David Bell….I was stuck with the Reds announcers and even they were non-plussed over the rampage, as they had been commenting all night long how tight the zone was all the time for both teams and they acknowledged that the pitches in that AB were balls. I wonder if Wheeler was chirping from the mound leading Bell to be a distraction to save his pitcher.
I’d have immediately killed the send as soon as I saw Friedl make the successful barehand grab.. That send didn’t even take two perfect throws (even though the Reds got them), Madrigal was out by 50 feet. Horrendous send by Willie.
His split was pure filth tonight. Reds lefties had no shot. He made Votto look like a rec league guy.
Although, to be fair, Madrigal probably would have run through the stop sign anyway.
He's 5'8", 175lbs. I had no idea he was that small until I saw him in the post game hand shakes around the other players last night.
Well, the weather does look nice, at least.
Insert FU GIF here.Excuse me. Just gonna scooch in here
Will never complain about spending a day like today in Wrigley. But yeah, the game itself was brutal. Atlanta’s lineup is just full of a bunch of dudes and they lit Hendricks up in the 4th.
Need a lot of luck to beat a team like that in the playoffs. But baseball- stuff like that happens a lot more than in other sports.
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Meh. The Cubs lost 3-0 in his previous start. I think he went 6 innings in that one. That’s a quality start. Today was a stinker, no doubt, but who wins if your team doesn’t score? Zero runs in his last two starts.
3 zip with 8 k's and no walks in 7 IP. Point remains the last 2 games he's pitched the Cubs have been shut out. And today he flat out had a meltdown?
He said when Hendricks starts, the Cubs don’t score, that’s what I was laughing at.
What does Hendricks have to do with the Cubs getting shut out? They’d have scored 12 if Kilian pitched??
It was a pretty wild game, really. Hendricks & Fried were both 9-up/9-down to start the game, then ATL scored 7 on 8 hits in the 4th, but for the game, the Braves had 8 runs and 11 hits. You obviously can’t take that one inning out because everything plays differently after that, but it’s not like the Braves were just destroying the ball all day - they hit hard and they hit fast in that one inning and then Wesneski & Cuas didn’t allow much more after that.
Cubs need to make hay when they can. They finish the season with 3 games in Atlanta followed by 3 in Milwaukee.
He pitched, Cubs got shut out. 3 cast offs and hamburger pitched tonight and the Cubs won.
