Cubs 9, Reds 0

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OSS: iCarly Simon does it again

Three up

  1. Anthony Rizzo homered twice and drew a walk, and was the Cubs WPA leader on the day, thus breaking Hammel's streak of being the leader on both sides of the ball in his starts. Because both of his hits were homers, his BABIP remains laughably low.
  2. Speaking of players heating up, Jason Heyward's flurry of line drives are starting to not be hit directly at defenders. He had 4 hits today and his slash line has risen to .260/.365/.315. Hopefully we'll start seeing more doubles soon.
  3. Jason Hammel struck out seven in six innings, allowing no runs. Whatetver mechanical tweak they figured out seems to be working quite well. He's not as good as his 0.75 ERA, but he's been surprisingly solid this year, and has almost washed the bad taste of his end to the 2015 season out of our mouths.

Three down

  1. I shit you not, Thom Brennaman complained that this Cubs team wasn't "home grown". Sounds like we're going to be drinking a lot of Brennaman tears this season.
  2. Alfredo Simon managed to last longer than his last start, giving up eight runs in 2.2 innings, topping the five runs in 0.2 innings of his previous start. I half expected Brian Price to leave him out there to throw 175 pitches, given how gassed the Reds bullpen is, followed by a DFA tomorrow. But alas, Reds management has no plans to demote him at this time.
  3. The Cubs won't play the Reds again until June 27.

Next up: The Cubs have a day off then return home for games against the Brewers and the Barves. Even if you made a single team out of the best players on both squads the Cubs would probably beat them soundly. Hendricks v Nelson at 7 pm CT on Tuesday.

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  1. dmick89

    I shit you not, Thom Brennaman complained that this Cubs team wasn’t “home grown”. Sounds like we’re going to be drinking a lot of Brennaman tears this season.

    I think he might be the only person who thinks that.

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  2. Smokestack Lightning

    dmick89: I think he might be the only person who thinks that.

    He better not be trying to comfort himself with the idea that this hot mess the Reds call a roster is homegrown either. Most of it was constructed the same way the Cubs built the bulk of their roster as well. Except for, you know, the being historically good part.

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    berselius

    cerulean:
    Rizzo the Rat,

    I checked in on the Nats game and noticed Harper wasn’t in the lineup and they were down one in the ninth. That was an easy fix. (dying laughing)

    I tuned in when it was in extras and was confused as hell that Harper wasn’t in the game.

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  4. cerulean

    berselius: I tuned in when it was in extras and was confused as hell that Harper wasn’t in the game.

    I guess they needed to get bullpen work in.

    I am surprised that we wasn’t double switched into the game. The game would probaby have been over in the 11th. But Dusty, like most managers, excels at bullpen usage, so depleting the pen on getaway day won’t really matter.

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  5. cerulean

    Hah—I didn’t realize Heisey took the spot where Harper pinch-hit, and then hit the walkoff homer in the 16th.

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  6. Smokestack Lightning

    According to fWAR, in 81 PA Dexter Fowler has pretty much already paid for his 2016 salary.

    Twice.

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  7. Ryno

    Matt Miller @nfldraftscout
    Shaq Lawson to the Bears is heating up. They’ve done a ton of work on the Clemson edge rusher.

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  8. cerulean

    berselius:
    (dying laughing), deflategate just won’t die

    Speaking ridiculous scandals ending in -gate, I am surprised that political pundits haven’t yet coined the coming delegategate. (And then the eventual scandal for the trumped-up non-scandal scandal to distract from what’s really going on that is more interesting but never catches the media’s fancy called delegategategate.)

    EDIT: Using the word *trump* when talking about politics is bad joojoo. Also, our manifest destiny.

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  9. cerulean

    The Brewers have yet to play the Cubs and are probably worse, though they did get beat up by some other NL central division team that has a surprisingly good offense (with great and wonderful fans that would surely be too modest to proclaim themselves the best in all of baseball).

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  10. Rizzo the Rat

    Boston leads the American League with 90 runs scored. That would be good enough for eighth place in the National League.

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  11. Rizzo the Rat

    The Braves as a team have fewer home runs than Anthony Rizzo and Kris Bryant. They have exactly as many as Dexter Fowler.

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