Cubs (Boyd) vs Brewers (Gasser): 09/07/26, 1:10 PM

[Brock Beauchamp]

Boyd and the Cubs head to American Family Field to face Gasser and the Brewers this afternoon.

[Brock Beauchamp]

	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	SUN	TOT
Trent Thornton	23	0	0	13	0	36
Ryan Zeferjahn	0	10	0	19	0	29
Ryan Rolison	19	10	0	8	0	37
Jacob Webb	7	0	0	0	0	7
Daniel Palencia	13	0	0	0	16	29
Colin Rea	8	0	0	0	61	69
Caleb Thielbar	11	0	0	27	0	38
Aaron Civale	0	0	46	0	0	46

[Bertz]

Curious if Shelby Miller resurfaces today or if he's on track for more of a tomorrow or Wednesday 

[gflore34]

The question is will the Cubs win another Boyd start this season?  Dropped his last 4, I've my doubts about the Cubs winning his start today but, hey, it's baseball stranger things have happened.

[Derwood]

Happ out again. Seiya DH, Taylor LF, Shaw RF

[PackLandVA]

3 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Happ out again. Seiya DH, Taylor LF, Shaw RF

Gasser throws the ball with his left arm/hand.

[Funky-daddy]

What do we do with Busch come playoff time ? He’s been borderline unplayable. Can Shaw play first ? Happ?

[JBears79]

1 minute ago, Funky-daddy said:

What do we do with Busch come playoff time ? He’s been borderline unplayable. Can Shaw play first ? Happ?

Shaw has been taking reps at first from what I understand.

[mk49]

2 minutes ago, Funky-daddy said:

What do we do with Busch come playoff time ? He’s been borderline unplayable. Can Shaw play first ? Happ?

Shaw looked really bad at 1B.  Busch will play.

[chibears55]

3 minutes ago, Funky-daddy said:

What do we do with Busch come playoff time ? He’s been borderline unplayable. Can Shaw play first ? Happ?

Alcantara played 1st for Iowa yesterday 

🤣🤣

[chibears55]

Murray at 1B today 

[Funky-daddy]

1 minute ago, chibears55 said:

Alcantara played 1st for Iowa yesterday 

🤣🤣

I saw that lol. Clearly they’re exploring options there

[PackLandVA]

I don’t remember this, but apparently Carson Kelly started a game at 1B this season.

[mk49]

6 minutes ago, PackLandVA said:

I don’t remember this, but apparently Carson Kelly started a game at 1B this season.

Yeah, he did, and he was better than Shaw, Amaya and Mo, who also played 1B.  Super small sample size, though.

[Derwood]

Yep, Busch hitting .143 over his last 10 games, .223 since August 1, and .231 since the break.

[Bull]

21 minutes ago, Funky-daddy said:

What do we do with Busch come playoff time ? He’s been borderline unplayable. Can Shaw play first ? Happ?

Busch will be fine. Just needs a little rest to get his feet back under him.

[gflore34]

4 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Yep, Busch hitting .143 over his last 10 games, .223 since August 1, and .231 since the break.

Wonder if he's been nursing an injury most, if not all, of the season?  I don't believe, as in previous seasons, he's managed a two week hot streak.  Read his bat speed is down, something's not right.

Edited 2 hours ago by gflore34

[JBears79]

4 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

Wonder if he's been nursing an injury most, if not all, of the season?  I don't believe, as in previous seasons, he's managed a two week hot streak.  Read his bat speed is down, something's not right.

It looks like hes rolling over and getting on top of everything.

[Backtobanks]

21 minutes ago, chibears55 said:

Alcantara played 1st for Iowa yesterday 

🤣🤣

I always wondered why they didn't try this sooner.  6'6" makes a pretty good target for the IFs and if he could hit a little, he would make for a good platoon OF/1B. 

[gflore34]

21 minutes ago, JBears79 said:

It looks like hes rolling over and getting on top of everything.

I'm wrong about him having a hot streak, he was pretty good in May, the rest of the season not so good.

[JBears79]

30 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

I'm wrong about him having a hot streak, he was pretty good in May, the rest of the season not so good.

There was like a 20 game stretch in June or July I think where he was pretty hot. Arbitrary sample points but I remember when I was at the Yankees-Cubs game on the 8/2, they had a stat on the board saying he was hitting pretty well but thats the only time I can remember.

[gflore34]

2 minutes ago, JBears79 said:

There was like a 20 game stretch in June or July I think where he was pretty hot. Arbitrary sample points but I remember when I was at the Yankees-Cubs game on the 8/2, they had a stat on the board saying he was hitting pretty well but thats the only time I can remember.

That's pretty much it, for the most part, he's been awful in 2026:

[gflore34]

Was 2025 an outlier career year for Busch and this season is closer to who he is?  Guess, 2027 will tell us.

Edited 1 hour ago by gflore34

[Geographyhater8888]

It looks mechanical with Busch. 

[chibears55]

9 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

Was 2025 an outlier career year for Busch and this season is closer to who is?  Guess, 2027 will tell us.

Maybe those extra games/AB facing lefties wasn't the best thing to do for him this year.

Should of eased him in slowly 🤷

He jumped from 11 starts 95 PA  in 2025 to 41 starts and 188 PA this year, he has only missed 3 games,  today the 4th.