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Good news is, if they don’t get one here they’ll have a runner on 2nd base for the 2nd time in their last 19 innings for the 10th -
Phew. Somehow some way walk it off. if there are 2 outs and no one one I want Wisdom hitting for Madrigal lol
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This is going to be painful. 2 outs and no one on, now bases loaded
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0-2 and Adbert gives him 2 pitches right over the heart of the plate. Come on
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Just bring in wisdom and tell him to swing for the fences every pitch
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Scored on a sac fly, a dropped pop fly and a single during garbage time
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its the most successful thing theyve done the last 2 games, why not keep trying
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Unbelievable
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What I should have done is take a piss when Tauchman gets to 2 strikes so I can miss the first 4-5 foul offs
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I literally take a piss and theres already 1 out
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Great job today Steele. 95 pitches through 7. Will he come out for the 8th? Should have an extra day of rest before his next start.
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first real rally in 2 days nets us nothing
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Guess we’re just never gonna hit again
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Definitely a better pitching matchup due to having Steele going but Kelly is going to be tough, 18th in baseball in SP WAR and coming off some good starts (and 1 bad one). But this is baseball so the Cubs will probably hit him well and all will be good (I hope)
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Marlins win. Cubs remain 2 GB behind Phillies but the Marlins creep up to 2.5 gb
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Brewers now up 5-2, marlins still beating Phillies, Cardinals winning 9-4 now. trending towards being 2.5 games safe in WC and 3 GB division
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I know the Marlins have a tough schedule but I want whichever team is going to help the Cubs make the playoffs especially having lost the tiebreaker to them. anyways marlins now lead 3-2, cardinals up 7-4. If either the Marlins or Reds win the cubs cushion is down to 2.5 games
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Within 20 mins, brewers tie up Yankees, marlins tie up Phillies. Cardinals still clinging to 6-4 lead over the reds after escaping a bases loaded jam
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Good news, the Cardinals are up 6-4 over the reds, though they were up 6-0 so not trending well. Marlins are down 2-0 to Phillies, Yankees up 2-0 over Brewers
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Tomorrows starter Merrill Kelly’s last 3 starts. Which one are we getting? 7 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 12 K 5 IP, 12 H, 7 R, 3 BB, 1 K 7 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 12 K FWIW the one blowup start was against the Dodgers and he was battling cramps all game.
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Remaining schedules: Cubs (8 home, 12 away) - 2 vs AZ, 3 @ COL, 3 @ AZ, 3 vs PIT, 3 vs COL, 3 @ ATL, 3 @ MIL DBags (8 home, 12 away) - 2 @ CHC, 4 @ NYM, 3 vs CHC, 2 vs SF, 3 @ NYY, 3 @ CWS, 3 vs HOU Reds (9 home, 10 away) - 3 vs STL, 3 @ DET, 3 @ NYM, 3 vs MIN, 3 vs PIT, 2 @ CLE, 3 @ STL Marlins - (9 home, 13 away) - 3 @ PHI, 4 @ MIL, 3 vs ATL, 3 vs NYM, 3 vs. MIL, 3 @ NYM Marlins will probably play themselves out of contention with that schedule but the DBacks and Reds have pretty easy schedules remaining. I only see 2 series combined against playoff teams outside of the Cubs series. It's pretty important that we win at least 2 if not 3 of the 5 remaining DBacks games. The Reds arent really that good but can easily see them getting hot with that schedule. If the Diamondbacks stay too close to us, they don't even need to get *that* hot to pull even with us. Edit: Goddammit I said I was done glooming, my bad. Just wanted to lay it all out there. Anything can happen in baseball, but I see the Cubs target line being closer to 86 or 87 wins given our opponents schedule and the lack of any tiebreakers. 12-8 or 13-7 is doable for a team that has been playing on 100 win pace for a long time though.
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And there's at least 2 playoff spots we're fighting for. Even if one of the other 3 (I'm excluding the Giants for now) gets red hot, there's still a spot for us. Just hate that we are looking like we'll lose the tiebreaker to all 3 of those teams, makes the margin for error less.
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I pushed back last week when you did this but today its fair, its a bit gloomy in here and I've been a part of that. Fact is we're in a perfectly fine position right now but people are emotionally invested in this team and need to vent when they have a frustrating loss. The dark clouds are already leaving my head and I'm ready to get behind our ace tomorrow. just wish we didnt have this stretch of 17 out of 20 games against teams were directly competing against. Feels like I'm way too on edge lately (and we've gone 7-5 during that stretch!)
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Also just realized the Cubs need to now go 4-1 in their last 5 against Arizona to avoid losing yet another tiebreaker to a team directly behind us. OK thats enough dooming for the day
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Speaking of playoff odds....yesterday between the Marlins loss and the Cubs loss, they were at.... 93% odds per Fangraphs projections 95.6% odds per season to date performance. The newly updated odds have us at 85.6% per their projections and 89.8% based on season to date performance. So we've lost 7.4% and 5.8% over the last 19 hours
