Date: April 19 Opponent: San Diego Padres Location: Wrigley Field Introduction For 15-20 brief, tantalizing minutes we got a glimpse of what this will look like when everything clicks. Lester had a shutdown first inning, punctuated with a strikeout of Matt Kemp. In the Cubs half of the first, they scored twice. Wrigley Field, despite […]
Author: Andrew Felper
Cubbie Debuts: How Other Top Cubs Fared on Their First Day in Cubbie Blue
Happy Kris Bryant Day! If you live a jaded, cloaked-in-irony existence like myself, you are sick of holidays manufactured by the chocolate, greeting card, and chocolate greeting card companies. Kris Bryant Day, though, represents something else—it is pure, joyful, and created organically by the MLB Player Union’s poor negotiating. We here at BP-Wrigleyville thought it […]
The 2015 Ballad of Jon Lester: Start No. 2
Date: April 13 Opponent: Cincinnati Reds Location: Wrigley Field Remember Henry Rowengartner’s second appearance out of the bullpen for the Chicago Cubs? After his disastrous debut against Potato and the New York Mets, he hit the first San Francisco Giants batter he faced, prompting everybody in the stadium to declare, “Oh no, not again.” Monday […]
The 2015 Ballad of Jon Lester: Start No. 1
Date: April 5 Opponent: St. Louis Cardinals Location: Wrigley Field Welcome to 2015 By the time Jon Lester threw the first pitch of the 2015 season, a fastball to Matt Carpenter, he had been warming up in the left-field bullpen since, and this is a rough guesstimate, early March. The pitch was a called strike, […]