Reds (Lowder) vs Cubs (Peterson): 8/28/26, 1:20pm

[chibears55]

Of course, mow down the first 2 guys, give up a homer to the 9th batter.

[Geographyhater8888]

Only .2 war away from 30th. 

[chibears55]

Felt good with their chances to get one between Bregman Happ Hoerner and Ramirez due up, 2 might be stretching it

[BKHoo]

It’s unreal how many HRs we give up. 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

1 minute ago, BKHoo said:

It’s unreal how many HRs we give up. 

To complete scrubs

[chibears55]

Cubs could pitch 7 perfect innings and you just know that homerun ball will be coming in those final 2 innings

[Irrelevant Dude]

That pitch to Happ... Does anyone else feel like they need to shrink the strike zone just slightly?

[UMFan83]

Most HRs allowed by team and their record:

1. Athletics - 204 (53-81)

2. Cubs - 202 (76-59)

3. Nationals - 187 (63-73)

4. Astros - 177 (67-67)

5. Reds - 169 (63-71)

6. Royals - 165 (60-75)

 

[chibears55]

That was a yawner of a 9th inning 

 

[Rcal10]

I know Thornton sucked so that means the entire pen should be burned down. But if the Cubs don’t give the reds 5 outs in the 7th it is a tie game. Can’t play bad defense AND have a bad pen. 

[chibears55]

5 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

Most HRs allowed by team and their record:

1. Athletics - 204 (53-81)

2. Cubs - 202 (76-59)

3. Nationals - 187 (63-73)

4. Astros - 177 (67-67)

5. Reds - 169 (63-71)

6. Royals - 165 (60-75)

 

113 games now out of 135, theyve given up at least 1 homerun.

4 away from tying the 1999 team record of 117, 13 away from mlb record of 126 set by Baltimore 2019.

27 games left

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

1 minute ago, chibears55 said:

113 games now out of 135, theyve given up at least 1 homerun.

4 away from tying the 1999 team record of 117, 13 away from mlb record of 126 set by Baltimore 2019.

27 games left

They're gonna blow away that record. I'd say at least 133

Edited Friday at 09:40 PM by Tangled Up in Plaid

[chibears55]

Anyone catch the end of Counsell press, a reporter asked him about Rea and something about a report of Counsell being afraid, Counsell said he had no comments on that and left.

Anyone know what that's about

[chibears55]

Cubs last 4 games they have gotten really good SP, scored a combined 19 runs, yet they have only won 1 game 🙄

SP last 4 games..

Gausman 7 ip 0 runs win

Holmes 7 ip 0 runs  loss

Boyd 6 ip 1 runs loss

Peterson  5 ip 2 runs loss

[NorthsideAvenger]

Stop sucking, Cubs. 

[ILMindState]

At least Zeferjahn didn't give up a HR today

[chibears55]

9 minutes ago, ILMindState said:

At least Zeferjahn didn't give up a HR today

Saving him for tomorrow 🙄

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

1 hour ago, chibears55 said:

Anyone catch the end of Counsell press, a reporter asked him about Rea and something about a report of Counsell being afraid, Counsell said he had no comments on that and left.

Anyone know what that's about

I went back and listened, someone asked him about a report mid-game that Rea was going to be DFA'd, and Counsell said that was not accurate and he couldn't comment anymore than that.

[Charlie Grimm]

Damn management needs to take a good close look at themselves for the way they navigate through the bullpen, much less using starting pitchers. Look at how the Brewer coaches take hand-me-down players and somehow make them look like super sleuths. How we looked at their bullpen ERA over the past two months? Incredible!   CC and his coaching staff s-u-c-k bigtime and a house cleaning needs to take place at the end of this dismall season. I don't expect September to be a bery good month.....

Edited Saturday at 12:52 AM by Charlie Grimm

[Rcal10]

2 hours ago, Charlie Grimm said:

Damn management needs to take a good close look at themselves for the way they navigate through the bullpen, much less using starting pitchers. Look at how the Brewer coaches take hand-me-down players and somehow make them look like super sleuths. How we looked at their bullpen ERA over the past two months? Incredible!   CC and his coaching staff s-u-c-k bigtime and a house cleaning needs to take place at the end of this dismall season. I don't expect September to be a bery good month.....

Overreact much? I would say so. Dismal season? Come on man. They are probably going to win 90+ games. If you want to follow a team with a dismal season follow the Rockies. But if you follow the Cubs at least have a clue. Also CC and the coaching staff aren’t even close to sucking at their job. Again, get a clue. They are struggling right now. Act like you have some knowledge of how baseball works and realize they are still very good, but things aren’t going great now. And stop being so fricken overboard. 

[soccer10k]

If you told me before the game that the Res scored 10 runs, I would have assumed Suarez homered at least one time.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Phillies hit a grand slam in the 9th against the Angels and won. Only 1 game back now. horsefeathers hell.

[Soul]

They’ve played themselves into a position where missing the playoffs is a possibility.  Where they go from here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

This has been one weird ass rollercoaster season.  10 game winning streaks, 10 game losing streak.  Locked in the top WC seed.  Teetering on the edge of losing it.  Fighting a plague of injuries all along the way.

[Geographyhater8888]

11 hours ago, Rcal10 said:

Overreact much? I would say so. Dismal season? Come on man. They are probably going to win 90+ games. If you want to follow a team with a dismal season follow the Rockies. But if you follow the Cubs at least have a clue. Also CC and the coaching staff aren’t even close to sucking at their job. Again, get a clue. They are struggling right now. Act like you have some knowledge of how baseball works and realize they are still very good, but things aren’t going great now. And stop being so fricken overboard. 

It was probable a week ago when all they need was to win 16 of their last 34. Now finishing 14-13 with 7 left vs Milwaukee, 6 3 and 3 vs Miami, Boston and Atlanta is more of a possibility than a probability at this point, as is home field advantage.

We’ll need April-May 8th and June 11th-August-12 Counsell to show up for these final 27 games. 

Edited Saturday at 01:01 PM by Geographyhater8888

[Geographyhater8888]

6 hours ago, Soul said:

They’ve played themselves into a position where missing the playoffs is a possibility.  

Missing the playoffs while winning the tie breaker against the 3 wildcard teams ahead of them, going, a combined 15-4 against Philly. SD and AZ. That would be extraordinary. 

Edited Saturday at 11:37 AM by Geographyhater8888