This piece, by BP Wrigleyville’s Rian Watt, originally ran as part of “BP Unfiltered”, Baseball Prospectus’s less-than-serious home for small or light-hearted pieces that maybe aren’t as analytical as their usual content. We thought you’d enjoy it here. This all happened an hour ago, roughly two hours before the first pitch of a critical NLCS […]
Day: October 21, 2015
Scenes from a Losing Night in Wrigleyville
Bill Sommerfeld stood with his son at the corner of Sheffield and Addison one hour before NLDS Game Three, waiting to meet the rest of his party and head into Wrigley Field. Sommerfeld wore a Cubs long-sleeve t-shirt and his son a pinstriped jersey, as thousands of blue-clad bodies darted around them. A man in […]
Inside the At-Bat: Kyle Schwarber’s Eighth-Inning Pop-Out
In baseball, momentum is a fleeting, unsustainable commodity. It can last a game, an inning, or, at the absolute least, one pitch. As we discovered in the eighth inning of Game Three of the NLCS, when the momentum ceases in a pitch, it’s as deflating as it is sudden. If the Cubs had a standout offensive […]
Playoff Prospectus: NLCS Game Four Preview
This piece, by BP Wrigleyville’s Rian Watt, is the Cubs-specific portion of a longer LCS preview jointly written with Matt Trueblood. We’ve posted Rian’s section by itself here; if you’d like to bone up on your ALCS knowledge, head over to the full piece here. We hope you enjoy. The Cubs will take the field in Chicago […]
Playoff Prospectus: The Cubs Have a Running Problem — NLCS Game Three
This piece, by BP Wrigleyville’s Editor-in-Chief Sahadev Sharma, first appeared at the Baseball Prospectus main site and is available free for all to enjoy. We’ve posted a sneak preview here. The Cubs bullpen, which has been stout this postseason, gave up three runs. The offense, a group that carried them in the second half, was once […]