What You Need To Know: John Lackey struggled and gave up five runs on seven hits, including a pair of long balls. The silver lining is that he struck out six and walked none. The Marlins’ sixth, and what would eventually become game-deciding, run was scored on a bizarre strikeout-wild pitch during which no one other […]
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Game 57 Recap: Cubs 10, Marlins 2
What You Need To Know: After a first inning where Jake Arrieta’s handle on the strike zone was a nod to Doc Ellis on the anniversary of the greatest sporting accomplishment in history, he settled in for the next five, allowing the Marlins only one more hit and one more walk. That gave the Cubs bats just […]
Game 56 Recap: Cubs 3, Marlins 1
What you need to know: Fans know the script the Cubs have followed this season all too well: fall behind early, watch their starter struggle, put lots of runners on base, wait for the two-out hit that never comes, fall short in the end, tell themselves not to worry. The Cubs managed to flip at […]
Game 55 Recap: Cubs 7, Cardinals 6
What You Need To Know: That Jason Heyward had a hand in the game-winning run, and Dexter Fowler struck out to end the game, and that the Cubs swept the series all feels a little too on the nose. Write this in a screenplay and it probably gets chopped, but the Cubs and Cardinals always […]
Game 54 Recap: Cubs 5, Cardinals 3
What You Need To Know: The Cubs fell behind early, thanks to a Jose Martinez two-run bloop single in the first and a Molina solo home run in the sixth. But thanks to a Baez solo home run in the third and Kyle Schwarber’s first career grand slam in the seventh, the Cubs clawed their […]
Game 53 Recap: Cubs 3, Cardinals 2
What You Need To Know: The Isotopes win a game! The Isotopes win a game! Our long national nightmare is over. Of course, the Cardinals were never going to make it easy, and the Cubs bats didn’t suddenly come alive. They only got five hits, only had multiple runners on at the same time in one […]
Game 52 Recap: Padres 2, Cubs 1
What You Need To Know: Today’s mid-afternoon game was held at a 1-1 tie from the second inning until the bottom of the eighth. Jake Arrieta kept the Padres at bay, allowing five hits and one run. He also struck out seven over two walks. The Cubs were only able to muster three hits and one run. […]
Game 51 Recap: Padres 6, Cubs 2
There’s a moment in Mystery Science Theater 3000 during the execrable Manos: the Hands of Fate where a good ten to fifteen seconds passes by without a single character moving or speaking until an exasperated Joel Hodgson finally breaks the silence by crying “DO SOMETHING!” Stretch that out to five days, and you’ve just written […]
GAME 49 RECAP: Padres 5, Cubs 2
What You Need To Know: For the 12th time since 1913, the Cubs lost a nine-inning game despite drawing 10 or more walks. For the fourth time since 1913, the Cubs failed to score more than two runs despite drawing double-digit walks in a nine-inning game. The last time the latter occurrence happened was five days before WWII […]
Game 48 Recap: Dodgers 9, Cubs 4
What you need to know: Well, that wasn’t a whole lot of fun, was it? The Cubs offense did some damage to baseball’s finest starting pitcher in Clayton Kershaw, but it wasn’t enough to silence a Dodger offense that’s currently clicking on all cylinders. Jon Lester wasn’t good in a short start by his standards, and […]