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40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full), plus two players are on the 60-DAY IL 

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PITCHERS: 14
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Garrett Cooper
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 
* Justin Steele, P   

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Diamondbacks @ Cubs: Corbin vs Arrieta (Game 55)

Submitted by CTSteve on

The Cubs go for another—*yawn*—sweep.AZ (24-34): LHP Patrick Corbin (2-5, 4.96)
CHC (39-15): RHP Jake Arrieta (9-0, 1.56)
First pitch: 1:20pmCST

Arrieta had a no-decision against the Dodgers on Tuesday (7 IP, 0 ER, 8 K, 4 BB). He went 4-0 with a 2.08 in May. He beat the D’backs in Arizona in April, giving up 3 ER in 7 innings. They are 20-93 (.240) against him. Goldschmidt is 3-10 with a HR.

Corbin lost to the Astros his last time out (3.1 IP, 7 ER, 3 K, 2 BB). He went 1-2 with a 5.03 in May. He’s 0-4 with a 7.94 at home but 2-1 with a 2.68 on the road. The Cubs are 6-20 (.300) against him. Fowler is 5-12.

After 1/3 of the season, the Cubs have 39 wins. Without having to do any fancy math, 39 x 3 seems like a big number.

Lester (6-3, 2.29) versus Morgan (1-4, 7.07) in Philly at 6:05pmCST tomorrow.

Go, Cubs!

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Comments

Submitted by The E-Man on Sun, 06/05/2016 - 06:00 am

Heyward struggling at the plate all year... I sure hope he gets it together soon. He gets an amazing break from typical scrutiny b/c the team is playing so well, so one would think he could start figuring it out. Maybe his wrist injury is worse than the Team is letting on?

Submitted by billybucks on Sun, 06/05/2016 - 06:22 pm

The weekend has not been kind to 9-game winners. Sale lost & Strasburg ND (team lost), Jake ND at best.

Submitted by Childersb3 on Sun, 06/05/2016 - 06:26 pm

I'm a couch coach, so I don't really know what I'm talking about. But, we let Soler take the AB in the 8th with Rizzo and Heyward available against Clippard. Then, we double switch Soler out. Also, we pinch hit for Baez. I like TLS, but for Russell, not Baez. I think we could have mixed and matched better there to end the game today. But, we lost because we wouldn't take Corbin up the middle or oppo. Too many rollovers. Oh well.

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Submitted by billybucks on Sun, 06/05/2016 - 06:33 pm

Yeah, I thought they would let Javy take a shot to tie it up. Russell scuffling -- avg. down from .250 to .236 over the past week, while Baez has 2 HR in his last 4 games. But, Russell has done well in late innings, so... For me, the only real disappointments this year have been the offenses of Heyward and Russell (Heyward's D has remained stellar, Russell's has been pretty solid). Hopefully Addy can crank it up -- he has shown signs (please hit to RF!). Heyward, other than one hot series against Cincy in April, has been consistently lousy at the plate. I fear this will be a "pressing to meet the big contract" year -- the longer the year goes with his average below .250, the more attention it will get -- hopefully next year will be more like his history.

Submitted by billybucks on Sun, 06/05/2016 - 06:28 pm

Good luck ever figuring out baseball. Cubs go 8-2 on the home stand -- both losses were Arrieta starts against pitchers with ERAs near 5.00.

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Submitted by johann on Sun, 06/05/2016 - 06:55 pm

As a Cubs fan I can relate but it must so be frustrating to Pirates fans that every time the Pirates have won lately so have we and when we finally lose so do they. It's a long season and a lot can still happen but I am enjoying pissed off Pirates and Cardinals fans tremendously.

Submitted by Cubster on Sun, 06/05/2016 - 06:08 pm

A caller on WSCR mentioned that the Cubs are 0-4 on getaway Sunday games at Wrigley (Rockies, Pirates, Braves and Dbacks). They have actually won on Sundays at Wrigley when the next game is a home game. Caller was irked because he bought a 6 game Sunday package and has seen 25% of their losses. Small sample size, sure. Or Maddon is doing something randomly wrong on getaway days.

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