Marlins get the first 2 on. I can't wait to watch them effortlessly turn this into 2 runs as if the book on hitting with RISP isn't written in hieroglyphics.
That exact thing has been shown on the ribbon boards pregame for years. They also acknowledge Gabby Hartnett, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Mark Grace and a bunch of other former Cubs.
That should be great news, but all it tells me is a team that probably needed some breaks to be a playoff team this year anyway hasn't gotten them and they're unlikely to play like a 21-10 team much longer.
If they do, outstanding.
Ross saying Mervis will be a regular (i.e. he's not getting the Velazquez treatment). Hosmer getting rave reviews for his willingness to move to a bench role, as you'd expect Ross to give.
I was just going to say it's amusing that the Cubs were actually hitting well with RISP for like a minute and a half and the baseball gods were like, "Nope, that horsefeathers isn't happening" and they've regressed at warp speed
Remember when Jed heavily implied the reason Mervis and Morel aren't up yet was that things were going fine as is?
Guess what Jed. Not going fine anymore.
I'm sure some of their fans are probably blaming Contreras for everything as well. I was sort of talking myself into the idea that Contreras doing great for STL would've been amusing because their fans would have had to reconcile having a catcher who can actually hit worth a damn with their hero worship of Molina, but I guess that signing not working out is its own kind of funny.
Really pissed away the margin for error on this trip with those Marlins games. This one wouldn't be as annoying if 2 of those one run losses had been wins.
My favorite thing about playing crummy teams with unsustainable things like "7-0 in one run games" is that that stuff never ever seems to normalize against us