While baseball offers the great therapy of returning to action the very next day after a loss, that same quality allows little time for reveling in remarkable victories like Saturday night’s. All that needed to go well for the Cubs went well, and they overcame even issues such as small bullpen failures and cold bats […]
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Playoff Prospectus: Of Ghosts and Pinch-Hit Grand Slams
The piece previewed here, written by Baseball Prospectus’s Meg Rowley, forms part of the main site’s comprehensive coverage of the playoffs, “Playoff Prospectus.” Additional Game One coverage, exclusive to BP Wrigleyville, can be found here, under the name “Second City October”. The Cubs and Dodgers kicked off the NLCS last night, and be honest, you thought […]
Second City October: NLCS Series Preview
This piece, written by BP Wrigleyville’s Jared Wyllys, forms part of our in-house coverage of the Cubs in the playoffs, “Second City October”. Additional NLDS coverage, written by Aaron Gleeman and originally run on the main site’s series “Playoff Prospectus,” can be found here. Fortune has not been kind to the Cubs when they travel to the west coast, and especially so in […]
Playoff Prospectus: NLCS Preview—Dodgers vs. Cubs
The piece previewed here, written by Baseball Prospectus’s Editor-in-Chief Aaron Gleeman, forms part of the main site’s comprehensive coverage of the playoffs, “Playoff Prospectus”. Additional series coverage, exclusive to BP Wrigleyville, can be found here, under the name “Second City October”. Dave Roberts and the Dodgers pulled out all the stops in Game 5 of the NLDS, […]
GAME 129 RECAP: DODGERS 1 CUBS 0
There’s a last time for everything, so they say. On Sunday afternoon, the legendary Vin Scully called his final Cubs game in his 67-year career, even taking over the Cubs broadcast for the entire third inning. There’s a first time for everything, so they say. Dodgers starter Brock Stewart recorded his first big league hit […]
Game 127 Recap: Cubs 6 Dodgers 4 (10)
Kris Bryant did it again Friday night, homering in the tenth inning to lift the Cubs over the Dodgers 6-4 in Los Angeles. Most of the natural spotlight here falls upon the high-action late frames leading up to and including the deciding blast: Bryant’s first homer of the night in the eighth pulled the Cubs […]
Series Preview: Cubs vs. Dodgers, August 26-28
The last time the Cubs found themselves in Chavez Ravine, this transpired… Which, of course, is the second greatest moment Cubs moment in Dodgers Stadium after this… When the Cubs hit the West Coast starting Friday night, it will be light on the Arrieta and Rowengartner, but it will feature two of the best teams […]
Game 51 Recap: Cubs 2 Dodgers 1
Top Play (WPA): Mike Bolsinger held the Cubs hitless the first time through the order, though in very Bolsinger-ian fashion, he did so in a less-than-threatening manner, hitting both Dexter Fowler and Javier Baez with pitches and allowing another walk to Jason Heyward. The Cubs were determined to improve the second time around, and following a Dexter Fowler walk […]
Game 49 Recap: Cubs 2 Dodgers 0
The following things are always important to keep in mind when watching MLB baseball on Memorial Day: Whatever the announcers might say, Memorial Day does not mark a milestone at which numbers and the standings begin to mean something. Rany Jazayerli did once find that in-season performance starts to predict future performance at a team level […]
Series Preview: Cubs vs. Dodgers, May 30-June 2
Dear reader, this is where I say “I told you so.” The Los Angeles Dodgers roll into Wrigley Field on Monday with a middling 26-24 record, good for second place in the NL West, but 4 1/2 games behind the Giants. Meanwhile, their starting pitching—behind Clayton Kershaw and the currently-injured Kenta Maeda—has been predictably suspect. […]