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Screw you Murphy, I want 1.000 BA out of you because I dont like you

More than his call of the Cubs winning the World Series?

There we go, 3 ground balls

Ugh getting weak contact at least

watchespn or if you don't have a cable subscription there is another less legit route through reddit.

Same here. He by far has had the worst season of any starter today, but 1 game is 1 game and Q has been an up and down pitcher. When he's on he's on. That said, I am interested to see how Joe approaches the game. Normally I'd expect a quick hook, but with a potential game tomorrow, does he actually give Q a little more leash, or does he go with his B bullpen like yesterday and hope they can keep the game in reach? I'm going to say he goes 5 innings and gives up 2 runs.

Because the MLB decreed that the Cubs have to play every single day no matter what until the end of time.

you should have seen his tweets during the Bears game yesterday. They were somehow still in a 6:1 ∞:0 ratio of negative to positive tweets.

[tweet] [/tweet] Twitter is making it seem like plenty of seats still available.

This trade just keeps looking better and better as the Bears win games that I'm quite certain Oakland thought for sure they would lose. The Bears have a chance to push that 1st draft pick in 2019 down into the 20's and maybe even the late 20's if they keep winning. So Mack for a late first round draft pick in 2019 and then dropping down maybe 15 places at most in 2020 with the 1st and 2nd round swap and a 3rd rounder is an absolute steal. I'm pretty sure Oakland believed all of the predictions that the Bears would be horrible this year and thought they would be getting a top 10 pick. Meanwhile Gruden keeps whining about not having a pass rush. Haha! There's no pretty sure about it. There were multiple reports that the Raiders selected the Bears from similar packages because they figured the Bears picks were going to be the highest of the interested teams.

Cubs lineup with career lifetime OPS against Chacin Murphy - 1.185 (23 PA) Zobrist - .744 (10 PA) Baez - .819 (14 PA) Rizzo - 1.017 (24 PA) Bryant - .143 (7 PA) Schwarber - .393 (8 PA) Heyward - .653 (20 PA) Quintana - .000 (5 PA) Contreras - .500 (8 PA) SSS for all of them I know

If I'm reading the wind right it looks like its blowing from the east so that would be more of a cross wind, possibly slightly out to LF right?

While this isn't a playoff game I'd like to point out that the Milwaukee Brewers franchise has played 32 playoff games in their history. The Cubs have played 36 playoff games in the previous 3 seasons.

The pukey Brewers lineup

The winning lineup

Basically what were are all trying to say here is that this will be a 10-8 game in favor of the Cubs.

Who's got his numbers against the Cubs? the internet says the cubs have about a 540 OPS against him this year. Made 4 starts against the Cubs this year, gave up 0 or 1 runs in 3 of them. The 2 most recent ones in Sept - 5 IP, 2 H, 1 R, and 4.2 IP, 7 H and 5 R so we've had recent success against him

Some random stats related to this game: -Brewers have a .901 team OPS over the past 7 days, .786 over the last month. But overall they have a .747 OPS for the season (though of course they've added people midseason). -However against the Cubs, they have a season OPS of .597, by far the lowest of any team they've played more than 4 games against (they have a .587 OPS against the Indians in 4 games which is the worst). The next closest is the Dodgers at .667. We've shut them down pretty much the entire season. -Granderson, Cain, Moustakas and Kratz are the 4 that have hit us well this year (over .800 OPS). Some Brewers that have struggled include: Aguilar (.593 OPS in 53 PA), Braun (.582 OPS in 67 PA), Shaw (.537 OPS in 53 PA), and the golden boy Christian Yelich (.461 OPS in 64 PA) -For the Cubs, they have a .716 OPS over the past 7 days, and .652 over the last month. This has dropped them to a .745 OPS for the season. -And similarly, the Cubs have a season OPS against the Brewers of .611, 2nd lowest to only the Diamondbacks (.607). They've shut us down pretty much the entire season. -The only 2 Cubs with an OPS over .800 against the Brewers this year are Caratini (.815 in 27 PA) and Heyward (.804). Some Cubs that particularly have struggled against Brewer pitching: Baez (.683 OPS in 72 PA) Bryant (.587 OPS in 60 PA), Rizzo (.503 OPS in 64 PA), Schwarber (.475 OPS in 47 PA) -As has been stated a lot, 9 of the 19 Brewers-Cubs games this year have been shutouts, 6 pitched by the Cubs, 3 by the Brewers. -Overall, the Cubs are averaging 3.2 runs per game against the Brewers, while the Brewers have averaged 2.8 runs per game against the Cubs. Looking only at the 2 September series, its 2.7 runs per game for the Cubs and 4.5 runs per game for the Brewers.

Maybe. But if the Rockies don’t use Freeland tomorrow, he is good for games 1-5 and Marquez is good for another one. The Dodgers can get Kershaw (big game struggles aside) for 1-5 and have a lot of other good pitching to pitch the other games. With the Brewers, none of their starters particularly scare me more than the others, they are all somewhere between adequate and pretty good.

It’s crazy how a game like this I’m not particularly anxious about. I mean yes it’s a big game and I want to win but the fact that we have 2 chances to advance makes this less stressful. Heck we can’t even win to get bragging rights over Milwaukee since we might see them again 3 days later. If we win great, if we don’t Big D-ck Jon will get it done on Tuesday and we will get a day off which for most teams is not long enough to recharge before the DS but for the Cubs, I’m worried that it’s too much time off and they will be rusty

Wow the Cubs going into the late innings with a comfortable lead only to make it very nerve wracking before pulling it out. Sounds like another Cubs team I know.

Absolutely. 100% chance of an NLDS appearance vs 75ish% chance. 3 games in Wrigley North and 2 in normal Wrigley is not that bad

I debating skipping work and even pulled up tickets, but $63 to get in the door is a little much. Guess I will watch from work

Javy going 6-6 with 4 HR and taking home the MVP I remember hoping just *maybe* Sosa could get the last four he needed to tie McGwire. Haha yeah me too. I remember the Sun times headline after game 162 was “MCGWIRE 70, SOSA 66*” then “ * - Cubs vs Giants tonight at 7pm” or something like that

Yep. It is a regular season game. Javy going 6-6 with 4 HR and taking home the MVP