2 minute half inning, Sox score another 3 runs, 1 minute half inning, Sox score another pair in the bottom half, rinse and repeat until the top of the 9th.
I’m complimenting the whitesox. Right now they look like the march Cubs playing vs the Athletics. Point to where I’m blaming the offense of slighting them,
Another chicken horsefeathers, uncompetitive blowout loss. Sickening, especially to the whitesox of all teams. Their last 7 losses have been by 43 runs and counting.
Which is a full run less then April, and not enough to overcome an at best average rotation as currently constructed, and the Sox offense has been playing like the April cubs since the all star breaks.
Just embarrassing. They’re not even competitive in half of their games. They’ve lost by at least 4 runs in half 5 of their last 10 games including tonight.
Cubs are 5 solo homeruns away from being back in this, until the Whitesox/April cubs add anther digit to the score board in the bottom half of the inning.
I like the upside there but my question is what do they do with Horton next season when Steele comes back with another year of control? Steele Boyd Shota Taillon and Horton are already slotted in. It’s nice to have an extra arm, Cubs could definitely use one but the year of control tax causes an interesting dynamic next year instead of a rental and how do they handle the surplus of arms?
if we’re talking Gore then Horton would probably be included in a package for him and this isn’t a dilemma.
I want Busch hitting 5th again. He gives Suzuki and PCA more protection and there’ll be less solo shots with him putting pitches over the fence with runners on.
He’s a ticking tune bomb especially when the when the winds is blowing out. Outside of Boyd and Shota, the entire rotation you can say the same for. Cubs are 9-2 when Shots and Boyd pitch since June 17 and 6-12 with everyone else and that’s thanks to the changing weather conditions and the offense no longer scoring at a clip of 6 runs/game back in April.
this shouldn’t surprise anyone, especially after that soft 18 game stretch from May-June.
Cubs haven’t really had a hot streak either. 5 games is their season high winning streak. They’re more of a Ferris wheel than a roller coaster ride.
when you have a black hole and 2 meh arms outside of Boyd and Shota coupled with their struggles vs left handed pitchers spanning for 2 months it’s impossible to sustain long win streaks. The low leverage arms can’t exactly hold a deficit either and a majority of their losses have come via blowouts.
When they upgrade at the deadline hopefully it minimizes any inevitable cold streak and they can sustain a winning streak past 5 games.
They’re 9-2 in games started by either Shota or Boys and 6-12 in games started by the other 3-5 since June 17. They simply can’t keep the ball in park with the wind blowing out outside of Boyd and Shota on a consistent basis at an acceptable level .
You have 2 reliable arms, a couple of so so options and an automatic loss every 5 games since Taillon was placed on the IL. The low leverage arms can’t hold a deficit either.
way too many solo homers by the offense, I want Busch back in the 5 hole with runners on and added protection for Suzuki and PCA. It’s not panic time but that’s with the assumption they’ll upgrade at the deadline.