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

[profisme]

Rough end. Both PCA and Pedro watched strike 1 fastball down the middle and then a get me over curve for strike 2. 

[Derwood]

Oh well. Happy to give the pen the night off

[abuck1220]

nate pearson owns the cubs 

[profisme]

Just now, abuck1220 said:

nate pearson owns the cubs 

He sure didn’t pitch well for them when he was here. 

[mk49]

1 minute ago, profisme said:

He sure didn’t pitch well for them when he was here. 

He was pretty good in 2024.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Its insane that they just kept pitching to Jac. They refuse to ever back down. Some time I would love for Counsell to throw up the 4 and go after the next guy. This was a very frustrating game that felt like we should have won.

[Geographyhater8888]

Most normal loss of the second half. Al least the bullpen is rested and Happ might’ve woken up.

 

Edited Sunday at 11:57 AM by Geographyhater8888

[Geographyhater8888]

Cubs are 10-10 versus teams 20+ games under 500 and 21-10 versus NL teams above 500.

[CubUgly]

11 hours ago, JHBulls said:

Alex Cohen is definitely not troubling the Mensa committee, but I do think he’s improved. 

The chemistry is better but still not good, because it was so painfully awful at first.   Alex still comes across too often as trying to say things to get JD to like him rather than to make the broadcast better.   Did he do the games by himself in Iowa?  He seems to have similar issues with others he works with but it seems more pronounced with JD. 

[Wilson A2000]

How many starts will Holmes get if he struggles before moving him to the pen? 3?

[JHBulls]

5 hours ago, CubUgly said:

The chemistry is better but still not good, because it was so painfully awful at first.   Alex still comes across too often as trying to say things to get JD to like him rather than to make the broadcast better.   Did he do the games by himself in Iowa?  He seems to have similar issues with others he works with but it seems more pronounced with JD. 

Yes, I think so. Which is why he probably doesn’t sound natural at times on Marquee.