On Friday, Kris Bryant tallied his tenth multi-homer game as a major leaguer, and his third this season. He reached ten in only 386 career games; for perspective, Anthony Rizzo has 14 in 836, meaning Bryant has outstripped Rizzo’s career rate of multi-homer games by about 60 percent. That’s just one indicator of Bryant’s impressive […]
Author: Zack Moser
Game 86 Recap: Cubs 6, Pirates 1
What You Need to Know: A sluggish, interminable, sloppy game somehow culminated in a Cubs victory. Eddie Butler escaped three separate jams in four full innings before departing in the fifth, and the Cubs failed to score on several good chances early on, but a Kris Bryant triple and Anthony Rizzo home run sealed the […]
A Meditiation on the Futility of Trade Speculation, Redux: Speculating Futilely
Ian Happ is good, and the Cubs are… kind of bad. The Cubs’ status quo as of the beginning of July is frustrating, and the rest-of-season prognosis is troubling, and possibly bleak. Between injuries to Kyle Hendricks, Jason Heyward, and Ben Zobrist; poor pitching from John Lackey and uneven pitching from the rest of the […]
Zack’s Sack: A Wrigleyville Mailbag, Vol. 6
This week was possibly the most eventful in Cubdom since the World Series ended, and most of it was… not good. Injuries, visits to the White House, and cutting a key player from the past few years in a pretty gross way—it’s been a rough week for Cubs fans, and I am here to bring […]
Game 75 Recap: Marlins 4, Cubs 2
What You Need to Know: Several times, the Cubs threatened to hang a crooked number on Edinson Volquez and the Marlins, but each time they came up short. The Fish jumped on Mike Montgomery for three runs in the first, hammering line drives all over the field, before Montgomery settled in and delivered five more […]
Zack’s Sack: A Wrigleyville Mailbag, Vol. 5
Welcome to this week’s edition of Zack’s Sack! We’ve got some fun questions this week, so let’s get right to it. And, as always, please submit your questions to me at @beersntrumpets on Twitter. As you’ll see, I’ll answer most anything. “Which Cubs would have the most interesting conversation with Socrates, were he alive today?” […]
Schwarber Demotion, Heyward Injury Pressure Cubs to Remake Outfield
We here at BP Wrigleyville are allergic to the hot take. We prefer measured analysis, historical analysis, analysis of analyses. We don’t publish news, we don’t break news, we rarely comment on players being sent down or called up, except in the instance of them being parts of larger processes. But, oh boy, Kyle Schwarber […]
The Legacy of the Leland Giants
During the first decade of the 20th century, Chicago boasted a robust city baseball league. Chicago had harbored an intra-city league in the waning years of the 19th century, but the league had disbanded by 1895. Re-forming a few years after some of the best teams absconded for the greener financial pastures of independent barnstorming, […]
Game 68 Recap: Cubs 7, Pirates 1
What You Need to Know: The Cubs steal away from Pittsburgh with a series victory, thanks to a rare strong outing from John Lackey and timely hits from Willson Contreras and Anthony Rizzo. Contreras doubled twice to drive in three runs, and Rizzo continued his tear at the plate, adding a two-run homer. Next Level: […]
Zack’s Sack: A Wrigleyville Mailbag, Vol. 4
Hello, and welcome to the fourth installment of Zack’s Sack, a BP Wrigleyville mailbag! It’s an extra hefty edition this week. Find me at @beersntrumpets on Twitter to ask me questions. I’ll answer just about anything. Questions posed by Twitter followers have been unedited for the sake of embarrassing them utterly. Any similarities to other […]