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No hitter 18ks. So much money made on today's game.

Not mad at that call, the guy did stick his elbow out, albeit just a little.

Well he made himself a heck of a lot of money today.

I still wouldn't hate the idea of just deciding to try and overwhelm with offense if they don't find a pitcher out there they love. Bring in Bregman and try to put up 7 runs a game.

So many wasted lead off hits.

They can't score without HR right now.

a 41 wRC+ in high leverage situations for Dansby before today. For comparison sake, Jon Berti has a 55 wRC+ overall.

Please keep hitting him 5th guy who makes millions of dollars to manage a baseball team.

More RISP failure by Dansby

No particular order but these are the ones for me 1. Caissie- He's been fairly good, but he's basically been the same guy he has been. There's not much improvement there especially for someone repeating a level even if he's still young for AAA. 2. Alcantara- More of the same as Caissie, but even worse. All of his plate discipline improvements have disappeared and actually gotten worse. No increase in power and a pretty minimal increase in walk rate. Alcantara might be going the Junior Lake route. Lots of tools but never puts it together to be more than a fringe MLBer. 3. Lovich- I know he's very young, but I thought he'd hit the ground running rather than being more or less a league average bat. That's not real promising for a guy who is basically going to live or die with his bat. 4. Cowles- I was hyped when they traded for him as his new found plate discipline made him a very real candidate to be an impactful utility player. All that plate discipline vanished and we're left with a guy who might not even be with the franchise after 2026. 5. Triantos- I'm hoping it's injury related, but he's just been straight up bad in his play time so far. Unless he fixes it, he's going to go from a guy who made some top 100 lists to a guy who might not even be in my top 15-20 in the offseason.

I wouldn't either, but it sure as heck would take a lot of my enjoyment out of it and if I'm not enjoying then why watch?

11 baserunners 1 run, completely unacceptable.

LOL this offense.

Another impressive AB

Great AB Ian

Oh my god I was about to freak out for him not going to home with it.

The 2 most reliable pen arms both kind of sucked today.

What a strong offensive showing.

Please score here Cubs. I have this terrible feeling Counsell is going to use Pressly in the 10th.

Lead off walk, good god.

Wasn't much but it worked

Not a strike...

I'm sending PCA here just to keep Dansby from doing what he's inevitably going to do.

Great, it's Dansby with RISP again.

Please for the love of god, 0 outs 2 men on, please do something with this.