The task of driving a milk wagon was a particularly dangerous affair, as drivers had to contend with delicate glass bottles, disgruntled customers, disgruntled horses, and careless drivers all too willing to slam into the poor wagons. By the early 1920s, milk wagon drivers had added another name to the long list of perils: the […]
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Game 139 Recap: Cubs 1, Pirates 0
What You Need to Know: It wasn’t quite a slugfest at PNC Park Thursday night. Gerrit Cole and Jose Quintana traded zeros like a pair of Wall Street executives. For Quintana, it was the second-best start since joining the Cubs, in terms of game score (ver. 2). He recorded 68 over six scoreless innings. Cole, meanwhile, […]
How Have the Cubs Made Up for Willson Contreras’s Absence?
One of the many unique aspects of baseball is that it’s one of the few professions on earth where someone can nickname a co-worker “Killer,” and it becomes a term of endearment. But in the case of Willson Contreras, his teammates dubbed him “Killer” because the intensity that he brought to every game played a […]
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 […]
Game 136 Recap: Braves 5, Cubs 1
What You Need to Know Max Fried and the Braves snapped the Cubs’ six-game winning streak, but the real loss was Javier Baez who will most likely be headed to the 7-day concussion DL after a collision at second base. Next Level There wasn’t a lot to be happy about today. The Cubs trailed […]
Game 135 Recap: Cubs 14, Braves 12
What You Need To Know: The Cubs again produced a stellar offensive performance, putting the Cubs out to a 4-0 lead on a René Rivera grand slam in the bottom of the 2nd. After Lester surrendered 2 home runs to make it 4-3 and the teams exchanged runs, the Cubs opened up the floodgates in […]
Game 134 Recap: Cubs 2, Braves 0
What You Need to Know John Lackey won the pitcher’s duel against Mike Foltynewicz with his best start of the year. Javier Baez scored from second on a ball that was hit about thirty feet from home. Next Level John Lackey’s last two starts left me wondering if he was the Cubs fifth-best option to […]
Catching Defense Suddenly a Legitimate Strength
Despite the stability largely provided by their exceptional core of young talent, the Cubs entered 2017 with some questions behind the plate. Set to roll with a combination of Willson Contreras and Miguel Montero, there were questions as to the defensive development of the former, and questions about the offensive production of the latter. A […]
Game 133 Recap: Cubs 6, Braves 2
What You Need to Know: The Cubs struck early, putting together a parade of hits and walks and grounders that plated two runs in the first. Kyle Hendricks turned in a brilliant start after walking three in the first two innings, exiting with two outs in the seventh after surrendering his second run of the […]
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 […]