Nationals @ Cubs: Roark vs Arrieta (NLDS Game 4)
WAS (1-2): RHP Tanner Roark (0-0, —)
CHC (2-1): RHP Jake Arrieta (0-0, —)
First pitch: 3:00pmCST (TBS)
Arrieta left his last start early (Sept. 26 in St. Louis) with a strained hamstring. Let’s hope it holds up. He went 3 innings and gave up 3 runs and was tagged with the loss.
He went 14-10 with a 3.53 for the season, including going 5-2 with a 2.90 at Wrigley. In 7 post-season starts, Arrieta has a 3.64 ERA.
Jake gave up 5 ER in 4 innings and lost to the Nationals in DC in June. Overall, they are 32-134 (.239) against him. Rendon is 4-11; Murphy is 5-17. Lind and Werth have taken him deep.
Roark last pitched an inning of relief (Oct. 1) against the Pirates, in which he gave up 2 ER. He gave up 6 ER in 4.2 innings in Philly, for the loss. For the season, he went 13-11 with a 4.67. On the road, he went 7-5 with a 4.26.
He beat the Cubs at Wrigley in June (6.1 IP, 2 ER, 4 K, 3 BB). For their careers, they are 17-79 (.215) against him. Bryant is 5-11 with a HR.
Hey, let’s close out the series at home—and on Trans’s birthday!
Go Cubs!
Recent comments
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bradsbeard 9 hours 21 min ago (view)
Things won't get easier for him pitching outside of the former AT&T park, though Chase isn't the band box it was before they installed a humidor a couple years ago.
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crunch 10 hours 17 min ago (view)
dbacks snag m.bumgarner for 5/85m (17m/yr).
didn't realize he'd be coming that cheaply. the longball stung him last year, but he was healthy and his stuff looked good when it wasn't flying over a fence.
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crunch 1 day 12 hours ago (view)
MLB is very much swinging their power over minor league teams around.
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tim815 1 day 12 hours ago (view)
Normally, it's because the minor fee they receive is of more value than they think they will be able to acquire later.
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JustSayin' 1 day 13 hours ago (view)
My, the negotiations for a new comprehensive agreement between MLB and MiLB are sounding nasty all of a sudden! I'd be interested in other takes on this. It's easy to see the risks on the MiLB side. I wonder though, if MLB isn't playing with fire as far as the antitrust exemption goes? In case Trump isn't president in January, 2021, the MLB owners lose a friend. We've already heard from Sanders and Warren supporting MiLB on this -- which is pretty amazing, considering how many bigger problems this country has -- and one can guess where mayor Pete stands.
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bradsbeard 1 day 19 hours ago (view)
I'm also thinking they really didn't anticipate losing two players in the MLB portion of the Rule 5 and wanted to have more flexibility to pick guys, and they maybe figured Carrera had a better shot to go unpicked. It is a little surprising that the talent rich Rays are the ones who grabbed him.
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Dolorous Jon Lester 1 day 20 hours ago (view)
It's just strange because they had space. maybe they thought no one would have wanted him?
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bradsbeard 2 days 5 hours ago (view)
Best I can think is that maybe he was going to be squeezed out of a starting role next year with 2019 draftees and other lower level pitching pushing up into A ball. Doesn't seem like a great reason, but the pitching in the system is getting more crowded each year.
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crunch 2 days 13 hours ago (view)
i truly wonder why f.carrera wasn't more of a priority.
he throws straight up junk, but he's got great control and command over his pitchers. he's young enough that he could find some more velocity, too.
i mean, this is a management team that decided to trade for dan haren and kyle hendricks. they don't have an aversion to slow-tossing starters.
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Dolorous Jon Lester 2 days 13 hours ago (view)
Has anyone else noticed James Norwood's picture on the Cubs top 30 prospects page is actually Brandon Kintzler?
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Arizona Phil 2 days 16 hours ago (view)
It's always interesting to see how many players each MLB club protects on its AAA affiliate's 38-man reserve list on 11/20.
I'm not saying it absolutely and necessarily proves what a club thinks of its own prospects, but there are 38 slots available on a AAA reserve list, and if you leave 15 slots open, I think that does say something, especially when you don't lose anybody in either the MLB Phase or in the AAA Phase. (I'm looking at you, Seattle Mariners!)
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Arizona Phil 2 days 16 hours ago (view)
HAGSAG: Instructs starts next month. The pitching lab operates year round, so guys are always coming & going.
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Hagsag 2 days 18 hours ago (view)
Phil, when does the Instructional program begin? Are there pitchers in the pitching lab now?
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cubbies.4ever 3 days 6 hours ago (view)
Just to continue my conspiracy theory that Theo has a requirement you have TJS to pitch for the Cubs Trevor Megill had it in 2013. The Cubs must have a support group for pitchers who have had TJS.
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Arizona Phil 3 days 7 hours ago (view)
After losing two players off the Iowa reserve list in the Major League Phase and selecting four players in the AAA Phase, the Iowa reserve list has one slot open, so now would be an excellent time to try and outright C. D. Pelham to AAA.
Keep in mind that he can't elect free-agency if he's outrighted, and if he is outrighted, he won't be a minor league free-agent until post-2021.
And if he gets claimed off waivers? No big deal.
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Arizona Phil 3 days 7 hours ago (view)
LHSP Faustino Carrera and 2B Carlos Sepulveda were among the first players signed by the Cubs out of Mexico in 2014-15. The Cubs ended up signing more than two dozen more Mexican players over the next three years.
Comments
Chance of rain today. Let's
I brought my umbrella to work
How did that work?
Not great actually.
Cubs are due for a big
What are the chances Lackey
30m til gametime and it's
What a fucken scam. If they
My jerk friends want to take
My jerk friends want to take me out to dinner to celebrate my 40th... right at the start of the Cubs game. The jerks!. :)
In an absolute perfect world, this game gets delayed until maybe 9 central, and then the Cubs win. In a next-to-perfect world, the game gets cancelled, but Dusty Baker decides to pitch Roark tomorrow anyway, and we win tomorrow.
Huh. Tanner Roark and Jake
Huh. Tanner Roark and Jake Arrieta are the same pitcher.
This delay is wreaking havoc
The answer to that is always
Have to figure out when i
I'm hearing it is postponed
"Dusty Baker said he's not
I guess Strasburg is feeling
evidently there's some kind
All part of The Plan part ][
So with the game postponed,
Maddon has said that Jake
This postponement is an epic
Well, at least this way we
My friend, the same thought
So, I asked my boss, "Can I
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story
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Dusty channeling his inner
it's a bit more tame than it
This postponement really
US eliminated from the World
I don't think enough
Dude, the sailing race is the
all of this checks out as
I thought we only invented
Speaking of canoes, I'm tired
Actually, we lost the last
Damned sabermetrics. I don't
Only cups I care about are
+1 Ryno
I don't care.
mlb.com says Strasburg likely
mlb.com says Strasburg likely to start today
Hearing some noise that
For a short time today, on
I thought Anthony Rizzo owns
im all for rizzo owning the
mlb.com says Strasburg is
mlb.com says Strasburg is going to start today
the feed looks like there's a
the wind blowing in is cruel.
crunch, I got a bird's eye
yeah, that was no cheapie hit
with trea turner + schwarb
Well, with Addy's error, Cubs
Monty warming up - definitely
stop...sliding...into...first
Strasburg 1, Chicago Mold 0
lester, eh? alrigh.
Cub's kicked in the nuts by
Every time a Cub struck out,
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Jon F'ing Lester....
....
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I presume you refer to the g*
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lame.
I remain amazingly calm. Not
Especially if the Cubs lose
theo needs to kick it
I concur with my man
This is all my fault as I
Congrats to TBS -- they get
Thank you.
I know I'm commenting more
2003 type Cubbery there.
Hard to believe that all
I was just about to say..
10 runs in 8th, 2 in other
I've posted this before, but
I've posted this before, but this is why the Cubs got Justin Wilson. He was supposed to be the reliable 8th inning guy who can close when Wade Davis isn't available, and then be the Cubs closer in 2018 after Davis is gone.
It's become clear to me that
I agree that Edwards seems
You're right, its too early
I would have to throw my hat
What I think I see with
WAS gets harper 1 more season
8th inning aside. Pretty
For those of us that were
You're right, E, that it was
Could be worse -- we could be
"Happiness at the misfortune
I am so glad i bought a
Lots of very low Cubs batting
Man, if the Cubs can pick off
We need those bats to bust