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Game 125 Thread / Reds @ Cubs (1 of 3)

Submitted by Rob G. on

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SP Johnny Cueto
 SP Rich Harden
8-11, 4.90, 136 K, 53 BB, 145 IP
 (NL) 2-1, 1.80, 49 K, 14 BB, 35 IP
LF
 *Chris Dickerson LF
 Alfonso Soriano
SS Jeff Keppinger
 SS Ryan Theriot
RF
 *Jay Bruce 1B
 Derrek Lee
2B Brandon Phillips 3B
 Aramis Ramirez
1B *Joey Votto CF
 *Jim Edmonds
3B Edwin Encarnacion C Geovany Soto
CF *Corey Patterson RF *Kosuke Fukudome
C *Paul Bako 2B Mark DeRosa 
P Johnny Cueto P *Rich Harden

 That sure seemed like the longest one day break from baseball for some reason. Back to the Friendly Confines, where the Cubs have already surpassed their 44-win total from last year with a 45-17 record. The Reds limp into town, depleted and desperate enough to start Corey Patterson. And in honor of Dusty's return, let's discuss the Cubs leading the majors in walks with 501 and on pace for 655 which would break the club mark of 650 set in 1970. Of course, those walks don't mean much if you're not driving them in. The Cubs compliment those walks with an NL leading .284 batting average and .834 OPS with runners in scoring position. That's base-clogging done right.

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Submitted by billybucks on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 08:25 pm

A good night -- Harden brilliant again, Marmol still groovin', Fukky gets a big (although kinda cheap) hit, and the Brewers (Sheets) and Cards both lose! FWIW -- Tyler Colvin hit his league-leading 10th triple tonight.

Submitted by 433 on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 08:54 pm

Random observations: Marmol hasn't given up a run in 38 days. How demoralizing is it to be a Brewer these days? After the traumatizing 4 game sweep by the Cubs, the Brewers put together a nice 12-6 run -- and lost a game in the standings over that span. Even worse for them, If the Cubs play just about .500 baseball (19-18) from this point on, the Brewers would have to go 25-10 to win the division. Harden's line with the Cubs: 42 IP, 14 BB, 59 K, 7ER. The Cubs are on pace to win 100 games. 23-14 gets them there. Don't tell anyone, but Theriot is 5th in the NL with a .316 BA. Soriano has 61 RBI's in 76 games -- that's a pace of 130 RBI's in a 162 game season. So much for not getting enough RBI opportunities at the top of the order. Wood has 25 appearances since Memorial Day and has only given up runs in three of those games. Good times.

Submitted by Cubster on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 08:03 pm

who would have thunk that on August 20th... the two teams with the best records in baseball @ 77-48 would be the Tampa Rays and us. Hope I can say something similar on Oct 1st.

Submitted by Cubster on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 08:07 pm

...also the play that Soto scored from 3rd on the bunt by Harden is my nominee for most intelligent play of the year. I can't believe that Encarnacion couldn't hear those lumbering footsteps behind him.

Submitted by Jordan on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 08:25 pm

Traveling in China for work so no replay, BBTN, or streaming mediacenter...can someone describe the Soto play? Oh, and the Cardinals lost to the Pirates. Heh. That's gotta hurt.

Submitted by rokfish on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 08:31 pm

great cubs win took advantage of what was given but corey patterson should have caught that ball. oh well i think the cubs should be able to set there playoff rotation however they want. do we think zambrano is still gonna pitch game one. steve stone thinks if we play arizona we should pitch dempster,zambrano,harden what do we think?

Submitted by rokfish on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 08:31 pm

great cubs win took advantage of what was given but corey patterson should have caught that ball. oh well i think the cubs should be able to set there playoff rotation however they want. do we think zambrano is still gonna pitch game one. steve stone thinks if we play arizona we should pitch dempster,zambrano,harden what do we think?

Submitted by navigator on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 08:47 pm

Memories.... It seems like only yesterday we were agonizing like this:
Safety squeeze bunt play lifts Chicago past Cueto, Cincinnati By Hal McCoy Staff Writer Wednesday, August 20, 2008 CHICAGO — When spring training begins next February, manager Dusty Baker needs to start from scratch, as in holding up a round white thing and saying, "This is a baseball." Among 16 National League teams, the Cincinnati Reds are 14th in hitting, 14th in defense and 13th in pitching. There are no tangible statistics for measuring fundamentals, but the naked eye says the Reds are 16th. Dead last, which is why they are dead last in the National League Central standings.
More about tonight's game from an OHIO perspective here (including Dusty claiming he told his infield to watch for the safety squeeze and KPatt blaming Wrigley Field itself for his muffed catch) http://www.daytondailynews.com/s/content/oh/story/sports/pro/reds/2008/…

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Submitted by billybucks on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 08:42 am

Love Dusty's defense: "I yelled 'watch the safety squeeze' to the infield". If that's the case, why wasn't the shortstop covering third on the obvious bunt situation, so as to keep Soto close to the bag? Doesn't the manager set the defense? I think Dusty meant: "The pitcher might bunt, and, if it's a good bunt, the guy on third might ty to score when we throw to first. A good return throw to the plate will get the runner. Don't make a crappy throw. So, head's up!" Clap hands twice. Didn't see Dusty's post-game -- did he bring Darren?

Submitted by Green Lantern on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 08:07 am

i cannot blame encarnacion for that play....what else is he going to do? not make the throw to first? to get to soriano with the bases loaded? that seems like a pretty bad option. he basically did the right thing, you can't look the runner back to third bc he knows there's no one behind him....once that bunt is down the only thing you can do is take the easy out at first and then try to turn two.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 08:58 am

as Chad noted, it's the catcher's call there, but if Encarnacion at least gives Soto a look back that's probably enough to give him a pause and keep him from scoring. The play would have been damn close if Votto didn't make such a bad throw as well. I do wonder if Soto or the Cubs noticed on the first pitch to Harden that the shortstop was covering second on that play and Soto could go up the line as far as the third basemen went.

Great baserunning to make up for the piss-poor DeRosa play and Soriano pickoff from two innings earlier...

Submitted by dcf on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 08:36 pm

At the game last night. Weather was almost California-like (and particularly nice for Chicago in August). Stadium was packed (announced attendance in excess of 41,000) and the crowd was into it. All three pitchers for the Cubs looked dominant. Cueto certainly has a live arm, and he was sort of "effectively wild". He had two HBP and came really close to hitting someone at least two other times. When he got ahead, he threw a few real nice changeups. Good weather, a great crowd and a Cubs win. A great night at the ballpark and, for me, a great example of why I like going to Wrigley so much.

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  • crunch (view)

    bellinger "right rib contusion"

  • Childersb3 (view)

    South Bend just lost the lead in the bottom of the 9th on the weirdest scenario, ever.

    It's absolutely pouring rain....men on 1st and 2nd, 1out....JPatterson asks for a new ball, but no time out was called....he throws the old ball toward the dugout (not sure if it rolled out of play).....the ump declares the runners get two bases each so one run scores. Then a single up the middle ties the game.

    The rain was coming down in buckets at this point.

    Just weird

  • crunch (view)

    ...and bellinger is gone in the 7th because of that 2nd blown chance and the wall he bounced off of...

    hopefully his rib cage/shoulder feels better tomorrow, we just got happ back.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Phil,

    Any thoughts on Y. Rojas' stuff and Y. Melendez's game (I believe I've asked about him before, sorry)?

  • crunch (view)

    wow, things are moving fast.  hopefully it continues.

  • crunch (view)

    morel with 4 clean plays in 4 innings...showed off his 100000000mph arm a couple times.

    cody bellinger not having a good 4th, though...5 run leads are handy when your CF is making your pitcher have a 5-out inning.  2nd blown chance was ruled a hit even though it went in/out of his glove...1st was lost in the lights, also ruled a hit.

  • crunch (view)

    welcome back happ!  double off the wall 1st PA back.

  • crunch (view)

    oh yeah, totally, i was just chiming about why i fan like i fan.

    i would like nothing more than hendricks to keep on hendricks'ing.  guys with his stuff can throw for a long, long time as long as it works.

    he velocity is actually up a minor amount this year.  it's really "damn" when a guy like him not only has gas in the tank, but it's looking like it was years ago.  he added a curve a few years ago and it helped a little bit, but he's throwing it less and less while the fb/change combo are less effective.

  • Alexander Dimm (view)

    CRUNCH—There is no one person in this community I’m talking about.  My remarks were not directed at you or anyone, but at a tone I’ve noticed lately. 

    You have a great, dry sense of humor and there is thought behind your comments.   You and I don’t always agree but I always understand your position.  

    Lastly, and I’ll be quiet, I agree with you on Hendricks.  We can dislike the recent performance but still love the guy.  Lots of questions about his future.
     

  • crunch (view)

    myself, i make a good amount of outrageously unrealistic comments that are sometimes "violent"...like my recent suggestion of "pulling the bandaid off" by having hendricks throw every inning of every game until he's on the IL.

    i would hope any athlete that cares about what is written on the internet realizes how casual fans can be about treating their lives like scripted TV characters that don't have real lives.  it's not an excuse to do it, but there's a lot of it out there.

    but yeah, in real life i'm rooting for guys to have long and healthy careers even if i'm not happy with current performances...except for some guys...and i'm pretty sure i don't leave grey area for those comments...and almost all of them are not good humans whether they're playing baseball or not...

    hendricks was getting a good amount of boos in his last game.  i would bet a million that he will get a standing O every time he visits wrigley in his post-playing days, or a return with a new team should his career continue...or if he comes back and puts in an oldschool good performance.

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