“Showed exactly what we thought. Nothing major. More of a tool to help know how we need to treat it. We have a pretty good idea of what we need to be able to do to get back out there. The good news thing about this is I can walk and run around on this. […]
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Game 110 Recap: Nationals 9, Cubs 4
Oh boy. Looks like I’m back to being Master Of Disaster. In the first half of the season, I didn’t get too upset about the results because I was fairly confident things would snap back into gear, the way they were predicted. What did bother me at times was how “loose” the Cubs looked at […]
Game 109 Recap: Cubs 7, Nationals 4
Going into today’s game, there were an awful lot of “NLDS Preview” takes for a team that had lost three in a row, was sitting at six over .500, and was all of half a game ahead of the team that somehow still employs Matt Garza. So naturally, the Cubs and Nationals played a remarkable […]
Game 108 Recap: Nationals 4, Cubs 2
What You Need to Know Kyle Hendricks was mostly excellent in a duel against Tanner Roark, going seven strong innings. But Daniel Murphy had his number, tagging the Professor for two home runs. Javier Baez went deep, but it wasn’t enough to win the first game of a potential NLDS preview. Next Level After getting […]
Game 79 Recap: Cubs 5, Nationals 4
What You Need To Know Prior to the Top of the Ninth: This is a backbreaking loss for the Cubs, as a win today would’ve have given them a split in their four-game series against the NL East-leading Nationals. The split potentially could’ve overshadowed the preceding 48 hours that saw Miguel Montero DFAd, John Lackey taking […]
Game 78 Recap: Nationals 8, Cubs 4
I apologize for the unfortunate timing in my signing up for the recap tonight. Clearly this one should’ve gone to BP Wrigleyville’s newest staffmembers: Franz Kafka and Sylvia Plath. Forget Daniel Murphy, Matt Holliday, and Hunter Strickland. My least favorite person in baseball is whoever installed third base at Nationals Park. So…who wants to talk […]
Game 77 Recap: Nationals 6, Cubs 1
What you need to know: It was a battle of the last two Cy Young winners in the nation’s capital and, you guessed it, the Cubs gave up another first-inning run, their 65th of the year. That was just the start, as things got sloppier from there. To be precise: two errors, another couple defensive […]
Game 76 Recap: Cubs 5, Nationals 4
What You Need To Know Part 1: Whew. After heading into the bottom of the ninth inning with a 5-0 lead and seemingly playing a game of screw the closer that was reminiscent of the 2016 season, former closer Hector Rondon and current closer Wade Davis combined to almost complete the “closer screws you” game […]
Game 64 Recap: Nationals 5 Cubs 4
Zounds. This felt like a matchup between the two best teams in the league, didn’t it? If this kind of game happened in the playoffs, this recap would look a lot different because I’d currently be catatonic. Of course, you wouldn’t notice because you would be too. The win probability graph for this one looks […]
Game 62 Recap: Nationals 4 Cubs 1
If there’s one thing recognizable to fans who root for Jake Arrieta every fifth day, it’s the utter hopelessness of an offense facing a right-hander in the midst of a historic roll. In Monday’s series opener, Washington Nationals’ Max Scherzer struck out 11 Cubs batters over seven innings, while facing just two batters more than […]