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Cubs @ Dodgers: Arrieta vs Hill (Game 169; NLCS Game 3)

Submitted by CTSteve on

Dodgers 6, Cubs 0
W: Hill (1-0); L: Arrieta (0-1)
Dodgers lead series: 2-1
PREVIEW
CHC (1-1): RHP Jake Arrieta (0-0, 3.00)
LAD (1-1): LHP Rich Hill (0-1, 4.63)
First pitch: 7:08pmCST

Arrieta had a no-decision in Game Three of the NLDS (6 IP, 2 ER, 5 K, 1 BB). He went seven scoreless against LA in May but didn’t factor in the 5-0 loss. He went 11-3 with a 3.59 on the road this season. Dodger Stadium was also the site of his first no-hitter last August. Overall, the Dodgers are 18-89 (.202) against him. Gonzalez is 6-21 with a HR.

Hill started two games in the NLDS against the Nationals: a four-run 4.1 inning loss and a one-run 2.2 inning no-decision. He went 4-4 with a 2.42 at Dodger Stadium this year. He has never faced the Cubs, but some new Cubs are 3-18 (.167) against him. Zobrist is 1-2; Coghlan is 1-3. Hill has been battling blisters, so his outing might be a short one.

It’s Lackey versus Urias tomorrow for Game Four.

Go Cubs!

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Comments

Submitted by Charlie on Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:14 am

Who has a bigger afternoon shadow advantage: Arrieta with the disappearing hard slider, or Hill with the big curve ball he throws from two or three different angles? I worry a little about Arrieta's diminished use of that slider/cutter; he's cut his usage of it from 29%-ish to 18%-ish from 2015 to 2016, using the fastball instead at about a 15% higher rate than last year. But if he can throw more early strikes, maybe he can go to that cutter/slider thing more frequently.

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:29 pm

Cubs offense has scored 3rd most runs per game  in playoffs

  1. Nationals 4.8 R/G
  2. Blue Jays 4.29 R/G
  3. Cubs 4.17 R/G
  4. Indians 3.83 R/G
  5. Dodgers 3.43 R/G
  6. Rangers 3.3 R/G
  7. Giants 3.2 R/G
  8. Red Sox 2.33 R/G

OPS is 7th best though and a very poor .193 average...need some help from the BABIP gods.

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Submitted by billybucks on Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:54 pm

I get the very small sample size, but...Red Sox last by almost a full run. Did not see that coming. Hopefully, Roberts will continue to manage like he did in the 8th inning of Game 1 -- intentionally walk bad hitters, then leave a RHP to face Miggy with a LHP warm in the pen.

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:30 pm

Maddon downplayed possible changes to the starting lineup because #Dodgers starters will likely only go 5 innings the next two games. #Cubs

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Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:49 pm

Per Maddon:

Don't ever permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

I think once I fully accepted that the baseball playoffs are just a series of coin flips, I've been pretty zen about it. 2008 almost did me in, I can't rememeber being anymore angry and disappointed than that (other than 2003 of course), but I'm just trying to enjoy the moments the last 2 seasons. That being said, when they're in a position to move into the next round or get eliminated, I get a lot more angsty. Game 4 vs the Giants I wasn't a happy camper watching them flail against Matt Moore...about as worked up as I had gotten all season over a game.

The 2016 Cleveland Indians are a great story and also a great example of the absurdity of the playoffs. They had no business shutting down the Red Sox or Blue Jays without Carrasco, Salazer and hell, even Bauer (not to mention Brantley gone all season) and yet, here we are.

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Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 10:35 am

I've been feeling a lot of anxiety about this postseason but it all seemed to lift yesterday. It helps to have Arrieta taking the mound, because you always know what he's going to give you--or rather, what he's going to give the other team. And I always did like Rich Hill. I had an idea this would happen when the Dodgers nabbed him at the deadline. Going forward, it all depends on whether some of our younger players can figure out how to help a team that's scuffling. I thought that Piniella's Cub playoff teams lay down like dogs, contemptibly. I hope this group doesn't do that. I don't think they will.

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:59 pm

lineups Fowler CF Bryant 3B Zobrist LF Rizzo 1B Baez 2B Soler RF Russell SS Montero C Arrieta P vs. Utley 2B Seager SS Turner 3B González 1B Reddick RF Pederson CF Grandal C Toles LF Hill P

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Submitted by Eric S on Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:11 pm

So we got the Bumgarner starters but with adjustments to the order. I like it though I'd consider switching outfield spots between Soler and Zobrist.

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Submitted by Charlie on Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:34 pm

Almora is a useful late-inning piece, as is Contreras. Soler at most gets one pinch hit AB in a late inning situation because he's not staying in to play defense or run in a key situation. I'm also not sure Almora has any better chance to hit Hill than Heyward would. I really don't believe in his bat. But I probably hold an extreme opinion there.

Submitted by The E-Man on Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:22 pm

Think my position was crystal clear in Soler on many recent posts. Very poor decision by Maddon for this kid in this spot, and unfamiliar place. Butcher in the outfield.

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:34 pm

The play in CF was more dangerous where Soler didn't peel off, although to be fair he was camped under it and Fowler barely got there so I'm guessing someone told Fowler to pull a Kelly Leak out there tonight. Regardless, he is suppose to give way.

Bad decision on the throw no doubt...luckily it didn't hurt.

Score.Some.Runs.

Submitted by jacos on Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:10 pm

Sooo... Make Javy your catcher now Jake??? /not getting paid

Submitted by billybucks on Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:15 pm

Unless the Dodgers trade for the SF bullpen, or Roberts starts intentionally walking bad hitters, this doesn't look good. Which means Lackey really needs to bring his Big Boy game tomorrow -- can't go down 3-1 with Kershaw waiting to finish them off.

Submitted by Eric S on Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:39 pm

Russell getting pinch hit for by J-Hey in the seventh. Perhaps Javy gets a start at short tomorrow. And J-Hey Ks on three pitches looking more hapless than Russell in the process

Submitted by billybucks on Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:42 pm

Ugly game. It happens. Tomorrow, we find out if this team really is different. I feel strangely optimistic.

Submitted by billybucks on Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:57 pm

Cubs hitting heros in the post-season so far: pitchers and Miggy. That's messed up.

Submitted by billybucks on Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:07 pm

Probably a good thing they are on the road, so they don't have to deal with the local media freaking out. But, geez, what a total crap game.

Submitted by billybucks on Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:16 pm

That 6th run was a "we're laughing at you" run. Let's see how the Cubs respond tomorrow. Season is on the line.

Submitted by Eric S on Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:34 pm

Haven't been shut out in consecutive games since May 2014. Time to turn it around tomorrow. Kind of glad Jansen pitched the ninth in a 6-0 game.

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:37 pm

@BenFinfer To find the last time Cubs came back from a one-game deficit to win a playoff series you'd have to go all the way back to 2015.

2 shit games vs. 2 very good pitchers. I'm seeing a pattern for Cubs losses.

Submitted by Charlie on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 10:03 am

I'm glad I wasn't reading the comments here during the game. I sense a lot of frustration getting channeled into spite in some of these comments. Still not as bad as listening to Joe Buck and John Smoltz, though. Am going to listen to the radio broadcast tonight and hope the gap between the video feed and the radio doesn't drive me crazy.

Recent comments

  • Charlie (view)

    The Cards also traded for both Jim Edmonds and Larry Walker. It's the developing part that has fallen off. Of course, it could also be the case that there are no more Matt Carpenters left to pull out of the hat. 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Cubs sign 28 yr old RHRP Daniel Missaki. He was in MiLB from his 17yr old to 19yr old years and did pretty well.
    He's been in Mexico and Japan the last four years and has done well also.
    He's supposedly Japanese and Brazilian.
    Interesting sign. We obviously need to RP in the system
    Injuries are mounting everywhere!!

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Sure, they made generally short term trades for established players to enhance what they already had or traded for players early enough in their careers that they were essentially Cardinals from the start. What they never did was to try to use the more established players as foundational cornerstones.

    Essentially we’re saying the same thing. They have given up on player development to the point that even their prospects that make it to the bigs flop so that they have to do things like buy most of their rotation and hope for the best.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    I don’t buy that. They had been doing that for years.

    They did it with Matt Holliday. They did it with John Lackey. They did it with Mark Mulder. They did it with Jason Heyward, who had a great year for them. I’m sure there’s more but those come to mind immediately.

    I attribute it more to a breakdown in what they’re doing in terms of development than a culture thing.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    They won those trades and sacrificed their culture. That’s exactly their problem.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    The other part that’s kind of crazy is they made two very high profile trades, one for Goldschmidt and one for Arenado, and they very clearly won those trades. They just haven’t been able to develop players the last handful of years the way they usually do.

    I guess the moral there is it’s hard to stay on top of your game and be good at what you do in perpetuity.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Marmol was extended at the beginning of the year. Two years I believe.

  • crunch (view)

    Jesse Rogers @JesseRogersESPN
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  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Thought it might have been David Peralta given the open 40 man spot and how PCA has played so far. 

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

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