Cubs (Holmes) vs Royals (Lugo): 8/8/26, 6:10pm

[Brandon Glick]

Gausy's debut set a high bar. Let's see what Holmes has in his bag tonight.

[Brandon Glick]

	MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	TOT
Trent Thornton	22	0	0	12	14	48
Ryan Zeferjahn	0	9	14	0	0	23
Ryan Rolison	0	14	0	14	0	28
Jacob Webb	0	12	11	0	13	36
Caleb Thielbar	0	0	19	12	13	44
Aaron Civale	0	0	0	45	0	45

[Bertz]

Bullpen is pretty shredded.  Plan IMO should be to piggyback Rea or Garrett with Holmes

[Dfan25]

14 minutes ago, Bertz said:

Bullpen is pretty shredded.  Plan IMO should be to piggyback Rea or Garrett with Holmes

Hopefully they can score enough that they don’t have to use Zeferjahn . He has had a couple of days off , but had been used a lot like 3 of 4 o believe before that .With that said he probably closes tonight if there is a chance

[Dfan25]

Holmes should be able to give them 85 pitches or so tonight . Hopefully he makes good use of them and gives the Cubs at least 5 . Just attack with the sinker and let them pound the ball into the ground 

[bukie]

18 minutes ago, Bertz said:

Bullpen is pretty shredded.  Plan IMO should be to piggyback Rea or Garrett with Holmes

I expect to see one of Rea or Garrett, with Rolison finishing if necessary. 

[Rcal10]

I expect Milner to be recalled so that adds a pen arm. Then if they need to piggyback it will be Rea or Garrett. If there is a close situation I would guess Zeferjahn. Webb has to be down for today. 

[Illiterate Scholar]

Holmes was still on the 60 day IL as of yesterday, so I'd imagine Garrett will get sent down to accommodate him. 

Also is it a hot take to say I'd keep Thielbar over Milner?