Tigers (Flaherty) vs Cubs (Taillon): 7/20/26, 7:05pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Took a series against the middling Twins, now can the Cubs do the same against a Tigers team that *should* be better than their current record?

	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	SUN	TOT
Tyler Ferguson	0	0	7	0	0	7
Trent Thornton	0	0	0	10	0	10
Ryan Rolison	0	0	15	0	0	15
Phil Maton	0	0	0	0	23	23
Javier Assad	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jacob Webb	0	0	0	17	0	17
Gavin Hollowell	0	0	8	0	0	8
Drew Pomeranz	0	0	21	0	20	41
Caleb Thielbar	0	0	0	15	0	15

 

[Bertz]

Jameson Taillon is probably cooked.  That said two of his first three years here he's given up a stupid number of homeruns in the first half of the year and just randomly stopped in the second half.  Hell, last year the switch flipped while he was on the IL with a leg injury.  Maybe we can make it three of four.

If not I just hope the leash is short.

[Rex Buckingham]

I'd feel a lot better if we were opening the series with someone other than fresh-off-the-IL Taillon

[Dfan25]

Wind supposed to be blowing out with Taillon pitching , not great . Flaherty has been better lately and still strikes people out . Not feeling great about this one but who knows ? Maybe they win 12-10

Edited 19 hours ago by Dfan25

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

[CubinNY]

With Jamo we can usually tell right away if he has it or not, so if he gives up 2 in the first, please get someone up in the pen before he gives up 4 in the 2nd. 

[Derwood]

[mk49]

Jamo pitched great 2nd half of the last season.  We'll see how he goes this year.

2025	IP	HR	ERA
Aug	11.0	1	1.64
Sep	23.1	1	1.54
Oct	8.0	0	2.25

[squally1313]

Pomeranz gone

Maton back to the IL (same knee issue)

Taillon and Civale added to roster

[Jason Ross]

On one hand I don't like hearing "knee issue" with how reoccurring it is with Maton. On the other hand it at least gives you a reason to believe "fix the knee, fix the pitcher" for at least the second year of his contract. 

[mk49]

4 minutes ago, squally1313 said:

Maton back to the IL (same knee issue)

Again?  Crazy.😅

I was hoping he'd pitch well in the 2nd half and the next season.

Kinda sad to see Pomeranz gone, but he was bad.  Hopefully, Civale is better.  He was pretty decent with the Cubs last year.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

When did Maton first go on the IL for the knee? The whole situation seems like it's really been bungled

MRI revealed "not good news" according to Craig and he didnt' elaborate. lol

Edited 12 hours ago by Tangled Up in Plaid

[BobbyD3]

46 minutes ago, Tangled Up in Plaid said:

When did Maton first go on the IL for the knee? The whole situation seems like it's really been bungled

MRI revealed "not good news" according to Craig and he didnt' elaborate. lol

"Not good news" for Maton likely means "really good news" for us.  That deal has been a disaster.

[Rcal10]

18 minutes ago, BobbyD3 said:

"Not good news" for Maton likely means "really good news" for us.  That deal has been a disaster.

Year one it has been bad. I don’t really consider any $7M a year deal a disaster. Not like we expected some great closer and he sucked. We expected a decent 8th inning guy and paid him a lower end salary for that sort of guy. And he didn’t do the job. A wasted $7M contract for a major market team shouldn’t be a disaster. If you want to see a disaster look at Tucker and his $57M a year contract with the Dodgers. Now that is a disaster. And he has options on year 3 and 4. 

Edited 11 hours ago by Rcal10

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Are they gonna get this one in?

[JBears79]

It doesnt even look like rain is in the forecast right now? Is it because of the smoke or something

 

Edit: i take it back my app was set to the wrong place

Edited 11 hours ago by JBears79

[Derwood]

1 minute ago, JBears79 said:

It doesnt even look like rain is in the forecast right now? Is it because of the smoke or something

[Bertz]

My app says it should be done before 8 🤷‍♂️

[JBears79]

10 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Yeah had my app set to phoenix still lol

[chibears55]

Extra hour of Sutcliffe tonight with the delay

😅😅

Edited 11 hours ago by chibears55

[chibears55]

735 start time

[JHBulls]

4 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

735 start time

Is that in 15 minutes? 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Just now, JHBulls said:

Is that in 15 minutes? 

if he meant central time, then yes

[javy knows my name]

horsefeathers Cohen and Sut. Why do the Ricketts think so little of us?

Really hope the radio syncs well today

[CUBDOM4life]

Cohen and Sutcliffe tonight 😞