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Makes me so unbelievably happy that he's kept this up to the point where I actually kind of feel good about him coming up in big spots. -
now THAT is some nice aggressive base running!
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Wow Riz
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Yeah...not that you should expect to give up a 3 run bomb the next half inning but given how many free bases the Pirates gave us, we really should have scored more than 3 runs in that inning
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TBH, Strop hasn't had a great season.
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Jesus Christ.
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He should have kept doing that instead of how his AB ended
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most conservative baserunning inning in baseball history yeah I know, Heyward is probably out if he goes
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Nice to see the other team have an implosion inning
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I have a feeling he was probably being more conservative after all the mistakes lately. I'm sure that was discussed in Joe's recent team meeting. Probably..there was another head scratching conservative baserunning play by Rizzo in the series in Pittsburgh too
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I can't trust the Cubs to score a run in any runner on 3rd less than 2 outs situation so I want that extra base if its there. If he reads the ball well he scores easily.
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Man Javy would have scored from 1st on that blooper, come on Anthony
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Brought in a righty to face Heyward?
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Descalso has a lower wOBA than Macias' legendary 2005. You want to see legendary? Look at Aaron Miles' wOBA in 2009 for the Cubs
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God this offense is so annoying
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Every time I see a Pirate rightfielder going for a fly ball on a sunny day I keep expecting this to happen: http://mlb.mlb.com/images/6/7/2/124613672/051515_pitchc_polanco_polanco_fall_med_awp0fhes.gif
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Darvish looking great...not to be a debbie downer but he always seems to have a rough 5th or 6th inning no matter how well he's pitching. Hope that isn't the case today.
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So its a mild upset that there haven't been any dongs thus far
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Kris Bryant is awesome and we were always right to love him
UMFan83 replied to Brian's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Appreciate this. I've never thought about it this way as it pertains to 'clutch hitting' -
Cubs putting on a K clinic tonight. All 3 Cubs have one, 2 of them looking
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The best part about this is it caused fans all over the country to momentarily think about why they would boo the Cubs and then remember that the Cubs won the 2016 World Series Also Javys reaction was the best
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Kris Bryant is awesome and we were always right to love him
UMFan83 replied to Brian's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
While the overall point is valid, this is a REALLY weird roller coaster of a list of players to make it: [tweet] [/tweet] Also, while RISP may be a concern, its more the hitting in high leverage spots and "clutch factor". I'm still not 100% convinced clutch is a predictable thing, but KB after being great in those situations as a rookie, has been anywhere from well below average to one of the worst in the league the rest of his career. The Cubs in general in high leverage spots have been iffy. Here is where the current Cubs players with at least 100 high leverage PAs from 2017-2019 have fared with regards to wRC+ in high leverage situations: 3. Descalso - 179 (obviously most with another team when he wasn't awful) 44. Rizzo - 128 73. Heyward - 111 101. Willson Contreras - 101 111. Albert Almora - 95 145. Kris Bryant - 77 152. Javier Baez - 72 169. Ben Zobrist - 60 187. Addison Russell - 34 192. (dead last) Kyle Schwarber - 11 (2nd worst has a wRC+ of 26) FWIW several of those guys have been better this year and with regards to Schwarbs, that number is weighed down by a historically awful 2018 where his wRC+ was -64. This year its at 106, the highest of his career -
This has to be Bradley’s last match for the USMNT
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How fun going from watching the women dominate to watching the men get dominated *sigh*
