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CUBluejays

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #480 on: April 03, 2019, 11:13:50 pm »
Will that fix the rotation too?

brjones

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #481 on: April 03, 2019, 11:45:44 pm »
The bullpen melted down, but don't forget that the Cubs also played some really sloppy baseball tonight. Heyward's error in the first, Schwarber getting thrown out on a dumb SB attempt in the second (which cost them at least one run, and maybe a big inning that could've won the game), Contreras rounding third base too far on a ball that didn't leave the infield...it wasn't as sloppy as Monday, but it was pretty bad.

Also, from watching in person in the second deck near third base, Bryant looked bad. He was consistently late on Teheran's 90 mph fastball. Two month long DL stints didn't fix his shoulder last year, and tonight didn't give me much confidence that having October off helped him. Hopefully I just caught him on an off night where he just wasn't picking up Teheran's pitches.

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #482 on: April 04, 2019, 09:21:31 am »
Using a small size of 1 is jumping the gun a bit. Bryant has an ISO > .200 so far this year.

He will have slumps and bad games. It doesn’t mean his shoulder is bad.

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #483 on: April 04, 2019, 10:33:18 am »
You know what would fix this bullpen problem? Sense of urgency.

Craig Kimbrel's agent I'm sure has an answer to that too, although his email's and texts have been going straight to the Cubs' spam folder for a while.

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #484 on: April 04, 2019, 11:07:58 am »
Craig Kimbrel's agent I'm sure has an answer to that too, although his email's and texts have been going straight to the Cubs' spam folder for a while.

One guy isn't fixing the current mess.  It might be all small sample size, but outside of Kintzler/Rosario (minus yesterday) everyone has less than stellar.  I was driving into work and thinking I'd almost rather have Iowa's bullpen in Chicago.

Bennett

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #485 on: April 04, 2019, 12:20:12 pm »
Decent chance of rain starting around gametime.  Forecasts vary between light and becoming heavy.  The last thing the Cubs need is a lengthy delay and getting into Milwaukee around 5:00 A.M.

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #486 on: April 04, 2019, 01:43:14 pm »

CurtOne

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #487 on: April 04, 2019, 01:54:43 pm »
Glad that we're rewarding performance this year. 

brjones

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #488 on: April 04, 2019, 02:02:26 pm »
Rain is unpredictable in Atlanta this time of year. No telling if it'll rain or not.

And it's been weirdly localized at least twice with the Cubs in town since the Braves moved to the new ballpark. I can remember two Cubs games in the last two years that were either delayed for a long time or postponed where I got little to no rain at my house 20-25 minutes northeast of the ballpark.

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #489 on: April 04, 2019, 02:26:11 pm »
Zagunis in RF? Yikes!
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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #490 on: April 04, 2019, 02:53:50 pm »
Letting Schwarber face a lefty. Nice.

I’ll take Zagunis and hope he doesn’t flop on defense vs Heywards offense.
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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #491 on: April 04, 2019, 04:27:09 pm »
The rain in the forecast has been pushed back until closer to the end of the game, so it looks like they'll be able to play tonight.

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #492 on: April 04, 2019, 05:27:34 pm »
Ok now, let's not get negative just because we're going to get our asses kicked.

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #493 on: April 04, 2019, 05:53:42 pm »
I had a dream. Cubs pitchers only walked 5 guys.

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #494 on: April 04, 2019, 06:21:51 pm »
Len says the Braves announcers expect the rain to start about an hour into the game.