Yankees (Cole) vs Cubs (Rea): 8/2/26, 1:20pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Uneven pitching matchup in favor of the Yankees, but they also can't score runs lately, so...

[Brock Beauchamp]

	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	TOT
Tyler Ferguson	14	0	0	24	0	38
Trent Thornton	0	16	0	0	17	33
Ryan Rolison	0	0	24	0	0	24
Javier Assad	0	0	83	0	0	83
Jacob Webb	0	13	15	0	17	45
Caleb Thielbar	0	18	11	0	13	42
Antoine Kelly	0	0	0	18	0	18
Aaron Civale	0	0	9	0	0	9

 

[JBears79]

Going to the game today. Never seen Cole pitch so pretty excited about that. Hope we beat him though.

[Funky-daddy]

Any insight into what’s going on with Busch this year? OPS over 100 points lower but platoon splits pretty even. Launch angle is down and pulling the ball less

[Jason Ross]

Lineup. Read into it as you see fit:
- Pedro is in the lineup
- Kelly is not in the lineup

(I'd guess it's nothing but hey. free country out there)

[JBears79]

27 minutes ago, Funky-daddy said:

Any insight into what’s going on with Busch this year? OPS over 100 points lower but platoon splits pretty even. Launch angle is down and pulling the ball less

He looks like hes rolling over and getting on top of everything. Just my 2 cents

[bukie]

22 minutes ago, Jason Ross said:

Lineup. Read into it as you see fit:
- Pedro is in the lineup
- Kelly is not in the lineup

(I'd guess it's nothing but hey. free country out there)

I for one can't imagine why they'd use a different catcher for a day game after a night game.

[Jason Ross]

Just now, bukie said:

I for one can't imagine why they'd use a different catcher for a day game after a night game.

Yeah, I think Carson Kelly is a super obvious one. But his name has popped up in trade conversations and well, you know. People love running wild.

[bukie]

4 minutes ago, Jason Ross said:

Yeah, I think Carson Kelly is a super obvious one. But his name has popped up in trade conversations and well, you know. People love running wild.

At a base level, we know that Pedro Ramirez hasn't already been traded.

[BKHoo]

The Sox are interested!! 😆

[BKHoo]

1 hour ago, JBears79 said:

Going to the game today. Never seen Cole pitch so pretty excited about that. Hope we beat him though.

The weather looks great! Pretty cool.  

[chibears55]

Figure out a way to get some runs today and win the series 

[Tryptamine]

So random observation, but outside of that disaster outing against the Cardinals, Peterson has been a really good pick up. The 1.52 ERA over his last 4 starts is a total mirage carried by his .156 babip, but 4.20 FIP and 3.90 xFIP is a solid to good back of the rotation guy. 

 

[mk49]

4 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

So random observation, but outside of that disaster outing against the Cardinals, Peterson has been a really good pick up. The 1.52 ERA over his last 4 starts is a total mirage carried by his .156 babip, but 4.20 FIP and 3.90 xFIP is a solid to good back of the rotation guy. 

 

Yeah, all of our lefty SP's have been pitching great lately.  The Peterson trade worked out really well.

[Andy]

13 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

So random observation, but outside of that disaster outing against the Cardinals, Peterson has been a really good pick up. The 1.52 ERA over his last 4 starts is a total mirage carried by his .156 babip, but 4.20 FIP and 3.90 xFIP is a solid to good back of the rotation guy. 

 

Which is exactly what the Cubs acquired him to be. I think most anyone paying attention expected more or less what Peterson has given the Cubs, but still nice to see.

[Andy]

Looking ahead, apparently we're going to see Skubal during the LA series. Should be interesting

[Radar3454]

41 minutes ago, Andy said:

Which is exactly what the Cubs acquired him to be. I think most anyone paying attention expected more or less what Peterson has given the Cubs, but still nice to see.

I did not expect 4 quality starts out of his 1st 6 with the Cubs - he has far exceeded my expectations 

[Geographyhater8888]

Petersens last 3 starts have come against a struggling cardinals offense and with the wind howling in at wrigley but a nice pickup either way. 

[Andy]

Good lord what a beautiful job by PCA there, capped off with a challenge to get the walk

[JHBulls]

Not a good look ump when the catcher and a hitter are both very confident of challenging your calls in the first inning. 

[abuck1220]

PCA just on another planet relative to the rest of the cubs lineup. works a 10 pitch walk, and then the next two guys (the cubs next best hitters) k on 6 pitches. 

[profisme]

2 minutes ago, abuck1220 said:

PCA just on another planet relative to the rest of the cubs lineup. works a 10 pitch walk, and then the next two guys (the cubs next best hitters) k on 6 pitches. 

Is it too much to ask him to run a bit more? I feel like he has been pretty passive in stealing bases lately

[chibears55]

If theres one available,  Hoyer needs to get a RH bat that can play both OF and 1B, Busch needs a couple days off, and OF so they can sit Happ against some LHers.

[Derwood]

Ump with 2 or 3 egregiously bad calls in the 1st inning. Feels like ABS has made them say "fuckit, challenge me if you wan"

[chibears55]

2 minutes ago, profisme said:

Is it too much to ask him to run a bit more? I feel like he has been pretty passive in stealing bases lately

I've noticed that too, you'd think he would of at least attempted a couple times there, leading off