Recap
Last Night's Cubs Game with Visual Aids
By now, most of your are familiar with Fangraphs fantastic Win Probability Added charts that chart the chances for a team to win a game in real-time. Here's last night's exciting, albeit ultimately disappointing loss:
That though misses the big story of Alfonso Soriano's escapades and his effect on us fans watching the game. So we're introducing TCR's CFPA (Cubs Fan Popularity Added):
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Recipe for a 7-1 Homestand
- Outscore opponents 67-28 (41-9 over the last 4 games)
- Score first in 6 of the 8 games (they won 5 of the 6 games they scored first in)
- Out-homer your opponents 10-8
- Hit 342/436/535 as a team
- Walk 43 times, while only allowing 28 free passes yourself
- Hit .389 with 21 RBI's with the bases loaded
- Pitch to a tune of 3.25 ERA as a team
- Hold opposing team to a 219/300/364 line
- Bear down and hold the opposing team to 197/310/361 with men in scoring position
- Strike out 56 batters in 72 IP (7.375 K
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crunch (view)
they might not want to start the clock on brown and give us wesn. hopefully it won't come to that.
crunch (view)
madrigal ground rule double!
he blows a play and hits a double. we're getting bizarro madrigal.
Childersb3 (view)
Close up video shows Steele saying to the Trainer "no it just cramped up"
Hope so
Ben Brown and not Smyly please
crunch (view)
agreed and agreed.
he walked off on his own, but we may not find out for a few days how this will impact the club.
hellfrozeover (view)
Looked like a hamstring rather than a knee, not sure if that’s better or worse.
crunch (view)
steele leaves the game with a hamstring or knee injury. sigh.
crunch (view)
...and a madrigal "non-error" leads to a sac fly for a tie game. nice.
having a ball clank off your glove, but still getting it count as a hit because it was hit hard is a nice stats gift.
Dolorous Jon Lester (view)
For sure. This lineup isn’t exactly stacked as is, and subbing out a Cooper or even a Tauchman for Madrigal won’t do it any favors.
crunch (view)
the ESPN bottom graphic taking up 1/8th of the screen sucks.
i only use ESPN during baseball season and i'm forced to watch a baseball broadcast designed to be broadcast in sports bars and betting parlors where the news/scores of other games is as important as what you're actually tuned in to watch.
crunch (view)
morel triple to start the season....yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah