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Re: Today's Game - 2021
« Reply #630 on: April 13, 2021, 05:05:47 pm »
It would be one thing if teams played a shift, and then worked the batter with nothing but pitches on the inner half to coax them into hitting into the shift.

But no...these pitchers are working the batters away more than ever, and the dumbass batters continue to roll over on pitches away and ground them right into the shift...instead of taking what the pitcher and the defense are giving them on a silver f’ing platter.

And it’s painful to watch...

If defenses dared to shift on a Gwynn or a Boggs, they would hit .450...

Nailed it. There is no way the bunt is not effective with the shift. if nothing. just to keep them semi honest. Esp when considering the extreme shifts some teams like the Ray's, cheatros' and dodgers' use.

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Re: Today's Game - 2021
« Reply #631 on: April 13, 2021, 05:11:19 pm »
RHP Brandon Woodruff draws the home start for the Brewers. Over 15 starts the last two seasons, Woodruff is 3-5 with a 2.98 ERA, 0.97 WHIP, 11.1 K/9 and 2.1 BB/9 over 84 2/3 IP. He pitched 7 scoreless frames against Chicago Wednesday, and current Cubs batters own a strikeout-laden .515 OPS against him.

Cubs with more than 10 ABs vs Woodruff
Bryant 2-16    8 Ks
Rizzo    2-15   3 Ks
Heyward  2-14  4 Ks
Baez  1-12   5Ks
Happ  3-11  3 Ks   1 HR

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Re: Today's Game - 2021
« Reply #632 on: April 13, 2021, 05:28:57 pm »
Rizzo has bunted for hits against the shift several times and I don’t remember a single instance where it didn’t work.  Is he that great a bunter?

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Re: Today's Game - 2021
« Reply #633 on: April 13, 2021, 06:16:46 pm »
Hendrix scratched. Mills starting.

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Re: Today's Game - 2021
« Reply #634 on: April 13, 2021, 06:23:31 pm »
Hendrix scratched. Mills starting.

Hendrix btw is DMX's brother from another mother.

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Re: Today's Game - 2021
« Reply #635 on: April 13, 2021, 06:34:23 pm »
Hendricks not feeling well.  Scratched due to an abundance of caution.

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« Reply #636 on: April 13, 2021, 06:53:12 pm »
**** me up when the announcers were talking Certain Outcomes, a predictive tool two women in Milwaukee  developed for Robb Deer.  3 outcomes.  Strike Out, walk, or home run.  The implication was that pretty much our entire lineup.   They even joked about the defense could stay in the dugout.    Sad.

I heard that too and I really hate the name "Three True Outcomes" and how people are using it all the time now.  Those bloggers were being facetious and mocking when they made it; if there's going to be an official name for these kinds of plate appearances, it should be something negative-sounding and shouldn't have a word like "true" in it.

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Re: Today's Game - 2021
« Reply #637 on: April 13, 2021, 06:53:15 pm »
Hendricks not feeling well.  Scratched due to an abundance of caution.

You not acknowledging my dad joke... just cut me deeeeeep.

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Re: Today's Game - 2021
« Reply #638 on: April 13, 2021, 06:55:39 pm »
Looks like a win tweaked something on that groundout.

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Re: Today's Game - 2021
« Reply #639 on: April 13, 2021, 07:03:21 pm »
Looks like a win tweaked something on that groundout.

Trying to parse that sentence without having the game on is a fascinating exercise.

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Re: Today's Game - 2021
« Reply #640 on: April 13, 2021, 07:06:50 pm »
My iPhone is really autocorrecting they hell out of me today.

a win= Cain
Hendrix= Hendricks

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Re: Today's Game - 2021
« Reply #641 on: April 13, 2021, 07:14:22 pm »
And the Brewers are up 2-0. Mills throwing his fastball down the middle is a bad idea.

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Re: Today's Game - 2021
« Reply #642 on: April 13, 2021, 07:16:03 pm »
The current Cubs vs. Woodruff and Burnes over the next two days probably isn't going to go well.

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Re: Today's Game - 2021
« Reply #643 on: April 13, 2021, 07:20:13 pm »
Sogard sucks at baseball as much as his wife sucks at being a person.
« Last Edit: April 13, 2021, 07:24:18 pm by CUBluejays »

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Re: Today's Game - 2021
« Reply #644 on: April 13, 2021, 07:24:13 pm »
A Rizzo walk is the Cubs sole offense going into the bottom of the third.