Cubs (Holmes) vs D-backs (Pfaadt): 08/25/26, 8:40 PM

[UMFan83]

2 minutes ago, Brian707 said:

No ground lost but very frustrating to not lock this one up and gain ground on everyone. 

Just get the #4 seed and use September to figure out the bullpen. They aren't catching Milwaukee 

 

I mean we lost a game to the Diamondbacks. Probably won’t catch us (said that in 2023 too when they started beating us) but could have really put them away tonight.   Long recent history of painful losses in this stupid park

Edited 8 hours ago by UMFan83

[chibears55]

3 minutes ago, Brian707 said:

No ground lost but very frustrating to not lock this one up and gain ground on everyone. 

Just get the #4 seed and use September to figure out the bullpen. They aren't catching Milwaukee 

 

They're going to need to figure out the pen in order to secure that 4th seed

[Irrelevant Dude]

2 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

Long recent history of painful losses in this stupid park

I absolutely hate this park.

[chibears55]

Let's see which Boyd shows up to pitch tomorrow game against their best starter 

Edited 8 hours ago by chibears55

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

got beat on his worst pitch too, hanging slider right down the middle. brutal

[Snott]

25 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

Cubs gonna end up using Assad, Rea, Peterson, Brown, Cabrera and Steele out of the bullpen in September 😅🤦

In oct

[Stratos]

They can't be losing all these close games.  This sucks.

[Geographyhater8888]

Wow, I didn’t think Friday could be topped, then Saturday happened and I thought that was the worst and then this happened. Now that the rotation is better I guess Webb is turning into a pumpkin to achieve universal balance so that the Cubs will never catch Milwaukee.

2. F CKING. OUTS.

Edited 2 hours ago by Geographyhater8888

[Geographyhater8888]

What’s today’s headline?

Clay Holmes has a dominant 7 inning shutout?

Ian Happ with a huge 3 run home run? 
 

Cubs positional players have more fWAR than the entirety 2025? 

The Brewers, Phillies and Padres all lost?

Nope. The second blown save with 2 outs in 4 games after all the excitement from adding Palencia and Zeferjahn to the bullpen.

Edited 1 hour ago by Geographyhater8888

[Jason Ross]

Ah, damn. Woke up and saw it was Waldschmidt who walked us off. I really liked him that draft cycle. Bummer. 

[gflore34]

Damn, winning yesterday would have secured, at least, a .500 road trip, now it's going to be 2-4.  There's no way in the world the Cubs are going to win a Boyd start.

[Soul]

Boyd is gonna lay another egg.  2-4 it is.

[Geographyhater8888]

13 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

Damn, winning yesterday would have secured, at least, a .500 road trip, now it's going to be 2-4.  There's no way in the world the Cubs are going to win a Boyd start.

This is the type of road trip we’d expect from the 04, 2019 and 2023 teams. Not to be that guy, which is my way of saying I’m being that guy implicitly.

[gflore34]

2 minutes ago, Soul said:

Boyd is gonna lay another egg.  2-4 it is.

Count on it, he's been terrible and the Diamondbacks have done very well vs. LHP.  It's as close to a unwinnable game as there is for the Cubs.

[Geographyhater8888]

This team has the ingredients to win a championship too. Please don’t Cub your way out of this like a curb your enthusiasm episode.

[CubUgly]

11 minutes ago, Geographyhater8888 said:

This team has the ingredients to win a championship too. Please don’t Cub your way out of this like a curb your enthusiasm episode.

Pitching matchup CLEARLY favors D-backs heavily today.  So does that mean we win?