Cubs 11, LADoLA 10 (10 innings)

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OSS: Another wild comeback with the wind blowing out

Three up:

  1. It was a great night to be a hitter at Wrigley. Miguel Amaya had the biggest shot of the night, a solo homer in the bottom of the ninth against Tanner Scott that was worth a whopping .490 WPA. PCA and Tucker joined him with two run shots of their own, and overall the Cubs had eight extra-base hits. Fittingly, the most routine of all of them was the game-winner from Happ. Three different batters had WPA over .300.
  2. A bonus shoutout to the pitchers who worked in these tough conditions, in particular Porter Hodge who locked down the top of 10th with the extra pressure of the Manfred Man. Newest Cub Gavin Hollowell pitched two scoreless, striking out two in his Cubs debut.
  3. This was the kind of night you dread a bit with Shota’s pitching profile, but he mostly got the job done despite a few rough breaks behind him. Props to him for pitching into the sixth when it looked like it was going to be a pretty short outing for a while there.

Three down:

  1. Gage “Tater” Workman was a great story, but it’s time to pull the plug. He’s supposedly mostly around for his defense but he’s made three errors in the last week, and has looked totally overmatched at the plate.
  2. Brad Keller was the designated bed-shitter (DBH) out of the pen today. Bullpens be volatile, it sucks that the DBH keeps bouncing around.
  3. Ethan Roberts did what he could with the shit sandwich handed to him, I guess

Next up:

The Cubs go for the season series win against the Dodgers at 6:00 PM CT. Matt Boyd is pitching for the Cubs, but the Dodgers still haven’t announced their starter. Probably a bullpen and/or piggyback start game, I guess.

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    berselius

    Not sure if I’m just more irritable than usual and thus noticing it more, but it seems like every podcast/blog/newsletter etc that I’ve consumed this week has some random long digression about Steely Dan or Bob Dylan or some other music shit that I don’t care about. (dying laughing)

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    berselius

    Bers dumps a list of numbers, 4/23 edition

    Cubs wOBAs

    Kelly .593
    Tucker .447
    Busch .409
    Suzuki .385
    PCA .361
    Amaya .342
    Happ .330
    Hoerner .322

    League average: .312

    Berti .284
    Swanson .259
    Turner .213

    Team .352

    That’ll do, pig

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    berselius

    I just saw a reference to Jose Fernandez and followed the link to his fangaphs page…he would only be 32 if he was still around today 😢

    Don’t do coke and drive speedboats, folks

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    berselius

    Well, maybe with Berti mixed in a bit against some RHP

    Career splits

    Berti vs RHP: .311 wOBA
    Berti vs LHP: .310 wOBA

    Lopez vs LHP: .259 wOBA
    Lopez vs RHP: .285 wOBA

    Berti is mostly a league average fielder, Lopez is above average (though a lot of that is buoyed by a outlier great season at SS in 2021)

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    berselius

    To-day’s base ball squadron

    LF Happ
    RF Tucker
    DH Suzuki
    1B Busch
    SS Swanson
    2B Hoerner
    CF PCA
    C Kelly
    3B Berti

    SP Boyd

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  28. Author
    berselius

    Looks like Casparius is the opener for the Dodgers today, you may remember him from getting lit up by the Cubs in their 16-0 win

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    berselius

    andcounting,

    Pomeranz had some weird clause in his contract with the Mariners that he had to be in the bigs or released by X date, I guess part of the trade was the Cubs planning to honor that.

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  33. andcounting

    So when the pitcher takes too long, it’s an automatic ball.

    When the batter takes too long, it’s an automatic strike.

    And when the batter is too Josh Turner, it’s an automatic out. Do I have these new rules right?

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  36. Rice Cube

    andcounting:
    So when the pitcher takes too long, it’s an automatic ball.

    When the batter takes too long, it’s an automatic strike.

    And when the batter is too Josh Turner, it’s an automatic out. Do I have these new rules right?

    I think his name is Justin but it sounds right

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  73. Rice Cube

    For your consumption

    Cubs at 67%ish playoff odds –> https://www.fangraphs.com/standings/playoff-odds-graphs

    FG seems kind of conservative, but projecting 87 wins –> https://www.fangraphs.com/standings/playoff-odds

    FG and BRef pages looking fun for Cubs offense, not as much for the pitching but I guess we will get there

    https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2025&month=0&season1=&ind=0&team=17&players=0

    https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHC/2025.shtml

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    berselius

    Blake Snell has ceased the throwing program he was on to recover from shoulder inflammation. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, “as he was playing catch, he just didn’t feel great.”

    Such a shame

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  78. Rice Cube

    Fun facts I saw today

    – Cubs have more wins and a better record by percentage than any team in the AL
    – Cubs will be facing a Phillies team that has lost 4 straight
    – Cubs 7-3 in last 10 (tied with a bunch of other teams) is only bested by the Mets going 8-2 including their sweep of the aforementioned Phillies

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  80. Perkins

    At least this was easy.

    Daily Walkoff ⚾️
    Cubs #237

    “Roster Roundup”
    🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀

    dailywalkoff.com

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  82. Rice Cube

    If the Giants pitcher would stop being stupid and the Giants offense actually take advantage of their opportunities, this would be a different game, alas

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  96. Rice Cube

    Too lazy to set up new thread yet, maybe after the game

    Today’s squadron

    LF Happ
    RF Tucker
    DH Suzuki
    1B Busch
    SS Swanson
    2B Hoerner
    CF PCA
    C Kelly
    3B Berti

    Go Rea

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  98. andcounting

    Rice Cube,

    It really says something about how much Counsell loves this lineup that even when Suzuki gets replaced in the lineup by Jeffrey Turner the batting order doesn’t change and Weekend At Bernie’s III: Still Got an Eye for the Strike Zone hits third.

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