The Cubs and Minnesota have met seven times since 1999. And after yesterday’s hot thing resulted in a 10-6 triumph over Jose Raspberríos Beret, the two teams met again to play in the sunshine this afternoon. Today was supposed to mark Yu Darvish’s return from the disabled list in the latest attempt to convince Gordon […]
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Game 80 Recap: Cubs 10, Twins 6
What You Need to Know: Conditions were favorable for the long ball today at Wrigley Field, with the heat index over 100 degrees and the wind blowing out hard all game. The Cubs obliged, launching four home runs en route to a 10-6 win over Minnesota. Jason Heyward, Ben Zobrist and Kyle Schwarber all went […]
Looking At Javier Báez’s Increasing Oppo Tendencies
Before I turned off Wednesday night’s game in a struggling-Kyle-Hendricks-induced rage, Ron Coomer made a very interesting point. It came in the first inning, when Javier Báez laced a double that preceded the Willson Contreras home run off of Alex Wood. The double went to center field on a 2-0 count. It was just a small part […]
Game 79 Recap: Cubs 11, Dodgers 5
What You Need To Know: I was cranky as hell early in this game. So was most of Cubs Twitter. J.D. probably said it best when he called it a Murphy’s Law game early on. The Cubs were able to scratch across one run against Clayton Kershaw, but not a whole lot went right early […]
Game 78 Recap: Dodgers 7, Cubs 5
Admit it: after it was 6-2 you fell asleep around the fourth inning, figuring it was over. Now you are waking up to realization that you missed a spicy ending to the game. Granted it ended up a 7-5 defeat at the hands of the Dodgers, but it was a positive showing after a rough start […]
Game 77 Recap: Cubs 9, Dodgers 4
Lead photo courtesy Gary A. Vasquez—USA Today Sports What You Need To Know: The Cubs received another solid start from Jon Lester, who allowed only two runs in five innings of work. However, the offense failed to cash in on a number of early opportunities, and the Cubs found themselves trailing 2-1 entering the […]
Game 76 Recap: Dodgers 2, Cubs 1
What You Need To Know: Duane Underwood, Jr. made an emergency start for the Cubs, and kept the game within reach, yielding only one solo home run in four innings of work. Justin Wilson gave up another solo shot to Chris Taylor in the eighth, which ultimately proved to be the difference. The Cubs failed […]
For Willson Contreras, It’s Not All About the Long Ball
Last Saturday, Willson Contreras hit this opposite-field homer off an Anthony DeSclafani slider. Thanks to the soft skin of home plate umpire Gary Gibson and the Cubs ultimately falling for the third straight time to the last-place Reds, Contreras’s second-inning shot was nowhere near the most newsworthy thing that happened in that game. But the […]
Game 75 Recap: Reds 8, Cubs 6
What You Need to Know: After Sal Romano and Mike Montgomery spent four innings looking like dueling Cy-Young candidates, the Cubs remembered that, despite weekend evidence to the contrary, they did indeed know how to play baseball. They blew up Romano’s leisurely Sunday afternoon to the tune of five (two-out!) runs in the fifth courtesy […]
Game 73 Recap: Reds 6, Cubs 3
What You Need to Know: Jose Quintana took the hill in Great American Ball Park, trying to build on his recent stretch of success. And in the early going, that’s what he did. Apart from a Billy Hamilton line drive in the second, which scored Curt Casali, Quintana was looking sharp through four frames, racking up […]