Hopefully they got it out of their system. They’d be 4-1 in you only needed 26 outs. Hopefully Palencia comes back soon and Jed acquires a reliever at the trade deadline to fix this.
Why would they win, because baseball is stupid? I’d argue that Baseball is unfair but that’s because in a cubs fan. So no.
I feel great about how they’ve played and yet demoralized. They’re staring down a 2-4 road trip with multiple 9th inning 2 out leads.
This is the type of road trip we’d expect from the 04, 2019 and 2023 teams. Not to be that guy, which is my way of saying I’m being that guy implicitly.
What’s today’s headline?
Clay Holmes has a dominant 7 inning shutout?
Ian Happ with a huge 3 run home run?
Cubs positional players have more fWAR than the entirety 2025?
The Brewers, Phillies and Padres all lost?
Nope. The second blown save with 2 outs in 4 games after all the excitement from adding Palencia and Zeferjahn to the bullpen.
Wow, I didn’t think Friday could be topped, then Saturday happened and I thought that was the worst and then this happened. Now that the rotation is better I guess Webb is turning into a pumpkin to achieve universal balance so that the Cubs will never catch Milwaukee.
2. F CKING. OUTS.
They’d have the same record no matter how much war you subtract. It’s illegal for the Brewers to be bad, let alone finish with a worse record than the Cubs. Hypothetically they’d be a 500 team though.
Watch them draft Arch Manning on day 2. He’ll fit right in with Brady Quinn, Colt McCoy, Brandon Weeden, Manziel, Kizer, Sanders and whoever else I’m missing in their graveyard of hyped college quarterback prospects they love drafting.
Man it would be nice to get another outing like this from Clay Holmes on Tuesday and win back to back games with the 2 deadline additions for the first time as Cubs.
When is Ramirez supposed to stop hitting?
It might seem like it because they’ve shutout 12 times (#2) and lead baseball in games with 10+ runs, but they’re far more consistent than last year and objectively very consistent.
I didn’t include wRC+ because Fangraphs only makes a park factor adjustment for home teams. Seattle had a 126 vs a 123 despite a 333 vs 347 wOBA gap. Really aggravating series.
Cubs are 21-24 vs the AL either a +52 run differential and a pythag win record of 28-17. Last year they went 30-18 with a +54.
If only they’d flip that win today to where it’s expected……. they’d be 82-49 with a 76-55 pythag record.
One of the most dominant 3 game series by the Cubs all season.
-435 to 282 edge in team wOBA
-4.26 to 7.58 edge in team FIP
-Edged out Seattle in both FIP and wOBA in all 3 games.
-Outscored Seattle 28-13.
-Average MOV 9-4.
I’m happy that the Cubs avoided being swept.