OSS: Nice to bust out my favorite recap header pic for the first time this year.
Three up:
- After a slow start for both teams, the Cubs had a homer party in the fourth inning. Contreras, Baez, and Bote all went yard off of sometime Cub Brett Anderson.
- Following in the footsteps of Zach Davies, Trevor Williams had a solid debut in a Cubs uniform, no-hitting the Beers through five innings before running out of steam in the sixth and seventh innings. It is pretty cool that his dad is a huge Cubs fan who was obviously thrilled to see his son pitching (and well) in a Cubs uni, but Marquee went to that well about five too many times. And then they decided that they wanted to come back for even more. It’s a long season guys, make sure you leave some blood in that stone.
Williams finished the day with 6 strikeouts, 2 hits, and 2 walks in 6+ IP. He left two baserunners in the seventh who came around to score. Todd JonesAndrew Chafin was nails out of the bullpen, striking out all four batters he faced in the seventh/eighth. His stache is already a thing of legend. Alec Mills also did a solid job closing out the game, even if he might be the least intimidating-looking closer of all time.
Three down:
- Willson Contreras took a pitch to the head from hard throwing (and typically unhittable) Brewers reliever Devin Williams. Luckily the helmet worked as designed and he appears to be okay, but that’s always a scary-ass thing to see.
- The box score shows a good ol 1 out sac bunt with a runner on second from Ian Happ, which is never what you want to see. Happ was probably bunting for a hit, rather than the sacrifice, but damn me if I’d rather just see him swing away there.
- The Cubs WPA trailer was reliever Jason Adam, who inherited a tough situation from Williams and managed to get two outs before coughing up a three run shot.
Next up:
Newly minted fifth starter Adbert Alzolay takes on Freddy Peralta at 6:40 CT. Peralta pitched a few innings in the Brewers opener, striking out the side in two straight innings but also walking three batters. Sounds like the perfect guy for this Cubs lineup (dying laughing).
Comments
It’s going to be so weird when the Cubs start playing games outside of the division.
That’s a thing again, right?
andcountingQuote Reply
andcounting,
I gotta say, I didn’t miss those west coast road trips no matter how convenient they are for my time zone (dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
To-day’s base ball squadron
CF Happ
C Contreras
1B Rizzo
3B Bryant
LF Pederson
SS Baez
RF Heyward
2B Bote
P Alzolay
berseliusQuote Reply
Please throw strikes, Adbert.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Not ideal.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Brerrors
PerkinsQuote Reply
Do the Cubs even have 15 hits yet this season?
dmick89Quote Reply
dmick89,
18!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
After that Contreras HBP, I would not be surprised to see Yelich get plunked tomorrow.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Perkins,
Pat just said it was six times in their last 11 games against the Brewers.
berseliusQuote Reply
Well, that’s not what the Cubs were hoping for.
berseliusQuote Reply
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvU26k8Fsv0
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
And it’s not like Contreras crowds the plate like Rizzo. At some point they need to hit a couple Brewers to send a message.
PerkinsQuote Reply
To-day’s base ball squadron
CF Happ
2B Sogard
1B Rizzo
3B Bryant
LF Pederson
SS Baez
RF Heyward
C Wolters
P Cyle
berseliusQuote Reply
Good to see the Cubs hitting like there are always runners in scoring position.
andcountingQuote Reply
Absolute ice water in the veins from Hendrix on that strikeout to end the 6th.
PerkinsQuote Reply
A hit or two would be nice here, Cubs offense.
berseliusQuote Reply
A hit!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
berselius,
And the peasants rejoiced
berseliusQuote Reply
In play (no out)!
andcountingQuote Reply
Cubs lose.
PerkinsQuote Reply
JOC!
andcountingQuote Reply
Joc!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
(dying laughing)
dmick89Quote Reply
Yermin Mercedes might end up with as many hits as the entire Cubs team.
dmick89Quote Reply
At least Lorenzo Cain remembers to hit. The Cubs signed him this offseason, right?
berseliusQuote Reply
dmick89,
I’m a prophet apparently
berseliusQuote Reply
Lorenzo Cain.
Smokestack LightningQuote Reply
At least it’s back to the Pirates again tomorrow
berseliusQuote Reply
To-day’s base ball squadron
C Contreras
3B Bryant
1B Rizzo
SS Baez
LF Pederson
CF Marisnick
RF Heyward
2B Bote
P Arrieta
berseliusQuote Reply
KB!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
KB!
berseliusQuote Reply
Wtf, Jake, throw strikes to the pitcher with the bases loaded.
andcountingQuote Reply
andcounting,
Thank goodness I posted this. Whew.
andcountingQuote Reply
andcounting,
I’m glad he was checking OV during his start.
berseliusQuote Reply
Jake’s pilates make him pretty good at tightrope walking, apparently.
berseliusQuote Reply
Boog just slammed French Toast, and breakfast foods in general. Time for Marquee to find a new PBP guy.
berseliusQuote Reply
Bloop bloop bloop
berseliusQuote Reply
JB!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
XAVI
berseliusQuote Reply
back-to-back-to-back hits, who knew you could even do that!
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
French toast blasphemy must have fired them up.
andcountingQuote Reply
Tony!
berseliusQuote Reply
AR!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Javy walk alert.
andcountingQuote Reply
The Cubs signed Rick Vaughn huh
berseliusQuote Reply
Kimbrel!
berseliusQuote Reply
CK!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
If this is the pitcher Craig Kimbrel would like to be, I will gladly sign that MoveOn.org petition.
andcountingQuote Reply
M —-> inverted
berseliusQuote Reply
Very shocked that a guy who called out players for using foreign substances to increase their spin rates, then saw a big jump in his own spin rate, is being singled out for investigation.
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
Also (dying laughing) at Bauer calling Robothal a ‘gossip blogger’
berseliusQuote Reply
I feel good for Victor Caratini.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
I forgot he caught Mills, too.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
berselius,
Couldn’t happen to a bigger asshole.
andcountingQuote Reply
Kris!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Is the Cubs’ team average like .019?
SKQuote Reply
Sorry just looking at my first box score of the season
SKQuote Reply
Ugh.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Just remembered that the Cubs game started somewhere in this time window and checked the box score to see the start time. I guess it ended early (dying laughing).
berseliusQuote Reply
They can’t even hit the collective Wrigley Field BAC
berseliusQuote Reply
Krustywhatthehellwasthat.gif
PerkinsQuote Reply
Kris Bryant’s trade value is about as high as it’s been in the last three years and they should move him before he breaks again.
andcountingQuote Reply
Javy.
andcountingQuote Reply
Oh good, the Cubs are going to drop a series to the Pirates.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Not a fan of the overturned call on the Contreras slide, but hitting a weak grounder on 3-0 should make a manager’s blood boil.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Dex———> torn ACL.
Bummer
berseliusQuote Reply
The offense/starters are just doing Rossy a solid and giving him extra time to evaluate some of these bullpen arms.
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
Advanced bio research shows the biggest mistake teams make is having these offensive explosions early in the season and wearing themselves down. Running to first base? In April? Maybe once or twice a game. Take the strikeouts the other team is giving you and save yourself for the homestretch. Some of those suckers are out there trying to score multiple times a game. In fucking April. You’ve gotta be able to be more efficient with your offensive workload. Sure, the Pirates “won” this series, but their players had to circle the bases 15 times in under 24 hours. The Cubs wisely limited themselves to three.
It’s not 1954 anymore, idiots. Stop being a fucking meatball and start optimizing your bio maintenance. Welcome to 2021, come on.
andcountingQuote Reply
andcounting,
(dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
(dying laughing) at the trade talk popping around Cubs Twitter. People are thinking they’ll get back a 5 tool prospect and multiple league average SPs.
berseliusQuote Reply
hey there’s no shame in losing to the best
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
berselius,
For the whole team? Sounds about right.
andcountingQuote Reply
To-day’s base ball squadron
CF Happ
C Contreras
1B Rizzo
3B Bryant
LF Pederson
SS Baez
RF Heyward
2B Bote
P Alzolay
berseliusQuote Reply
Adam, Winkler, Workman ——> Covid IL
Strop, Wieck, Steele —–> Cubs
berseliusQuote Reply
Willson getting plunked is our only offense right now.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Alzolay throwing cheese
berseliusQuote Reply
Peralta is the perfect matchup for this cubs offense. Nothing but walks and strikeouts.
berseliusQuote Reply
KBoom
berseliusQuote Reply
Trade Bait!
andcountingQuote Reply
Pretty generous strike zone tonight
berseliusQuote Reply
Goddamn, Alzolay
berseliusQuote Reply
RIP Cubs
berseliusQuote Reply
Cubs lose again.
PerkinsQuote Reply
It’s actually kind of amazing how bad this team is. I mean, the nature of the way they are bad is especially impressive. The sheer number of games over the last several years in which their only offense is a solo homer is a modern marvel.
andcountingQuote Reply
andcounting,
You can only hold the #Cubes down for so long.
berseliusQuote Reply
How the fuck have they not figured this out yet?
uncle daveQuote Reply
Still workin on it apparently
Duffy —-> Covid IL
Vargas —->Cubes
berseliusQuote Reply
To-day’s base ball squadron
CF Happ
C Contreras
1B Rizzo
3B Bryant
LF Pederson
SS Baez
RF Heyward
2B Sogard
P Cyle
berseliusQuote Reply
They are stealing money (service time) from Nico in favor of a super spreader. That’s how fucking stupid this team is.
dmick89Quote Reply
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
dmick89,
They can’t even get enough people sick to get the games canceled.
andcountingQuote Reply
andcounting,
(dying laughing)
(dying coughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
Willson hit yet again
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
I don’t know if teams are trying to hit Willson, but they definitely don’t mind if it happens.
andcountingQuote Reply
That’s what, like 12 times in the last 18 games vs the Brewers? Something like that.
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
Yeah, and even in his first at bat, the first two pitches were a foot outside, and I thought, that looks like they’re building a “wildness “ alibi for when they hit him later.
andcountingQuote Reply
Hitz!
berseliusQuote Reply
Would love a Willson HR followed by a deze nuts directed to the Brewers dugout as he heads home.
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
Alas, you can’t always get what you want.
berseliusQuote Reply
Not bad for an emergency start by Mills.
berseliusQuote Reply
Hats ———> left
berseliusQuote Reply
Bump
berseliusQuote Reply
WILLY
berseliusQuote Reply
Willson!!!!!!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Bofa?
andcountingQuote Reply
WILLY
PerkinsQuote Reply
andcounting,
Maybe some updog
berseliusQuote Reply
Weren’t the Cubs the only team without a positive Covid test last year? What the hell are they doing this year?
PerkinsQuote Reply
Perkins,
Clearly that first base coach was the bad apple (dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
Wow, the Cardinals lit up Strasburg like an Xmas tree.
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
(dying laughing) at pronouncing it EXmas.
andcountingQuote Reply
Perkins,
According to Ross, they haven’t had a player test positive yet (a positive test is not required to go on the COVID IL).
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
andcounting,
I’m just speaking from the future here
https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Xmas
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
You were probably thinking of an archaic pronounciation, like when you say ask instead of axe.
berseliusQuote Reply
I’m not nervous.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
This strike zone is terrible.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Cubs…don’t lose? Are they allowed to do that?
PerkinsQuote Reply
M———> inverted
berseliusQuote Reply
Perkins,
Teams in this division are going to not lose a lot of games against each other.
andcountingQuote Reply
PerkinsQuote Reply
With this offense, the criteria for a quality start has shifted to “throw perfect game”
berseliusQuote Reply
for at least 15 innings
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
The Cubs are not not losing this game.
andcountingQuote Reply
EnricoPallazzo,
Sincere question: if you take a perfect game through 9 innings of a tie game, do you lose it when the runner is automatically placed on 2nd in the 10th?
andcountingQuote Reply
andcounting,
I don’t think so, since that doesn’t show up on your pitching line
berseliusQuote Reply
wow, the cubs fucking suck
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
We stinks.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Gonna be a loooong season.
berseliusQuote Reply
Ross, Tepera ——-> Suspensions for throwing behind Woodruff last week.
Some clown shoes shit from MLB.
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
It’s more than 100 games longer than last season, the longest one-year increase in history.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
So my take-away from this is that if the Cubs are going to get in trouble anyway, they may as well actually try to injure some Brewers.
PerkinsQuote Reply
To-day’s base ball squadron
CF Happ
C Contreras
1B Rizzo
3B Bryant
LF Pederson
SS Baez
RF Heyward
2B Bote
P Davies
berseliusQuote Reply
If you take away HBP and SF, the Cubs offense would have 6 runs so far this season.
andcountingQuote Reply
My question is, if they have sufficient evidence to believe the Cubs would want to throw at Woodruff, why is that evidence not sufficient to suspend Woodruff and why was that evidence insufficient for issuing a warning to both teams prior to the Cubs pitching behind Woodruff?
Like…we knew Woodruff did a bunch of dirty shit. We took no action to punish any of it. We knew the Cubs were likely to want to retaliate against Woodruff. We took no action and issued no warnings. They pitched behind Woodruff. Clearly it’s time to act. WTF?
andcountingQuote Reply
andcounting,
They have more than six runs?
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
Rizzo the Rat,
Last I checked, they actually had eight different players who have driven in runs. That’s almost enough to field a whole team.
andcountingQuote Reply
Got out of meetings and checked on the Cubs game and somehow they aren’t losing yet.
EDIT: nevermind.
berseliusQuote Reply
andcounting,
It’s actually up to a full 9. Not sure what else people expect from this team.
andcountingQuote Reply
/facepalm
berseliusQuote Reply
2021 Cubs in one play – guy scores from second on an infield single (dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
HBP is the entire offense (dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
The Cubs have 117 total bases up to this point. They have 13 HBP. Now, walks and HBP don’t count toward TB, but still. I’m pretty sure that ratio of HBP/TB is not ideal.
andcountingQuote Reply
Willson hit that one to Canada (dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
I always wondered if Theo was really that smart or if he just got that rep because he got results. Based on his decision to jump off of this ship, I’m gonna go with really that smart.
uncle daveQuote Reply
Hats ——–> Left
berseliusQuote Reply
A pretty gigantic strike zone today
berseliusQuote Reply
To-day’s baseball squadron
CF Happ
C Contreras
1B Rizzo
3B Bryant
LF Pederson
SS Baez
RF Heyward
2B Bote
P Williams
Credit where credit is due – I’m glad that Ross hasn’t felt the need to rearrange the deck chairs.
berseliusQuote Reply
WILLY!
berseliusQuote Reply
Yay, RISP hits!
berseliusQuote Reply
bump
berseliusQuote Reply
XAVI!!
berseliusQuote Reply
Runs!
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
THE CUBS WILL NEVER LOSE AGAIN
berseliusQuote Reply
Welcome back after 12 years in the minors, Braves guy. Thanks for the double play!
berseliusQuote Reply
(dying laughing), more of this please
berseliusQuote Reply
(dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
Wow.
andcountingQuote Reply
I think the wind was even blowing in today (dying laughing)
berseliusQuote Reply
well I think it’s pretty obvious that the cubs’ issues are all in the rearview mirror
you guys must all feel pretty dumb for talking all that shit earlier
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
M ———> inverted
berseliusQuote Reply
http://www.obstructedview.net/cubs-13-braves-4/
berseliusQuote Reply