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2024 HR DERBY SCOREBOARD (as of April 27) 1. Rob (59) +12 2. Sammy Sofa (56) +11 3. Andy (55) +9 4. Derwood (54) +13 Tomthebombadil (54) +14 6. SouthSideRyan (49) +9 7. Southpaw19 (48) +13 sweetpeteman (48) +15 9. BaconRev (44) +10 10. Happ-y Days (43) +9 11. Rex Buckingham (37) +7 12. Tinkertini26 (32) +6 13. Busch Lite (31) +8 14. Wicks Vapo-Rub (29) +7 15. You’re Steele The One (23) +3 16. Around the Hoerner (22) +6 17. OnlyPhams (21) +5 18. Eagle’s Taillon (20) +2 19. ShōCago (17) +2 Swansong (17) +1 Biggest Output of the Week: sweetpeteman Coming May 5th! BEST POSSIBLE TEAM SCORE (---) C TBD (--) 1b TBD (--) 2b TBD (--) 3b TBD (--) ss TBD (--) LF TBD (--) CF TBD (--) RF TBD (--) DH TBD (--) B1 TBD (--) B2 TBD (--) B3 TBD (--)

Approved. This is your third roster move in the first half of the season. You have ONE remaining.

Approved. This is your second roster move in the first half of the season. You have two remaining. Approved. This is your first bench move in the first half of the season. You have two remaining.

Approved. This is your first roster move in the first half of the season. You have three remaining.

Tauch swats it to LF's basket! 5-0 start!

Wish granted early with the Belli Bomb!

Approved. This is your second roster move in the first half of the season. You have two remaining.

Eric Hosmer, Trey Mancini, Edwin Rios.. and now Garret Cooper... all "Cub" for reclamation project failures. Though full disclosure: I was rooting for Mancini to succeed here. Just never transpired.

This is going to be 12-11 isn't it?

Damn wind.

I'm sick of this

Marlins teeing off now...

There's one... sigh.

According to Counsell via Jesse Rogers, Adbert won't close today if the opportunity comes up.

Being out in this chilled April air for the past few days wasn't going to help him regardless. I'm sure we'll get an update sometime between the end of the game today, and prior to the next series starting.

Cubs Lineup: Hoerner, 2B Bellinger, CF Morel, 3B Busch, 1B Swanson, SS Cooper, DH Tauchman, RF Amaya, C Canario, LF

Few players have had a more difficult start to 2024 than Kyle Hendricks. The Cubs righty has been rocked for 24 runs over his first 17 innings. He has surrendered an MLB-high seven home runs. It would REALLY be nice if The Professor™ showed up tomorrow and gave us a start similar or greater than the one versus the Giants last summer. Though at this point, I'd settle for 5-6 IP, 1 HR, 5K, 2 BB and getting out with a DUB. With all the bullpen usage this week... it'd be nice if he could harness 2016 Kyle, but I don't see that happening. GO CUBS - WIN THE SERIES!

2024 HR DERBY SCOREBOARD (as of April 20) 1. Rob (47) +11 2. Andy (46) +12 3. Sammy Sofa (45) +9 4. Derwood (41) +12 5. SouthSideRyan (40) +9 Tomthebombadil (40) +10 7. Southpaw19 (35) +9 8. BaconRev (34) +10 Happ-y Days (34) +10 10. sweetpeteman (33) +9 11. Rex Buckingham (30) +6 12. Tinkertini26 (26) +11 13. Busch Lite (23) +7 14. Wicks Vapo-Rub (22) +7 15. You’re Steele The One (20) +5 16. Eagle’s Taillon (18) +4 17. Around the Hoerner (16) +5 OnlyPhams (16) +7 Swansong (16) +4 20. ShōCago (15) +1 Biggest Output of the Week: Andy, Derwood Coming May 5th! BEST POSSIBLE TEAM SCORE (---) C TBD (--) 1b TBD (--) 2b TBD (--) 3b TBD (--) ss TBD (--) LF TBD (--) CF TBD (--) RF TBD (--) DH TBD (--) B1 TBD (--) B2 TBD (--) B3 TBD (--)

As someone else said... Leiter for now.

Next man up for Closer please. 4 BS in 3 weeks is too many.

... or not ...

Best way to shake off a horrid result, is to get back at it with an earlier start time! Wicks (0-2, 5.68 ERA) vs. Pfaadt (1-0, 6.48 ERA) Cubs lineup not yet out as of this post, but here is the DBacks lineup. Let's get a series win and move on to the next homestand! Batters AZ B HR RBI SB AVG OPS Marte, K2B S 4 9 1 .301 .895 CarrollCF L 1 5 7 .232 .642 Gurriel Jr.LF R 5 20 2 .278 .878 Walker, C1B R 3 11 0 .269 .828 Suárez, E3B R 2 13 0 .246 .686 GrichukRF R 1 4 0 .217 .675 MorenoC R 0 6 0 .244 .714 AlexanderDH R 2 7 1 .300 .839 NewmanSS R 0 2 0 .188 .485

I'm on it!