This is the second leg of a three part road trip out west, and the hardest part of the trip is probably the series that comes after this one. The Cubs and Padres last faced each other in the second week of May at Wrigley, and it proved to be a surprisingly challenging series for the […]
Author: Jared Wyllys
Series Preview: Cubs at Rockies, August 19-21
The last few weeks of baseball have been reminiscent of the first month of the season. If not for a couple of bad innings from Carl Edwards, Jr. and Hector Rondon, the Cubs would probably have been flawless, but instead, they’ll settle for being 14-2 since the beginning of August. West coast road trips have […]
Game 120 Recap: Cubs 9 Brewers 6
These are the afternoons when Wrigley decides to smile on the hitters and does so indiscriminately. Uniform color and allegiances don’t matter. All the runs will be scored when the ball carries over the wall or finds the right spot deep in the recesses of the outfield. Wrigley smiled the brightest on Kris Bryant today, […]
Game 118 Recap: Cubs 4 Brewers 1
Somewhere Ernie Banks is smiling. Doubleheaders may not be Joe Maddon’s favorite, but he has to be happy with the fact that the Cubs won easily and without drama in both games of today’s doubleheader. These wins are an appropriate balm for frustrating losses to the Cardinals on Saturday and Sunday. In the night game, the […]
Series Preview: Cubs vs. Brewers, August 16-18
Heavy April rain has made this a four game series, with the oft-dreaded day-night doubleheader to open it, but the Cubs have been wildly successful in the last two weeks, winning 13 of their last 15. Losses on Saturday and Sunday to the Cardinals at the hands of the bullpen have certainly frustrated the fanbase, […]
Game 115 Recap: Cardinals 8 Cubs 4
Winning streaks are fun trivia, but not worth getting upset about when they come to an end. Had the Cubs pushed their streak to twelve games today, they would have been no more well positioned to win the division and succeed in the playoffs than they are right now after dropping this afternoon’s game to […]
Game 114 Recap: Cubs 13 Cardinals 2
I suppose that if there are statement losses, then this must have been a very big statement win. Last night’s game ended on a bit of a controversial note with the fourth ball that walked in the winning run, and all of that came after the pitch that probably ended Matt Holliday’s season. So today felt […]
A Season of Obstacles: Jorge Soler in 2016
At every turn, it seems, the 2016 season has put up obstacles for Jorge Soler. He has hurdled each of them with aplomb so far, and to date his 2016 season has carried a Joseph Campbell-esque hero’s journey quality to it, to say nothing of the broader story: that Soler is a baseball player who defected from […]
Series Preview: Cubs vs. Angels, August 9-10
This season opened in Anaheim, and much of what made the Cubs the Cubs then has changed. Kyle Schwarber is no longer a part of the left field platoon, the bullpen is almost entirely reconfigured, and the depth of the minor league system has been tapped somewhat in order to ensure as best as possible […]
Game 110 Recap: Cubs 3 Athletics 1
Like a wasted youth that is recaptured later in life and made up for, the Cubs let several chances go by them in the first half of today’s game, only to ultimately push across three runs and complete their tenth sweep of the season. They won almost with a yawn and a dismissive flip of […]