Cubs 3, Brewers 0

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OSS: A solid game from Q and some Brerrors stop the slide.

Three up:

  1. Q had a great game, allowing three hits and two walks and striking out seven in 6.2 innings. He was cruising until the seventh, when the wheels started to come off a bit, but that certainly beats said wheels falling off in the third instead. It was his third straight better-than-quality start, and hopefully a sign that the ship is righted.
  2. Addison Russell made a ludicrous defensive play to nab Braun in the ninth inning. Addy has struggled with the bat this year but his defense looks better than ever.
  3. David Bote’s reaction to the Russell play deserves its own bullet.

Three down

  1. The Cubs are still only three up in the loss column so hopefully they take care of business tomorrow.
  2. The top of the lineup struggled in this one, going 0-12 with four strikeouts.
  3. The Cardinals won, which is always lame.

Next up: The Cubs go for the series win with Cyle on the mound facing Chase Anderson. Hopefully we find out before the game that MLB has rescheduled Thursday’s game for the end of the month.

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  5. Ryno

    Berselius is too lazy to login,

    It looked like a sprained/torn MCL (based on experience) the way his leg bent. If it’s just a sprain, give him the next three weeks off (winnable games against WAS, BUF and DET even with Kizer at QB) and he’s ready to go at nearly 100% by the SF game.

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  10. Ryno

    Tom Brady once told an NFL coach, if Aaron Rodgers had Patriots' offensive scheme & institutional knowledge on opposing defenses, "He'd throw for 7,000 yards every year. He's so much more talented than me."

    — Ian O'Connor (@Ian_OConnor) September 10, 2018

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  12. Ryno

    Roughing the passer calls doubled in Week 1 compared to last year, due largely to the new emphasis on the 'body weight' rule. It's meant to further protect the QB but has left pass rushers asking, What do you want me to do? @JennyVrentas's story:https://t.co/PcaMGFKrnA

    — The MMQB (@theMMQB) September 12, 2018

    “How are we supposed to tackle QBs if we can’t try to apply as much pressure to their shoulders as possible?”

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    berselius

    To-day’s base ball squadron

    2B Murphy
    LF Bryant
    1B Rizzo
    RF Zobrist
    3B Baez
    CF Almora
    C Contreras
    P Hendricks
    SS Russell

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  32. dmick89

    I feel like there are only two guys on the team who can hit home runs and neither of them had a chance against Hader. Yes, I realize Rizzo took Hader deep just last week, but did anyone really feel like Rizzo had a chance of doing it again? Baez swings at way too much bad shit to have a chance against Hader.

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  36. andcounting

    “I’m flying in to the east coast today for a quick one-day trip because it was too rainy the last time I went.” I realize it’s not Joe Maddon’s decision, but I can see him making it.

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  42. andcounting

    Myles,

    I don’t know. They have the most comeback wins in the league. They’ve been plenty fun. But they’ve not been easy to watch. I think past seasons where they pretty much coasted and crazy comeback games from this season have created some ridiculous expectations about how baseball should go. This is a heavily injured, erratic, yet very deep team. In terms of health and performance, Javy might be this season’s most consistent player. Javy. That’s like Lindsey Lohan being your most emotionally stable family member.

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  45. Ryno

    andcounting,

    They’re an odd group. Best in the NL in scoring and not making outs, but they seem incapable of scoring runs. No. 2 in run differential, but they seem outmatched by what should be inferior teams.

    I’ve learned to assume the worst with this franchise. So even though they have the best record in the NL with 17 games to go, I feel like it’s more likely that they miss the playoffs than win the division. And I think this year’s team is less “fun” than the last three years because they’re the most predictable group.

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  46. Ryno

    Preston
    1:37 Cubs have right to be upset about 30 days in a row of scheduled games, right? That said, Brewers are better, healthier team.

    Keith Law
    1:38 Cubs have that right, yes. I do not agree the Brewers are a better team.

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  47. Ryno

    Juan
    1:52 With hindsight was the Quintana trade a smart one for the Cubs or did they get fleeced?

    Keith Law
    1:52 Smart one. They knew what they were paying, but Q was, at the time, one of the top 5 pitchers in the AL.

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  52. dmick89

    Ryno: Cubs have right to be upset about 30 days in a row of scheduled games, right?

    The rules are what the rules are, but the question is whether they need to make some changes to ensure this doesn’t happen to any team or happens less frequently. It’s happened to the Cubs twice over the last 15 years. I kind of recall it happening to another team a couple years ago as well and I’m sure it happens fairly often. It probably shouldn’t and I think there’s an easy solution. Move the start of the season up a week and give the teams a full week after the season is over to make up any necessary games. Or go to a 154 game season and leave a week at the end of the season for teams to make up games that couldn’t be made up during the season without requiring teams to play so many days in a row.

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  53. Berselius is too lazy to login

    To-day’s base ball squadron

    1B Rizzo
    RF Bryant
    2B Murphy
    3B Baez
    C Caratini
    LF Bote
    SS Russell
    P Monty
    CF Happ

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  54. dmick89

    For what it’s worth, I think the Cubs should have just forfeit that Sunday game as soon as the doubleheader ended on Saturday. I think rest was more important at that point.

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  65. dmick89

    Perkins,

    I beat you by over two hours by that call. I actually called it to myself last night before the game was even over. There was no point for any Cubs position player to go to Washington DC. I would have called up some more pitchers and sent them and only them.

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  67. dmick89

    As Ryno said earlier, this team is predictable. It really kind of sucks how much the Cubs have given up in the farm system and where they are now. They got two division championships out of this. Yeah, it’s great they finally won a World Series and it’s probably four postseason appearances in a row (twice as a Wild Card after this year), but I expected a lot more. I didn’t expect the farm system to be as bad now as it was when Thoyer took over. In some ways it’s worse. Thoyer had Javier Baez already who has somehow become the team’s best player. The Cubs don’t have anybody in the farm system with the potential that Baez had.

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  69. dmick89

    Perkins,

    There’s obviously no place for that, but I seem to recall Stone’s comments going over the line at the time. Like it or not, Stone represented the Cubs and he said some shitty things and a lot of what he said was the same kind of stupidity that he’s spouted his entire career as an announcer. I’m glad that happened because it finally got that asshole out of the booth. It gave us Brenly for awhile and that sucked too, but Brenly was still an improvement.

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  70. Perkins

    dmick89,

    Yeah, I wasn’t a big Brenly fan, but I did appreciate that time in 2009 or 2010 when he said they looked like a “dead-ass team.” That was pretty funny.

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  94. Smokestack Lightning

    I would be very pleased if this could be the bunt that ignites the offense for the rest of the season.

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  95. andcounting

    Give up a double? I’ll leave you in the game. Follow that up with a soft ground ball and a bunt? OK, kid, you’re done.

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  110. Smokestack Lightning

    I can’t really figure which is the most incredible of that last sequence.:

    1. Strop hitting in that situation.

    Kinda incredible, but Joe is dumb as fuck when it comes to this sort of thing, especially so when he perceives it as a must-win game.

    2. Strop swinging in that situation.

    How he didn’t have the take sign the whole way, I’ll never understand. The chances of something good happening by him swinging that bat were about as high as they would be if I were up there.

    3. An early 30s professional athlete unable to run 90 feet once a year without blowing out his hamstring.

    This last one’s probably not fair, but eh.

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  112. dmick89

    Smokestack Lightning,

    Strop hitting in that situation easily. Base hit and it doesn’t matter who faces Rendon (the only batter Strop was going to face anyway). I’d put not bunting next. At least if Strop bunts you could still get a run out of it. Swinging away puts the double play in order and eliminates the next batter from driving runs in with the bases still loaded.

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  115. dmick89

    I still can’t believe that Strop is probably going to miss the rest of the season because Joe wouldn’t pinch hit for him with the bases loaded, one out, the team up 4-3 and having already worked 1.2 innings.

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  119. Ryno

    Ryno,

    How are the Rams not the favorite in Missouri? Really surprised the Cowboys aren’t No. 1 in Oklahoma and Louisiana and pretty sure the Saints are the unofficial team of Mississippi. But the craziest one to me is the lack of Packers.

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  123. dmick89

    I think northern Iowa is Vikings and southern Iowa is Chiefs. Overall I’d guess Vikings. Kansas is without a doubt the Chiefs. It’s not even close. Chiefs fans probably outnumber Cowboys fans by at least five to one.

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  124. Ryno

    Myles,

    Philip Rivers is the best QB from his draft class and one of the five best of the last two decades and I bet half the US population doesn’t know who he is.

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  127. EnricoPallazzo

    maybe it’s just the heat of the moment, but this sure fucking seems like a fireable offense. joe’s cutesy bullshit just went from annoying to possibly seriously hurting the cubs chances in the playoffs.

    i mean i guess if your playoff odds can be hurt THAT badly by the loss of strop, then maybe your chances were never all that great anyway, but i stand by my original point.

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  129. Perkins

    This reminds me of the 2016 World Series, when Joe basically only trusted Chapman. Except there are a lot more than 3-4 games remaining in the year. And instead of making it the Yankees’ problem, he made it the Cubs’ problem.

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