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Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
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Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
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Hector Neris 
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Jameson Taillon 
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Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

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Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

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Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
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* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
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Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

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Seiya Suzuki, OF

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Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Reds @ Cubs: DeSclafani vs. Lester (Game 61 Thread)

Submitted by CTSteve on

CIN (28-33): RHP Anthony DeSclafani (5-4, 3.53)
CHC (33-27): LHP Jon Lester (4-5, 4.25)
First pitch: 7:08pmCT

Phillips 2b

Votto* 1b

Frazier 3b

Bruce* rf

Pena# c

Suarez ss

Negron lf

DeSclafani p

Hamilton# cf

 

Fowler# cf

Rizzo* 1b

Bryant 3b

Coghlan* lf

Castro ss

Baxter* rf

Ross c

Lester* p
Russell 2b

 

Lester was like a porta-potty after the Taste of Chicago his last time out, giving up 5 ER in 4.1 and losing against the Tigers. The Cubs won both of his starts this year against the Reds (in April), but he gave up 9 ER in 12 innings (6.75 ERA) and didn’t get either win. The Reds are 28-90 (.311) against him. Pena is 8-22 (.364). Lester has not won a game since May 16 (v. PIT).

In his last start, DeSclafani gave up 2 ER over 6.1 and got the win against PHI. He’s had two starts against the Cubs this year, in which he’s 1-1 with a 0.75 ERA, giving up 1 ER over 12 innings. The Cubs are 10-48 (.208) against him. Montero is 2-4 with a HR. Rizzo is 0-8.

The pitching matchup would seem to favor the Reds, which is probably why the Cubs are going to win.

The 12-3 win over the Tigers on Wednesday pushed the Cubs into positive territory with their run differential: We are now kicking a +5.

To answer Carlito’s question regarding taking series from losing teams: the Cubs won the series against the Padres in San Diego (May 19-21), who were 19-20 when we rolled into town. We also won the series against PIT just before that; they were 17-19 at the time. There were 4 other chances, including two with Milwaukee. We’ll get another chance against the (29-32) Indians--and we’ll miss Kluber, who pitched today.

Lester is now 0-25 at the plate this year and 0-61 lifetime, 0-66 if you count the postseason, which hardly seems fair but whatever. No one ever mentions the walk he had in 2010! (The honor of giving that up belongs to then-Giant Guillermo Mota, in case you were wondering.) Let me go out on a very long and lonely limb and say that it happens--tonight! He will get his first MLB hit in this game.

And if the stars are really aligned, he will also make a successful throw to first.

 

Go Cubs!

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Comments

Submitted by Cubster on Sun, 06/14/2015 - 06:26 pm

Lester was like a porta-potty after the Taste of Chicago --- Geez, I read that the first time and thought it was an obscure Schlitter reference and then boom, Schlitter's back.

Submitted by Rob Richardson on Sun, 06/14/2015 - 06:00 pm

The baseball tonight crew think that the Cubs will trade for a veteran bat, this seems unlikely to me.

Submitted by billybucks on Sun, 06/14/2015 - 06:55 pm

They say there's no momentum in baseball...Bruce's diving catch saves a run and possible big inning, then the next 3 Reds hitters get hits and put 2 on the board (so far).... EDIT -- OK, only one run. Man, the umps have been overturned a lot this series.

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Submitted by Carlito on Sun, 06/14/2015 - 06:16 pm

Momentum is very real if you ask me. Hell Lester talks about it after his starts ... verbatim he will talk about how he failed to stop momentum etc. I sabermetrics are legit and irreplaceable as trend indicators but there is a lot more going on in the game that indicate actual wins day to day ... a well timed play can turn a game one way or the other. That said, championship teams adjust and counter - the Blackhawks are amazing at that. I remember a couple years ago they had multiple goals disallowed at key moments and even lost disheartening games and they never let them Bartman them out of competing.

Submitted by Carlito on Sun, 06/14/2015 - 06:18 pm

If the MLB pitch tracker is accurate tonight then the home plate ump is horrendous. Seeing called strikes that are 6" outside etc. erratic and inconsistent as well. Is that the case?

Submitted by Old and Blue on Sun, 06/14/2015 - 06:18 pm

For all you Castro haters out there: You see? It was all part of a grand plan by Castro. Have a really bad May, pound the ball to the shortstop with men on base, so that in extra inning games the opposing team will pitch to him even though a guy with four Ks is up next, with nobody on the bench. Castro sees all. No manager of the year award for the Cinci manager, methinks.

Submitted by crunch on Mon, 06/15/2015 - 06:33 am

sometime between getting on a plane in phoenix and returning to the car park back home in NC to find out some crackhead hacksawed the catalytic convertor off my car...brian schlitter gets called up to the bigs and gets a win. weirdest day i've had in a while.

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Submitted by Old and Blue on Mon, 06/15/2015 - 06:09 am

How the hell does someone get into an airport car park and have enough time to hacksaw off a catalytic converter? And how did you find this out? This is a story itself. I hope the Baxter experiment is over. Luckily for us, Reds manager looked at Starlin's May numbers and thought he could pitch to him instead of walking him with first base open and pitching to Baxter. Did he not know Maddon had nobody else on the bench? I'm still scratching my head over that one. Maybe the odds said to him Starlin isn't going to do it two nights in a row. The ESPN crew was thinking the Reds were trying to pitch around Castro and Castro did reach out a bit to drive the pitch he hit but it wasn't that far out of the zone, and Castro usually can get at that kind of stuff. Nice game overall by Castro. Turned a really tough double play late in the game, too.

Submitted by WISCGRAD on Mon, 06/15/2015 - 06:46 am

Not officially announced by the Cubs yet, but looks like #1 pick Happ has signed and is heading to Arizona. Overall, strong indications that 14 draftees so far are signing: http://ccdt.webs.com/

Submitted by Dusty Baylor on Mon, 06/15/2015 - 06:18 pm

Dillon Gee DFA'd by the Mets. He's been bad this year...but taking a chance on him as the 5th starter?

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  • Arizona Phil (view)

    I have had the pleasure of watching some of the young A's pitchers lately (first Joe Boyle the last day of Minor League Spring Training in March, and more recently Luis Morales last week and Steven Echavarria yesterday at Extended Spring Training), and it reminds me of the Miami Marlins a couple of years ago. A really nice collection of young pitchers. It will be interesting to see what the A's will get for two years of ex-Cub Paul Blackburn at the Trade Deadline (there should be a robust market for Blackburn). 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Good deal

    MB needs some talent infusion!

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Very possible. Suriel, too. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    DJL: if a pitcher is recalled to be the 27th man for a doubleheader and then is optioned back to the minors the next day, the 15-day "clock" does NOT reset. The one day call-up for the doubleheader is treated like it never happened with respect to a pitcher having to spend at least 15 days on optional assignment before he can be recalled. 

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Probably the only reason David Peralta is still in the organization (he is at AAA Iowa) is to be available in case anything bad were to happen to Ian Happ (which it just did). So if Happ needs to go on the IL, the Cubs can select Peralta to play LF, DFA Wisdom (and hope he and what remains of his $2.725M salary gets claimed off waivers), and recall Mervis to platoon at DH with Cooper (with Canario / Tauchman sharing RF), at least until Suzuki and Happ are back...

     

  • crunch (view)

    i'd just like to take a moment to express to the world i'm still pissed willson contreras is not a cub when the pricetag was 5/87m (17.5m/yr).

    it would be nice to have a legacy-type player to stick around, especially one with his leadership and the respect he gets from his peers.  cubs fans deserved more than 1 season of contreras + morel...that was gold.

  • crunch (view)

    happ, right hamstring tightness, day-to-day (hopefully 0 days).

    he will be reevaluated tomorrow.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    I guess I'm not looking for that type of AB 

    Just a difference of opinion

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    I don’t see Tauchman as a weak link in any position. He simply adds his value in a different way.

    I don’t know that we gain much by putting him in the outfield - Happ, Bellinger and Suzuki and Tauchman all field their positions well. If you’re looking for Taucnman’s kind of AB in a particular game I don’t see why it can’t come from DH.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Tauchman gets a pinch hit RBI single with a liner to RF. This is his spot. He's a solid 4th OF. But he isn't a DH. 

    He takes pitches. Useful. I still believe in having good hitters.

    You don't want your DH to be your weak link (other than your C maybe)

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