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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
* Matt Mervis
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Pete Crow-Armstrong 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 8 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 2
* Cody Bellinger, OF  
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 3
Kyle Hendricks, P 
* Drew Smyly, P 
* Justin Steele, P   

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

DFA: 1 
Garrett Cooper, 1B 
 




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Cubs @ Cardinals: Hendricks vs. Garcia (Game 165; NLDS Game 2)

Submitted by CTSteve on

Lester pitched well enough, but the bats were cold. Then déjà Strop happened all over again.

CHC: RHP Kyle Hendricks (8-7, 3.95)
STL: LHP Jaime Garcia (10-6, 2.43)
First pitch: 4:37pmCT

Hendricks went six scoreless for the win in Milwaukee on Saturday. He’s 6-4 with a 4.47 on the road this year, which includes his only start against the Cardinals--from May (5 IP, 4 ER). Overall, the Cards are 24-65 against him. Carpenter is 6-10 with a HR, Holliday is 6-12 with 2 HR, and Peralta is 4-11. Hendricks has not pitched in the postseason.

If Hendricks gets in trouble early, we should see Hammel, who would need to stay sharp, especially if he’s needed to replace Hendricks as the starter for a Game Five.

Garcia lost in Atlanta (4 IP, 2 ER) last Friday. He’s 5-2 with a 1.70 at Busch this year. He didn’t pitch against the Cubs this year, but they are 9-40 against him for his career: Fowler 0-9, Castro 4-13, Montero 2-2 with a HR, Denorfia 2-10, Coghlan 1-3, and Ross 1-2. In 6 postseason games (5 in Series-winning 2011 and 1 in 2012), Garcia is 0-2 with a 4.23.

This game has bad written all over it, which is exactly why the Cubs are going to pull it off. 

Game Three is sometime on Monday: Arrieta vs. Wacha.

Go Cubs!

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Comments

Submitted by Cubster on Sat, 10/10/2015 - 10:02 am

Brooksbaseball.net has some interesting stats/graphs on pitch and strike zones and you can dial up individual games/pitchers. I'd love to see some comments from readers who can interpret this better than I can. I thought the Ump was really inconsistent with a very wide zone. Does this info seem to match up with my eyeball perception? Also, looking at the graphs, Lackey was not throwing as many pitches below the K-zone (certainly more above) while Lester was clearly getting his pitches down and not many above. Here is Lackey/Lester from last night. It seems their box is a bit different than the K-Zone TBS was using. http://tinyurl.com/pnvnvhj Here is Lester's data: http://tinyurl.com/pv6xfk8

Submitted by The E-Man on Sat, 10/10/2015 - 10:01 am

As I was fearing in my post yesterday, Maddon keeps trotting Strop out against the Redbirds and he constantly fails. I understand the psychology behind this, but in a series where there is a finite lock on who moves on, why does he keep riding the wrong horse?

Submitted by The E-Man on Sat, 10/10/2015 - 10:36 pm

I guess more reasoning why Joe Maddon is the manager and we are...sitting on our asses at home drinking/stuffing our faces, and 2nd guessing every move. So NOT Dusty.

Submitted by Eric S on Sat, 10/10/2015 - 10:14 pm

Never would have thought Cahill would end up being the Cubs 8th inning set up man when they picked him up. In a division series no less.

Submitted by carlosrubi on Sat, 10/10/2015 - 10:45 pm

GLORIOUS PARACHAT RECAP: 1st inning Masturbation Above-belt masturbation Christmas-themed jazz stations "Is it yesterday already?" Carpenter hits 86mph meatballs well, better put it on his scouting report "I once had sex with a trombone. Guess I was HORNY..." Munchies Purple Tahitian Buttblaster 2nd inning Hell Is Ordinary Knee-killin' slides The Hate-love relationship with Ajax Runaway cats and daughters "Cats and dolphins are natural enemies in the wild" Jaime GarcÌa has Lesteritis Reverse Cubbery Suck it GarcÌa, Piscotty, Pham, Saint Louis, Johann's mom and Trump "Rape is protected by freedom of speech. nice!" 3rd inning Lance Lynn ate Lance Lynn Glendon Rusch's golden years Moustache jokes? ᶠᶸᶜᵏ ᶠᶸᶜᵏ ᶠᶸᶜᵏ Annoying Facebook friends "Run sores," that's my ass after diarrhea Happy birthday, Trans! "Poor guy, busy job and active social life" 4th inning Cute scooter ladies Joe went to Hell "Live m·s" Totally not Crunch joins Chupacabra tacos Immigrants eating at Burger King Bull testicle tacos High-fives all around 5th inning Pitchers with diarrhea Jaime HAS and GAVE UP the runs The bad version of Hendricks Teabagging balls Complete faith in Wood, mouth full of Wong Dem foods 6th inning Randy Quaid Randy Quaid's relevance Drugs or Mental Illness: The Reality Show Jaime's pooping right now Bearded Chevy guys Not Chevy Chase 7th inning Fair-weather STL cheering fans have us confused ᶠᶸᶜᵏ Heyward Wootloop joins Sex? Testicle soup? Silent Towel was, in fact, Edward Snowden Wetnaps and towels for, uh, swimming Cantaloupe-sized body parts Parachat sounds demo Justin Miller, baseball's tattoo man Wootloop leaves 8th inning Trans was dating David Petraeus Bryant-bashing with a Cubs lead Azimuth KeeShawn Phil Trevor Cahill: 8th inning man Mornington_Crescent drops by Is it 2003? Is it 2008? It's 2015. Thanks, dbt. all-baseball.net Joe's been smoking Randy Quaid 9th inning No One Thunders Trans "I record myself in the shower and sometimes put that on as white noise" White noise is racist "It could be d i c k. I think they're talking about d i c k." Jonathan Broxton's Huge Fat Wallet, Thighs and Fat Percentage Rougned Odor is better than his brother Rougned Odor and even his father Rougned Odor. You could say that Rondon needs to... "save"... this game Trans the spoiler *sealion* *thunder* *yeehaw* Cubs Win. ...on Trans's birthday.

Submitted by billybucks on Sun, 10/11/2015 - 10:12 am

Suddenly, this seems very do-able. KB and Riz -- time to unpack the bats with the hits in them.

Submitted by billybucks on Sun, 10/11/2015 - 10:14 am

Maddon managed his ass off today. Stealing 3B, back-to-back squeezes, choosing the right guys in the pen...well done, Joe.

Submitted by Old and Blue on Sun, 10/11/2015 - 10:25 am

I told my wife, who never paid any attention to baseball before the last week or so, that the Cubs may not match up well against St. Louis because they're not much of a small ball team. Look at you, Joe!!

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Submitted by Old and Blue on Sun, 10/11/2015 - 10:28 pm

Luckily, she's not invested at all. This is the first time she's ever watched more than an inning or so. She first took notice with Arrieta because they went on about his yoga on ESPN and she is a yoga instructor. Now she's kind of all in on these guys, which is kind of fun. Even my sibs are rooting them on, and they are Sox fans.

Submitted by carlosrubi on Sun, 10/11/2015 - 10:18 pm

Okay, so... via Jesse Rogers: For people asking we won't know tomorrow's start time until late tonight. If Texas wins its at 337 pm CT. If Toronto wins its at 507 pm

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Submitted by jacos on Sun, 10/11/2015 - 10:08 pm

*IP*

Recent comments

  • crunch (view)

    it's a "for cash considerations" trade.

    cooper is a 1st/DH only type, but that's practically a freebie for BOS.  i was expecting some AAA fodder gamble on the same level rather than cash.  he showed up decent in spring + his limited time with the cubs.

    given BOS's extreme need for a 1st, this is a steal for them.

  • Cubster (view)

    Red Sox get G Cooper, I doubt if the Cubs get anything in terms of personnel.

  • videographer (view)

    An excellent Earl Weaver chain smoking reference.  

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    I think it’s a bit of a chicken or egg scenario. Did they make these trades because they saw what was coming and weren’t impressed and knew to keep up with the demand for constant winning thru had to acquire impact players? Or did those additions cause a failure of resource allocation elsewhere.

    In addition, the whole they traded to acquire a star, that’s precisely what organizations should do if they feel they’re a piece away. Keep developing talent, but sometimes you need to supplement that talent. It’s what the best run organizations do. Atlanta does it. Houston in their prime run did it. Nationals during their prime run did it. Of course dodgers did it. Boston and Philadelphia too. Hell, the Cubs did it when they won. There’s no team that has had sustained success that has solely relied on their own internal development. It just doesn’t happen. I wouldn’t fault St Louis for that. What I suspect happened is in that 2020 season, in an effort to save money, they cut budget from developing and scouting. Or maybe the wrong guys got poached by other orgs. Regardless, blaming the acquisition of two of the best players of their generation for peanuts, seems off base to me.

    I do agree that we’ve more or less come to the same conclusion, but our paths to that conclusion contain almost no crossover. I think we can also agree that seeing the cardinals struggle brings a warmth to our hearts.

  • CubbyBlue (view)

    (LAUGH EMOJI)

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    azbobbop: Yes. 

  • Mike Wellman (view)

    I’ve got Tim’s The Last Out too, along with some other prints of his work.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Very well played game all around tonight.

  • crunch (view)

    best starter and 2 top hitters from the team gone...and they keep on winning.

    little ahead of myself here, but the RSox got 9 outs to find 6+ runs.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Richard Gallardo just left the Smokies game with an arm injury after going to the ground following a pitch. Doesn’t sound good at all.

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