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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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  • 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

  • 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.

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