What You Need to Know: The Cubs’ offense broke out of their collective slump in a big way against Cardinals’ starter Michael Wacha, taking him deep three times and piling up nine runs on him in four-plus innings, turning the game into a rout early. With the big cushion, Jon Lester turned in another solid […]
Day: June 15, 2018
Framing strikes: the only thing worse than the umpires calling strikes
By Ken Schultz and Kevin McCaffrey Hey Kevin, In a little over eleven weeks’ worth of baseball, here’s a partial list of home plate umpires who have worked Cubs games: Jordan Baker. Laz Díaz. Ted Barrett. John Tumpane. Somebody named Stu Scheurwater. Ángel. Goddamn. Hernández. (In a Busch Stadium game, no less! You might as […]