What You Need To Know: Jose Quintana was as good as can be for four innings. Then he wasn’t. The offense wasn’t good enough for seven innings. Then it was. Pretty much everything else doesn’t really matter. Rondon got a nice inning in. Duensing got an inning of work. Schwarber could have had a better day. […]
Author: Sam Fels
Don’t Let It Get Old
The Cubs won the division. In St. Louis. Let’s not bury the lede here. Usually, I’ll at least walk the dog or take some sort of break before I write these, whether here or on my site. But tonight is not that kind of occasion. Let’s soak. Let’s bathe in it. Let’s be euphoric. Crack […]
Game 152 Recap: Cubs 5, Brewers 3
What You Need To Know: Let’s be positive and say that it was good training for what awaits in two weeks, should everything go anywhere near according to plan. The Cubs won an absolute wild one in 10 innings 5-3, on a night where they were down to their last strike twice, swinging everyone’s emotions from […]
Game 151 Recap: Rays 8, Cubs 1
What You Need To Know: Basically, Jon Lester didn’t have it, couldn’t find it, and then it got worse. It started with a homer in the first, then paper cuts in the second, and then farce in the fifth. It was yet another outing for Lester that has Cubs fans, and possibly Cubs management, tugging their […]
Game 149 Recap: Cubs 4, Cardinals 3
What You Need To Know: It shaped up as the same formula for so many infuriating Cubs losses this season. It was only a couple things falling short of where you’d want them, but just enough to break your heart. Jose Quintana was really good through five, but then made one bad pitch to almost undo […]
Game 148 Recap: Cubs 4, Cardinals 1
What You Need To Know: It was almost a carbon-copy of yesterday, minus the Cubs’ battery angry-ing up the blood in the middle of the affair. The Cubs’ pitching kept the Cardinals’ batters under wraps, and while the Cubs offense looked pretty helpless first time through against Michael Wacha, just as they did against Carlos Martinez, […]
Mike Check: Is The Use Of Mike Montgomery To Blame?
We knew coming into this season that Mike Montgomery was going to be something of a Swiss Army knife. Especially when some of us had a pretty strong feeling that Brett Anderson was going to be a backyard fireworks show and low hopes for Eddie Butler. It was obvious that Montgomery was going to get some […]
Game 138 Recap: Pirates 4, Cubs 3
An infuriating Cubs loss? Don’t worry, I’m here to make it all better! Well, not really. Like I wrote on Sunday in other outlets, the losses have been too hard to swallow to make you realize how well the Cubs have played in the second half. So really, these losses have kept the Cubs from […]
It’s Time (Once Again) To Consider a Switch in Right Field
I like to think, because I give myself undue credit whenever possible, that I’ve been as patient with Jason Heyward as anyone out there. There were knives out for him as early as May last year, even when it wasn’t all that hard to predict a player would struggle in his first year under a […]
Game 131 Recap: Cubs 4, Pirates 1
What You Need To Know: Jake Arrieta and Chad Kuhl had a staring contest through five-and-a-half innings, with neither really coming close to surrendering a run, save a brief scare for each. Finally in the sixth, Ben Zobrist went up there looking for the fastball that Kuhl had been pumping over the plate defiantly for the […]