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cancelled. see you thursday

In the above situation, give me the second option. But you're stacking the deck against yourself when you have to burn 1/3 of your bench and your backup catcher to pinch hit with no one on and one guy out in the bottom of the 6th. If it's that bad, just let Lester swing there.

No totally agreed. This wasn't some pixie dust thing, I'm not just going to get too upset or worry about Strop or anything. It's annoying in a weird way that those two runs were the difference rather than Chatwood walking everyone in the ballpark or Strop making a bad pitch to Dejong, but that's it. The way Maddon dealt with the 8th was questionable, but looking back I'm not sure how much you could have done. Lastella has pretty neutral splits in his career and should hit no matter what...he did, and struck out. If you put Almora in for Heyward, they bring in the righty then, and you're not getting much improvement. His hands were tied by Zobrist being hurt and (much more importantly) carrying 13 pitchers. Especially this early in the year, where there are days off, either scheduled or because of weather, every few days, you don't need 8 relievers. I get that Montgomery has earned more than mop-up/emergency reliever, but if Maddon is going to keep going to Duensing and we're going to keep trying to see if Wilson can recover, what's his role? Bring up another bat so we don't have to get so cute. I really don't think Matheny burns Lyons if Almora pinch hits. Then you can still PH La Stella for the pitcher. Why not? Maybe not for Norris, but he had a fresh bullpen with the day off yesterday. Could have thrown Bowman, Brebbia, Gregorson to get past him. Was already the bottom of the 8th and they were obviously set on Norris going 1+ innings to close it out. Edit: Could be wrong here. If they pulled Holland right after the walk to Russell, Lyons would have at least had to throw one pitch, so you're right, probably unlikely they pull him there. Still, bigger issue is the 3 man bench.

Butler. If he can go to AAA, great, if not, fare thee well, oh well, there's plenty of others. Duensing and Wilson are your lefties until one of them implodes, Montgomery is your long relief/mop-up/extra innings guy for the time being.

I mean we got a cheap ass run too so I don't really look at that as some egregious evil deed by the baseball gods.No totally agreed. This wasn't some pixie dust thing, I'm not just going to get too upset or worry about Strop or anything. It's annoying in a weird way that those two runs were the difference rather than Chatwood walking everyone in the ballpark or Strop making a bad pitch to Dejong, but that's it. The way Maddon dealt with the 8th was questionable, but looking back I'm not sure how much you could have done. Lastella has pretty neutral splits in his career and should hit no matter what...he did, and struck out. If you put Almora in for Heyward, they bring in the righty then, and you're not getting much improvement. His hands were tied by Zobrist being hurt and (much more importantly) carrying 13 pitchers. Especially this early in the year, where there are days off, either scheduled or because of weather, every few days, you don't need 8 relievers. I get that Montgomery has earned more than mop-up/emergency reliever, but if Maddon is going to keep going to Duensing and we're going to keep trying to see if Wilson can recover, what's his role? Bring up another bat so we don't have to get so cute.

I think the difference was the Cubs scoring 1 run off Adam Wainwright Well no the Cardinals won the baseball game 5-3, which means the 4th and the 5th run were the runs that they got that the Cubs didn't get, and therefore that was the difference between their run total and the Cubs run total, which decided who 'won' the baseball game. But hey, we'll see you the next time the Cubs give up a run.

Things we can't (really) control: Those two worthless infield singles they got that turned into what were the winning runs. Things we can control: Playing a game with three bench players and then using those three the way that we did tonight.

There's not really anywhere else to put tomorrow's game besides Thursday, which looks clear. So worst case we'll play Thursday.

There's no doubt in mind that Bud Norris somehow has a better season than Brandon Morrow this year. And not because of Brandon Morrow. Then after like May next year we never hear from him again.

Does the swing and the actual strike like cancel out there?

The guy who was hitting .191 going into this game? I mean, I'm as excited for him as anyone, but his first two home runs came in a loss, as did (most likely) this one. The highlights are great, and I would give up a whole lot for the idea of Javier Baez, MVP candidate, but this is a good team who has struggled but has still played .500 ball because they are talented across the roster.

Admittedly I didn't think about the Tommy card there. Still, little reason to waste an out on Heyward Plus Zobrist more or less out for the night. Happ made contact yay. Apparently this same Bud Norris is their closer (lol), so Bryzzontreras to get 2 next inning.

And tired in October again I'm sure There he is!

Great those are cool hits.

I do like this Cishek dude. I'll like him a little less when Harper or Bellinger hits one of those frisbees 600 feet in October, but for now, keep doing your thing.

No you idiot he's bad. Didn't you watch all three of his starts? What else could there possibly be to judge his ability?

Alright his line is pretty hilarious. Imagine sitting in the stands for this game so far.

Good thing we didn't sign Bryant to an extension

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No.

I’m guessing he didn’t want to run full speed in to a brick wall Yeah I might have missed/ignored the speed of the ball. Just saw it land at the base and was wondering if he could have gotten it without much threat of bodily harm.

Is it asking too much for Heyward to catch that? I know balls that come off the wall at Wrigley don't usually get caught, but I figured if anyone could, it's the consensus best right fielder in his third year in the park.

Anyone having any luck with the aforementioned Youtube thing? Signed up for the free trial but it's not showing up as an option for live viewing.

Yeah seems that way. Traveling for work. Looks like they give you 7 days to cancel, so I'll just have to remember to do that after tonight.

[tweet] [/tweet] That YoutubeTV part...does that mean it'd be free, or do I have to sign up for the youtube subscription thing?