferguson	0	0	0	0	26	26
Trent Thornton	13	0	0	0	13	26
Ryan Rolison	1	0	0	12	18	31
Phil Maton	0	0	0	21	0	21
Jayden Murray	0	0	0	26	0	26
Javier Assad	0	0	0	0	83	83
Jacob Webb	27	0	0	0	26	53
Hoby Milner	0	0	0	12	17	29
Gavin Hollowell	0	0	0	0	13	13
Ethan Roberts	14	0	0	0	0	14
Caleb Thielbar	13	0	0	0	19	32

 

[Brian707]

It's a damn shame this is the last meeting of the year against the Mets

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Surely the Mets won't play as bad as yesterday 

[CubUgly]

19 minutes ago, Brian707 said:

It's a damn shame this is the last meeting of the year against the Mets

Yep, considering how the pitching is lining up for Milwaukee, we need to win tonight. 

[Rcal10]

10 minutes ago, CubUgly said:

Yep, considering how the pitching is lining up for Milwaukee, we need to win tonight. 

I would be happy with 2-2 for the next 4 games. 

[squally1313]

While we're here and doing the things we're doing, just take Peralta off their hands. Luke Weaver too, why not. 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

don't know if anyone cares about bWar/rWar anymore but PCA has hit 5.0

[We Got The Whole 9]

horsefeathers Peralta up

[chibears55]

Hoyer brought back Drew Pomeranz on a minor league deal

[Derwood]

Boyd better got at least 5 cuz that bullpen situation is bleak

[squally1313]

16 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Boyd better got at least 5 cuz that bullpen situation is bleak

Ethan Roberts and Maton I guess? Thornton can probably go again, and then Jayden Murray if things go sideways if we're saving Velasquez for Friday's start. 

Meanwhile the Mets have no scheduled starters for next three games, and the three bullpen pitchers who didn't pitch yesterday pitched 29, 45, and 98 (Senga is a bullpen guy now I guess) pitches, so we're in the same boat I guess. Peralta loves pitching against us, but he's coming off the worst start of his career and has been generally bad for the last 6 starts, so who knows. 

 

[mul21]

45 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Boyd better got at least 5 cuz that bullpen situation is bleak

Ferguson, Rolison, Webb and Milner are the only guys who are likely truly unavailable.  It's not great but it's not as bad as it could be coming off a DH.

[cl smooth]

bought front row upper deck seats to tonight's game for $16. 

[cl smooth]

fun fact: phil maton has appeared in 29 games for the cubs this season. out of those 29 appearances, he did not give up a hit or walk a batter in 8 of those games...woof!

[Andy]

54 minutes ago, cl smooth said:

bought front row upper deck seats to tonight's game for $16. 

Good lord, even when the Cubs are atrocious like the Mets are now you can rarely get in the park for less than 4 times that.

[mul21]

Just now, Andy said:

Good lord, even when the Cubs are atrocious like the Mets are now you can rarely get in the park for less than 4 times that.

There have been a ton of Cardinals tickets for $6 or less the last couple seasons that I still didn't take advantage of because the concessions at the park are so outlandish.

[squally1313]

1 hour ago, cl smooth said:

bought front row upper deck seats to tonight's game for $16. 

Had a business trip there around memorial day. it was cold and saw tickets for a tuesday night game were going for like $9. i'd never been off manhattan and had nothing to do, so took the train over there. was surprised how empty the whole area around the park was (very much getting Sox park vibes), and then was generally pretty unimpressed by the stadium as a whole. walked in during the bottom of the first, grabbed a beer, did a lap of the upper deck and the lower deck, decided it was too cold to sit and i'd rather be eating an expensed dinner watching NHL/NBA playoffs somewhere, walked back out in the top of the third. cool story, i know.

[cl smooth]

5 minutes ago, squally1313 said:

Had a business trip there around memorial day. it was cold and saw tickets for a tuesday night game were going for like $9. i'd never been off manhattan and had nothing to do, so took the train over there. was surprised how empty the whole area around the park was (very much getting Sox park vibes), and then was generally pretty unimpressed by the stadium as a whole. walked in during the bottom of the first, grabbed a beer, did a lap of the upper deck and the lower deck, decided it was too cold to sit and i'd rather be eating an expensed dinner watching NHL/NBA playoffs somewhere, walked back out in the top of the third. cool story, i know.

i really like citi field. it has some of the best ballpark food and great sight lines. as far as a neighborhood vibe, you're within walking distance of a big park and where the world's fair was held. it's a great place to kill time before a game.

if you jump on the 7 train and take it one more stop to flushing (which is the last stop on the 7), you're surrounded by some of the best asian food nyc has to offer. 

it's miles ahead of yankee stadium, which feels like a mall built by trump. 

[squally1313]

2 minutes ago, cl smooth said:

i really like citi field. it has some of the best ballpark food and great sight lines. as far as a neighborhood vibe, you're within walking distance of a big park and where the world's fair was held. it's a great place to kill time before a game.

if you jump on the 7 train and take it one more stop to flushing (which is the last stop on the 7), you're surrounded by some of the best asian food nyc has to offer. 

it's miles ahead of yankee stadium, which feels like a mall built by trump. 

that's really good to know. probably need to be out there in the next month and might give it another shot. 

[PeanutPunch33]

I didn't realize the Cubs were getting Boyd back today.  That's kinda exciting.  

[Neuby]

1 hour ago, Andy said:

Good lord, even when the Cubs are atrocious like the Mets are now you can rarely get in the park for less than 4 times that.

Haven't paid above $25 this year off Stubhub for a Cubs game that wasn't a bobblehead, sox, or opening day.  Got a bleacher last homestead for $15. Never buy from the Cubs box office.

[mk49]

For a season, I went pretty much every home game for Reno Silver Sox (single A).  Paid $1.50, free parking, free beer and free hot dog, free baseball cards, sometimes.  That was fun.😄

After that season, they moved to Riverside or somewhere in California.  I left  Reno in 1995.  The last time I checked, they have a AAA team in Reno now.  

[cl smooth]

Wind is probably 10-15 mph tonight. Hope to see some Cubs sock a few dingers. 

[chibears55]

Not Good for Ben....

Cubs right-hander Ben Brown was diagnosed with a stress reaction in his neck, manager Craig Counsell says.

 

"It's a very similar injury to '24," Counsell says.

 

Brown will be limited in his activity for the next month, then the Cubs will decide/know more from there.

[chibears55]

Swanson needs 3 RBI tonight to tie MLB record 18 RBI in 4 game stretch