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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Garrett Cooper
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
* Miles Mastrobuoni
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 10 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2 
Seiya Suzuki, OF
Patrick Wisdom, INF 

15-DAY IL: 2
* Justin Steele, P  
Jameson Taillon, P 

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Cubs @ Cardinals: Arrieta vs Martinez (Game 45)

Submitted by CTSteve on

What a difference a game makes.The starting pitching returned to form, Soler is showing patience and power, and Rizzo seems to be ending his slump. And Heyward is back and hitting in the #2 spot--to annoy crunch. All is right in Cubbie world, especially with Arrieta on the mound.

CHC (30-14): RHP Jake Arrieta (8-0, 1.29)
STL (24-22): RHP Carlos Martinez (4-4, 3.56)
First pitch: 12:45pmCST

Arrieta beat the Giants (7 IP, 1 ER, 8 K, 2 BB) on Friday. He was 0-1 with a 3.65 in his two starts at Busch last year. The Cards are 24-135 (.178) against him. Adams is 5-15.

Martinez is suffering through an awful May, having lost all four of his starts and running a 5.85 ERA. He gave up 4 ER in 5 innings against the Diamondbacks his last time out. He went 4-0 with a 1.93 in April, including his win against the Cubs. For their careers, the Cubs are 23-92 (.250) against him. Fowler is 5-14, and Rizzo is 4-15 with 2 HR.

It’s an off day tomorrow, then Morgan (1-2, 5.61) and the surprisingly competitive Phillies are in town to face Lester (4-3, 2.60) at 1:20pmCST.

Go, Cubs!

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Comments

Submitted by Old and Blue on Wed, 05/25/2016 - 05:05 am

Martinez is one of my least favorite pitchers in baseball. I'd love to see a game like yesterday's against him. Send Soler down!

Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Wed, 05/25/2016 - 05:34 am

Eloy Jimenez atop the leader board for minor-league home runs in the Cub system, with seven. Tied with Balaguert and Vogelbach, two 24-year-olds. Jimenez won't be 20 until late November. Leads the Midwest League in SLG and OPS. Maybe he'll get promoted to the Myrtle Beach squad that visits Woodbridge, VA, in June or Frederick, MD, in August. Watched two Pelican games at Frederick the other week. Was most impressed by Stinnett and Happ. Happ may swing harder than Javier Baez, though more compactly. (Also got to see Brockmeyer hit a bomb.)

Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 05/25/2016 - 05:50 pm

CB Bucknor not having a good day....

also this...

Jesse Rogers ‏@ESPNChiCubs  Yeah, there was plenty of chatter before the game about home plate ump today. Knew he would be a factor.

#conspiracytheory

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 05/25/2016 - 05:13 pm

~shrug~ he's CB Bucknor, he's usually awful.

But today he called 2 pitches balls that really looked like strikes, one looked particularly obvious. Even Arrieta jawed at him and that's rare for Arrieta. He also didn't bother to ask anyone or notice Molina clearly reaching his arm out to get hit intentionally.

Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 05/25/2016 - 05:22 pm

Bucknor tried to turn a 4-pitch walk to LaStella into an interesting AB, but LaStella prevailed.

Submitted by The E-Man on Wed, 05/25/2016 - 05:22 pm

Looks like the Cubs got short end of the Castro Warren deal so far. He is atrocious. Even in games with huge leads he sucks ass. Wonder what they saw in him? Maybe he is a better starter? Ugh!

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Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 05/25/2016 - 05:49 pm

not that I'm agreeing with E-Man in anyway here, but Warren's FIP and peripherals are not really good (5.20 FIP/5.19 BB/9/.128 BABIP), although his actual results are a lot better. Well until today...

Trade was also to make room for Zobrist and it'll be a few years before we can really judge it.

Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 05/25/2016 - 05:26 pm

phew

Submitted by Brick on Wed, 05/25/2016 - 05:26 pm

Arrieta starting. Leads of 6-1 and 9-4. You don't expect to have such a sense of relief when they win.

Submitted by Eric S on Wed, 05/25/2016 - 05:15 pm

Very satisfying, gut-check win today. The beers on the trip back to Chicago are going to taste fantastic.

Submitted by billybucks on Wed, 05/25/2016 - 05:31 pm

Strangest win of the year, and one of the sweetest. Twice I thought it was easily in the bag, then after the first 2 hitters in the 9th I thought all was lost. Big game for Grimm, Strop & Rondon. But, man, those Cards can hit for power.

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Submitted by johann on Wed, 05/25/2016 - 05:15 pm

I don't think the error call was completely out of the blue but the ball took a very bad hop and would have taken a very good play to get it. Same with one of the Stella throws where I think it could have easily been ruled a hit. Neither were cut and dry calls though imo.

Submitted by billybucks on Wed, 05/25/2016 - 05:18 pm

Don't mess with the SI jinx. Since the Javy/Cubs cover came out, he is 2-for-20 with no walks.

Submitted by Ryno on Thu, 05/26/2016 - 05:05 am

The hot start was nice, but it won't always come easy. It's nice to see them have to work for it every once in a while.

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    he's a low-level cubs star in the modern history of the cubs (c.zambrano, k.wood, r.dempster, etc), but that star has dimmed...and has been dimming since 2021.

    2024 has been ugly the whole way and we're only in mid-april.  homers aside (even though there's been 7 in 17ip) he gave up 29 hits in 20 spring innings and 31 in 17 regular season innings.

    he's pretty much only got 2 pitches at this point in his career and the mix isn't fooling anyone.  he threw a noticable amount more curves in his last start to add to the mix and it didn't help his issues.  he don't have many moves left to break out.

  • Eric S (view)

    Definitely needs a 10 day stint for the hangnail - have to nip those things in the bud or suffer the consequences (ie, more opponent home run derby, etc)

  • Eric S (view)

    Thanks for checking and yeah, that’s a double ouch

  • Sonicwind75 (view)

    Believe you are correct, checked and appears Cubs have a $2.51 million obligation to Barnhart this season per Cot's Contracts.  Also paying Trey Mancini $7mil this season.  Ouch.  

  • crunch (view)

    m.busch had 0hr and 2 doubles when he was last at wrigley.

    we'll probably see a few more of his jerseys in the seats when they return tomorrow.

    wonder who will go down for taillon.  hey hendricks, you got a hangnail or something?

  • Eric S (view)

    Nice work by Wesneski with some solid defense behind him and the late tack on runs were welcome. Gladly take a 5-4 West Coast swing, particularly down two key starting pitchers … Now just don’t get swept by the Marlins for Pete’s sake. 

  • crunch (view)

    dansby takes the team lead in SB today after a SB with 2 SB total.  the team has 3.  madrigal has the other one.

    cubs also have 7 triples, 7 players each.

  • crunch (view)

    sure am ready for p.wisdom and m.masterboney to swap roster spots.

  • Eric S (view)

    The fifth inning has not been kind to Wicks this season. Giving up leadoff doubles to Tucker Barnhart is also not good for business. IIRC, the Cubs are on the hook for the majority of Barnhart’s salary this season to add insult to injury (could definitely be wrong here). 

  • Cubster (view)

    Kris Bryant to IL with low back strain. He’s keeping the Rockies docs busy.

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