Fans for a few years now have been debating bringing automated strike zones, or robot umps, or whatever you want to call it. But it feels like after the egregiously, hilariously bad call on Ben Zobrist last Saturday night it feels like for the first time the debate has come to baseball itself. Players and managers […]
Author: Sam Fels
Game 123 Recap: Cubs 6, Blue Jays 5
What You Need To Know: This game had a strikeout/fielder’s choice in it. That basically sums it up. I’ve never seen that called before. It’s like they declined the strikeout. Like it was defensive holding or something. That’s how strange the last inning got, and that was the overall theme of the game (and probably season, […]
Game 118 Recap: Reds 2, Cubs 1
What You Need To Know: You probably joked while the Cubs were scoring 15 last night that they should save some for the next game. Though you didn’t say it out loud, inside you kind of felt like you weren’t joking, even though you know that’s not how these things work. But what you know and […]
Game 116 Recap: Cubs 7, Diamondbacks 2
What You Need To Know: Jake Arrieta kept his hot streak going, being able to play Frogger for six innings, weaving in and out of mostly self-inflicted traffic to only surrender one run. That propped up an offense that was once against squandering chances long enough for the dam to break in the last two innings, […]
Catch Probability is a Spoiler
Let me take you back a few days. Melky Cabrera lines a ball to the left field gap. Jon Jay ranges to left, dives, and makes the catch. It looks like a great play. It has all the markings. A ball that looked like it was going to easily get to the wall as you […]
Game 110 Recap: Nationals 9, Cubs 4
Oh boy. Looks like I’m back to being Master Of Disaster. In the first half of the season, I didn’t get too upset about the results because I was fairly confident things would snap back into gear, the way they were predicted. What did bother me at times was how “loose” the Cubs looked at […]
Game 105 Recap: Cubs 87, Diamondbacks 4
So that was a good off day. The Cubs certainly looked refreshed after a successful trip to their most local rivals, and the Diamondbacks looked like mayonnaise left out in the sun. Patrick Corbin didn’t have anything to offer, and the Cubs soundly paddled him all over the Northside to the tune of eight runs […]
Game 104: Cubs 4, Brewers 2
Not that a loss would have been devastating, but with the roll the Cubs have been on since the break you really wanted a series win to extend the lead at the top of the division. Two-and-a-half games isn’t a mountain—it feels a hell of a lot better than a half-game, though. We’d all like […]
Game 98 Recap: White Sox 3, Cubs 1
I don’t like making excuses for any baseball loss. The season is too long, there are too many games, and on any day a pitcher can jump up and bite you or any hitter just has a 4-for-4 day or whatever else. Still, a day game right after an emotional win barely 14 hours before […]
What’s Going On With Wade Davis?
This may be a totally stupid question. After all, Weigh Davis is yet to blow a save, and in the end the name of the game is the runs you give up and the runs you score. Davis has never let the opposition score more runs than the Cubs already have this season. That’s the […]