Rare are the nights when the top and bottom play, according to WPA, tell the story of a game so well. This contest was taut throughout, but neither team could make the big play and turn the game definitively in their favor, and so, as the only clock that applies to baseball (the number of […]
Day: June 20, 2016
Series Preview: Cubs vs. Cardinals, June 20-22
As extraordinary as it might have seemed in this offseason that was so pregnant with expectation for a competitive National League Central race, the Cubs enter this three-game, mid-June set with the Cardinals at Wrigley a stunning 12.5 games ahead of the Redbirds in the Central, and with an even-more-imposing 15 game lead on the reeling Pirates, who’ve […]
Game 67 Recap: Cubs 10 Pirates 5
“It always seems one guy every year is that guy. On every staff there’s one guy that never gets any runs, regardless of how well that he pitches.” Maddon went on to commend the job Kyle Hendricks has done, improving both velocity and command this season, but through twelve starts he had nevertheless been that […]