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Julian Merryweather, P

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Brewers @ Cubs: Cravy vs. Lester (Game 113 Thread)

Submitted by CTSteve on

MIL (48-67): RHP Tyler Cravy (0-3, 5.40)

CHC (64-48): LHP Jon Lester (7-8, 3.22)

First pitch: 1:20pmCT

Segura ss

Lucroy c

Braun rf

Davis lf

Rogers 1b

Herrera 3b

Perez 3b

Shafer* cf

Cravy p

 

Fowler# cf

Schwarber* lf

Coghlan* 2b

Rizzo* 1b

Bryant 3b

Soler rf

Ross c

Lester* p
Russell ss

Lester beat the Giants on Friday (7 IP, 2 ER) in the second game of the four-game sweep. He is 3-0 with a 1.84 over his last four starts. Lester has a 2.01 ERA in three starts against MIL, including his first win (7 IP, 0 ER) as a Cub on May 1 at Wrigley. The Brewers are 11-59 (.186) against him. Braun is 3-10.

This is Cravy’s 4th big league start--don’t y’all wish you had a name that rhymed with gravy?--and the second since he replaced Lohse in the Brewers rotation. He lost to the Cards his last time out (5 IP, 6 ER). None of the Cubs have faced him.

Go Cubs!

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Submitted by Sonicwind75 on Thu, 08/13/2015 - 08:48 pm

4 stolen bases and an error on a pick off throw in one inning. I logged on just to see what Crunch had to say about it.

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Submitted by JoePepitone on Thu, 08/13/2015 - 08:02 pm

Lester was late covering first but it probably didn't matter. It was a high chopper that took a long time to get down and the runner may have been able to beat the throw anyway. Still, Lester needs to break to cover first immediately and he didn't do that.

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 08/13/2015 - 08:49 pm

oh you know, it'll get fixed when it continues to happen after the season. this statement is based on absolutely nothing, but let's pretend it's happening and it's not going to happen for a few games until the offseason. let's pretend the leads don't matter, too...also, let's pretend any single should score a run from 2nd or move a runner from 1st to 3rd even if it's a weak single that shouldn't give up a couple bases. there, that should be good for a few hours of fun. have fun. :D

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Submitted by Old and Blue on Fri, 08/14/2015 - 08:12 am

Not a big problem during the regular season. Could be a big problem in a one game playoff game if the Cubs don't score a run early. But I always felt when the Cubs have not been good this year that it's been because their run production has sucked. Especially RISP. What's nice about this streak is the lineup has been Schwarberized.

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Submitted by johann on Fri, 08/14/2015 - 08:57 am

I'd rather have Arietta too but I've listened to several people say Lester has been working on the pickoff move and it is pretty insane he can't do it so my new hypothesis is this: he's purposely doing it this badly now because they are still winning and during the playoffs he's gonna pick a bunch of people off with his suddenly great move. You know it would take more than one good pickoff for people to stop trying. I like to believe this is true.

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Submitted by Simba63 on Fri, 08/14/2015 - 08:44 am

Hmmm… perhaps we should just pull all our outfielders into the infield when Lester is pitching. This would stop any ground balls and turn them into automatic outs. If someone hits it out of the infield it will probably be a triple. That’s the same thing that will happen if they get a single now...they end up on third.

Submitted by jacos on Thu, 08/13/2015 - 08:28 pm

Bit of history Went here today https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_Park -cy young threw first pitch there ~worst mlb team played here Spiders ~ruth hit Homer #500 ~Cobb Lajoie Paige played there Just love the feel of history, very short porch in right 460 to Center ~hoofaa~

Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 08/13/2015 - 08:31 pm

The Cubs schedule just got significantly more difficult...only 6 more games left with the Brewers. Season ends with 3 in Milwaukee.

Submitted by fullykräusened on Thu, 08/13/2015 - 08:09 pm

Harry would have called him Al Mora. Not only has Almora raised his average 30 points in ten days, he's walked six times and struck out...wait for it...once. Once, y'all. Una vez. I assume the management will just let him roll, hopefully finishing on a high note for the season. Then--okay, I'm crazy optimistic after the last couple of weeks--2016 will be some combination of the process that brought us Bryant and Schwarbeard this year. All the experts said Almora's bat-on-ball skills would justify bringing his glove to the big leagues, so maybe now he's pulling it all together. This is a lot more fun than flipping vets for prospects at the deadline...

Submitted by fullykräusened on Thu, 08/13/2015 - 08:28 pm

One last comment for this evening: I watched the post-game interview with Maddon. Somebody asked him about Lester's issues with holding runners. He said the usual things about how he's doing okay in spite of it, but then he said something along the lines of "one of these days, he's going to have an epiphany" and realize he has to fix those things. One, crunch, I hope that makes you feel a little better after you scream "why the f*** didn't you notice that in Arizona?" and two, I love having a Cubs manager who uses the word "epiphany," correctly too.

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Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Fri, 08/14/2015 - 08:00 am

Old Style, I like what you like about Maddon, but I've also been impressed by his intensity. Is meanness too strong a word? (Ask Jason Hammel.) If you don't have a manager as tough and mean as the guys in red hats like La Russa and Matheny, you're not going to beat them.

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  • Childersb3 (view)

    Jed has added Teheran, Tyranski, Kissaki, and now Straily and Nico Zeglin today.

    Zeglin is 24 yrs old. Pitched well at Long Beach St in '23 and well in some Indy Ball.

    They also added Reilly and Viets in late ST.

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  • Childersb3 (view)

    25 in Attendance!!!

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  • crunch (view)

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  • crunch (view)

    busch is having a really intense k-filled mini slump.  he deserves better after coming back to wrigley after that hot road trip.

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