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6:45 p.m. RHP Miles Mikolas (9-13, 4.28) vs. LHP Patrick Corbin (12-7, 3.20) FOX Sports Midwest // KMOX // WIJR
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Ny, do you still feel that the Cubs ain’t that good?
Has anyone noticed that the Cubs are playing better the last few days?
But they still ain’t that good.
Playing better but playing against lay down teams. Judging from what Rats wrote earlier on the Monday game thread, the Reds have no intention of winning a game at Wrigley. So it is up to the Cards to do it themselves the rest of the season.
The Cubs have two more against the pitiful Reds and three more against the even more pitiful Pirates so that is five automatic wins for them. How many of the seven head to head games can the Cards win? That is the question. I am thinking now we are going to need at least a split at Wrigley and win two out of three at Busch because our three in Arizona won’t be a cakewalk.
Could be close tonight. Mikolas has been good lately. Going against a lefty tonight is a good chance for our middle order to shine. Don’t really understand why we’re not good against leftys? Keep it rolling. Go Cardinals!
Well if the Pirates ever got close enough to need a closer in the last few games they can forget it.
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/09/felipe-vazquez-arrested-charged-in-florida.html
Yeah, that’s a pretty awful accusation and the evidence sounds like it’s fairly substantive. From a human side, you feel for the young girl being used. From the baseball side, the Pirates are cursed. They missed a chance to trade him and his career may be over.
Every time the Pirates are preparing to square off with the cubbies and it’s a meaningless game for them and a crucial game for Chicago, I just cannot erase the clear vision in my mind of the Pittsburgh pitcher intently toeing the rubber and all 8 other Pirates laying face up on the turfv in their respective positions. It’s been that way for years….a bad tradition or understanding between the two, if you will. What needs to happen one of these years, is for the two clubs to get in an all out donnybrook with each other…..shoving, spitting, name calling, biting, scratching, hair pulling, kicking (even to players sprawled out on the field), poking eyes, elbowing, fists flying, throwing hard objects at each other (especially bats & balls)……you name it. Then and only then can this tradition be finally broken. Just like two positives attract each other, so do two negatives. These are indeed two very very lame franchises.
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Looks like the Reds just about have their normal lineup on the field tonight. Plus Sonny Gray is pitching and he’s been doing well lately. This might be the only chance the Cubs have of losing in this series.
well I think our guys need to be patient and work counts. we got into their bullpen last night, lets keep at it. we definitely should be aggressive in the middle of the plate but take those edge ones early in the count.
Ozuna got completely jumpy on that at bat. Really bad. Now we need Dejong to come through, who is also susceptible to the slider.
If you keep striking out on pitches in the dirt, Corbin will probably keep throwing pitches in the dirt. Cards had the bases loaded in 3rd with one out and should have stranded them all. Ozuna struck out swinging at three pitches way out of the zone, then DeJong inexplicably swung at a 3-0 pitch and hit a routine grounder that should have gotten Corbin out of it . . . . but Turner booted it to tie the game at 1-1. Yadi then struck out to end the inning, and yes on another bouncer in the dirt. This isn’t looking pretty with 7 Ks after 3 innings.
Corbin throws that slider in the dirt and the Cards simply can’t lay off. Sheesh…with any discipline the Cards score 3+ in that inning. They were lucky to get one on the booted grounder.
Bases bubbling over with Birds with 1 out in the 3rd for Marcell in a 1-0 Nats ballgame…..lets stay with the action shall we?
Marcell – Strikes out swinging, Corbin’s 6th K already.
DeJong – oh oh….Corbin has to see a big ol’ “K” enveloping DeJong with his track record of whiffing. Paul grounds it out to short….and Turner bobbles it!! All onboard are safe and this game is tied at 1. How’s that for a gift run? Let’s make that plural for “runs” if Yadi can come thru.
Yadi – Strikes out swinging on one T hst would have been way too low for Pete Gray.
Howie Kendrick just plants one on to the centerfield green and just like that the Nats recapture their one run advantage. Howie triple in his first at bat which puts him in a primo position to get himself the ever elusive cycle.
If anyone owns any Felipe Velasquez rookie cards, yesterday would have been the time to sell high. That idiot is in a load Trouble….with a capital “T”.
Saw that, and hes got a 5 yr contract for like 26mil or something. Sounds like he should be playing football instead of baseball. Gonna need some big money for attorneys now.
Bottom of 4
Edman – Tommy cannot check his swing and that will be Corbin’s 8th strikeout Ton ight out of 10 outs registered. Yeah, if 3-10 will get a batter to Cooperstown, then 8-10 will most certainly get a pitcher enshrined.
Bader – Whiffs……talk about a broken record! If both Corbin and Cardinal hitters keep this up, we may very well be witnessing a record here tonight.
Mikolas – Makes contact…sweet!….its a meek grounder to 1st, but at least he hit the ball.
Cards 1
Nats 2The Cards offense is tough to watch tonight. They have 9 Ks after four innings. Watching the Cards tonight sure would lead you to believe it’s hard to hit pitches that bounce to the catcher.
Yeah Wooster, he definitely ruined his life. There’s really no coming back from doing what he did to a 13 year old.
Cards are in big trouble now with Nats on the corners and no outs.
Turner- Scalds a shot, but right st DeJong….whew!
Eaton – Flies out to very short left resulting in no Washington base advancement, and now if Mikolas can get Rendon, that would be one huge bullet dodged….a total momentum changer….huge at bat here.
Rendon – Flies out to Fowler right at the edge of the right field track….sweet!
Nice to see the Cards turn the table. Nats had runners on the corners in the 5th and failed to score.
4th inning at Wrigley with the Redlegs still holding the slimmest of margins at 3-2. Yeah we’ll see how long that lead lasts. The cubs had to feel pretty bad about only scoring 8 runs last night in comparison to what they have been doing offensively lately. Well let’s hope the cubbies get it all out of their system for our arrival this weekend.
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