OSS: Suzuki continues to impress as the Cubs come away with a .500 road trip.
Three up:
- Seiya Suzuki had yet another solid day, going 1-3 with two walks and a home run. His slash line on the season is a whopping .400/.543/.960, good for a .590 wOBA and 284 wRC+. Hooray for small sample sizes and all, but this is a pretty historic start.
- Drew Smyly looked pretty good, striking out four and walking one over 4.2 shutout innings. He gave up four hits, but two of those were sheer bad luck. The first was a double directly down the first base line off the end of Kris Bryant’s bat, and even Bryant was surprised that it went anywhere as he hit it. The second was one of those weird no man’s land infield singles that hit the seam between the pitcher and the first baseman, which ended his outing. He seemed to have the Rockies off balance all day.
- Nico also had a solid day, hitting two doubles and driving in two runs. He did manage to get himself TOOTBLAN’d on the RBI hit, but at least his rundown didn’t prevent any of the runs from scoring.
Three down:
- The bullpen struggled a bit, as bullpens tend to do at Coors. David Ross is likely still sorting out his trust levels with various relievers and their usage, especially after the abbreviated spring.
- Michael Hermosillo is still oh-fer on the season, though he just missed getting off the schneid with a grand slam in the fifth.
- The Coors Field ushers were some of the most aggressive I’ve ever seen. One of them even got on my case for sitting in an empty seat, two spots away from my ticketed one. WTF? They didn’t make me move but reminded me and several others that we might have to. I’d put it down to them hassling Cubs fans, since I was behind the dugout (though not in anything particularly conspicuous), but I saw them grilling some guys in Rockies jerseys as well.
Next up: The Rays head to Wrigley for a three game set. Cyle takes on Rue Shane McClanahan at 6:40 PM CT.
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Seiya –> NL Player of the Week
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To-day’s snow game squadron versus south paw Shane McClanahan
2B Madrigal
C Contreras
1B Schwindel
RF Suzuki
DH Gomes
3B Wisdom
CF Hermosillo
LF Happ
SS Hoerner
SP Cyle
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I guess Wisdom has shaken off his slow start. 420 feet into the teeth of the wind.
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M ——> inverted
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So this Seiya guy is pretty good, there’s a pretty good article by Sarah Langs on MLB.com that I wanted to share but my obsolete phone won’t let me share it, so I can’t tell you what to do but you at least know where it is now
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berselius,
Bump
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Center fielder Patrick Wisdom hit a dong
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To-day’s base ball squadron
LF Ortega
RF Suzuki
3B Villar
DH Happ
1B Schwindel
2B Madrigal
CF Heyward
C Gomes
SS Hoerner
SP Stroman
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UwU
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Chavez —–> Barves
Newcomb ——> Cubs
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Just noticed the “Find tickets at (needless unintelligible branded graphic logo)” behind home plate. Maybe hire an actual graphic designer, Cubs (dying laughing). How hard is it to write Cubs.com
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Guessing the Cubs won’t be above .500 again this season. It was nice while it lasted.
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To-day’s base ball squadron vs old pal Jose Quintana
2B Madrigal
RF Suzuki
DH Contreras
1B Schwindel
LF Wisdom
3B Villar
C Gomes
CF Hermosillo
SS Hoerner
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Oh, game bumped from 1:20 to 7 pm CT due to weather.
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Miguel Cabrera–> 3000 hits
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8 runs in an inning? Let’s not score your week’s worth of runs all at once, Cubs 😉
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This is an offensive outburst I recently enjoyed
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Only two strikeouts in the game so far.
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Bears 21, Steelers 0
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M———>inverted
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berselius,
Cubs got a blackjack
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Clint Frazier —–> appendectomy
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That’s probably the most lopsided shutout I’ve seen in my lifetime.
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Perkins,
It happens to be the largest shutout victory in recorded Cubs history
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Steele should probably have a tighter leash from now on due to spotty command
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Also Villar probably should work on his defense during practice and not during an actual game
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This Crowe guy on the Pirates has good stuff.
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Happ!
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Pirates defense!
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I get why it happened, but (dying laughing) at the cubs not scoring from second on a double (dying laughing)
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Ron Santo would not have enjoyed that one.
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To-day’s base ball squadron
CF Hermosillo
RF Suzuki
3B Wisdom
C Contreras
1B Schwindel
C Gomes
2B Madrigal
LF Happ
SS Hoerner
P Stroman
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This strike zone is…generous.
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I did like Happ hitting well from the right side and Stroman managing contact (at least even the loud ones were mostly outs) but that was some shitty luck on offense at times combined with the stupid zone.
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Offense!
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Don’t blow it again, bullpen. Or do. I can’t tell you what not to do.
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M ——–> inverted
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berselius,
Wick hitting 96 was nice
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I’m pretty confident that Trevor Bauer’s career is done.
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Perkins,
Good.
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M —–> inverted
Cubs pitching looked great today!
(Ignores results from last two games vs the beers)
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berselius,
Given how well the Cubs pitching performed today, surely the other games were more of the same?
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Perkins,
The fact that he’s appealing while more allegations are coming out, plus his countersuits, suggests that he and his lawyers are dumb because they’re just begging to have to release certain testimony…
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Yeah, even if Bauer’s not an idiot, he at least appears to have exceptionally poor impulse control. He’s always struck me as one of those guys who would be out of a job the moment his performance stopped being well above average since he wouldn’t be worth the headache. Looks like his antics ran even ahead of that.
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Looks like some wonderful weather out there that I would kill to have in NM right now.
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Dusty –> 2000 wins
Or is it
2000 wins –> Dusty
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2000 Dustys —-> wins
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berselius,
At least, if this is a Prestige situation.
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What is this thing you call….offense?
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Guessing that grown man who brought a glove to the game felt validated by catching Wisdom’s HR.
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Perkins,
(dying laughing)
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* powers small country with the energy of Santo spinning in his grave after that inning *
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Re Clint Frazier.
My wife had her appendix removed in December. Laproscopic. Three little slits, one for the tube they use to blow your abdomen up with CO2, like a balloon, one for the lights (I think), and one for the instruments. Urgent care told us to go to the hospital at 11:30 a.m. We were home by 7:30 that night. I guess if it had burst, she may have been held overnight or for a couple days. Luckily it hadn’t.
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Nico’s arm at SS is better than I remember from when he subbed for Javy at the end of the 20xx season.
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BVS,
I had my appendectomy back in the early 90s – the recovery period was much longer back in those days. I think I was in the hospital for 2 weeks, and couldn’t do anything contact sports-y for like 2 months. And mine didn’t even burst – one of the neighbor kids had that happen and it was even longer time in both.
Fun fact: my surgeon was my future father in law. My family doc recommended him since he he had kids my age.
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We’re you already dating or did you like just go to this surgeon and then randomly starting dating his daughter later?
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Wenningtons Gorilla Cock,
The latter, haha. I was in third grade at the time! I didn’t even realize it right away, I only made the connection when I recognized some of the painted miniatures in their house that I remembered being in his doctors office.
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Important softball update – we won the C-league sun bracket of our beer league softball preseason tournament yesterday. When we advanced to playing the real teams, it went about as well as the Cubs cs the Dodgers yesterday.
Berselius 5-10 with 2 walks and two doubles.
Further crucial updates as events warrant
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Frank Schwindel——->Iowa
Deck chairs———->rearranged
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berselius,
Update – season postponed since half the state is on fire.
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berselius,
Again? It’s only a matter of time before California also goes up in smoke
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At least the current fire I’m watching is mostly moving through the burn scar of an even bigger fire from 2011, so there’s relatively less fuel.
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Fell asleep last night when the Cubs still had the lead, woke up to pee after midnight and found out they actually won
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I am extremely bummed that I no longer get the local Chicago ads with mlb radio
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berselius,
Though I guess I don’t miss the annual overplayed awful Comcast ad
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Cubs loving some TOOTBLANs this year
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Well, they almost pulled off the comeback.
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I bet you do miss hearing about The Village of Bedford Park’s vast water supply.
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Wenningtons Gorilla Cock,
Tell them to send that water to New Mexico, (dying laughing)
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berselius,
Or don’t. I can’t tell you to tell them what to do.
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M ————> inverted
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Wenningtons Gorilla Cock,
And fans won’t strike out with Gold Coast Bank!
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who was the other random town that was desperately trying to get us to give a fuck about them? new lennox or some shit
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There was a series of ads for Des Moines. “The ‘s’ is silent, but the town is buzzing. “ Pat was forced to read those.
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Let’s also not forget Binny’s Beverage Depot, the official champagne provider of the Chicago Cubs.
The Cubs will no doubt have need of champagne this year.
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They’ve been making fun of those reads like crazy in the games I’ve caught this year (dying laughing).
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berselius,
I am unsure if they still did the JDRF ones ever since Santo passed #sadface
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I’m not sure Ildemaro Vargas is an improvement over just leaving shortstop unoccupied.
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Pretty solid outing for Steele today
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I think that’s the first double digit strikeout outing from a Cubs pitcher this year. Hope we get more of that since the rest of the rotation are contact management types.
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Perkins,
Apparently the first time a Cubs-drafted pitcher recorded 10+ K since Samardzija
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Goddamn, what a debut for Hughes.
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Rice Cube,
I remember watching this Samardzija start from a bar in Austin with GW. I think both of us are still baffled all these years later.
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Morel!
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Rizzo the Rat,
He’s a fun guy
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He’s a mushroom?
I’ll be here all week folks. Tip your server.
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Don’t tell me what to do.
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*sees a billion home runs in box score*
*has a slight suspicion that the wind was blowing out today*
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Here’s some wild trivia for ya https://twitter.com/WatchMarquee/status/1528483589339217921?t=G7_ZJGS9Fu0jVX2l3k86hg&s=19
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