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Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
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Kyle Hendricks
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Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

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Yan Gomes

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Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

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Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

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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 

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Seiya Suzuki, OF

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Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Cardinals @ Cubs: Martinez vs. Lester (Game 149)

Submitted by CTSteve on

The Cubs win their fifth in a row and go for the sweep.

STL (92-56): RHP Carlos Martinez (13-7, 3.02)
CHC (86-61): LHP Jon Lester (10-10, 3.38)
First pitch: 1:20pmCT

Lester went the full 9 and gave up only 1 ER to beat the (still-wild card-leading) Pirates on Tuesday. After a bad August (2-2, 5.04), he’s 2-0 with 1.71 so far in September. He’s 1-2 with a 1.78 in his four starts against the Cardinals year. In those starts, they are hitting .200. For their careers, Heyward is 9-24 with a HR. Peralta is 9-37 with 3 HR.

Martinez is 0-1 with a 4.00 in his three September starts, including his no-decision (8 IP, 1 ER) in Milwaukee his last time out. He’s 1-0 with a 6.32 against the Cubs this year. They are hitting .313 in those games. For his career, Fowler is 3-9.

Go Cubs!

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Submitted by Old and Blue on Sun, 09/20/2015 - 09:26 am

I hope we get the playoff Lester. Seems like we have been seeing a lot more of him lately, as opposed to the guy who struggled a bit early in the year adjusting to the NL. If the Cubs pull within 4, the mathematical odds go from being ridiculous to pretty near ridiculous, but NIU coulda won against Ohio State if Hare had somehow gotten them downfield in the final 2 minutes, so anything is possible.

Submitted by Old and Blue on Sun, 09/20/2015 - 09:20 am

Today's starting pitcher for SL is a dick, so I think there's a high probability that he will throw at somebody. I wouldn't be surprised if that has been Maddon's play all along. Sorry crunch, but that is pretty genius. Rattle Martinez asap. I would wager that there is a Martinez implosion today at some point unless Metheny is smart enough to talk with him before the first pitch is thrown.

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Submitted by Jackstraw on Sun, 09/20/2015 - 09:23 pm

I've been following the Cubs since 1966 or 1967. Grew up with Kessinger at short and Beckert at 2B. Can't think of a pair of Cubs up the middle with the athleticism and defensive possibilities of Russell and Baez.

Submitted by CTSteve on Sun, 09/20/2015 - 09:53 pm

Nice tag, Addison!

If Castro had been there, the ball would have somehow ended up in the bleachers.

Submitted by blockhead25 on Sun, 09/20/2015 - 09:38 pm

After Lester pitched brilliantly against STL and Pit, was hoping he was on the right track. Need that version of him, not today's one that throws 110 pitches through 6 tough innings. Maybe it is a good thing that if he pitches in the playoffs, he'll be pitching on the road. Dodgers scored a quick run off of Cole. 1-0 LA after 1.

Submitted by billybucks on Sun, 09/20/2015 - 09:59 pm

Two perfect throws by the Cards save the game. Didn't like the decision to send Rizzo -- he's not fast, there was only one out, and it was perfect ball for Heyward to throw -- he was moving directly toward the plate when he caught the ball. But, still an excellent week: 5-2 against the Pirates and Cards (and Soler damn near won it), when I thought 4 wins would have been a real achievement. OK -- let's take care of business against the Brewers.

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Submitted by johann on Sun, 09/20/2015 - 09:10 pm

The positive from this game is Lester picking off a runner and showing he could against the team we'd probably face if we make it past the Pirates. There was next to running game after that. I'd really like to see Rizzo take a day off against the Brewers because he whiffed on a throw to first he should have had. Never seen him make this many fielding mistakes.

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Submitted by Old and Blue on Sun, 09/20/2015 - 09:25 pm

It was bad baseball to send Rizzo. The third base coach was apparently not watching the game. It was a short fly to a guy with a good arm. They had Broxton on the ropes. He couldn't find the strike zone. Why give them an opportunity for that double play? I wasn't thrilled with the ninth inning steal attempt, either, but that wasn't as bad as the send, and the guy trying to steal had not been thrown out once I don't think.

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  • Raisin101 (view)

    Hi Arizona Phil!

    Exciting to see Naz Mule in box scores a few times. What's his stuff like now after the TJS?

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Mastrobuoni can't come back, yet

    Wisdom does have an option left. He can hide in Iowa if Jed DFA's someone else

    Does Brennan Davis get shown the door? I know it's too early for that, but these injuries are crunching the roster of a 12-7 team playoff demands and BDavis isn't going to help anytime soon.

    Someone has to go to add Peralta. And Canario isn't going to get to play everyday regardless of RHers or LHers. Neither is Tauchman. Also don't see PCA getting a chance over Peralta.

    If Jed does those moves:

    4 OF: Belli, Peralta, Canny, Tauch

    2 C: Gomes and Amaya

    2 DH: Cooper and Mervis

    5 INF: Busch, Nico, Dansby, Morel, Madrigal

    Little short on OF depth but two injuries will do that  

  • 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

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