OSS: The most annoying kind of loss.
Three up:
- Despite eventually blowing the lead, the new look Cubs bullpen was pretty good in this one. The Pen pitched 10+ innings of shutout baseball, including seven innings from Eddie Butler who posted a whopping .898 WPA in this one.
- Kyle Hendricks looks pretty good, and was hitting 88 or so on the gun. Certainly a lot better than what we saw at this time last year. The run that the Marlins scored off of him felt more like sequencing luck than anything else.
- Kris Bryant hit his first homer of the year, a solo shot in the third inning that ended up as the Cubs lone run.
Three down:
- Javier Baez had an absolutely brutal day at the plate, going 0-7 with two strikeouts. His bunt to try to move ahead the runners in the sixteenth inning was the Cubs second biggest negative WPA play of the game.
- That negative play was more than doubled by Jason Heyward hitting into a double play with the bases clogged to end the fifteenth inning. Oy.
- Despite the pen praise above, Carl Edwards Jr nearly gave up the game in regulation with one of his bouts of wildness. As dm pointed out in the game thread, it's baffling that batters would swing at anything he throws.
Next up: Yu Darvish faces….someone… at 6:10 PM CT. The Marlins burned Saturday's starter Despaigne in extras so it is unclear who will end up pitching.
Comments
Woof.
mylesQuote Reply
Semi-serious question: Is there a number of extra innings at which you would declare a tie?
baturkeyQuote Reply
baturkey,
I switched to something else around the 12th inning, so I guess that’s my answer.
Berselius is too lazy to log in on his phoneQuote Reply
27.
MylesQuote Reply
Ryan O’Malley
PerkinsQuote Reply
Perkins,
He might be available.
Berselius is too lazy to log in on his phoneQuote Reply
baturkey,
My preference would be to play the 10th as innings 1-9 are played and then begin the 11th with a runner on 2nd. The 12th starts with men on 2nd and 3rd. Baseball is the only sport that about half the paid fans leave by the time the game is well into overtime. Nobody leaves a close football game or basketball game or hockey game. I’m also guessing the television viewership numbers are probably about the same way.
I’d also guess that just about everyone who sticks around to the 12th or 13th sticks to the very end of the game.
dmick89Quote Reply
I’d be fine with a tie, but I don’t think most fans would be.
Last night’s game was boring as hell and cost the Cubs a reliever for about a week. Justin Wilson won’t be available today either. Who knows how many pitches Morrow threw warming up? He was up at least three or four times. We’ve played two fucking games and bullpen management is going to be an issue the rest of the weekend.
dmick89Quote Reply
dmick89,
Clearly we need to go to a nine man bullpen to protect against this eventuality.
berseliusQuote Reply
I’m guessing it’s just Morrow, Duensing, and Strop available today. Maybe Morrow depending on how many pitches he threw warming up yesterday.
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
Montgomery only pitched an inning, so he’s probably available. Maybe Cishek as well.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Perkins,
Monty pitched on opening day too though.
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
(dying laughing), and that first ‘Morrow’ in my comment was meant to be Cishek.
berseliusQuote Reply
berselius,
*makes another quart of coffee*
berseliusQuote Reply
Sort of feel like Butler should get credit for a quality start
MylesQuote Reply
FTR—I would take contact like that Heyward GIDP all year—even though a WAG could have won the game.
ceruleanQuote Reply
The word on the street is that Morrow likely won’t be available due to how much he had to warm up.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Fun fact: Kyle Hendricks hasn’t given up more than 8 hits in a game since June of 2015, when he gave up eleven, the single time he gave up double digit hits in his career. His active streak is a Cubs’ all-time record, and even though much of it is a product of the era—shorter outings with quicker pulls—it’s pretty impressive.
ceruleanQuote Reply
berselius,
Ah, forgot about that. So he’s likely unavailable.
PerkinsQuote Reply
cerulean,
That play was just very, very crummy luck.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
To-day’s base ball squadron
Happ
Bryant
Rizzo
Contreras
Schwarber
Russell
Zobrist
Heyward
Darvish
Berselius is too lazy to log in on his phoneQuote Reply
Berselius is too lazy to log in on his phone,
I stopped watching in the 6th and switched made a point of getting to a tv again when it reached the 16th.
GWQuote Reply
New Shit
http://obstructedview.net/cubs-gameday-cubs-marlins-3-31-2018/
mylesQuote Reply