As you may have heard even if you did not get up in time for the games, the Cubs went to London and split the series with the Cardinals. Here’s from last time:
Per the division standings, the Cubs sit two games back of Milwaukee and are just 3.5 games back of Cincinnati.
Thanks to the game they didn’t play because two-game series, now that has become 2.5 games back of Milwaukee and three back of Cincinnati, which is kind of dumb because Cleveland didn’t do what they needed to, but the Reds did lose a pretty tight series to Atlanta. Does this mean the Reds are good? I don’t know, but they certainly looked the part, and it’s a good amount of fortune that the Cubs made up half a game on the leader.
Because of the re-balanced schedule, every game outside the division becomes much more interesting to me, so it would be nice for those division rivals to kind of tank those games. This may be easier for the opponent against the Reds, the wild-card leading Baltimore Orioles who would be sitting pretty if the Rays weren’t insanely good still despite figuratively missing some limbs. This is going to be an enigma for the Brewers, just a half-game back of said Reds, who have to play the Mets, and you all know how the Mets are doing. So we could see a different division leader by mid-week because of how close everyone is, and there’s a somewhat non-zero chance it could be the Cubs because the Phillies are having their own sets of issues, particularly on defense.
Updated from the last time:
- Reds: 3 @ BAL, 3 vs SDP, 4 @ Nats, 3 @ Brewers (they also play the Brewers again coming out of the break)
- Brewers: 4 @ Mets, 3 @ PIT, 4 vs Cubs, then those 3 against the Reds plus coming out of the break
- Cardinals: 3 vs HOU, 3 vs Yankees, 4 @ Miami, 3 @ White Sox
- Pirates: 3 vs SDP, 3 vs Brewers, 4 @ Dodgers, 3 @ Dbacks
- Cubs: 3 vs PHI, 3 vs CLE, 4 @ Brewers (obviously the big series), 3 @ Yankees
With the off day as the Cubs try to reset their body clocks, we can instead do some scoreboard watching and will the Reds and Brewers to lose out. There were some encouraging signs from the London series even with the stupidity in the finale, and it’ll be up to the Cubs to take care of their own business with only one division matchup before the All-Star Game. A little help from outside the division will certainly be appreciated.
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Should’ve known better than to rely on the Mets
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Go O’s
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Good luck everyone, Phillies are on a bit of a hot streak
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Rice Cube,
Hope we finally see Taillon step up with Stro out.
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Hey Gardenhoser!
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Crawly just snapped a picture of Jared Young going inside Wrigley Field so there’s your new 1B
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Tonight’s lineup https://twitter.com/Cubs/status/1673793647085604864?t=5Ctz3-0mIacCq9cQ3Rn74g&s=19
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Rice Cube,
More visually
Jared Young indeed in the house
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I would be a lot happier if they would kindly stop hitting the ball on the ground to a fielder that barely had to move
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I would also be happier if Taillon remembers he’s supposed to be good at pitching
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Play better, Cubs. Or don’t I can’t tell you what to do.
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Quick loss at 2:24
Will probably have the pod up sometime tomorrow
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These Shohei Ohtani stats are getting kind of silly
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Probably also Cubs, but funny because Mets
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Tonight’s lineup
https://twitter.com/Cubs/status/1674166027276414976?t=jNCp94PRqhsXz9iuHt6UDg&s=19
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Everything is being anti-Cubs tonight
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Cubs lose.
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That was the greatest non-dinger plate appearance of Christopher Morel’s career
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I was impressed with Morel’s walk there. Great patience.
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This game has all the makings of it not quite comeback.
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I’ll even admit Madrigal has been a decent player since returning from Iowa. Even if 60% of his hits are infield grounders.
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Game now off so they’ll either come back or they won’t, got other stuff to do but would not object to a comeback win.
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Pretty solid outing by Wesneski, hope he finds his way back to the rotation someday
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Stuff to like
1. Young first career homer
2. Dansby power
3. Wesneski did ok
4. Madrigal has power?
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Good old fashioned fake rally ends in 3 hours flat
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Guess I’m glad that I missed this one.
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