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Reds lose. Cubs temporarily back in WC3. If the Marlins win tonight (they’re up 1-0) the Cubs will be 0.5 behind. giants also have a 5-4 lead on Atlanta. If the Braves come back the Cubs would be 0.5 GB Giants for WC2. I don’t care if anyone reads these updates it just helps me organize all the moving parts 😂 -
Ugh just preseason but tonight is going to amplify annoying Packers fans about Love.
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They should have played his old walk up music so everyone would know who it is
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And Bagent pretty good so far. Wonder if they’d actually cut Walker and keep Fields, Peterman and Bagent
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To be fair they also let us beat them twice
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Dodgers come back and beat the Marlins 3-1 in game 1, pulling them even with the Cubs again and 0.5 back of the Reds for WC3. Brewers up 2-1 vs Rangers in the 5th, Diamondbacks up 6-3 against the Padres. Reds, Phillies, Giants and Game 2 of the Marlins are later today
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Not the prettiest but we win
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Don't let anyone on. Witt Jr is due up 3rd
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Just drives me nuts that we led the team with the 2nd worst record in the majors 6-1 in the 5th inning and ended up having to use every single one of our high leverage relievers to (hopefully) finish off the game. We are in game 2 of a stretch of 27 games in 27 days. This is absolutely a game we should have been able to avoid pitching all of Merryweather, Fulmer, Leiter and Alzolay. 13 straight Cubs retired by the terrible Royals pen
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6-4....just like last Saturday Ross pulls Fulmer with 2 outs and 1 on, brings in Leiter who immediately gives up a run. Don't care about matchups or whatever, Fulmer was pitching fine, give him the inning.
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Better not end with Alzolay throwing 35 pitches in a 4 out save and being unavailable tomorrow.
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Do we like Merryweather as a 7th inning guy, or would Fulmer be better there at this point? Not saying Merryweather is doing terrible, he's an important part of the pen but sometimes has control issues, has given up 6 HRs this year. I get that Ross wants to use Fulmer for high leverage situations that come up during the game vs. giving him a designated inning and maybe thats the best decision. If you're concerned about Merryweather giving up long balls that certainly he's not the best fit for Fulmer's role, although being able to come in and throw 100 mph has its advantages in those spots.
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Of course Witt comes through. He's 5-8 with a HR, 3 RBI, 3 runs scored and 2 SB this series. Now the Royals are a single from a 1 run game
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Julian, could you cooperate and throw strikes? Walking back to back guys when your are up 4 runs in the 7th is sub optimal, especially when you have an elevated HR rate Edit: Also Witt Jr will bat this inning if no GIDP here
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In other scores, Marlins are up 1-0 in the 5th inning of Game 1 of their doubleheader against the Dodgers Diamondbacks are up 3-2 over the Padres in the 3rd Brewers and Rangers just started
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Annoying to give up a run on a well placed grounder, stolen base, and 2 groundouts but either way nice job today Steele.
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Morel the only Cub without a hit today. At least he didn't strike out this time. Hard to say about someone who delivered 2 gigantic hits over the last week but he's really struggling, now 4 for his last 47 with 21 K. Actually the fact that he delivered 2 big hits during that stretch is encouraging, he's able to not let this slump get to him mentally.
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Cherished number 3 hitter Ian Happ delivers with an RBI single
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Really nice inning for Steele after the leadoff double
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Nothing like starting an inning by botching a fly ball for a double.
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^^ And I should clarify, I was referring to the first Bellinger HR since he just hit a 2nd one. Clearly Belli saw me put him on the list of slumping Cubs yesterday and he's taking it personally.
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I just saw the Bellinger HR, did that Royals OF really try to scale the wall to rob it? lol, did he not realize there's a basket? It was pretty impressive how high he got but hes just asking for an injury.
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He’s actually hit well in a small sample size since his return from injury as others pointed out recently. 6 HR in 42 PA and an OPS over 1.000 despite a .188 BABIP. But he’s been hurting us on defense quite a bit and with Candelario, Bellinger, Madrigal and now Mastrobuoni as corner IF options it just doesn’t make sense to play him other than a backup DH for Morel imo. We’ve seen enough of Wisdom over the last 3 seasons to know who he is and I’m not sure there’s a roster spot available for who he is.
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11-9 is a bit deceiving. That stretch started with a 7 game winning streak and they are 4-9 since that streak ended including yesterday’s win. Their offense though has been really good as of late, not a great time for a team with a struggling starting staff and slumping offense to face them.
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I had a feeling we’d see a Wisdom DFA today in a “Ross can’t stop hurting the team by playing him so I have to remove that option for him” but I guess I was wrong.
