Cubs 8, Reds 5

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OSS: A great offense can paper over a work in progress bullpen

Three up

  1. Most of the Cubs offense had a pretty good day, but Javy Baez stands out with 2 homers and a double. He also had at least one great play on defense, ranging far to his right and a ball and still nailing the runner with time to spare.
  2. Alec Mills had a solid 2020 debut, allowing two runs over six innings for the Quality Start™. He induced a lot of ground balls early on, so I’m guessing he had the Reds suitably off balanced. We’ll see how it goes with the Reds facing two crafty righties in a row in Cyle’s start today.
  3. Jason Kipnis topped the Cubs WPA leaderboard in this game, thanks to a leadoff triple in the third that eventually led to the Cubs first run and an RBI single in the fourth inning that drove in the second.

Three down

  1. The bullpen is not surprisingly still a work in progress, but at least the Cubs had a lead to give a little cushion to trying guys out. Sadler and Tepera gave up homers in their appearances, but at least they were pumping strikes.
  2. Ian Happ had a rough day, going 0-5 with three strikeouts.
  3. Given the mess that is the Marlins covid situation, you’d think that the players would be taking extra precautions when not on the field. Aside from the coaches, it seems like there’s not a lot of mask wearing going on in the dugout. They’re outside etc. etc. but the frequency of testing alone isn’t going to be securing these things. And if nothing else the second order effects of subconsciously encouraging people watching on tv to wear masks wouldn’t hurt either. I’d love to see mlb adding some sort of reminder to this, and it seems like it would be much easier to enforce than the high fives/spitting stuff they’ve laid down.

Next up: Cyle takes on Sonny Gray at 5:40 PM CT

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  1. WaLi

    I’d love to see mlb adding some sort of reminder to this, and it seems like it would be much easier to enforce than the high fives/spitting stuff they’ve laid down.

    Fox should CGI mask on all the players

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    berselius

    To-day’s base ball squadron

    3B Bryant
    1B Rizzo
    SS Baez
    LF War Bear
    C Contreras
    RF Heyward
    CF Happ
    DH Caratini
    2B Hoerner

    SP Cyle

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    berselius

    Moustakas and Senzal back in the Reds lineup. Turns out you can have illnesses other than Covid.

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  4. Perkins

    It’s amazing to me how poorly Sonny Gray did with the Yankees when he’s been good with both the A’s and the Reds.

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  5. EnricoPallazzo

    BVS,

    it’s like 10,000 mapleses when all you need is a knife;
    it’s meeting the man of my dreams, and then meeting his beautiful covid
    a little toooo ironic…yeah I really do think

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  6. SK

    Did you know the deep state created Covid?
    And that the the deep state is forcing you to wear masks?
    And that masks don’t work?

    That’s three dimensions right there!

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    berselius

    Looks like there’s an outbreak on the Cardinals now. I didn’t think we’d make it to the end of this season but less than two weeks is pretty stunning.

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  8. WaLi

    berselius,

    Players didn’t want a bubble, this is what happens. NFL needs to start thinking about making fields suitable for play in Hawaii or something if they want to have a season.

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    berselius

    To-day’s base ball squadron

    3B Bryant
    1B Rizzo
    SS Baez
    LF War Bear
    DH Contreras
    RF Heyward
    C Caratini
    2B Kipnis
    CF Happ

    P Darvish

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  10. andcounting

    Perkins,

    I don’t think I’m any good at judging how good a catcher actually is at framing, but it definitely seems like Contreras has been working hard at improving.

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    berselius

    Perkins:
    Is it me, or are the Cubs catchers looking a lot better at framing this year?

    I think I saw/heard something from Sahadev that said Willson looked a lot better thsi year.

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