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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
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

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Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

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

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Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P

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Garrett Cooper, 1B 
 




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Cardinals @ Cubs: Wacha vs Hendricks (Game 148)

Submitted by CTSteve on

STL (77-70): RHP Michael Wacha (12-7, 3.99)
CHC (81-66): RHP Kyle Hendricks (6-5, 3.35)
First pitch: 3:05pmCST

Hendricks gave up 3 ER in 6 innings and lost to the Brewers on Sunday. He had a no-decision against the Cardinals in June at Wrigley. Overall, they are 22-92 (.239) against him. Carpenter is 6-20 with a HR.

Wacha reeled off his third straight win on Sunday against the Pirates (8 IP, 0 ER, 7 K, 0 BB). He’s 0-1 with a 9.58 in two games against the Cubs this season. For their careers, they are 38-119 (.319) against him. Rizzo is 15-34 with 3 HR.

Lynn (11-7) and Quintana (10-11) end the series tomorrow at 1:20pmCST.

Go Cubs! 

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Submitted by The E-Man on Sat, 09/16/2017 - 09:27 pm

Wasn't watching but would Martin have scored on Almora's double? what happened there?

Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 09/16/2017 - 09:36 pm

Great start for Hendricks. In his last inning, he always leaves one ball up that gets hit for a HR. Great return for Addy! Alas, the return of the old Javy at the plate. Huge 2-strike swings with men on 3rd and less than 2 outs.

Submitted by Charlie on Sat, 09/16/2017 - 09:09 pm

This is shaping up as a pretty memorable series against the Cards. Would love to put them a good ways back with another win tomorrow.

Submitted by Jackstraw on Sat, 09/16/2017 - 09:35 pm

Agree great start for Hendricks. Most efficient he's been in a long time, maybe all season. Very 2016-ish. Cubs were uniformly hacky against Wacha. Had to have been scouting report. Zobrist 3 pitches total in 3AB? Last time that happened was never. Javy has to be tired, besides being beat up. He has to be on his longest consecutive game streak in the majors. I trust Joe will leverage the day off on Monday to get Javy 2 days off, maybe even start him tomorrow and bring in Addy part way through. I still believe Cubs will drop Contreras' appeal on Monday. Better for him to miss 2 against Tampa than 1 or 2 against Milwaukee and/or Cardinals. No chance MLB goes from 2 games to zero.

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Submitted by Charlie on Tue, 09/19/2017 - 09:48 am

I hope the ump also apologized to him in person for that completely awful call. I mean, a smaller apology, of course. But still.

Submitted by billybucks on Sat, 09/16/2017 - 09:53 pm

I believe today's start pushed Hendricks' career ERA under 3.00. "Only" 579 IP, so he has a ways to go to reach the 1,000 IP qualifying mark for career ERA, but here's the list of active qualifiers with a career ERA under 3.00: - Kershaw 2.35 - Sale 2.98 That's it. MadBum is close at 3.02. I realize Joe tends to keep a pretty short leash Hendricks, so he doesn't pitch the innings of the other guys. Still, it's pretty cool. And, once again -- what is going on with Joe's hair? He's like Benjamin Button.

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Submitted by crunch on Sat, 09/16/2017 - 09:11 pm

hendricks is amazing considering the pure ass velocity that comes out of his arm. calling someone a "young maddux" is a bit insane because of how rare it is to find a starter with that kind of stuff, but...well...he's damn close to the low-velocity late-90s-into-00s maddux. i was a bit freaked out to see his already small velocity shrink this year, but it still "works." maddux and hendricks go about getting those results differently with their pitching skills, but seeing low velocity guys carve up batters in a lineup who get 3+ chances a game to get a piece of them is great stuff.

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Submitted by Jim Hickmans Bat on Sat, 09/16/2017 - 09:44 pm

Jamie Moyer won like 250 games or so with softer stuff than most junior college pitchers. It can be done. Throw strikes, hit your spots, mix speeds. And I agree--it's more fun in one sense seeing guys like Kyle succeed than it is someone with obvious killer stuff like Scherzer or Sale. To think Hendricks was the throw-in for the Dempster trade is downright amazing.

Submitted by crunch on Sat, 09/16/2017 - 09:19 pm

MIL loses! cubs up 4 on MIL and 5 on STL.

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  • Childersb3 (view)

    Things I've been wrong about:

    -Tauchman is fine as a 4th OF. I knew that. I just want a better LH DH option and he was really the DH for us until Seiya got hurt. I'm glad Mervis is getting a chance at it. Caissie is coming for that job for sure. But Tauchman continues to be highly useful as a 4th OF with Seiya being hurt

    -I wanted Yency to go to get guys at Iowa a chance. Guys like Palencia and Sanders or RileyT. Maybe even Hodge! But Yency has been better the last two plus weeks. He did hit 96 the other day. He was 93 in Texas to open the season.

    -Leiter has his split working enough. It just needs to stay there

    -I was surprised Jed picked Wisdom over Cooper. I wonder if this happens if Seiya wasn't hurt. Wisdom has more power. Cooper is the better hitter. Jed picked Wisdom and Wisdom had an option left as well.

    -Palencia just doesn't miss enough bats. Similar to ManRod, just two yrs younger. ManRod is killing AAA for TB right now!

    Things I got right so far:

    -Hendricks. Sorry Kyle. You got paid though!

    Jed, you missed there.

    -Smyly. If Jed could've traded him before or during ST, then he should have and saved some cash.

    -Mastro.  Not a LH DH. Pinch runner. Defensive utility. Maybe he's better than Madrigal but didn't get a legit chance to prove it.

    -Luke Little is good. He's had one bad outing. That's it. Needs to get better entering with guys on base. But he needs to stay in MLB.

    -Oh yeah....Morel is doing fine at 3B! He'll get better as well!!

  • crunch (view)

    bellinger "right rib contusion"

  • Childersb3 (view)

    South Bend just lost the lead in the bottom of the 9th on the weirdest scenario, ever.

    It's absolutely pouring rain....men on 1st and 2nd, 1out....JPatterson asks for a new ball, but no time out was called....he throws the old ball toward the dugout (not sure if it rolled out of play).....the ump declares the runners get two bases each so one run scores. Then a single up the middle ties the game.

    The rain was coming down in buckets at this point.

    Just weird

  • crunch (view)

    ...and bellinger is gone in the 7th because of that 2nd blown chance and the wall he bounced off of...

    hopefully his rib cage/shoulder feels better tomorrow, we just got happ back.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Phil,

    Any thoughts on Y. Rojas' stuff and Y. Melendez's game (I believe I've asked about him before, sorry)?

  • crunch (view)

    wow, things are moving fast.  hopefully it continues.

  • crunch (view)

    morel with 4 clean plays in 4 innings...showed off his 100000000mph arm a couple times.

    cody bellinger not having a good 4th, though...5 run leads are handy when your CF is making your pitcher have a 5-out inning.  2nd blown chance was ruled a hit even though it went in/out of his glove...1st was lost in the lights, also ruled a hit.

  • crunch (view)

    welcome back happ!  double off the wall 1st PA back.

  • crunch (view)

    oh yeah, totally, i was just chiming about why i fan like i fan.

    i would like nothing more than hendricks to keep on hendricks'ing.  guys with his stuff can throw for a long, long time as long as it works.

    he velocity is actually up a minor amount this year.  it's really "damn" when a guy like him not only has gas in the tank, but it's looking like it was years ago.  he added a curve a few years ago and it helped a little bit, but he's throwing it less and less while the fb/change combo are less effective.

  • Alexander Dimm (view)

    CRUNCH—There is no one person in this community I’m talking about.  My remarks were not directed at you or anyone, but at a tone I’ve noticed lately. 

    You have a great, dry sense of humor and there is thought behind your comments.   You and I don’t always agree but I always understand your position.  

    Lastly, and I’ll be quiet, I agree with you on Hendricks.  We can dislike the recent performance but still love the guy.  Lots of questions about his future.
     

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