Matt Garza’s final rehab start was a fantastic one. He threw 6 innings and allowed 4 hits and a run. He didn’t walk anybody and struckout 8. The question now is who is he going to replace in the Cubs rotation?
Brooks Raley threw the final 3 innings and allowed 2 hits and a walk while striking out 3.
The I-Cubs only had 5 hits and nobody had more than 1. Brent Lillibridge, Brian Bogusevic and Josh Vitters were each 1-3. Dave Sappelt was 1-4 and Donnie Murphy was 1-2.
Tennessee Smokies @ Jackson Generals
Matt Loosen is not having a very good time this year. In 4 innings tonight, he gave up 3 hits and walked 6 batters. He struckout 5 and allowed a home run, but somehow gave up only 4 runs. I guess that’s impressive. He’s been terrible in his 5 appearances this year.
AJ Morris had a very good night in relief. He threw 3 innings and didn’t allow any walks or hits. He struckout 3. Marcus Hatley pitched the 8th and allowed a hit. Frank Del Valle got his 5th save and struck a batter out.
The Smokies had 8 hits on the night. Arismendy Alcantara was 2-4 with a double and a strikeout. Ty Wright hit his first 2 home runs of the season for the Smokies. Jonathon Mota was 2-4 and so was Rafael Lopez. Lopez doubled.
Charlotte Stone Crabs 12 @ Daytona Cubs 7
PJ Francescon had about as shitty a start as you can have. In 5 innings he allowed 9 hits and 5 walks. He gave up 2 home runs. he allowed 10 runs. He’s had starts this year in which he’s given up 6 runs, 7 runs and now 10 runs. He’s made just 8 starts. He’s been kind of good in the others, but that’s not at all impressive.
Lefty Jeff Lorrick pitched 1.2 innings, allowed a hit and a walk. He gave up an unearned run. David Cates threw 1.1 innings, allowed a hit, walk and a run. He struck a batter out. Hunter Cervenka allowed a hit in an inning pitched.
Tim Saunders filled in at SS for Javier Baez who got the day off. Don’t worry. The Cubs got the same kind of offensive production out of him that they’ve gotten from Baez, except for the power part. Saunders continued to have a shitty season and was 0-5. I’m sure the only reason he hasn’t been demoted to Kane County is because he’d be on the bench behind another struggling 2nd baseman in Gioskar Amaya.
John Andreoli was in CF for the struggling Zeke DeVoss. He went 1-4 with a walk. Jorge Soler was 1-5.
Dustin Geiger was 3-5 with a double and a home run. In Chadd Krist’s 2nd game at Daytona, he was 3-3 with 2 doubles and 5 RBI.
Peoria Chiefs 0 @ Kane County Cougars (Game 1)
Cougars pitchers allowed only a hit in Game 1 of the double-header (7 innings). Bryan Smith went 4 innings, walked 2 and struckout 2. Eddie Orozco threw 2 innings, allowed the only hit and struck a batter out. Jeffry Antigua struck a batter out over an inning of work.
Pin-Chieh Chen was 2-3 with a walk. Gioskar Amaya and Marco Hernandez finally had good games. Each had 3 hits. Dan Vogelbach was 1-4 with a double and 2 strikeouts.
Following Myles write-up on Cubs prospects on the rise, Rock Shoulder’s inclusion on the list was rewarded with an 0-4, 4 strikeout performance.
Peoria Chiefs @ Kane County Cougars (Game 2)
This game is currently through 5 innings and all I’ve got two things I’m going to say about this game. Marco Hernandez hit his first home run of the season. The Cougars have committed 5 errors. 3 of them have been by Jeimer Candelario (now 11 on the season). That’s all.
UPDATE: The game is over and who really gives a shit who won because the Cougars made 6 errors. SIX ERRORS!
The VSL Cubs took 11 walks in today’s game. RF Ricardo Marcano was 1-3 with 3 walks.
Comments
Whatever you did worked, I can log in again. Glad to be upgraded to just regularly discredited.
sitrick2Quote Reply
11 walks? What are they teaching them down there?
joshQuote Reply
Also, in the VSL game Brohiglyn Rivero allowed 6 runs in 0.1 inning, so I think he’s being promoted to replace Lendy Castillo
MylesQuote Reply
@ sitrick2:
I must need to set it up so that it deletes the cache every 24 hours or something. It’s causing some sort of problem with that and I doubt it’s for you only.
dmick89Quote Reply
I guess it takes having a plus MLB pitcher on the mound for the I-Cubs to win a game (dying laughing).
BerseliusQuote Reply
Villaneuva knows that the writing is on the wall for his demotion when Garza returns. Getting shelled in his last start gives the Cubs an easy excuse to choose him. Having him around certainly wouldn’t hurt the bullpen either.
BerseliusQuote Reply
Love the new avatar, SK. Groggles has to be the least intimidating looking closer ever (dying laughing).
BerseliusQuote Reply
@ Berselius:
He may be more intimidating without the goggles…
Rice CubeQuote Reply
During the last televised game I watched, I kept shouting “Groggle Power.” My wife didn’t get it.
joshQuote Reply
There Will Be Runs sounds like a Judd Apatow movie.
sitrick2Quote Reply
@ sitrick2:
The first thirty minutes are good, then you like Jesus Christ is movie still going? Similar to trying to watch a Cubs game.
joshQuote Reply
This is reminiscent of the suicidal seagull that flopped onto the highway in front of my car before I obliterated it at 75+ mph.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
I had a fat pigeon flop like that onto my windshield at 65mph the other day. It just bounced off — no damage on my side!
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
I like that when he hits the base his hair pokes out through the helmet.
joshQuote Reply
@ Berselius:
There’s that, but my favorite thing about my new avatar is that it looks just like GBTS, only older.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
Once, I was driving down the highway about sixty and hit a robin and it died on impact traveled up the front of my car and got jammed into the windshield wiper. Its head was flopping around in the wind on its busted neck. Luckily for me, I was in a Toyota minivan, one of those old ones with the flat front. I was able to reach out while still driving and lift the windshield wiper to free its corpse.
joshQuote Reply
josh wrote:
Thank you for turning my poop joke into something slightly more thoughtful.
sitrick2Quote Reply
@ josh:
That happened to me too, except replace the word “sixty” with “ninety” and “robin” with “hitchhiker.”
Aisle424Quote Reply
@ Aisle424:
Was it this hitchhiker?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10063204/Kai-the-hatchet-wielding-hitchhiker-Caleb-Lawrence-McGillvary-arrested-for-murder.html
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ Aisle424:
In a roundabout way, you gave that hitchhiker the ride he wanted.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ sitrick2:
Sorry, I’m always screwing shit up
joshQuote Reply
@ Aisle424:
Who hasn’t hit a few hitchhikers?
dmick89Quote Reply
@ dmick89:
Or hit on a few hitchikers.
EdwinQuote Reply
new shit: http://obstructedview.net/minor-leagues/cubs-prospects-on-the-decline.html
dmick89Quote Reply
New shit
http://obstructedview.net/previews/series-preview-new-york-mets-15-23-at-chicago-cubs-17-23.html
BerseliusQuote Reply