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Re: Today's Game - 2021
« Reply #3345 on: October 01, 2021, 10:37:04 pm »
Tommy Nance, who has struggled since the restrictions on ball-grip substances, is in to try to hold them in the ninth.  Hopefully he can do it.

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« Reply #3346 on: October 01, 2021, 10:44:32 pm »
Goldschmidt singles, Edman scores, Cardinals win. Boo.

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« Reply #3347 on: October 02, 2021, 12:34:35 am »
That clinches the seventh pick, no?

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Re: Today's Game - 2021
« Reply #3348 on: October 02, 2021, 04:33:02 pm »

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« Reply #3349 on: October 02, 2021, 04:33:45 pm »

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« Reply #3350 on: October 02, 2021, 07:18:26 pm »
Willson Contreras leaves the game in the bottom of the third.  We're told he was not feeling well.

1-0 Cards

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« Reply #3351 on: October 02, 2021, 07:20:29 pm »
Several sources suggest it might be his knee.

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« Reply #3352 on: October 02, 2021, 08:28:16 pm »
Trayce Thompson hits a grand slam to give the Cubs a 4-1 lead, then the Cards get one right back on a Goldschmidt double (blocked nicely by the Shwy in CF) and a triple from our nemesis O'Neill to bring him in.

Megill starts a nifty 1-6-3 double play to end the inning and he is totally fired up.

4-2 Cubs going to the sixth.

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« Reply #3353 on: October 02, 2021, 08:47:24 pm »
Trayce comes up with men on again but this time his fly ball is caught at the warning track to end the inning.

On to the bottom of the 7th with Rucker still going.

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« Reply #3354 on: October 02, 2021, 09:28:13 pm »
Down to our last out in the top of the ninth, and Ian Happ does what he did to Garcia back in Chicago... a titanic home run!  Cubs lead 6-5!

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« Reply #3355 on: October 02, 2021, 09:38:21 pm »
Rowan Wick is in to try to close the game out.  The Cardinals get the lead man on but Wick gets Bader swinging with a big breaking ball.  One out.

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« Reply #3356 on: October 02, 2021, 09:41:26 pm »
A long fly to left is caught by Ortega, and the Cards are down to their last out, but it's in the form of O'Neill, whom the Cubs will somehow have to get past if they want to hold on.

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« Reply #3357 on: October 02, 2021, 09:44:53 pm »
Wick blows O'Neill away with a fastball right down the middle to strike him out and end it. Cubs win!

Castillo gets to celebrate after the final out for the first time in his ML career.  What a great win.

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Re: Today's Game - 2021
« Reply #3358 on: October 02, 2021, 11:01:35 pm »

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« Reply #3359 on: October 03, 2021, 12:11:03 pm »