What You Need to Know: The Cubs’ bats remained lively, continuing Friday night’s hitting barrage, and Jake Arrieta settled down after a rocky first to deliver the Cubs an impressive victory. Albert Almora and Addison Russell homered, and Jason Heyward added a bases-clearing triple to put the game out of reach in the middle innings. […]
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Game 89 Recap: Cubs 9, O’s 8
What You Need to Know: The Cubs are 1-0 in the Jose Quintana era. The trade has worked out well, I guess. The Baby Bears attacked early tonight, scoring eight runs on four home runs against O’s starter Kevin Gausman. Gausman whad the worst start of his career to date in terms of Tom Tango’s version […]
Game 88 Recap: Pirates 14, Cubs 3
What You Need To Know: Mike Montgomery, stepping up when his team needed him for an emergency start with only two days rest, gave the Cubs all he could in three innings of work before the pen only gave up two runs over the final six innings as the Cubs’ rally just fell short in a […]
Game 87 Recap: Pirates 4, Cubs 2
What You Need to Know: For the first three innings, the sides traded zeros. Then came the fourth inning, and they started trading some other integers. Pittsburgh one, thanks to a ground out. Cubs two, via back-to-back home runs. Then Pittsburgh came back with a three-run sixth. Then they went back to trading zeros for the […]
Game 85 Recap: Brewers 11, Cubs 2
What You Need To Know: Well, “need” would be a funny word choice for this one. The Cubs got stomped. Mike Montgomery didn’t have anything. Couldn’t locate his curve, hitters sat on the fastball and pretty much streaked it so hard the spray chart would have looked something like a Jackson Pollock painting. Jack Leathersich…or Seatherlich, […]
Game 84 Recap: Cubs 7, Rays 3
What You Need to Know John Lackey wasn’t terrible, giving up three runs in six innings. Meanwhile, the Cubs couldn’t catch a break with every line drive finding a glove and every deep fly coming just short of the wall. After six innings of BABIP-related frustration, Jon Jay tied the game with a three-run dinger, […]
Game 83 Recap: Rays 6, Cubs 5
Things were lining up perfectly today for the easiest recap intro in the history of Baseball Prospectus: Cubs declare independence from .500 mark. It was almost too perfect. And then the Cubs went and declared independence in the wrong direction. It was like fighting the Revolutionary War only to declare “Wannabe” our National Anthem. What […]
Game 81 Recap: Reds 5, Cubs 3
What you need to know: Jackson Stephens, a 23-year-old pitcher making his MLB debut, barely outdueled Eddie Butler this afternoon—more with his bat than his arm. In the fourth inning, Stephens delivered a two-out, bases loaded single that gave the Reds a 4-3 lead. They didn’t give it back. Stephens battled through just five innings and […]
Game 80 Recap: Reds 5, Cubs 0
What You Need to Know: It was two days shy of the fourth anniversary of this once-famed trade. The Orioles have acquired RHP Scott Feldman & CA Steve Clevenger from the Cubs in exchange for RHPs Jake Arrieta & Pedro Strop. — Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) July 2, 2013 The erstwhile Cub tossed seven stellar innings against his […]
It’s Time to Talk About the Milwaukee Brewers
The Chicago Cubs have been a big pile of mediocre this season and in large part have looked like only a shell of their 2016 World Series team. While the Cubs continue to try to find themselves—80 games into the season—it’s time to start being realistic about what the Cubs actually are. They are one […]