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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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Dodgers @ Cubs: Urias vs Hendricks (Game 52)

Submitted by CTSteve on

Hendricks (aka, Baby Maddux, El Professor) goes for the series win.

LAD (28-26): LHP Julio Urias (0-0, 10.13)
CHC (36-15): RHP Kyle Hendricks (3-4, 2.93)
First pitch: 1:20pmCST

Hendricks went 9 complete against the Phillies on Saturday, allowing only 1 ER on 5 hits, while striking out 7 and walking none. He came one right field bloop/team error away from doing his Maddux imitation but ended up throwing a still-efficient 104 pitches. He went 2-2 with a 2.23 in May. The Dodgers are 5-28 (.179) against him. Turner is 2-5 and Gonzalez is 1-2, both with a HR.

Things didn’t go as planned for the 19y/o Urias in his debut, lasting only 2.2 and giving up 3 ER to the Mets in New York. Doing that would probably be the “best day of my life,” too, as he said afterward. The Dodgers promptly sent him back to AAA, but the injury to Wood means he’s back.

Maeda, who was scheduled to go today, is moved to tomorrow to face the Braves, even though it seems like it would have been much better for the kid to face a shitty team at home than to see the Cubs at Wrigley. But who am I to judge.

Bradley (2-0, 6.11) and the D’Backs versus Lackey (5-2, 3.16) to open the weekend series tomorrow at 1:20pmCST. Hammel's hamstring is good to go for Saturday, after a cramp ended his last start in the third inning.

Go, Cubs!

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Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 06:46 am

Trib article this am mentions that Kyle Hendricks has been nicknamed "El Professor" (by Pedro Strop). Baby Maddux still works for me.

Submitted by The E-Man on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 06:27 am

Dodgers Pitching... Man, the Dodgers seem to always have some good people scouting arms. Urias signed at 16; Kershaw, Baez, Hatcher, Jansen, Jose de Leon, Grant Holmes The Cubs have... Ummm... Duane Underwood? Pierce Johnson? Carson Sands?

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Submitted by johann on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 06:51 am

On the other hand they have a terrible offense and not a lot of hope in the pipeline. It's all a trade-off I suppose with what you focus on. Hopefully now that we have a great, young offensive base they can focus on pitching.

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Submitted by johann on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 06:04 pm

McCleod actually just said today that pitching is going to be a focus moving forward and that they need to do a better job identifying and developing pit ching so that's good to hear. They don't have a pick till the 3rd round this year though.

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Submitted by billybucks on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 06:17 pm

Interesting how longtime legacies continue: Dodgers could always pitch (dating back to Koufax/Drysdale) but struggled to hit, Red Sox could always hit (dating back to Ted Williams!) but struggled to pitch. The ballparks may have something to do with that....

Submitted by johann on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 06:38 am

Not sure if it's been mentioned but looking like Hammel will be able to pitch his next start and Wood is back available in the bullpen today. Rondon is going to throw today and then Cubs will see if he needs some time off for his back.

Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 06:23 pm

Always on the lookout for minor-league pitching prospects--especially starters--who miss bats, a commodity not in great supply, it must be said, in the Cub system under the current regime. So along comes Pedro Araujo (6-3, 214, righty, just shy of 23 years, out of the DR), called up to South Bend on May 27. Last year at Eugene, Araujo struck out 70 in 50.1 innings, yielding 43 hits and 9 walks. At SB so far, he has notched 8 K's in 5 innings with no hits and a walk. Purely a reliever, so far. Someone to keep an eye on now that he's surfaced in A-ball.

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 06:41 pm

When Urias is making his Hall of Fame Speech, he'll fondly recall this game as the one that humbled him and pushed him to work harder.

Submitted by Transmission on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 06:47 pm

That was an unusual swinging-bunt for Bryant to choose to turn into a no-play. Didn't seem to have any chance at all of going foul, and seemed to get out to him fast enough to conceivably have some shot at 1st.  I'm sure he had a better read on it than me, just seems an inordinately hard-hit squib to give up on....

Submitted by JoePepitone on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 06:53 pm

Gotta say that it looked like Baez really expanded his "strike" zone after hitting that home run (swinging strike three on a fastball several inches high of the zone). Of course, that second called strike several inches off the inside part of the plate didn't help him in his quest to learn plate discipline.

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 06:49 pm

37-15...unf. a well rested pen and with t.wood pitching an inning it seems hammel is assumed good to go.

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 06:49 pm

I think with that win, the Cubs are like 36-3 against good teams....might be off a few games.

Submitted by Cubster on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 06:00 pm

Although we beat Greinke in the first week of the season (Kyle Hendricks won 4-2 and the Cubs scored 3 runs in the first)...He's back on track lately. We might have dodged another bullet vs the Diamondbacks, given that we didn't face KKershaw in the LA series. Zack Greinke pitched for AZ today, so he's not going in the weekend series. AZ won 3-0. vs. Astros: 7 IP, 4H, No Runs, No walks, 11K

Submitted by billybucks on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 06:58 pm

El Professor's WHIP is now 0.92 -- good for 3rd in the NL. Last year, he was tied for 11th best WHIP in the NL. Not bad for a #5 starter (full disclosure: as a fellow Dartmouth alum, I'm biased...)

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  • Cubster (view)

    I was there for the PCA homer as well. 50 degree baseball is no longer fun when sitting in the shade (knit hats, scarves and gloves are football gear) but I agree it’s one of those really cool moments. I loved the bear hug given by Swanson at home plate and of course the added impact that the PCA homer became a game winner.

     

  • Cubster (view)

    Holy Screaming Bananas

  • CubbyBlue (view)

    In honor of dispatching with the Astros, this painting is titled “The Sweep”. 
    I retired a couple years ago, and took a job at Wrigley as a security guy. SO cool having Wrigley as your office. SO cool being there when PCA got his first hit. 
    “The Sweep” happens at the end of every game - the security staff sweeps through the ballpark making sure it’s empty.
    (Hopefully I’ll be putting this painting up often this year.)
    Lastly, because working for the Cubs, they understandably don’t want you voicing opinions on social, which is why I’m only painting the banners here. 

  • First.Pitch.120 (view)

    Honorable mention to Jim Bullinger via BleedCubbieBlue: 

    Bullinger, a converted shortstop, had pitched in three games before he came to the plate. He had entered the game to relieve starter Shawn Boskie after four innings, and came to the plate to lead off the fifth, and hit Rheal Cormier's first pitch over the left-field wall to give the Cubs a 1-0 lead; they eventually won the game 5-2 in 14 innings. Of the 129players to homer in their first MLB at-bat, Bullinger is one of just 32 to hit that blast on the first big-league pitch he saw (including Contreras) and one of just six pitchers to do so.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Most of this activity will lead nowhere, of course, but it is fantastic that they’re looking for talent in every nook and cranny. You never know where that can lead, and virtually nothing is lost if if leads nowhere, as long as no one of superior talent and potential is losing an opportunity.

  • First.Pitch.120 (view)

    Fun 1st Hit / HR Fact…


    Recent Cubs players to have HR as 1st MLB hit:

    PCA

    Morel

    Happ

    Contreras

    Baez

    Soler

    Castro

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Childersb3: Miguel Cruz walked six in 1.2 IP in his last start, so I guess he is improving. Wilme Mora also walked six in one of his appearances a week or two ago, and one or two others have walked five. I don't know what would be the most I have ever seen a pitcher throw in a game out here, because the manager / pitching coach usually gets the pitcher out of the game if it gets too ridiculous. 

    As for the attendance, probably about 20 of the 25 were early arrivals for the Savannah Bananas game who came over to Field # 1 to see what was going on, and once they saw all the bases on balls (12 walks by Cubs pitchers and four by Angels pitchers) they ran away screaming. I'm used to it so it didn't bother me that much. 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Jed has added Teheran, Tyranski, Kissaki, and now Straily and Nico Zeglin today.

    Zeglin is 24 yrs old. Pitched well at Long Beach St in '23 and well in some Indy Ball.

    They also added Reilly and Viets in late ST.

    Have to search for MiLB arm depth anywhere you can and at all times!!!

  • Childersb3 (view)

    25 in Attendance!!!

    Phil, is that a backfield record?

    Also, 6 BBs for Cruz in 2 IP. What's the most walks you've seen in one EXT ST outing that you can recall?

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    He has a pulse. Apparently that’s the only requirement at this point.

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