Brewers (Harrison) vs Cubs (Holmes): 08/31/26, 6:40 PM

[BKHoo]

Yep we have outscored our opponents by 43 runs in our last eight games and have gone 4-4.  
 

Just. 
Weird.  

[Brian707]

MLB should institute the slaughter rule like in little league instead of having position players pitch. 

[chibears55]

Magic number is 20 over the Padres 

[Soul]

Given the results of the game I’d say Murphy limited the exposure to his bullpen.

It would be nice if this gets into Harrison’s head a little.  I’m not counting on it but his velo was down and he didn’t have the ability to gut it out.

[Wilson A2000]

 

[UMFan83]

Given his hot weekend, it’s kind of shocking that the Cubs hit 9 HRs tonight and none were from PCA

[Brian707]

7 minutes ago, Wilson A2000 said:

 

 

Cocaine is a hell of a drug

[NorthsideAvenger]

I see the Cubs are excited to see football about to start. 

[Soul]

Man, Phillies are on some kind of run.  Good thing is they are playing the DBacks.

[Stratos]

2 hours ago, Wilson A2000 said:

 

Sounds like OJ wrote that.

[squally1313]

I’m just worried about when they face the good pitchers from the good teams 

[17 Seconds]

imagine being told in late May that Bregman and PCA would have like 15 combined WAR at the end of the season

[Geographyhater8888]

Cubs run differential is +143 over their last 70 with a 6.2 runs/game average. This has been a fun 81 days.

Also a quiet 4-7 stretch because they’ve beaten the horsefeathers out of teams with a +38 run differential.

Edited Tuesday at 10:22 AM by Geographyhater8888

[Jason Ross]

Alex Bregman is now 15th in baseball in fWAR. You could try to tell reddit and X/Twitter that, however...

 

[Geographyhater8888]

21 minutes ago, Jason Ross said:

Alex Bregman is now 15th in baseball in fWAR. You could try to tell reddit and X/Twitter that, however...

 

Tied with Suzuki too. Last year he’d be tied for 21st at this on September 1st. PCA has stolen the spotlight from both of them who are having outstanding years. 

[CubUgly]

5 hours ago, squally1313 said:

I’m just worried about when they face the good pitchers from the good teams 

Wasn't this guy who started last night supposed to be good?

[Rex Buckingham]

11 minutes ago, CubUgly said:

Wasn't this guy who started last night supposed to be good?

[Geographyhater8888]

8 minutes ago, Rex Buckingham said:

They couldn’t even beat Chase burns, a great pitcher on a losing team. 

[Soul]

Looking for other positives, Holmes looked pretty good and that was against a good offense.  He’s also the anti-Cub pitcher, keeping the ball down to limit fly balls.

[Banedon]

[BigbadB]

1 hour ago, CubUgly said:

Wasn't this guy who started last night supposed to be good?

I had both of them starting in the playoffs on my fantasy team yesterday. Holmes +21   Harrison -18

[JBears79]

 

11 minutes ago, BigbadB said:

I had both of them starting in the playoffs on my fantasy team yesterday. Holmes +21   Harrison -18

Cubs offense vs Cubs pitching

[We Got The Whole 9]

50 minutes ago, Banedon said:

On the broadcast they mentioned that a Bears game has only ended with that score once in history and it blew my mind

[gflore34]

1 hour ago, JBears79 said:

 

Cubs offense vs Cubs pitching

I thought the same, watching the condensed game it appears they were, at least yesterday, facing the Brewers version of Shota.  Low 90's FB left over the middle of plate, basically on a tee.

[Eeyore]

12 hours ago, chibears55 said:

The Cubs are the 4th team in MLB history to hit 60 HR in a calendar month.

Aug. 2019 Yankees 74

June 2023 Braves 61

Aug. 2026 Cubs 60

June 2024 Orioles 60

They need to do it again in October.