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Wicks was scratched from his start today and instead was seen throwing a bullpen session during the I-Cubs game. Not sure if that means he'll be called up but... -
It was quite impressive. He was hitting the black with his 100 mph fastball and getting hitters to chase the breaking pitch
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That was really impressive pitching going through the heart of their order. At times Merryweather looks completely dominant, but he has enough off performances to always make me a little nervous when he pitches.
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You think so? I'd agree with no one else on base but Seiya was on 3rd as an insurance run in that situation. Gomes being on 2nd gives them a potential second insurance run and eliminates the force out but thats about it. I do agree that it was partially bad luck though as the throw from the cutoff man made it an easy out. But feel like if theres any risk at all you stay on 1st and let Candelario try to get another insurance run home
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Also I don't want to seem like I'm down on the hit, HUGE hit. Just always feels weird when you are celebrating a big hit and then the batter gets thrown out to end the inning at the end of the play.
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@Matt Trueblood wrote an article on this site about it the other day
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Thank you for giving us the lead Gomes, but I hate that he got thrown out there at the end. I'll take it though.
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I think the confidence about the starters was that we felt good about have 3 #2-3 starters in Stroman, Steele and Taillon, we were excited about Wesneski's upside and though Smyly would be fine for a number 5 starter. And then we had Hendricks coming back which people weren't expecting a ton, it gave us another option. What we didnt expect is that Stroman and Smyly would completely implode at the start of June and in Stroman's case then be injured for the rest of the year. Didn't expect Taillon to be terrible for the first 3 months and then ok for a bit but still not really pitching like a number 3 starter often enough. And then Wesneski completely pitching himself out of the rotation by May Steele has been better than expectations and Hendricks right about where we expected him to be.
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Possibly because his starters largely suck?
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Yep...and its amplified whenever the Cubs are decent. See: 2020 Wild Card Game 1 with Hendricks
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Cubs have had the lead in 13 straight games. They are 7-5 so far in those games. Even the games we've won we've let the opponent back into the game 5 times. The only game we've had an easy win during this stretch is the 6-2 win over Toronto
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10 straight Cubs retired
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Tauchman 3 for his last 24.
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There are not too many worse feelings in baseball than loading the bases with 0 outs, getting the next 2 hitters out without allowing a run, then getting 2 strikes on the next hitter before giving up a grand slam.
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If we drop this, 7-7 since the Mets series and 4-4 since we started playing very bad teams that are out of the race. I guess it happens in baseball, but horsefeathers this is so annoying.
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I wasn't necessarily clamoring to pull Taillon this time, but 2nd straight game Ross is pulling his starter mid inning after giving up 4 runs in the inning.
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horsefeathers hell what the heck, 1 strike away
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And its tied
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Well this got bad in a hurry
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Through 5. At 75 pitches so very unlikely to be able to finish this but can probably go 2 more innings at this rate.
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Gotta say the offense definitely looks like it's coming out of the slump a bit. Yesterday was encouraging too.
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I was literally thinking about using the Jesse Pinkman gif
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His second was a teensy bit better
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4/5 after Wisdom weakly strikes out on a ball in the dirt.
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1-0 Cubs
