Date: June 25 Opponent: Los Angeles Dodgers Location: Wrigley Field Introduction Who likes June, anyways? All that sunshine, ideal weather, and the sheer ecstasy of life’s limitless possibilities. No, thank you! Good riddance, I say, and I am pretty sure Jon Lester is with me. Over the course a decade-long career filled […]
Day: June 29, 2015
YOUNG CUBS: IT’S HAPP-ENING!
Hello, readers. Welcome to another edition of “Young Cubs.” Trade season is now growing ever closer to arriving, and as such, many of the players mentioned in these articles will be the subject of rumors. It has been easy the last three years to grow attached to many of the Cubs’ prospects, as they’ve represented […]
Game 74 Recap: Cardinals 4 Cubs 1
Top Play (WPA): Coming into the bottom of the fourth inning, the game was tied at one and Jason Hammel was getting by with erratic stuff. He hadn’t looked quite the same since returning from a lengthy rain delay (one hour and 49 minutes, to be precise) just before the bottom of the second inning. […]
Wearing ‘Em Down: Cubs’ Hitters Are Really Good at Running Up the Count
In my recap of last Tuesday’s satisfying win over Zack Greinke and the Dodgers, I noted that the victory was, among other things: as good a model as any for the template the Cubs have used all season long to beat good pitchers: run up their pitch counts, and get them out of the game. Greinke […]