White Sox (Newcomb) vs Cubs (Holmes): 08/19/26, 1:20 PM

[Brock Beauchamp]

The Cubs give the ball to Holmes against Newcomb and the White Sox this afternoon at Wrigley Field.

[Brock Beauchamp]

	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	TOT
Trent Thornton	0	7	5	0	0	12
Ryan Zeferjahn	27	0	0	24	0	51
Ryan Rolison	11	0	18	15	0	44
Javier Assad	0	0	0	0	40	40
Jacob Webb	13	0	0	22	14	49
David Peterson	0	0	0	22	0	22
Colin Rea	0	27	0	0	0	27
Caleb Thielbar	0	7	15	0	11	33
Aaron Civale	0	0	35	0	0	35

[squally1313]

This seems like even more of a bullpen game for the Sox unless I'm missing something. Newcomb can go multiple innings, faced 8 guys on Sunday, and is pretty good, but hasn't gone more than three innings all year. 

Brazoban has pitched two of the last three days, Richards the last two, Fedde is going to be down. Anthony Kay is next in line in their current four man rotation but he pitched Saturday so that would be short rest. Guessing it's Newcome for 2-3, Hicks for a couple, Hagen Smith for one or two, figure it out from there.

Cubs, as shown above, are in ok shape, ideally hoping for a lopsided game so that Rea or Civale can let the short relief guys get a night off. 

[cl smooth]

[Brian707]

Let's sweep these horsefeathers! Lopsided would be nice

Edited 55 minutes ago by Brian707

[Tryptamine]

I'd love to see the Cubs sweep them and send them into a tailspin where they miss the playoffs, but the AL is so damn bad it seems impossible. 

[squally1313]

1 hour ago, squally1313 said:

Cubs, as shown above, are in ok shape, ideally hoping for a lopsided game so that Rea or Civale can let the short relief guys get a night off. 

I haven't seen any announcement but just noticed that Assad is the current scheduled starter for Saturday. Going on three days rest after last night is probably fine, but likely they're penciling in Rea or Civale for bulk duty that day too. 

[ILMindState]

3 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

I'd love to see the Cubs sweep them and send them into a tailspin where they miss the playoffs, but the AL is so damn bad it seems impossible. 

The other teams in their division have had so many chances to catch the Sox but they are all just so bad. 

[Eeyore]

13 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

I'd love to see the Cubs sweep them and send them into a tailspin where they miss the playoffs, but the AL is so damn bad it seems impossible. 

I only care about the White Sox when they play the Cubs. It's wonderful when the Cubs beat them. It's even better when they beat themselves. If they're not playing the Cubs, I couldn't care less about them. It makes lots of friends and family happy when they win so they can win all of the non-Cubs games for all that I care.