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

[chibears55]

45 minutes ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

Happ batting 5th... 🤔

Theyre waiting for that 3 game hot streak, due to happen soon 🙄

[chibears55]

So, the bullpen now consists of...

Assad, Rea, Civale, Rolison, Thielbar,  Thornton, Zeferjahn,  and Webb

Today availability will be, Assad,  Rea and probably Zeferjahn.

This would be a perfect game for the bats to score 10+ so Counsell would just need to go with Holmes and Rea, and give everyone else a day off.

[chibears55]

Happ last 20 games...

68 AB, 10 hits, 11 walks, 26 Ks 

 

[profisme]

Just now, chibears55 said:

Happ last 20 games...

68 AB, 10 hits, 11 walks, 26 Ks 

 

About twice as many hits as I thought he had in that stretch. 

[Derwood]

5 minutes ago, profisme said:

About twice as many hits as I thought he had in that stretch. 

Happ in August:

.000/.130/.000, 1 R, 3 BB, 10 K's

Edited 8 hours ago by Derwood

[CUBDOM4life]

The royals uniforms are so sick

[profisme]

He has to get on a heater just to get back up to ice cold. 

[profisme]

Confused why Taylor in CF, PCA DH. Ramirez actually can hit the effing ball unlike Happ.

[Derwood]

Say your thing, chibear

[profisme]

I don’t know if Happ could get a hit if the ball was on a tee right now. 

[Derwood]

1 minute ago, profisme said:

I don’t know if Happ could get a hit if the ball was on a tee right now. 

it's painful

[Geographyhater8888]

How long before it’s okay to start worrying about Happ?

[profisme]

Just now, Geographyhater8888 said:

How long before it’s okay to start worrying about Happ?

A couple weeks ago. 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Lugo is basically Michael Lorenzen.

[chibears55]

19 minutes ago, profisme said:

About twice as many hits as I thought he had in that stretch. 

Had a 4 game hit streak against Detroit and Pittsburgh where he got 5 hits 

[PeanutPunch33]

Not a good start

[Eeyore]

1 hour ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

Happ batting 5th... 🤔

Run producer.

[chibears55]

Not looking good here with Holmes

[JBears79]

Holmes looks like dogshit. Zero command

[Derwood]

Felt too early to be playing the infield in

[PeanutPunch33]

Holmes hasn't pitched in like 3 months against big leaguers... his struggles were kinda expected.  Hopefully the offense can string together better ABs and make it interesting 

[Papa Cub]

Well this isn’t what I thought it would be - yikes 😬 

[Derwood]

Just now, Papa Cub said:

Well this isn’t what I thought it would be - yikes 😬 

You thought he was going to step off the 60 day IL and dominate?

[chibears55]

13 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Say your thing, chibear

😅,  like i said at the end of May, unlike Suzuki,  hes not earning an extension for himself. 

[Hrubes20]

4 minutes ago, PeanutPunch33 said:

Holmes hasn't pitched in like 3 months against big leaguers... his struggles were kinda expected.  Hopefully the offense can string together better ABs and make it interesting 

Yeah, anyone expecting him to jump in and immediately fire 7 scoreless were going to be really disappointed.