Josh Vitters went 1-3 but is still sporting a sub .700 OPS. Jackson went 1-5 with 3 strikeouts and Rodrigo Lopez only allowed 1 hit in 6 innings pitched.
Rebel Ridling has been a Cub minor league forever and never really gone anywhere but last night he had a great game hitting a pair of HR's to help prop up a shaky start by Trey McNutt. McNutt was only charged with 1 ER but gave up 3 in 5 IP and only struck out 1 batter. Kevin Rhoderick who should really be up in the bigs by now struck out 2 in 2 scoreless IP.
Austin Kirk finally had a bad start. Kirk gave up 6 ER in 2.1 IP and rumor was he had received a disturbing text message from PJ Francescon before the game that really fucked with his head. Anyone remember Ronald Torreyes? The upside piece from the Marshall trade has fallen off the face of the earth which is a bummer because up till this point he had been a hitting machine.
It's time to start the Free Ben Wells! campaign. Wells followed another shitty start by Geraldo Concepcion and struck out 7 in 5 innings while allowing 2 ER. He got 6 groundouts to 1 fly out. The kid has a wicked sinker and if he can keep developing his secondary stuff to get the k's we will have something. Paul Hoilman and Anthony Giansanti led the offensive effort.
mb21 wrote:
I noticed that too. It took me a second to figure out what the fuck it was a picture of until I figured it out (dying laughing)
I hope Concepcion’s performance will keep the Cubs the hell away from that other Cuban if he ever establishes residency or whatever the hell it is he needs to do in order to come to the US.
@ Berselius:
It doesn’t make sense. It’s fine on the computer, but the iPhone fucks it up somehow.
@ Berselius:
I just thought it was a REALLY weird shift.
@ GBTS:
They shifted the entire ballpark! It’s the new market inefficiency
@ Berselius:
If Houston can put a fucking hill in theirs, why not?
Twins are killing their projections, though probably not in the direction they’d hoped.
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/21/what-the-what-mark-ellis-was-a-few-hours-from-having-his-leg-amputated/
@ Berselius:
That’s messed up. The wikipedia on fasciotomy mentions Compartment syndrome. I seem to recall Marlon Byrd mentioning he had that when he was younger. Not sure what it is though. It also mentioned you see it with impact injuries. I wonder if it was the impact of getting hit by the runner, or hitting the ground after. Very weird.
Looked like shin-to-shin bone impact:
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=21562191&topic_id=&c_id=mlb&tcid=vpp_copy_21562191&v=3
Chicago media seems pretty confident that Rizzo gets a callup for interleague play.
I’m enjoying the upside down shift on my phone btw. That’s a funny glitch.
@ josh:
Tyler Greene is a dick, but I guess that is like most athletes. About what age do you think it is okay to be an asshole and not ask “Are you okay?” after you break their leg? Instead he just walks away without looking back.
@ WaLi:
He didn’t slide into him so much as jump on his leg, then hit the ground. I guess that’s a legal slide, but that was about as late as you can get. It looked very painful.
Things like that remind me why I never liked playing sports outside of golf.
@ josh:
I guess my selective memory is just picking on the Cardinals, but I remember Holliday doing the same thing to Castro and it looked like he would injure him.
Ben Wells Ben Wells Ben Wells
@ dylanj:
http://www.cubsfx.com/2011/06/keep-eye-on-ben-wells.html
HP on Ben Wells from last year
@ dylanj:
Are you trying to summon him?
dylanj wrote:
dylanj wrote:
@ WaLi:
That’s exactly right. Luckily, Castro didn’t almost lose his leg. It was a similar play, though, where the guy slid too late for the 2nd baseman to jump out of the way, except, obviously, with the SS.
preview up
http://www.obstructedview.net/previews/series-preview-chicago-cubs-15-26-at-houston-astros-18-23.html
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