There are lots of exciting things about the Chicago Cubs this season, and in my opinion the most exciting among them is this: Despite their sizable and ever-increasing odds of making the playoffs (86.3 percent, as of this writing), fans have every reason to believe that the 2015 major-league baseball season will be the Cubs’ worst in […]
Day: August 19, 2015
Game 117 Recap: Tigers 10 Cubs 8
Top Play (WPA): As much as I love Cubs baseball, this game was a chore. The Cubs were trailing almost immediately in this game, as Jason Hammel started and yet again didn’t have quality location on his pitches. The Tigers blasted three home runs off Hammel, as well as one double by Miguel Cabrera that […]
Breaking News: Jake Arrieta Is Good on Breaking Stuff
When we think of Jake Arrieta, we think of a brilliant, under the radar (relative to where he should be), high-strikeout kind of guy, who’s second in the Cubs rotation but could be a number one starter in plenty of other organizations. We’re even starting to include him in the Cy Young discussion. And yet, this is the […]